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Peace, Love, and You Know What
First a three-day bash at a college hippie pad... and then maybe adulthood. Peace, Love, and You Know What is a comedy framed by the Vietnam War and Watergate. Here is an Tim held the joint aloft, making Lenora reach for it. She grabbed his side, tickling him so hard he fell back, and then she was lying on top of him, laughing with him. He stuck the joint between her lips. She held the smoke in her mouth and blew it into his. “Take a hit.” Tim did as he was told. He would have done anything Lenora said. She took the joint and brought it to her lips. “You’re such a crazy girl.” Smoke streamed through her mouth as she laughed. She held the roach. “Uh-oh, all gone.” Somebody changed the record. Sly and the Family Stone played “I Want to Take You Higher.” Lenora rolled off Tim, and he said, “Hey, come back,” but she sat against the wall to get out of the way of the stampeding dancers. The volume was up so loud, the funky guitar riffs buzzed through the speakers. Sly wailed like a tomcat. It was a miracle the cops hadn’t showed up.
283 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2016
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Joan Livingston
20 books58 followersJoan Livingston is the author of novels for adults and young readers.
She has completed seven books so far in her mystery series featuring Isabel Long, a longtime journalist who becomes an amateur P.I. They are: Chasing the Case, Redneck's Revenge, Checking the Traps, Killing the Story. Working the Beat, Following the Lead, and Missing the Deadline. Her Hilltown Books include The Sweet Spot, The Sacred Dog, and Northern Comfort.
An award-winning journalist, Joan started as a reporter covering the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. She was an editor, columnist, and the managing editor of The Taos News, which won numerous state and national awards during her tenure. Her last gig was the Pioneer Valley Editor-in-Chief overseeing the Greenfield Recorder, Daily Hampshire Gazette and Athol Daily News. She's officially done with journalism and concentrating on writing fiction.
After eleven years in Northern New Mexico, Joan returned to rural Western Massachusetts, which is the setting of much of her adult fiction, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series.
She has completed seven books so far in her mystery series featuring Isabel Long, a longtime journalist who becomes an amateur P.I. They are: Chasing the Case, Redneck's Revenge, Checking the Traps, Killing the Story. Working the Beat, Following the Lead, and Missing the Deadline. Her Hilltown Books include The Sweet Spot, The Sacred Dog, and Northern Comfort.
An award-winning journalist, Joan started as a reporter covering the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. She was an editor, columnist, and the managing editor of The Taos News, which won numerous state and national awards during her tenure. Her last gig was the Pioneer Valley Editor-in-Chief overseeing the Greenfield Recorder, Daily Hampshire Gazette and Athol Daily News. She's officially done with journalism and concentrating on writing fiction.
After eleven years in Northern New Mexico, Joan returned to rural Western Massachusetts, which is the setting of much of her adult fiction, including the Isabel Long Mystery Series.
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October 23, 2020
DON’T JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER
The cover is delightful, but most of the book’s characters aren’t. “Peace, Love and You Know What” chronicles the misadventures of some hippie college students. Living together in squalor, they spend most of their time smoking pot, drinking beer and exchanging dull-witted inanities. It’s the Sixties, when they should be talking about what’s wrong with the world and what they are going to do about it. Instead, they sit in a smoky haze hoping to get laid. There’s little or no mention of the big issues of the day — civil rights, women’s equality and the Vietnam War. (How they managed to avoid the draft is not clear.) One might wonder if their parents were tempted to change the locks after they left home. But to the hippies’ credit, most eventually find their places in the real world — a world that still begs for change.
The cover is delightful, but most of the book’s characters aren’t. “Peace, Love and You Know What” chronicles the misadventures of some hippie college students. Living together in squalor, they spend most of their time smoking pot, drinking beer and exchanging dull-witted inanities. It’s the Sixties, when they should be talking about what’s wrong with the world and what they are going to do about it. Instead, they sit in a smoky haze hoping to get laid. There’s little or no mention of the big issues of the day — civil rights, women’s equality and the Vietnam War. (How they managed to avoid the draft is not clear.) One might wonder if their parents were tempted to change the locks after they left home. But to the hippies’ credit, most eventually find their places in the real world — a world that still begs for change.
April 4, 2022
I thought this would be a book dealing with students in the 1960’s dealing with problems like the Vietnam war, equality, and other issues of the day. I was very disappointed to find out the main gist of the story was about losers living in squalor, getting drunk and high, and looking to get laid. Pass on it.
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