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November 5, 2009

Best books lists abound this time of year. Look for ours, which always boasts under-the-radar titles worth more attention, in the Nov. 19 edition of BookSmack! Following a similar theme, in LJ's new blog, Shelfrenewal, librarians Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk show you how to love up your backlists. Don't miss their tips on bringing back "dusties" and their weekly "web crush," too. And for best books lists already out, if you haven't seen them, check those from Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly.—Heather McCormack, Editor (follow me on Twitter at @hmccormack and @LJBookReview)

• Introducing Our New Blog: Shelfrenewal
  Welcome to Shelfrenewal! We’re Karen Kleckner and Rebecca Vnuk, librarians in the Chicago metro area with a combined 20 years of readers’ advisory experience. Recently, we started feeling a little sorry for those backlist titles that just don’t get enough attention. We wanted to know what we could do for those awesome books languishing on the shelves. Then we realized, "Hey! We love books. We should write a blog!" more » » » 

• Books for Dudes: Read-Togethers for Couples
  Other than the Sunday paper in bed with coffee and croissants, what do all you couples read together? When the girlfriend and I aren’t on safari or poring over The Official Scrabble Dictionary, we like to read books. Usually, we parallel read: she her selection, me mine. But we sometimes tackle the same title. Read-togethers have included F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Blueprints for That Missile Silo Up on the Hill*. more » » » 

• Prepub Exploded: April 2010, Pt. 1
  Yes, we have thrillers—from the likes of Mary Higgins Clark and Martha Grimes—but with Pearl Abraham’s American Taliban and Ian McEwan’s Solar, fiction gets topical. In nonfiction, check out the good science titles and cheeky memoirs by Wendy Burden and Anna Fields. more » » » 
• Starred Reviews: November 2009
  November 2009 brings 62 outstanding titles culled from both our print and our Xpress (online-only) reviews. Lovers of biography should be sure to check out Susan Wels's Amelia Earhart and Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil's I Slept with Joey Ramone. Audio-book hounds, lend your ears to James Carville and Daniel Silva. more » » » 

• Q&A: Alec Comicker Eddie Campbell
  Award-winning comics artist Eddie Campbell is probably best known for his work on Alan Moore's From Hell. Readers would do well to check out his recently published Alec: "The Years Have Pants," the superb omnibus edition of his autobiographical series. Campbell, who lives in a suburb of Queensland, Australia, kindly took the time to answer my questions about his beer- and wine-drinking alter ego, not to mention blogging and his "Snooter." more » » » 
• Short Takes: Winter and Spring 2010 Memoirs
  Just when you thought there was a memoir drought, along comes another installment in our Short Takes series. This crop of 14 features the usual themes—especially recovery from drugs and alcohol—but also fresh takes on the family unit (Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast) and marriage (Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love follow-up, Committed). more » » » 

• Short Takes: Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop Graphic Novels
  You can’t draw the sound of music, but that hasn’t stopped aficionados from making comics about musicians and their oeuvre. Maybe it’s the cultural substrate—if you like comics, making or reading them, you probably love rock 'n' roll and jazz also. Here, 18 titles. more » » » 

• Zines by People of Color
  It isn't a secret that there aren't many zines by people of color. By virtue of their underground history and connection to the subculture of punk, zines tend to fall outside the radar of the average person, and this is even more the case for populations that have little presence in punk. The zines reviewed here are all by people of color. Each sheds light on their universal struggles, as well as the individual problems and joys in their lives. more » » » 

• RA Crossroads: War via Doonesbury.com’s The Sandbox
  As Lewis Carroll’s Alice so aptly points out, “What is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?” Welcome to RA Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge and whole-collection reader’s advisory service goes where it may. In this column, Doonesbury.com’s The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan leads me down a winding path.
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