“Lessons in Chemistry” Book Club Questions
The story is a kind of feminist fairy tale set in the early sixties….
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“The Work Wife”: Best Book Club Questions
The Work Wife is an engaging novel centering on a day in the life of three women who work for a movie mogul in Los Angeles. It has an engaging story, but it will also make you think about your values and whether you really have to do what you think you have to do to get what you want.
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength”: 5 Reasons to Read
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength” is unusually good and a great pick if you don’t often read graphic novels.
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 …
The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt
If You Like Your Disney Princesses, You’ll Love the WOMEN Who Created Them (and much more) Like so many other fields that we’re finding out about these days, there were a lot of women working in Disney animation whose significant contributions have gone mostly uncredited until now. That’s the story of The Queens of Animation. …