Saturday, October 25, 2008

Saturday Morning Portrait of a Bookdrop, and What Passes for Vampires Nowadays

Breakdown of items placed in our outside drop between 6:00 pm on Friday and 8:30 am on Saturday:

57% three-day dvds
41% books
2% audio

How sad is that?

Regarding the currently popular vampire series The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer, which my inner voice insists on pronouncing stu-FEN-ee, thanks to the odd spelling....

I haven't read any of the books in the series. When one comes across the desk, however, I make a point of opening it up and reading a sentence from a random page. There are vampires in this series, right? All I see are exchanges like "Well, Tiffany said that Drake was talking to Ashlee yesterday, and then Brock said...." If I want teen angst, I'll stroll past the public computers. I guess they don't write 'em like Bram Stoker did any more.