Watched Read or Die, which was an excellent DVD. It was nice to see a division of the British Special Library coordinating spies with super powers and submarines. I identified with the main character, Yomiko Readman, since she lives in an apartment overtaken by a maze of stacked books, and places post it notes everywhere “Wake up! Wake up!” to remind her to actually get out of bed. She has the power to manipulate paper into whatever form she wants (sword, parachute, shield from shrapnel, etc.)

The part that I loved in the opening minutes was the way Yomiko goes into a book trance when she’s reading, and is totally oblivious to her surroundings (giant evil insects, car crashes, and explosions). I used to go into book trance all the time when I was younger, to the point where my mom usually had to yell something attention grabbing at me “Look! Chocolate!” in order to bring me out of it, but I don’t read that intensely anymore. I wish I did.

There are a few bits of Engrish with the character names, Yomiko is referred to as “The Paper”, as in “The Paper, Watch out for that evil clone!” and her boss is “Mister Gentlemen”. With Miss Deep, who can walk through walls, Yomiko fights a group of evil clones of historical figures bent on killing off a large portion of the world’s population. One thing I loved about the DVD was that all the chapters on the DVD corresponded to a book, and each book had its Library of Congress call number! Yes, I am a geek!

Must pack for ALA. So far my plans are:

1) Visit lovely places
2) Go shopping
3) ???????
4) Be illuminated with fabulous experiences contributing to my professional development!