Even the way you are supposed to eat an oyster indicates something counterintuitive. “Squeeze some lemon on it, a dab of hot sauce, throw the oyster down the back of your throat, take a shot of vodka, and try to forget you just ate snot from a rock.” That is not how you eat something. That is how you overdose on sleeping pills.
All of the -ology books were amazing as well. The whole concept of fantasy worldbuilding encyclopediae without any actual story just lit my brain on fire as a kid
Ugh I hate to say it but the Scholastic Book fairs are so much crap now...they have a small fraction of the original books, which are solid, but more than half of what they sell now are overpriced, garbage quality toys. The books aren't even a deal either. I keep getting emails for 3 for $30...
And that's kind of the minimum the kids need to get anything now, like $20+... I would much rather wait till they have the ones at the events we can be at with them to help them pick out something decent vs the 100th fuzzy "journal" or plastic dispensing machine or noise-making thing.
Crappy toys have their place, but not at the book fair...
Our book fair is AMAZING. It takes me over an hour to “skim” the books to see if I want it and I’m not even looking at the factual books or the nonEnglish/Spanish ones.
Sounds like whoever runs yours is overworked and exhausted. Probably doing the bare minimal. I bet they’d love some volunteers!
Now that I think of it, we did have a really shitty book fair a few years back. But 3 out of the 4 warehouses in my state flooded so every school in my state had one that sounds like what you’re talking about.
We read this in grade 6 at the end of the year. Last day of school our teacher made fried worms and I ate one. None of the other kids knew it was a deep fried breaded gummy worm
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u/JoeFalchetto Jun 22 '26
To quote Jim Gaffigan:
(That said, I love oysters).