a ridiculous raw youth: Slutty Books

I used to love those Scholastic magazines that were sent home in elementary school, usually a week or two before the book fair. I'd go home and take a pencil and add stars next to all of the books I wanted. The more stars, the more I wanted the books. Then I would take a highlighter and highlight all of the titles I wanted, and the marker would bleed through to the other side. Sometimes I would circle the front covers so much that it became hard to read the name of the author, and the magazines were printed on really crappy paper, and my copy would be filled with holes and smudges and was all in all illegible.

When the book fair actually came to my library, set up the reading nook area for presentations and storytimes, I had no money in my pockets and spent the library time on the computers playing Oregon Trail.

My mom is a children's librarian. Buying books is so overrated.

According to the New York Times, Scholastic has discontinued the book series based off of those slutty Barbie rip-offs, Bratz. I agree, because those dolls are total prostitutes, and the last thing we need is elementary school kids dressing like whores. It's bad enough that middle school girls dress that way.

But that just goes for kids. I tend to think that adding a bit of sex appeal makes reading much for fun! Arguably not safe for work or school, but good old fashioned (adult) fun nevertheless!

Indignation by Philip Roth