I have a friend who is reading Fifty Shades of Gray (remember it's that really popular novel about a rich dude and a college student and everything I've read about it says that's pseudo-lady porn). Anyway, my friend is totally distraught over the whole thing, but yet she can't stop reading it. Not having read it myself, I wasn't sure what to say to my freaked out friend, so via gchat this afternoon I consulted my favorite librarian in the whole wide world to see what she thought about the book.She gave me a solid review, but then had to go. Preschoolers.


This is what happens when you talk books with an elementary school librarian during the middle of a school day.

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