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full and free download (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
(The first book in the Cutler series) In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother;...
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Beam in on this, will you? (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews When Cathy and Chris’s father dies, their mother takes them and their much younger twin siblings to live with her parents. There the kids discover that they are the products of incest – their father was their grandfather’s much-younger half-brother – and that their mother was disinherited when she married him. They are hidden away in the attic by their flighty...
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Overheard in the Office (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Female talking to male co-worker : It was like something out of a V.C. Andrews novel. The one where the brother and sister were locked in the attic and were fucking each other. Congress Street Charlotte, North Carolina Overheard by: Frank Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-05-22
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Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
When you allow two unapologetic young adult-fiction lovers like Courtney and myself to share an office, it's just sort of inevitable that our workdays occasionally devolve into conversations like this one: Courtney: Oh my god, do you remember My Sweet Audrina ? That VC Andrews one-off? Alison: God, yes. Everything I knew about sex as a 10-year-old, I learned from VC Andrews. Those books make such...
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Blogging My Books (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I’ve completed a couple of challenges and making progress in others, so I’ve got room in the reading plan to add another one. The Initials Challenge is hosted by Becky who has set this one up with it’s own blog for posting reviews. The Rules are simple and flexible – I like that in a challenge: April 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008 Read five to eight books by authors who publish under their initials. Examples...
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Big Fat Deal (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
When I was in junior high, I read V.C. Andrews and The Baby-sitters Club, not Sweet Valley High. I do remember seeking out the one where someone named, I think, Regina dies of a cocaine overdose. But beyond that, I wasn’t interested. I just couldn’t relate to Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. I was neither [...]
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educating alice (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Welcome to ‘Fine Lines', the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. This week, writer/reviewer/blogger Lizzie Skurnick rereads ‘My Sweet Audrina’, V.C. Andrews’ X-rated, 1982 gothic horror novel in which Audrina Adare, an innocent, is Desperately Seeking Sister.My [...]
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. This week,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Hebdomeros (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
I've been bugging the powers-that-be at my job to let me put up a book display for local authors for months now. It's something I feel that libraries should support more, and I think people would be surprised by all the authors who actually live in the area. After two days off, I came in yesterday to find someone else had one set up. It's not bad, I guess, just a little disappointing for me. There...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
That totally disturbing story yesterday about parents masturbating their kids got me to thinking: What age do most kids begin doing the deed themselves? Although my relationship with my vibrator is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Valentine's Day. A holiday that reminds couples of their romantic feelings for one another, a day that inspires wooers to turn up the volume on their courting, and a troubling time that brings out the most desperate, obnoxious, guilt-ridden, dysfunctional...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Elissa Wall, the star witness in the trial against former polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, is writing a memoir, to be titled, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Tested Positive For DEVO (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
I've heard of painted-on clothes, but painted-on fur lining? Doesn't really matter, as anyone would be distracted by her BITTER BEER FACE before they get to that. She looks like the cruel governess in some V.C. Andrews book, doesn't she?
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Natural/Artificial Points Out James Patterson's You've Been Warned is the current best-seller on The New York Times hardcover fiction list. She says it's It's the kind of book that makes one yearn for the witty, polished prose of a Danielle Steel or a V.C. Andrews. She typed up a list of the last line of every chapter in the book. And the amazing thing was that the story actually made sense this way....
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This Man's World (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
We rang in 2008 in style last night with meatballs, cheese and crackers and Pizza Pit pizza, amongst other health foods. It was just 6 of us (including Anna, who managed to make it all the way to midnight) and we had a good time. There was copious amounts of silly dancing and inside jokes and general fun. This was the centerpiece on our table. After awhile, Cher suffered a heel injury and had to be...
