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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.

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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Taurus 4 Fiction

Friday Fiction: Taurus Four

October 26, 2018 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 7 comments

Taurus Four Vale 1970 I am always attracted to cover art and this one grabbed my attention right away. I am not sure, but this cover qualifies as weird enough. In this story, a sociologist is stranded on a planet

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Friday Fiction The Computer Ate My Brother

October 12, 2018 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 18 comments

The Computer Ate My Brother Marney 1985 Direct from the 1980s, we have a rogue computer that evidently eats kids. Of course the computer has a few “issues” and can evidently read your mind. Harry, our protagonist, is irritated by

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nurse kate at fallowfield

Friday Fiction: Nurse Kate

August 24, 2018 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 10 comments

Nurse Kate at Fallowfield Ferrari 1966 This book was made for me. First, it is a nurse romance.  Second, we have floating heads on the cover. This phenomena seems to be something that just kind of creeps me out. (I

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