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I posted a few days ago about the concept of "watching a show wrong", and one of the things I thought about mentioning was recently reading about the analysis of books in English literature courses. You know how they go on about all of the symbolism in literature, yet we really don't know what the author's intention was in many cases because they' ( Read more... )

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Go look at today's Unshelved. In my mind, I'm replacing the two complainers with a couple of regulars at the library, who check out nothing but DVDs and complain that we don't have new ones. One goes so far as to complain each and every time she's in about being on reserve for titles for weeks. Um. Yeah. The checkout period is two weeks, so if ( Read more... )

ALA: Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Whenever I post a list of banned/challenged books and people see a title they've read and enjoyed, they always ask what landed it on the list. When I look it up and tell them, they usually have a puzzled expression and say "I don't remember ( Read more... )

Unshelved: As if I didn't need more examples of why I ♥ Dewey.

xkcd: Moon Landing

There are several Unshelved strips, including this one that's the punchline for an ongoing gag, so it might not make much sense on its own, but I think I'm making a graphic out of the last panel.

Pretty sure I'll link up to this one next time someone goes into a "You're _____ist!" rant online. I'll dedicate this one to Fifty Shades ( Read more... )

Unshelved has a storyline that started on Monday with a customer asking for "bad" books, with the first payoff on Wednesday. The last panel left me making a very undignified noise. The last one is a read-a-long on Thursday.

::snicker::

Unshelved: It's all in how you ask

On an unrelated note, I have NO IDEA what this comic is about, NONE.

Unshelved: Yeah, she's totally writing fanfic. Well, badfic, but still.