The first line is a nice little joke about the weight and play of bowling balls, as well as a reference to the source song.

J.K Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series) is namedropped here to finish the rhyming couplet, but it’s a bit curious how the ability to “read so hard” suddenly turns one into a world-class author. “WRITE so hard” on the other hand…

This is an excerpt from “Belle”, the first song in Disney’s 1991 animated classic Beauty and the Beast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQr6bmmRt8

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian who wrote several prominent (and criticized) tomes including The History of Sexuality, Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things.

Philosophy books are usually dense and intellectually engaging reads, but La Shea seems to breeze right through them. Unfortunately for her, the boy she’s had her eye on can’t seem to read as fast as her. And that’s a dealbreaker.

“Spines” meaning the spine of a book (to which the pages are bound). La Shea shuns e-readers like the Kindle for “the real McCoy” as it were.

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The digital age has hit physical book retailers hard, so La Shea makes sure to support her local book stores (like a Calvin Klein bra does for her boobs).

Plenty of people have sliced their fingers on book pages because they weren’t paying attention (story immersion and all that shit)

Isn’t funny how paper cuts are tiny but hurt like hell?

Good books, like good movies, are re-visited so often that you eventually know the whole thing word for word.

Annabelle is forced to backtrack, however, when talking about The Iliad, Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War. Said poem has 15,000 lines.

Now THAT shit is cray…

Foursquare is a popular social networking platform for smartphones that allows people to “check in” at different locations.

In this digital age a lot of people download their books to an e-reader (for B&N patrons, it’s the Nook). Annabelle is challenging the listener to go to and check in at an actual Barnes & Noble. You know, the place where they sell shit printed on paper and bound hardcopy?

Barnes & Noble is a well-known international chain of bookstores

Animal Farm is the classic 1948 allegorical novel by George Orwell that describes what happens when a group of animals take over their farm from the resident human and try to run things themselves. It critiques the corrupting nature of power and touches of themes of socialism and communism.