• Please Don’t Go Girl…but take this book with you if you do

    Please Don’t Go Girl…but take this book with you if you do

    New Kids on the Block Greenberg 1990 Mary: I am showing my age with this one. I had never heard of these guys and I couldn’t begin to tell you one of their hits.  (Truth: I thought one of these guys ended up on Antiques Roadshow) However, I do know…

  • Get rid of those unsightly lumps, bumps and sags!

    Get rid of those unsightly lumps, bumps and sags!

    Miss Craig’s 10 Minute a Day Spot-Reducing Program Crowley and Wagner 1979 Gotta love these exercise books! Miss Craig’s exercises don’t look too bad. A good chunk of these I have done in a yoga class or two. However, I am pretty sure that “spot-reducing” is a myth.  My favorite…

  • Friday Fiction: Touch of the Clown

    Friday Fiction: Touch of the Clown

    Touch of the Clown Huser 1999 Submitter: This book is on the shelves at [a public library], recently discovered during inventory. All the staff who looked at it immediately thought “pedophile.” Awful cover art added to the general ugh quality of the book. Holly:Good for your staff for doing inventory! …

  • Everybody In the Tub

    Everybody In the Tub

    Hot Tubs: How to Build, Maintain & Enjoy Your Own Elder 1975 Submitter: This book, acquired in 1976, was weeded from a community college library. One can only guess if the reason this book was part of the collection was that there was a Wood Technics program at the time.…

  • Home Ec Memories

    Home Ec Memories

    Exploring Home and Family Fleck, Fernandez and Munvez 1965 This book showed up in a book donation and I had a blast flipping through the pages. From what I could tell, it is a refugee from a high school and it is practically showroom new! WorldCat shows holdings in mostly…

  • Power Dressing!

    Power Dressing!

    The Professional Image The Total Program for Marketing Yourself Visually Bixler 1984 Dressing for success 1980s style! You can’t miss with your power suit and shoulder pads. Of course this needs to be weeded! Yes the basic information is pretty solid and for that matter timeless, but the examples are…