This category includes biography and all those great advice books. Because when a celebrity does something, you will want to do that too!
Miami Vice Scrapbook
Friedman
1986
Submitter: In the 1980s, my mom worked for Tiger Beat and Right On! magazines and parlayed into a gig writing books about music and TV stars for Sharon Starbook, which included this illustrious tome.
Holly: It’s alive and well. (Not “well,” exactly, but it’s still out there!) Worldcat lists 19 holding libraries. 19 of you have some weeding to do. I’d love to see some interior shots of this book, though. If anyone wants to send some, I’ll update the post!
The Jewish Celebrity Hall of Fame
Boxer
1987
Submitter: This book and its humor is very old and it needs to go. Not sure a book today could keep up with the many Jewish celebrities that exist thanks to just social media alone.
Holly: Sure, but were they ever featured on stamps?
I Do!: The Great Celebrity Weddings
Editors of People Magazine
2005
Submitter: I don’t – as in I don’t think any of the marriages in this book survived.
Holly: I mean, these books are fun for a while, but become dated so fast. Look how young they all are, though!
The Cars
Kamin and Goddard
1986
Submitter: This was an excellent book about a local band to purchase for this library. 35 years later, the band split up, reunite under a new name, reunite under the old name, and saw two of the found members die, and all not covered here. Time to Shake It Up and replace!
Holly: This was NOT Just What I Needed. You Might Think so…but you’d be wrong. Weed it. Drive it off a cliff. Give it to My Best Friend’s Girl. Weeding is not Magic, it’s science. Library Science.
Ok, I’m done now.
Al Franken: Giant of the Senate
Franken
2017
Submitter: So, I was making a delivery of intra-network media transfers to a local college library the other day, and as I was waiting for the right person to accept the delivery and fetch my pick-up, my eyes scanned the shelves, just happening to fall upon the “political commentary” shelves. I spotted this tome sitting there, pulled it off, and immediately recognized it as probably dated with “weeding” potential.
Separated at Birth? by the Editors of SPY 1988 Submitter: This looks like it’s supposed to be a humorous book, but it’s lost on me. The entire book is basically pictures of celebrities/public figures placed next to other celebrities/public figures
God’s Gift Over 100 Studs, Stallions and Dreamboats from the 70s and 80s Cave 2007 Hold on to your hats those of you of a certain age! I will bet you once swooned over these guys. This funny little book
How to Write and Sell Confessions Feldhake 1980 Submitter: From a large public library that recently weeded the 800s/authorship how to’s. This had circed in the last 5 years, which is surprising considering that these “true confessions” magazines don’t really
