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Saturday, September 3, 2016

Bookish Families

I always find it interesting to see what got my fellow bloggers so into books that they are willing to dedicate this much time and money into maintaining a blog. I've done previous questions about when you started blogging or what your career/major is, but today I'm interested to see if anyone in your family is a bookworm!


Right here is Mama-Blogger (known by her friends as "Lisa,") along with myself, meeting Stan Shunpike at Universal Orlando. Can you tell were I got my nerd blood from?

Mama-Blogger was an English major in college where she developed an undying love for American classics, Shakespeare, and anything having to do with Henry VIII and matrimonial decapitation. I don't think my mother has had a prouder day in her life as when I came home in seventh grade, recently cast as Boy in Henry V, and asked her to rehearse my monologues.

Though she was a lawyer for many years, she returned to her love of books and became a local librarian when I was in middle school. Many-a-day I spent after school sorting donations, shelving returns, or helping the children's librarian not scare the kids (seriously, she scared me!).

And the familial love of books isn't just the two of us. My mom always jokes that my grandma will read anything including the back of a shampoo bottle. But it's true! You put any book in her hand and she'll have it done by nightfall.

So who was it that got you into books? If not a family member, was it a teacher or mentor? Comment below!

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Of Harry Potter and Tattoos


I have wanted to get a Harry Potter tattoo forever to reflect how much the series has meant to me, but I'm loath to use the Deathly Hallows symbol.

Aside from the fact that it's essentially the swastika of the Wizarding World, it wasn't even a symbol until the seventh book. For my entire childhood, "Harry Potter" was associated with a symbol of lightning or glasses. To now say that the Hallows are the end-all-be-all symbol of the HP-verse feels like a betrayal of all those years, which are really the years I want to reflect with tattoo.

Nothing is as elegant as that damn triangle, though! What other tattoo designs have you used or seen, Harry Potter fans?