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Hi-Fi Fight Club
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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When Chris joins the staff at her local record store, she's surprised to find out that her co-workers share a secret: they're all members of a secret fight club that take on the patriarchy and fight crime! Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working at Vinyl Mayhem. It's as rad as she imagined; her boss is BOSS, her co-workers spend their time arguing over music, pushing against the patriarchy, and endlessly trying to form a band. When Rosie Riot, the staff's favorite singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band's show, Chris discovers her co-workers are doing more than just sorting vinyl . . . Her local indie record store is also a front for a teen girl vigilante fight club! Follow writer Carly Usdin (director of Suicide Kale) and artist Nina Vakueva (Lilith's World) into the Hi-Fi Fight Club, wher they deliver a rock and roll tale of intrigue and boundless friendship.
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eris404
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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This is actually for the first volume of Heavy Vinyl (Riot on the Radio). This is a very cute YA title about an awkward teen whose first job is at a record store (something teenaged me would have given her left arm for). If that wasn‘t cool enough, she discovers the employees are part of a secret all-girl vigilante club. Her fellow employees are a little too effortlessly cool for my taste, but pre/young teen me would‘ve loved this.

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Robotswithpersonality
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Cute, fun Sunday reads continue! I am definitely continuing in this series. I love the 'Buffy/Scooby Doo/young friend group solves mystery/saves the day' vibes. 90s nostalgia in style and music is nice background, but the kickassery and the sweet developing romance, positive portrayal of queer and hetero relationships and emerging friendships are the best parts.

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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This volume is as fun as the first! Our girls have started a band to help them go undercover and bring down nefarious plans of evil music producer Rick Blaze. #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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Sarahreadstoomuch
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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I think I saw something about this posted by @ElizaMarie ? I loved it! A fun, girl positive comic set in the 90s and starring a group of record store employees who also solve mysteries. Looking forward to the next one!

ElizaMarie Yes I mentioned it! I loved it! I am all about girl power! They were super cutely drawn too! Which I enjoy in a comic :) 4y
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ElizaMarie
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Picture Book is meaning Graphic Novel for me :) The pictures were super cute actually! I loved the artwork here. #TBRCrewBingo
@jessinikkip , @jb72 , @AkashaVampie , @AsYouWish , @AnansiGirl , @Catherine_Willoughby , @MissAimz_55

Catherine_Willoughby Can we tick off multiple squares if one book covers multiple topics? 4y
ElizaMarie @Catherine_Willoughby Sure! You can do your bingos however you want! 4y
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ElizaMarie
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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So again thanks @AkashaVampie , I just finished Vol 1 of this one. It was super cute. Right up my alley. I love 80s and 90s themed. That and working in a music store always seemed cool (second to working at a bookstore/cafe -- one of my dream jobs) .

AkashaVampie U are so welcome sweetie. 4y
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ElizaMarie
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin

Thanks @AkashaVampie for the recommendation! I just downloaded this on Hoopla! So I will probably read this today :) Or tomorrow :)

AkashaVampie Ur welcome sweetie. I'm always coming across GN. 4y
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mariaku21
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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It's like if anyone had mashed up Empire Records and Buffy the vampire slayer, stuck it in the 90's amidst the changing of music and the girl rock movement and you might have a good starting point to what this comic is about.⁠

ElizaMarie @AkashaVampie oooo this one is perfect for me!!! 4y
AkashaVampie @ElizaMarie ur welcome sweetie 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick You had me at Empire Records! 4y
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ErikaB
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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With references to “120 Minutes” and Portishead, do I even need to state that “Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio” is set in the late 90‘s? (I‘m conditioned to love anything set in a record store because of “Empire Records”.) Definitely a favorite this year. And Carly Usdin, the author, included her awesome playlist that she sent to illustrator Nina Bakueva, which includes my favorite No Doubt song on it. No one ever picks “Sunday Morning”!

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RainyDayReading
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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What a fun graphic novel! I loved the art style and the plot, a group of girls that work in a record shop and are secretly a vigilante group? Yes please. This is just fun and fluffy. Will keep an eye out for volume 2.

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kyraleseberg
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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AHHHHHHHHH!
I was not expecting another volume of Heavy Vinyl but it's coming & I am squealing out loud 😍😍😍

https://bookriot.com/2020/01/13/most-anticipated-books-of-2020/

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Rbabyblue
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Adding a graphic novel to the mix wouldn‘t hurt, would it?

