Author: Holly
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Holly’s Favorites of 2020
It’s been a weird year. However, we are obligated to look back on 2020 and pick our best of the worst. Let’s hope for a better year in 2021. Here are Holly’s picks for the Best of the Worst of 2020! Happy Holidays, everyone, and thanks for all your great…
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Friday Fiction: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! Kerr 1972 Submitter: This was . . . probably an OK book in 1972? And probably great in our context (small rural town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – about as far as it gets from Brooklyn.) I might take it home and read it. There’s a…
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Friday Fiction: Addie Accident
Addie Accident Corlett 2010 Submitter: My local public library in Australia sells weeded books for 20c each. I sometimes buy children’s books for a holiday program book corner. Usually they are fine, but I always examine them more closely before donating them. Thank goodness I did look more closely at…
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Jesus and the Minecrafters
The Unofficial Bible for Minecrafters Life of Jesus, Stories from the Bible Told Block by Block Romines and Miko 2017 Submitter: I was extremely surprised to find this (British) book in our British public library, having only ever seen similar horrors coming from the USA displayed in Awful Library Books.…
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DIY Crowns and Tiaras
Crowns & Tiaras Judd and Montecinos 2007 Submitter: Why would anyone want a crown made of chicken wire? Maybe I’m the odd one, but I really don’t want almost-garbage on my head. We’re a small public library and this hadn’t been circ’d in over 3 years. Plus, it’s just plain weird!
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Five Little Peppers
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Sidney 1962 Submitter: The cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life is the hand typed replacement page in this 1962 edition of Five Little Peppers. Holly: Cute! But definitely weed-worthy for condition. Looks like it could have been typed on my Grandma’s typewriter in 1962.
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