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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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Of George Eliot & Marilyn Monroe
I am absolutely fascinated by Adair Jones‘s debate on the following question: “Was George Eliot’s late marriage a resignation from being a strong-minded woman?” I haven’t read the works under…
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If You Believe “Good Guys Finish Last…”
It’s easy to be pessimistic today, especially when it comes to business. Those of us not in the upper two percent, those of us with little in our pockets but…
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Being Of Sound Mind & Body
The Archive Series by the David Garcia Studio are art installation pieces, experimental architectural platforms, specifically “investigations on space and books, aiming to blur the borders between art and design….
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Mushroom Monday: Weeping German Edition
Der verkannte Bimpfi (The misunderstood Bimpfi), by Ida Bohatta. “Bimpfi” must be the crying mushroom’s name as “mushroom” in German is “pilz.” In any case, this fungi isn’t a fun…
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Saved From Zombies By Sweaty Armpit-ed Librarians
And the Dewey Decimal system. Because, after all, Library of the Living Dead is a guide to surviving a Zombie invasion put out by McPherson College’s Miller Library. Don’t let…
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Open With A Dumb Blond Joke
Seems Juliet Lowell is off to a rockin’ start with this joke book “for adults only” — the cover features a dumb blonde joke (cover image) and a sexist poke…
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What Will The Girl Become?
Via WFMU.
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Lincoln’s Check To “Colored Man With One Leg”
An ad for Life of Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell (found on page 65 of the March 1925 issue of The Mentor magazine), which thought the best promotional effort would…
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Cougar Dating Tips
Don’t tell him your first car was a Studebaker If he ask if you’re on the pill, he’s probably not talking about the hormone pill you take to help you…
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Old Corny Aggie Jokes
I’ll admit I knew nothing about this retro joke book when I snagged it at an antique shop; all I needed to pick it up was a stork on the…
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The Dark Side Of Medicine
For those of you who question my concerns regarding ethics in medical studies — most heatedly debated in my discussion regarding the “science” of “deadly corsets” (the heat there surprised…
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The Spiked Heel Gets Served The Snark
Miss Fussypants cracks me up. This is what she wrote (at her typically NWS blog) about The Spiked Heel, by Richard Marsten (1957): “The hardest-hitting, best-written novel on big business…
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Aunt Lydia’s Baby Gender Prediction Method
I found the following gem in the 1977 J. Gruber’s Hagers-Town, Town and Country Almanack, along with the usually almanac-ery, household tips, and a few grand ads (that I’ll be…
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Taking Off Those Kid Gloves About The Collectors Convention
Hey, that conference I’m presenting at, the first annual Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention, has been written up in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Which reminded me that I had not mentioned the…
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Book Review Blog Carnival #36
Welcome to the 36th Book Review Blog Carnival — and welcome to my weirdly organized little library. Why a “weirdly organized little library?” Well… Doing these carnivals is always a…
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Hiss & Spray, From My Books, Please Stay Away
I love these vintage cast iron cat bookends — their snarling faces and their wide-to-the-side ears are a warning to those who would handle my books without purr-mission or without…
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Gifts For Mystery Lovers
Need a gift for the bibliophiles who dig mysteries? Or someone with a twisted sense of humor? How about gifts (mugs, t-shirts, posters, ties, etc.) featuring prints of an altered…
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There Are Flowers In The Attic
When V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In The Attic was published in 1979, it became all the rage for a teenage girl to read it — and by ‘the rage’ you can…
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When Beauty Is A Crime
I have a modest collection of vintage vanity items. (My collection and I have even been featured in Collectors News magazine.) And indeed, I’ve often wondered about the vast popularity…
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Understanding Female Relationships With Greeting Cards
Greeting cards are primarily a female thing; I don’t think any sane person would argue this. But I feel the need to elaborate anyway. First by boasting mentioning my past…
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The Very Best From Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through The Years
The Very Best from Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through the Years, by Ellen Stern, is not a collector’s guide, really; there are no prices or discussion of the secondary market at…
