People will as me that when I’m sitting behind the circulation desk.

Yes.

would still be worth reading.

I feel like most of them are exaggerated (although a few have felt outright invented) but there are worse ways to blow a few minutes on a Monday.

“Well you said you wanted to order from the lunch menu, but the lunch menu isn’t served again until tomorrow...”

I think it also helps them rationalize their choice to live there. Anything to get them through the day I guess.

I have a casein sensitivity so I just...don’t order cows’ milk? It’s not worth the risk to me.

Exactly. They eat it or they don’t eat.

maybe he puts away his own damn socks?

In the modern world, calligraphy =/= handwriting.

I just tell people I'm mildly lactose intolerant. I figure if lactaid helps you you're entitled to that.

If they whistle they should lose their tongue.

Not to be that Pinkham’s Law person, but I didn’t think I was lactose intolerant for a while because I didn’t get the gas/bloating stuff so much as I got the horrible violent acid reflux/GERD stuff. But I say that knowing that a) lactose intolerance is not at all the same as celiac disease and b) I just don’t eat…

Chin.

I’m so glad someone else doesn’t like her. I was beginning to feel all alone. She is SO smug.

Native. Never had one. What’s on these mythical crab sandwiches.

Well first there’s the part where women are people, not things.

Is the writing better here than in her other books? People recommend this series to me all the time but I tried reading Santa Olivia before and the writing was painful so it's put me off her ever since. It read like Jacqueline Carey had never heard two humans speak to one another before.

I have a desktop at home so I use my tablet quite a bit, actually.

Seconding these! I got the orange ones.

Seconding these! I got the orange ones.