ABC (and F) Club Tonight was a bit of a wash. Either the group doesn't the book and doesn't talk about it, or--as was the case tonight--they do read the book and they still don't talk about it. Is there some immutable law of nature that dictates that when three or more strong-willed lesbian and/or bisexual women get together, they must all talk over each other, as loudly as possible?

I love my ladies, but goddamn.

On the bright side, I think I may have made a new friend tonight--a friend of the Geek Persuasion. My ears perked up right away when she mentioned going to Ren Faires. And then...she mentioned LARPing. For reals. I said, "Excellent! An honest-to-god geek!"

She simply smiled and showed me this:

I squealed. And thus, a new friend was (potentially) made.

50 Uses for 50 Shades...

Of course, like most of Library Land, I've been following the whole "50 Shades of Grey" brouhaha with no small amount of amusement. For a while, I was monitoring the list of people on the waitlist for it. At one point, there were 95 people on the waitlist for the first one. And then, a couple of days later, I checked the list again, and lamented to B, "It's gone down...pardon the pun."

Ahem.

Having read the first book, I feel like I'm in a place to make commentary on it. But instead of critiquing it, I'll share with you a little game that B and I came up with:

Alternative Uses for 50 Shades of Grey.

1. Doorstop (I know, generic and overdone)
2. Paper-weight
3. Kindling (no, I'm not advocating book-burning)
4. Wrapping fish in
5. Proofreading/editing practice: As in, give this book to an aspiring writer and say, "Here, turn this into something good."
6. A source of inspiration for fanfic writers. (Actually, no, I retract that. We've got plenty of inspiration. Moving along.)
7. Target practice

This last one was Papa Bear's suggestion, and we ended the game with him as the declared winnerr. Stay tuned for more rounds!