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Shelley Blanton-Stroud consults with employers to improve their workplace writing and editing. She has taught college writing classes for twenty years and has lead community book clubs for a decade. Contact her here.

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Nancy Drew may have had a hot week in the news, but Little Women's Jo March is still my normal hero

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Nancy Drew has had a hot week in the news. Multiple national stories discuss seriously frisky real-life women (Sonia Sotomayor, Kathleen Parker,...
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Why Daniel Radcliffe, Sonia Sotomayor & Kathleen Parker love orphans Harry Potter and Nancy Drew

In an interesting convergence this morning, The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker writes about the affection both she and Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
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Book club 101: a three month theme of banned books for teenager summer reading

When the California budget crisis has predictably lead to school districts throughout the state cancelling summer school options, and global economic...
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Book club 101: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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When I joined my son’s high school banned book club in reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I was literally sickened by...
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Book club 101: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a banned book

My son’s banned books club responded in a heartfelt and personal way to reading Tim O'Brien's “fictional” book about the...
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Book club 101: why to make a banned books club for high school readers

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The summer before starting high school in 2003, my son and two of his friends, let's call them Theo, Grace and Maggie, got a little self-conscious...
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Book club 101: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, a banned book

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was the first book my son's Banned Books Club read, an excellent book that initiated four summers of reading...
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