Book Vignette

Facebook... it is not a book. It isn't an e-book. It is a website. There are books out there about faces; there are books with nothing but faces; but Facebook is not a book. Now, what would be fun to do is make a book consisting of nothing but Facebook material. A book who's content is purely drawn form actual Facebook names, statuses, interests, pictures, videos (if we're thinking of an interactive e-book) etc...

I have noticed this semester, because I am so much older and cooler as a JUNIOR (definitely joking here), that a good bit of freshman (that I see, anyways) are silly about their textbooks. They do not write in them! And they don't highlight them! I think it's funny and I kind of just want to say, "Hey! I can tell you're a freshman because that book isn't rented and you're treating it like it is!" Not really, I would never say that. But I do want to ask why.

When I was an undergrad I double-majored in literature and visual arts (graphic design focus). An unforeseen consequence of taking on two majors was that I had to let one slip. So while I made sure I was an A student in English, I settled for being a B student in art. After all, art is much more subjective so I didn't feel too bad about putting less effort into it. Of course, English demanded my attention because of all the required texts I had.

It's amazing how one book can almost completely turn me against reading altogether. The text book for English 810, The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism, not so affectionately called "The Bible", is a ridiculously thick 2,758 paged tome of equally ridiculous and mostly pointless/dry/incomprehensible literary theory. I'd previously taken a critical analysis class in my undergrad and the text for that class was just shy of 400 pages.

I found something interesting in a bathroom stall on the first floor of the library: a book. It was Kristy's Big Day