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Naj
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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#7days7covers #covercrush Day 7

This was such a great tag! Thanks again @ShelfRighteous for tagging me ❤

Anyone who wants to do this and hasn't been tagged yet, feel free to join. Post seven of your favorite book covers, one each for seven days. No explanations required. Tag someone new each day.

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ThatLibrarianLady
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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I loved this exactly as much as I thought I would. These girls are awesome. Must read comic! So fun and nostalgic. Book 5 of #24in48

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ThatLibrarianLady
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Got a later start than I was expecting this morning but I‘m really into the whole reading comics thing right now so I‘m starting off today with this one. #24in48

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Krisjericho
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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It‘s kind of like the Empire Records of graphic novels, only better. Because Fight Club.

So much fun. Great characters, diversity and representation, spot-on dialogue, terrific art, and 90s music. This volume very much feels like an introduction volume, and I think if it were the complete series, it would have been a five star read for me.

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booksensation
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva 4 ⭐️ read! I really enjoyed reading this one! I loved the air style and the colors! The cast of characters are 5 really cool chicks who can totally kick ass! Super quick read and hard to put down.. can‘t wait to get the next volumes 😊

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ReadingEnvy
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Last night I was in the mood for a lighter read so I remembered Bianca's comics recommendations on the last episode of the Reading Envy Podcast and ending up reading Volume 1 of Heavy Vinyl. A female owned and operated record store, which might be a front for another business. Very fun. And it is on Hoopla!
@Bianca

dylanisreading Yay! Glad you enjoyed it! 5y
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kyraleseberg
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Support your local girl gang 🙌

readinginthedark Record store, 1998, with some vigilante teens? I'm in! 5y
kyraleseberg @readinginthedark Right?! So much fun and a lot of nostalgia. It was like Empire Records meets Josie and the Pussycats! I'm bummed though because I don't see anymore upcoming issues in the series. 5y
readinginthedark Oh no, like Mockingbird? 😕 That would be sad; it sounds like the perfect combination. 5y
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kyraleseberg @readinginthedark Yes, just like Mockingbird 😫 That was seriously my fave graphic novel, I was devastated it was dropped after 2 volumes!! 5y
Linsy Love it! 🙌 5y
readinginthedark Me too! 😭 5y
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BiblioNyan
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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🎶Coming of age story about a group of girls who work at a record store together.
🎶Excellent diversity & rep of Queer ppl.
🎶A super charming cast of strong & badass women.
🎶Cute & quirky story w/ a fun twist.
🎶Artwork is very reminiscent of 90s cartoons, which fits the music aesthetic fantastically.
🎶Perfect pacing, progression, & round-up.
🎶Ridiculously cute & adorable.
🎶Delightfully feel-good & inspiring.
🎶5/5

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Chasingmermaids
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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Super cute and super queer. Music store girls who fight crime. I can‘t wait for more. It was just a small taste of the story and I finished it in one sitting.

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Chasingmermaids
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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I am Chris. A gay who is afraid of bikes.

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amandainoak
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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SO fun. Please let there be a second volume...?

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silentrequiem
Heavy Vinyl | Carly Usdin
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A GN about an all-girl vigilante fight club under a record store. Freaking awesome! I really hope there's more because that ending!!! #feministreads #rainbowreads

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jamie_in_the_library
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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This is everything I would hope for in a late 90s teenage fight club queer love story 💘 In addition to the aforementioned album references of my youth, the characters talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the main character, Chris, even has my quirk of miming eating different types of food to decide what she wants to order!

If you like music, kickass female characters, and a sprinkle of teenage drama then I highly recommend reading this

bunny Seconded! I loved this one; it was so much fun. 6y
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jamie_in_the_library
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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I jumped up when I saw this and immediately showed my fiancé (who is 4 years younger than me), but since she didn‘t come of age in the late 90s this was a bit lost on her.

Anyone else know the records they‘re referencing?

monalyisha I‘ve got “New Kids on the Block” & TLC‘s “Crazy Sexy Cool”... but the other one isn‘t coming so quickly. 🤔 6y
jamie_in_the_library @monalyisha Spice Girls!🇬🇧 6y
monalyisha Ohhh I see what I did! I didn‘t know the “New Kids” album title & thought “Kickin Hard” was a separate reference! I totally ignored the “album” on the bottom right. DUH! In 6th grade, some friends & I used to dress up as The Spice Girls & “perform.” 😅 I was Baby Spice. 🤫✌🏻 (edited) 6y
jamie_in_the_library @monalyisha Haha nice! My fav was always Sporty Spice 🥇⚽️ 6y
monalyisha @jamie_in_the_library I was always the one responsible for drawing the tattoo on Sporty Spice‘s (ie, my friend Jamie‘s) upper arm. 6y
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balletbookworm
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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Fight Club + Josie and the Pussycats + Empire Records (so many jokes) + all-lady crew = excellent.

