Reader Tip List
Here’s a round up of all the Reader Tips from The Lois Level social media!
“Demon Copperhead”: Best Book Club Meeting Questions
Demon Copperhead makes a great book club pick because it draws on current events in Appalachia. It also packs a great story, drawn from one of the most famous novels in English. Finally, it’s written by someone who lives in the area and knows it in intimate detail.
Unmasking Alice: The truth about “Go Ask Alice”
The Weirdest of the Weird Books Gen-Xers bought at Waldenbooks Go Ask Alice (and Jay) about Satanic Panic If you are a Gen-Xer, at some point you probably ran across Go Ask Alice, with its mysterious cover and author, Anonymous. Go Ask Alice, published in the early 1970’s, is technically a Baby Boomer book. Jay’s …
“Lessons in Chemistry” :Cooking out of a “man’s world”
Lessons in Chemistry is not the best book from a literary perspective, but the story is so engaging that you won’t care. It’s a kind of feminist fairy tale set in the early sixties. As readers, we can see how far we have come from the days that women were suspect for even wanting to …
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On wandering into Laurie Anderson at the Hirshhorn Museum
But what my dumb little teenager-in-the-80’s self didn’t know is that Laurie Anderson was making videos like this while I was watching MTV.