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Category: Friday Fiction

Most Fridays we feature a fiction title that is usually anything pulp, odd covers, odd titles and anything else worth discussing! These are NOT necessarily awful.

Baby Notion

Friday Fiction: The Baby Notion

June 21, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 18 comments

The Baby Notion
Browning
1996

I grabbed this book for the ridiculous cover. What is this guy trying to do? I cannot think of why one would pose like this. Are they role playing romance cover shoots? Is he a Fabio wannabe? 

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Dekok and the Naked Lady

Friday Fiction: DeKok and the Naked Lady

June 14, 2019 Holly Friday Fiction 6 comments

DeKok and the Naked Lady
Baantjer
1994

Submitter: The eyeballs are particularly choice, I think.

Holly: The 12-year-old in me loves this title. I love the weird cover, too.

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heart in the sunlight cover

Heart in the Sunlight – Friday Fiction

May 3, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 4 comments

Heart in the Sunlight Peake 1976 Our familiar trope from the old days of clueless girl gets seduced by older wiser and more obnoxious guy. Noelle, the clueless protagonist, tags along with her bestie for a job in Norway at

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When Sparks Fly cover

Friday Fiction: When Sparks Fly

April 26, 2019 Holly Friday Fiction 7 comments

When Sparks Fly Kent 1998 Submitter: This book was donated to the library “to add to the collection” YESTERDAY. Two things – OK three things – that just aren’t right about this book (in no particular order): -that this “woman in

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Liberated Lady

Friday Fiction: Liberated Lady meets Obnoxious Guy

April 5, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 7 comments

Liberated Lady Wentworth 1979 I am a fan of the romance genre. I read these in high school and off and on. I still like a well crafted romance with smart dialogue and interesting characters. This isn’t that book. Even

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all night long

Friday Fiction: Sweet Valley High Lives!

March 29, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 13 comments

Sweet Valley High All Night Long Pascal 1984 Sweet Valley High series has been a long standing joke between a former colleague and I. She was a dedicated fan of the series and we often would tease her about her

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working relationship

Friday Fiction: Working Relationship

March 15, 2019 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 14 comments

Working Relationship Ker 1984 I do love my romance, and to me a good cover is absolutely essential. With that said, what is actually happening here? Did the Steve Austin look alike just deliver his female passenger a drug? Is

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Life in the Fat Lane cover

Friday Fiction – Life in the Fat Lane

January 4, 2019 Holly Friday Fiction, Talkin 'Bout My Generation 6 comments

Life in the Fat Lane Bennett 1998 Submitter: I never want to see this !@#$ book again – please burn it when you’re done. Things that make this book unbearable: Fat phobia/shaming Comparing getting fat to AIDS Domestic violence Suicide

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