• Decorating with Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Decorating with Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Easy Steps to Successful Decorating Bradford 1971 Yes this is THE Barbara Taylor Bradford. Before she hit it big with A Woman of Substance and the subsequent Emma Harte books, she was a home decorating/style expert. So do we weed or keep? After all, it is Barbara Taylor Bradford. Before…

  • 100 Tasty Ways to Please Your Family

    100 Tasty Ways to Please Your Family

    So-Good Meals Better Homes and Gardens 1963 Here is a nearly perfect relic from the 1960s sitting in a public library, just waiting to be selected for ALB. I get the feeling the excellent condition of this book means that either it was a donation gone wrong or a terrible…

  • A Magical Microwave!

    A Magical Microwave!

    It’s Not Really Magic Schroeder and Sanderson 1981 Direct from the youth cookbook section, some awesome recipes that the kids can handle with those newfangled microwaves! The magic microwave can help you make: popcorn (but use your popcorn popper first! Does anyone still have a popcorn popper?) scrambled eggs soup…

  • Mommy needs to get pretty

    Mommy needs to get pretty

    My Beautiful Mommy Salzhauer 2007 A Twitter friend steered me to this title as a possibility for discussion. Our story is that Mommy picked unnamed child up from school. Girl goes with Mommy to visit Dr. Michael, a plastic surgeon that looks like he has been doing steroids. Older brother…

  • Nightmare in the Craft Section

    Nightmare in the Craft Section

    The Great Pantyhose Crafts Book Baldwin 1982 Perhaps I am not the best to judge a crafting book’s weed-worthiness, but I think this book is just this side of disturbing. Evidence is in the first picture below. I am certainly not putting life-size dolls in my living room. I don’t…

  • The Other Bride of Chucky

    The Other Bride of Chucky

    The Lonely Doll Wright 1957, 1985 Submitter: I guess this could be a really cute concept; photos of a doll and all of her little toy friends. BUT NO! It is really quite creepy. One page (scanned) shows big bear paddling dolly whilst baby bear sits idly by. “I may…