Lio by Mark Tatulli for February 19, 2020

how exciting

Shhhhhh the movie is starting and the librarian is just warming up…

Many times after a good movie go find and read the book to find out more of the details

Hard to eat popcorn while reading without getting the butter all over the pages (or screen)

to be able to have an unobstructed view of the screen with no one talking or disturbing you while watching the movie…that may be every moviegoers dream!

It isn’t one of his monsters?

“No human would stack books like that.”

Does the monster lurk in the fiction or non-fiction sections.

i don’t think Trump ever read a book and look…he’s President.

The trouble with pro-book messages is that they have to use other media to get their point across. For example, I enjoyed “Wishbone,” but it didn’t make me want to read; it made me glad to learn the gist of stories in a more accessible form. And there’s a reason those posters never show anyone just reading: It looks boring.

That said, I still read books for pleasure.

“The Monster in the Library” The sad story of a librarian, bitten by a radioactive squid, who now stalks the shelves, silencing noisy readers.

Spoiler: the Librarian explodes the monster’s brain by teaching him the Library of Congress classification scheme.

…But I saw the movie….