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Gimbling in the Wabe – It’s Too Danged Hot!

Dang, it’s hot. Too hot. I know you folks in Southern climates may well be guffawing at us Northerners now, like we don’t know hot, but I don’t care. Heck, I moved North to get away from all this! For those who may not know, I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota; I have for 35 years. [….]

LitStack Review: Truth or Dare by Jacqueline Green

Truth or Dare Jacqueline Green Poppy/Little Brown and Company First Edition: May 14, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-22036-1 Beautiful spitfire Tenley Reed has returned to Echo Bay, Massachusetts just in time for the start of her senior year. Her mother has remarried – this time to insanely rich Lanson Reed, who just happens to own much of [….]

Birthdays

On this day, January 21, in 1895, Japanese author, social critic and feminist Itō Noe was born in Fukuoka, Japan. While editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine Seitō, she placed great emphasis on addressing societal problems which garnered severe government pushback and censorship. Her anarchist views on challenging arranged marriages, promoting free love and legalizing abortion (and later prostitution) threatened societal norms, and in 1923 she, her longtime partner, and his 6-year-old nephew were arrested, strangled to death, and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police, sparking shock and anger throughout Japan; she was 28 years old.

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