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It's the End of the World as We Know It
Nope, not the May 21, 2011 End of Days. I’m talking about the Los Angeles-leveling earthquake imagined in writer/director/actor Albert Brooks’ new bestseller 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to...
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Let Your Geek Flag Fly!
Geography’s a funny thing. In the Midwest, July means that the corn’s as high as an elephant’s eye. In California it means that it’s time to bust out your Sith cape and roll down to San Diego for...
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You like us, you really like us… now “like” us, on Facebook! We’d be ever so grateful… http://www.facebook.com/ShelfRenewal
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Debt: Everybody Does It
Really America? Has Suze Orman taught us nothing? If you get another credit card you will be paying off interest with money that should be going into your retirement account (which you must NEVER...
View ArticleWeb Crush of the Week: Men Reading Books
Last month, I found the topic of guys reading (or rather, not reading) coming up in both my online world and in real life. Ted Balcom, a blogging colleague of mine over at Booklist’s Book Group Buzz,...
View ArticleZombies. They’re everywhere.
Excuse the non-book related post, but I just had to spread this around. As loyal ShelfRenewal readers may know, I (Rebecca) have a bit of an obsession with zombie fiction (um, as does quite a bit of...
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A real press release, and everything! Rebecca Vnuk joins Booklist as new editor, reference and collection management
View ArticleHearing me is even more fun than reading me…
Rebecca here - Before I start my new gig at Booklist, I need to do one last thing for the competition! (hee hee) Register for Library Journal‘s webcast on weeding, “Out with the Old, In with the New:...
View ArticleBest of the backlist?
I’m sure at the beginning of this month, you were all inundated with Best-this-Best-that lists of 2011, yes? But those lists likely all covered new books that came out in 2011. How to qualify the...
View ArticleWhat are these new-fangled “talkies”?
For an upcoming column in Public Libraries, (look for it in your March/April issue!) I decided to showcase some movies that most people probably were not aware were books first. To get some ideas, I...
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