Category: Friday Fiction
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Choose Your Own Sex Adventure
He Gave Her Roses Grove 1990 Submitter: This book is a “choose-your-own-ending” type of book about dating, but with a heavy religious theme, full of fear, shame, and judgement; and putting all the responsibility on the girl. In my opinion, it has no place in a public library to begin with,…
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My mom is dating a creep – Friday Fiction
My Mother’s Boyfriend and Me Jacoby 1987 This title gave me the creeps. Evidently Laurie’s mom (widowed when Laurie was a baby) went off the rails and starting dating a very cool dude named “Blue” (cuz of his eyes!). Two week after meeting this dude, Mom invites Blue to move…
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Friday Fiction: My Date with Satan
My Date with Satan: Stories Richter 1999 Submitter: We are conducting a pretty thorough weeding of our adult fiction at our public library to make room for a new graphic novel section, and I found this short story collection as I made my way through the Rs. I have no…
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Friday Fiction: J.T.
J.T. Wagner 1969 Submitter: This library book is still out there, living in a public library in NY. As soon as I read the first sentence inside the front cover, I knew I should submit it here. Published in 1969, it is a sad story about a sweet boy who…
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Indian Summer
Indian Summer Monjo 1968 Submitter: This 50 year old beginning reader book is a woefully one-sided history lesson about Kentucky settlers vs. The Indians. While Pa is off to “lick the British” with the likes of George Washington, Ma is left behind with her rifle to defend her children and…
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Friday Fiction: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! Kerr 1972 Submitter: This was . . . probably an OK book in 1972? And probably great in our context (small rural town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – about as far as it gets from Brooklyn.) I might take it home and read it. There’s a…