Thursday, November 19, 2009

Unemployed in St. Thomas

Working on a project for school. It involves choosing 75 books to buy for a library in St. Thomas Ontario (whose notable characteristic recently is that it has lost thousands of jobs in the auto and manufacturing sectors).
Unfortunately, we chose the Dewey area of 'Recreation and Sports', which means I'm sifting through a lot of books like 'How to win at Internet Poker' and 'Solitaire and other solo games' and 'Drinking Games neither you nor your friends will remember' and 'How to become an awesome online gamer'.
Every book hurts a little. Except Amy Sedaris' book on entertaining, which I think might be a perfectly justified addition to any library.

1 comment:

Debbie said...

How about tennis legen Andre Agassi's new autobiography. He reveals that for years and years, he absolutely hated his job and hid a drug problem for a part of his career. Relatable?