Remember how back in the day you came across a book that was just beyond awesome? Something in a world and time not far off from your own, something that might just be around the corner? And then years later, you’re roaming the stacks at the library, pick up the book and flip through it and curse the day that it became a summer reading for the clever high school student and think people who underline/write in pen/highlight a library book should be shot? Oh…just me? Like I’m the only person who wants to lose themselves in book and NOT have “so true” and “LIAR” or “men are bad, women are worse” popping out of the margins.

So what inspired the above rant? Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The 1980s cult classic of a future North America under the grip of a totalitarian rule with the female population stripped of basic rights (having money in their own names, jobs outside the home,birth control) and certain women moved from household to household to try and give high ranking childless couples  children. Awesome book back in the day, still gripping twenty five plus years later. However the library copy I checked out was filled with all kinds of little “love notes”. SO ANNOYING. Please do me and libraries a favor. If It Ain’t Your Book DO NOT WRITE IN IT! GO TO A USED BOOK STORE! OR BETTER YET A LIBRARY BOOK SALE! End Rant!