with freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? – oscar wilde

One part coffee, two parts bookworm.

I grew up in a reading home, and spent my time with the likes of:
Ramona Quimby
Betsy Ray
Alice McKinley
Miss Zarves
Eloise
Jessica & Elizabeth Wakefield
Milo
Anastasia Krupnik
Laura Ingalls
the BSC
Anne Shirley

I’m now an adult(ish) and I spend my time with the likes of:
Harry, Ron & Hermione
Kilgore Trout
Arthur Dent
the Glass family
Nick Carraway
Elizabeth Bennet
David Copperfield
Thursday Next
Pi Patel

I live in NYC, and my favorite indie bookstores are:
Strand
WORD
Books of Wonder
Book Court
Skyline Books
Biography Bookshop
Three Lives and Company
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Other things I love besides books & reading:
baking
puppies
tacos
traveling
coffee
paper
karaoke
calendars
candles
exploring
rubber stamps
being under a blanket
my friends & family – they are magic