• Selling your 1970s Auto Gems

    Selling your 1970s Auto Gems

    How To Sell Your Car for More Than It’s Worth Hill 1977 Not a bad book for the times. The advice is pretty basic and sensible from what I can see. Advice on cleaning, detailing and minor repairs is probably still relevant but selling cars on your own is quite…

  • Childhood Diseases are Fun!

    Childhood Diseases are Fun!

    Have a Happy Measle, and a Merry Mumps and a Cheery Chickenpox Bendick 1958 Today we have an oldie, but a goodie, thanks to an alert Twitter follower. Since this is before widespread application of the vaccines for childhood illnesses, maybe these authors were just trying to spin disease as…

  • Make Love to a Man – 70’s style

    Make Love to a Man – 70’s style

    How to Make Love to a Single Man How to meet him, understand him, and love him Rajouane 1976 Evidently, it is a LOT of work to get men interested in sex. This comprehensive manual of nearly 200 pages details all the skills and tricks you can use to get…

  • Funny Ha Ha?

    Funny Ha Ha?

    How to be Really Funny Stolzenberg 1988 I’m not sure a book can tell you how to be funny, whoops, I mean really funny, but this book does. It literally tells you what is funny. Example: simple mindedness also known as a “nice way to say stupid”.  On the plus…

  • Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids

    Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids

    Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids: Where You Came From, How Your Body Changes, and What Sex Is All About Westheimer 1993 Submitter: The cover image attached features an endearing but very old lady who looks way too much like my grandma.  I saw this one and laughed because I could…

  • What’s Wrong With Timmy?

    What’s Wrong With Timmy?

    What’s Wrong with Timmy? Shriver 2001 Submitter: This book is part of a series by Shriver for helping kids accept the fact that bad stuff happens to people and no one knows why.  There is another book we own by Shriver about Alzheimer’s.  Kate, our main character, learns through colored pencil…