Patreon here if you want to help me make more comics and see cool bonus stuff every month! Also, I have a Paypal thingy up there on the right if you want to just do a quick spot of support![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged summer reading
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I still don’t understand the decision to keep displaying Summer Reading books every year and give the display a different sign and name. We all know what high school kids are coming in for during this time of year and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the site here on Patreon! Cool extra stuff for Patrons! Every summer. These stupid books come in every summer. They take up way too much space, they overflow the already overflowing overstock shelves, they take up too much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Help support the site here on Patreon!! Cool extras and you can see each comic a day early! It’s just about Summer Reading time. Of all the different books and authors that find their way onto these reading lists, Chinua[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summer reading has now begun. Or sort of? We haven’t had specific displays called “Summer Reading” for a few years now and it still baffles me. We get in the same unnecessarily large amounts of Steinbeck and Austen, Dickens and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a great email from Brian that inspired today’s comic: “I’m sure your store is having as much yearly ‘fun’ with summer reading as mine is. (I never thought I would miss having summer reading tables… ) In addition[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dreaded Summer Reading program is upon us! Hundreds of books no one likes are sold to kids who don’t want to read them! Teachers laugh at the squandered hours of daylight that could have allowed children to be active,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These are all real products on display. Products that aren’t books. Books are usually the things that customers ask for. I don’t see too many people ask for owls themed gear. What the deuce is up with all the owl[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t understand how Sophie’s Choice wound up on a display for what I had assumed was fluffy summertime fiction. Silly thrillers or books about buying things or beach stuff. Then they throw in a title about the Holocaust, suicide,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gosh, and you wonder why kids hate reading. I remember some of the required school reading I had to do. It wasn’t until I was out of school that I discovered that not all books were stupid. But “Summer of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