I can haz moar plz?

Read for the Graphic Novel Book Club at my store.

Idk why the title here is HiFi Fight Club

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queerbookreader
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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IMPORTANT NOTE: this comic got renamed from "Hi-Fi Fight Club"P ➡️ "Heavy Vinyl". Idk why the old name is still in the Litsy database, but don't search for this listed name.

4 stars? Super cute. Super gay. A little light on the mystery cos so much of the book was spent introducing us to the fight club, but I'm not mad.

I could feel myself aging reading this. I was like "is this legal?? Do your parents know??" IVE BECOME A RESPONSIBLE ADULT ?

BethM 😂 6y
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pocketmermaid
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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I just got sprung from the hospital (high blood pressure, low potassium) and there was pair of Barnes & Noble coupons waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home. So after my unexpected hospital ordeal, I decided it was a perfect time to treat myself. I‘m currently out to dinner with my wife for her birthday - so my new low-sodium diet will have to start tomorrow! At least I have books to see me through. ❤️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sorry for the ordeal, but so glad you are feeling better and enjoying a night out after it. Feel better, and take care of you! 😉 6y
Alfoster Yay you! Celebrate!👏👏👏🎂 6y
batsy Sorry about the hospital ordeal. Books can make things better indeed. Take care and feel better! 6y
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SeeJulieRead
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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This is now called Heavy Vinyl and is so good! Teenage girl fight club set in 1998? Yes, please! My three daughters and I highly recommend this one.

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Daniisanerd
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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Thank you for saving the band Chris! I am definitely into girls and also I love you!

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nosferatoos
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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I forgot to post my April Wrap up! So here it is! I didn‘t read too much this month, things were kinda chaotic.
📚4 books
📚4 tpbs
📚108 comics

#wrapup #aprilwrapup

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2BR02B
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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Some #bookmail to keep me occupied while kitty gets his exercise. I read the premise of this comic- record store babes who moonlight as vigilante crime fighters- and I couldn't not pre-order it. My hipstery side is hoping for lots of obscure music references.

#catsoflitsy

Swe_Eva Your kitteh walks on a leash?! Color me impressed!! I've only ever had idiotically independent cats - this would have made a nice change. 👍 6y
2BR02B @Swe_Eva he doesn't walk like a dog, just sort of meanders aimlessly with frequent stops to nibble on grass. I rescued him as a stray, and he gets a bit dickish if he spends too much time cooped up indoors, so walkies it is! 6y
Swe_Eva @2BR02B That's wonderful - mine would have been upside down, spitting and hissing until I took the leash off. 😂 6y
readordierachel Delightful. Cats on leashes make me so happy 😻 6y
TricksyTails What @ReadOrDieRachel said! 😻♥️😻♥️ 6y
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rachelsbrittain
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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Final count from Goodreads. 2017 was not a bad year for reading. Here's hoping 2018 will be even better 😊

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rachelsbrittain
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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Okay this comic is so cute I can't stand it! Just your average girl gang kicking butt and solving crimes out of a record store. It's kind of like Buffy mixed with Lumberjanes, but everyone is obsessed with music. Sadly I could only read the first three issues on hoopla, so I was kind of left hanging but the characters are great and the story is fun-- plus lgbtq rep! Always a plus.

