Long time readers may recall the Crappy Old Books of the Months series. Though I often fell down on the job because of real life, I enjoyed those. I thought some posts were quite good. Naturally, a few books became tiresome toward the end– you may have eventually tired of the Bacon jokes– but it was a fun series.

This year, let us put a new spin on Crappy Old Books of the Months and frame the series in terms of Crappy Old Book Shelves. Each month we’ll look at the crappy old books on a single bookshelf (broadly construed) until I run out of bookshelves, which should keep us in business for quite some time.

I will not be too terribly ambitious to start. The bookshelf in the front bedroom that The J-Man loving crafted has relatively few books. I chose them because of their potential appeal to guests who enjoy crafts, gardens, home decorating, food preparation, photography, and ballroom dancing.

Stay tuned. I think we’ll start with ballroom dancing.