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Searching for a LT friend at VNSA
Happy New Year Book Sale! 2017
Banned Books Week 2016 led me to another great book: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Reading The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice while getting my hair did on my wedding day!
VNSA 2016 fell on Valentine's Day.
Outside of her classroom the art teacher posted what the 7th graders created when they made their own stamps. I had to smile when I saw this, and it inspired a reread. We all love Harry Potter!
Happy Banned Books Week 2015!
Reppin LT on our VNSA trip 2015
My friends and I look forward to this all year.
VNSA 2015
VNSA 2014 - 18 books added to my library and 1 more fun memory made with my friends!
I always dress up as a character from a book for Halloween to inspire my students to read. Last year I was Mortimer from Zombie in Love by Kelly DiPucchio. I only had to buy a plaid flannel shirt and…
I was Hermione for Halloween this year but everyone kept calling me Harry Potter. Most of the clothing I had on hand, including my graduation gown. I'm carrying Tales of Beedle the Bard and my wand,…
I met Gwen Cooper on 6/29/13 and she signed Love Saves the Day for me. I hope it's as good as Homer's Odyssey.
My husband secretly took this picture of me reading From a Buick 8 today while having lunch at Pita Jungle! 5/24/13
This is me meeting David Sedaris on April 25, 2013.
VNSA 2013
Our stockings were hung on our bookshelf with care. 2011
The Very Hungry Caterpillar from a field trip to the library in 2006 -- I made the Caterpillar from punched circles
VNSA 2012
meeting Fran Lebowitz! 3/1/12
reading The Watchmen by Alan Moore with my dogs on 1/1/12
My Favorite Books 2011
After rereading On the Road by Jack Kerouac this summer, one of the quotes inspired a scrapbook page. July 2011
My husband secretly took this picture of me reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo today while waiting at the doctor's office! 12/12/11
I brought Howl with me so it could visit its home, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. 8/8/11
A blast from the past!
meeting my first real life LibraryThing friend Rood at Taliesin West
Me with "Building the Pauson House" in front of all that's left of The Pauson House...4/3/11
My friends and I got to hear Temple Grandin give a talk and afterward got our books signed. This is my friend with her. 3/1/11
VNSA 2011
In July 2000 I read "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck during a backpacking trip (see it on my lap?). One of my favorite quotes that I wrote down was about stink bugs: The remarkable thing isn't that…
In June 2000 I read "At Home in Mitford" by Jan Karon. I was reading it as my parents were driving us through Kansas. I made them pull over when I saw this church which was just what I imagined the…
2001 - I borrowed The Cherokee Trail by Louis L'Amour from my parents when I found out that the tv show Five Mile Creek was based on this book. I loved that show when I was a kid and coincidentally…
I had to immortalize my favorite bookstore on a scrapbook page!
A scrapbook page about one of my favorite books, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, which I read in 1999.
Reading "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney to my niece's first grade class. I was the Mystery Reader.
Reading Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice in 1999
2001 - A visit to the Flagstaff Public Library with my nephew - I love the mural in the children's area.
Oh, The Places You'll Go! - a scrapbook page I made about the Dr. Seuss celebration I have in my first grade class every year
Every year I read "Where the Wild Things Are" to my first graders. Then we make a "Where the Gleeful Things Are" mural together as a vocabulary lesson. I especially like how well one of the boys did…
June 2009 - I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson when I went to Las Vegas. I had to get a picture of it in front of Circus Circus.
My dog Captain Skippyjon Jones reading...Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner!
2007 - Gotta document my beach read! The Other Side of the Story is probably my favorite by Marian Keyes.
October 2009 - Captain Skippyjon Jones loved reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with me.
my favorite bookstore - made a point to take a picture since there wasn't one available for its profile on LT at the time
my favorite library - taken right before my battery died
Barbara Kingsolver and Me! November 2009
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