Category: Best of the Worst
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ALB’s Best of 2022
We hope all of you had a lovely holiday break from the library grindstone. Holly and I are busy shoveling snow and complaining about sub zero temps here in Michigan. Our pickings are kind of thin this year, but we had a few standouts. Stay tuned for part 2.
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Goodbye 2021-Part 2
Part 2 of our Best of 2021 includes youth/teen and some adult fiction choices. I’m leading off with the romance “Hostage Nurse” where the protagonists fall in love during a plane hijacking. I predict there will be some pandemic themed romances eventually, where the lovers will have to quarantine together,…
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Goodbye 2021- Part 1
At the end of the year, Holly and I do cocktails (socially distant) and put together a list of our favorites for the year. 2021 isn’t going to win any prizes for fun and exciting, but we have found a few chuckles here and there. Click on the post name…
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Mary’s Favorite Posts of 2020
Yes, it is that time of year when we try to select some of our favorite awful books. As a reminder, awfulness is in the eye of the beholder. Each community, library, and collection is unique. What is awful in one library maybe perfectly fine in another. With that said,…
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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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Best of 2019
I am having some trouble recognizing that it is actually the end of 2019. It feels like yesterday that summer reading finished. Well, here we are at the end of 2019, and I am ready to comment on the best worst books for the year. This year was tough. After…
Awful Library Books 