• Goodbye 2021-Part 2

    Goodbye 2021-Part 2

    Part 2 of our Best of 2021 includes youth/teen and some adult fiction choices. I’m leading off with the romance “Hostage Nurse” where the protagonists fall in love during a plane hijacking.  I predict there will be some pandemic themed romances eventually, where the lovers will have to quarantine together,…

  • Goodbye 2021- Part 1

    Goodbye 2021- Part 1

    At the end of the year, Holly and I do cocktails (socially distant) and put together a list of our favorites for the year. 2021 isn’t going to win any prizes for fun and exciting, but we have found a few chuckles here and there. Click on the post name…

  • Your monthly “friend”

    Your monthly “friend”

    Menstruation Just Plain Talk Nourse 1980 All of the ladies probably remember that time in health class where the world of menstruation was explained. I remember that in 6th grade we had a boring film where girls in white pants told everyone how grown up they were. It was the…

  • Friday Fiction: J.T.

    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…

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone Daugherty 1939 Submitter: In Daniel Boone, Native Americans are variously described as savages, demons, “rats in the night,” “infesting the woods,” cat-eyed, and “as doomed as the buffalo.” White skin or white racial identity is frequently painted as superior to other races, for example: “The great landlords were…

  • 1990s Living

    1990s Living

    Creative Interior Design A Complete Guide to designing and decorating your home Ward Lock Limited 1994 Here is another book on home decorating. This one is from the 1990s and has a pastel country look. The overly pink softness feels odd – almost like you were living in an Orange…