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August 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The #SVYALit Project: The Specter of Rape in Not a Drop to Drink, a guest post by author Mindy McGinnis

A lot of people ask me about the specter of rape in NOT A DROP TO DRINK. While you’ll never find the actual word anywhere in the text, it hangs over the whole like a storm about to break. Lynn, Mother and Neva all express their fears in different ways, but each one of them […]

August 16, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Friday Fill-In: Apocolyptic Playlist

  This week has been interesting. One of the two water mains broke in my town Monday night, causing us to massively conserve water on Tuesday (it’s now fixed). A storm came through on Tuesday, and knocked down tree limbs that took out my power on Wednesday. I have a teen lock-in tonight into tomorrow […]

June 3, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Zombies! All our undead posts in one place

As a zombie fan, I have posted here about zombies multiple times.  In preparation for October, I thought I would put them all in one place for you.  I am very considerate like that.  See, I care about you.  They include fun booklists, programming ideas. and a discussion I had with my then pre-teen daughter […]

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There was a time when NUCLEAR WAR was the thing we feared most.  People built bomb shelters outside their homes and prepared for the day when THE BIG ONE would be dropped.  As a kid, I remember begging to stay up one school night and watch a TV movie called The Day After.  Whatever you […]

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 The Mr. will make this shocked face! The Challenge This is the true story of how the following post came to be.  Earlier this year, Lois Lowry did a guest post here at TLT and I went home exploding in excitement to my husband. “Who’s Lois Lowry?”, he asked.  So, after realizing that I […]

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