Does anyone else ever get songs stuck in their head while shelving because of the titles/authors/covers/subjects of the books? I was just shelving this:
...and I without realizing exactly why, I left the kids fiction section with
this song stuck in my head (for people who can't/don't follow links, that's
Mr. Crowley by Ozzy Osbourne). Knowing that I haven't listened to that song since high school, I had to think for a second about how in the world that popped into my head, and it made me laugh to realize my brain was quietly making those kinds of connections while all I consciously thought about was the alphabet.
The other titles I can remember getting me are parenting books, which seem to be really big on this, for some reason:
I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers
edited by Faith Conlon and Gail Hudson
(this one used to drive me crazy- that song is so hard to get out of your head!)
Beautiful Boy
by David Sheff
Does this happen to y'all? I imagine this is one of those librarian/bookseller phenomena that we all endure at some point.
--Anna, in Kids
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