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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, July 1, in 1804, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known as George Sand, was born in Paris, France. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, she was more popular than even Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in the 1830s and 1840s, and is recognized as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. Her name was not merely a non de plume; she wore
men’s clothing (without a permit!) as they were less expensive and more comfortable, and allowed her access to male-only establishment; she also (gasp!) smoked in public! She was sexually adventurous, politically liberal, and highly influential in literature and culture. She died in 1876 at age 71.

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