GondorGirl Thanks for the review. I've got to add this one to my pull list! 6y
rachelsbrittain You're welcome @GondorGirl -- it's a really cute one and definitely worth a read 6y
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Librariana
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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🌟🌟🌟
A solid, promising introduction to a group of strong, confident, vinyl-lovin' chicas that I hope will bring us lots of adventure, more 90s nostalgia, and maybe some mystery-solving in the issues to come. A possible, budding romance between two of its gals is adorable 💖 the artwork and colors are 😍 and that variant cover homage to Empire Records is 👌
Two enthusiastic thumps up!👍👍
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Eyelit I adore that homage cover!!! 7y
Librariana @Eyelit - I know, right?? All I keep hearing in my head is "Empire Records... open 'til midnight... this is Mark." >>brief pause 7y
monalyisha Omg this is going right to the top of my TBR. I'm in love. I had the BIGGEST crush on Lucas as a teen! "What's with today, today?" ?? (swoon) 7y
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monalyisha (My husband's really more of a Mark, though. I'll be honest. 😂) 7y
Eyelit Thanks for the heads up on go go power rangers variants art work. Hopefully I can check them out on the google 😆 7y
Librariana @monalyisha - Me too!! Wasn't Lucas just... dreamy!?? "In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through'." -- Such a good movie!! Soooo many quotable lines. "Not on Rex Manning day." Had to make my husband watch that one and Sixteen Candles. 7y
monalyisha "I can categorically say that you are *not* a bigger banana-head." 7y
Librariana @Eyelit - Do! It'll change ya life! 😄😉😁 You can also check them all out on the Boom! Studio website so you can see them all side-by-side. Too cute! 7y
Librariana @monalyisha - "I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren" 7y
Librariana @monalyisha - Also... let's start a Litsy, Empire Records tribute band and call ourselves "MARC". I don't know what we'd play exactly, but we can figure that part out later ? 7y
monalyisha @Librariana When I worked retail (in a bookstore) I always thought of the tail end of the scene that you mentioned, where Mark goes over the intercom, "Help me, help me, help me, help me! OH GOD..." Felt like that on the reg. ? 7y
monalyisha @Librariana I'm into your band idea. Think we can get GWAR to open for us? (We'll obviously be huge.) 7y
Librariana @monalyisha - I can *totally* picture the "help me" thing happening on the reg at a bookstore. We're a demanding bunch! And as long as we bribe them with some of Eddie's special brownies, I don't see how GWAR can say no to us ??? 7y
monalyisha @Librariana This plan is foolproof. 7y
monalyisha Hey @Eyelit ! You love GWAR! Why don't you join the band?! 7y
Eyelit @monalyisha you know I will! (When I'm done gluing quarters to the floor) 7y
Eyelit Is that movie streaming? I feel like I need to watch it. Right. Now. 7y
Librariana @Eyelit @monalyisha - as long as neither one of you suggests I shave my head so you can glue my hair to the sink, I'm game 😁 And it isn't streaming, unfortunately... not on Netflix, at least. Just checked for ya. But I have it on DVD and would totally lend it to you if we were neighbors! 7y
Eyelit Bummer about it not streaming (it's not part of Prime either). I wish we were neighbors! We could have a movie party/band practice! 😄 7y
802Librarian @monalyisha Oh Lucas... one of my favorite quotes! Now I want to watch it again, too. "His name isn't Warren?" 7y
monalyisha @NHLibrarian I thought his name was Warren! 7y
monalyisha I know he pales in comparison to Lucas (& Mark), but a little AJ love: "You make me feel like... a bath?" ?‍♀️? 7y
Librariana @monalyisha @NHLibrarian - I love Debra's lines, too! Any time she argues with Gina... when she talked to God "and she says 'Yo, wassup?'..." ? Also that whole thing about "Isn't it customary to leave the scene after committing a crime?... Definitely an amateur." ? And when Gina says they're gonna fry him when apprehended by Lucas and served to the first 100 customers ? Again... SO. MANY. GOOD. LINES! ? 7y
monalyisha @Librariana "Well Sinead O'Rebellion..." 7y
Librariana @monalyisha "shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior." ?✋ 7y
Librariana @monalyisha - Remind me please... does Eddie at any point in time make Mark a burrito!?? 7y
monalyisha @librariana A burrito? 😆 If so, I have forgotten that detail (entirely possible). 7y
802Librarian @Librariana @monalyisha Not a burrito, but Eddie does make special brownies. "And you know what that means: extra sugar." 7y
Librariana @NHLibrarian @monalyisha - I do remember the "special" brownies ?? But for some reason, my brain remembered a burrito - lol! ? Maybe I wanted Eddie to also make him a delicious breakfast?? Hehehe ? 7y
802Librarian @Librariana Hmmm... maybe Eddie was eating a burrito with Corey when she was crying at the table? "Hey! You forgot your thingy!" 7y
monalyisha @NHLibrarian @Librariana I wanna say they were eating pizza in that scene... now I need to look it up. 😝 7y
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WanderingBookaneer
Hi-Fi Fight Club | Carly Usdin
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When the people at the comic book store know you they save cool new series for you. ❤️

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