nazis + nerdiness = just another day here at PoBaL

I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Here's what it looks like:


This book was really incredible. I couldn't stop reading it, even while on the phone. Even though there were a lot of things I should have been doing.
So, Markus Zusak, if you happen to be reading this, here's a list of things you need to come to my apartment and do, since your book kept me from them:

1. Wash dishes. I hit critical mass 2 days ago.
   
2. Change the cat litter. If you could also stop at the store and buy a bag of Feline Pine, that would be great.
   
3. Put away my clean laundry.
   
4. Figure out how to rearrange my bedroom, because I don't like the current placement of things.
   
5. Make some Princess Bride-themed crafts.
   
6. Be a librarian for about a half-hour or so, since I've been late to work and have taken too-long breaks to read your book.
   
7. Also you probably owe me some waterproof eyeliner, since I kept getting all weepy.

Actually, I think this is a great new way to review books.

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So, while I was visiting Tiff this weekend, we went to a bookstore near her apartment. Why? Because we're librarians, incredible nerds, and she wanted to pick up a copy of the BSC comic book.
After hitting the graphic novels (where I got my complain on, again, about 741.5 being the devil and the multiple copies of Fruits Basket celebrating their 3rd month of in-process-shelf habitation), YA section (YES, I go to the YA section of bookstores. VOYA doesn't publish cover graphics, people. Plus, sometimes I like to give customers readers advisory-type advice. I have issues, okay?), and new picture books (new J. Otto Seibold is adorable), there are magazines to peruse.
Tiff finds Nylon before me. I turn the corner to the other side of the magazine thing and hear, "Jessy! Look!" She's holding the magazine up, open to a fashion spread inspired by Daria.
I do that arms-up cheering thing I do sometimes.
And get the funniest, most appalled/a little frightened look from some painfully normal woman. To which I replied, "Look! Daria!"
She looked to be about our age, so I don't understand why she wasn't as excited. Stupid woman.

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Anyone up for a game of Pony Pong?