Ahhh, another Friday by my lonesome at the Youth Services Desk. Helloooo, home school kids, how are you? Yes, ma'am, I'm just going to let the page in the "ironic" logo shirt (it says "Lord" where it should say "Ford") talk to you about Toby Keith. He did, after all, just take my "If I put books where YAs sit, they'll be forced to pick them up and look at them!" plan to throw a Left Behind book on the chair. That's the thing with those Left Behind books: if you want 'em, you don't need to be coerced. And anybody that would need to be tricked into reading them, well, I'm not thinking the trick would work that well. I mean, I've tried to read one of those books (liking trash as much as I do, and hoping the author would leave clues as to his true identity--Norm McDonald in oldface makeup*), but they get too bogged down in the God junk. Reading this over, I'm realizing that there really isn't much correlation between helping a patron with Toby Keith and "helping" me sucker kids into checking out books they might not otherwise.
Mr. Man, do you see that sign directly in front of you that says "Videos"? Do you think that might be where the videos are?
Someday, I will stop assuming that people read signs. And yes, I'm guilty of it as well.
VIZ is giving away this nifty Manga/Anime 101 thing. It's made up to look like a composition book full of classnotes, all about manga and anime, particularly of the distributed-by-VIZ variety.
*Wait, I forget: is Old Man McDonald the guy who writes the kids' Left Behind, or is it the other guy? What if we switched authors and popular series? Like, V.C. Andrews could write Left Behind and Lurlene McDaniel could write Fearless. Which is ending, by the way. Apparently, there's only one book left, but in the back of #35, there's an ad for Francine Pascal's new series, Fearless FBI. So I wonder what happens in the last Fearless book, hmmm.
Oh, I'm reading The Year of Secret Assignments now, by Jaclyn Moriarty. It's a scream, or as this kind of book's older novel sister would say, v.g.
And a shout-out to Jim, since that whole Tim LaHaye/Norm McDonald thing was our shared running joke.
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Secret Assignments was definitely a scream.
I'm so envious that you actually have a whole YA area that's staffed. We have an overcrowded wall of shelves and a table with a sign that says it's reserved for teens but that no-one respects. Oh well, I suppose I should be glad the YA books get their own shelves and aren't squeezed in at the end of the nonfiction, as they are at a branch I used to work at.
We had a family of homeschoolers attend an author reading and they were eerie. They (and their mother) stood the entire time and were very formally, old-fashionedly dressed. Very well-behaved, of course, but it was a bit unnatural feeling. Although there are certainly days when I wish everyone, from babies to seniors, could be that nice, quiet, and well-behaved, odd clothes or no.
I have to confess to loving Toby Keith.
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