2006 book 17

joe pernice's meat is murder
i picked up a couple of the 33 1/3 books at ala for five bucks apiece--mad props to the girls running the continuum booth, who let me take them on sunday since i was leaving first thing monday morning! anyway, we've gotten some of the series at the music library, but i guess joe pernice's novel didn't really qualify for the stacks. i think writing a novel that nicely encapsulates the high school experience of falling in love with an album, crushing out on someone, etc is an interesting approach--and frankly, it's more interesting than some of the other books in the series (don't get me wrong--most of them are awesome. but a couple that i've seen are sort of unreadable unless you're a diehard fan of whichever album is being discussed). maxing out at 102 pages of teenage smiths love (anything over 100 pages counts!), this was a quick and fun read.