The face behind the screen (and, oftentimes, book)

Nice to meet you! I’m a millennial reader who started sharing about my love of reading on Bookstagram in 2022. While I’m still active there, I wanted to create a space that’s a little more organized and a little more my own. I’ve also started and abandoned many a blog throughout the years, so in some ways, this space was a creation waiting to happen.

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My reading life has seen many ebbs and flows throughout the years, with my earliest favorite books I remember being Junie B. Jones, The Baby-Sitters Club, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and virtually every book written by Sarah Dessen and Jodi Picoult (I’m not joking). In high school and college, I feverishly read the Twilight and Hunger Games series, but I really fell out of reading as I worked towards a degree in psychology and ultimately began my career.

Like so many, I found solace in books during the COVID-19 pandemic, sought a sense of community through Bookstagram, and the rest is history. Now, I’m a therapist by day, reader by night living in central Texas with my husband, our two fur babies, and soon, tiny human!

As you browse this space, I hope you feel a sense of comfort, inspiration, and of course, an urge to slow down and get lost in a great book.

me, as a human

  • Near a body of water, whether it's our backyard cowboy pool, a lakeside cabin, or somewhere on a beachfront.

  • Iced latte or chai tea latte

  • Friends, Succession, Severance, Lovecraft Country, Normal People, Game of Thrones, and The Bear. Newest fav is Evil!

  • Summer is typically when I thrive but nothing beats the holiday season!

  • Noah Kahan, Maggie Rogers, Boygenius, Caamp, and my favorite playlist: Breakfast in a Nancy Meyers Kitchen

  • Gardening or tending to my indoor plants, thrift shopping, forcing my husband into a DIY project, or rearranging my house for the millionth time

me, as a reader

  • Contemporary + literary fiction, gothic horror, thrillers, emo romance, and cozy books.

  • Fredrik Backman, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Riley Sager, Carley Fortune, Paula McLain, and Rachel Hawkins.

  • In rank order: Paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook

  • Cozied up on my couch, big glass of water on my coffee table, and YouTube ambience in the background.

  • Beartown by Fredrik Backman, Dark Matter by Black Crouch, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by TJR, Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano, Bunny by Mona Awad, and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.