BibliologistBio

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

*Favorite Genres: Horror, lit fic, fantasy, non-fiction, mystery
*Desert Island Reads: Poe's Collected Tales & Poems, LOA Shirley Jackson collection, Complete Shakespeare Plays, LOA Le Guin Hainish Novels & Stories, Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Baldwin's collected essays
*Go-to Reading Snack: Iced coffee
*Weirdest/most interesting place I've read a book: I often bring a book with me when I go to a concert to kill time between acts: (CONT)

vivastory due to my job I have read at nearly every ER waiting room in the KC area.
*What do you when you're not reading? Wish I was reading.
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monalyisha Smart choices for your desert island reads; quantity and quality. 😉 And I don‘t actually know what your job is! 14h

monalyisha Perfect answer to the last question, too, by the way! 14h

vivastory @monalyisha Thank you! I'm the lead health coordinator for a non-profit that provides IDD services for adults. I help supervise & coordinate routine medical care, but also assist with urgent situations. Love my job. 9h

monalyisha @vivastory Thanks for explaining! 💓 9h

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willaful

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•favorite genres : Romance, classic/middlebrow fiction, memoir, books about being queer.

•desert island reads?: Lord of the Rings, Miss Pym Disposes

•What‘s your go-to reading snack? pecans

•Weirdest or most interesting place you‘ve read a book? The Andes mountains. My husband was so annoyed with me!

•What do you do when you‘re not reading? Housework, listen to my kid's drama, dance, garden, write political postcards, fret.

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monalyisha “Fret.” 😂 16h

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TheKidUpstairs

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•What are your favorite genres? I always say Literary Fiction, because it's so vague I feel like I don't really have to decide. I like messy stories, grey areas, and people just trying their best.

•What are a few of your desert island reads? I'm a mood reader, so this is a bit of a torturous question. Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk books, The Bell Jar, Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, Hamnet, and Never Let Me Go

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TheKidUpstairs •What‘s your go-to reading snack? Hummus and Pretzels, cheese and crackers, Salt and Vinegar Chips, tea in the morning, white wine in the evening.

•Weirdest or most interesting place you‘ve read a book? I finished a book in the hospital during the long process of being induced with my third kiddo.

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TheKidUpstairs •What do you do when you‘re not reading? I'm a full time mom, part time library circulation clerk. Long walks by the lake with my dog. I love to cook and binge watch comfort shows. I write when I can, and am trying to make a better practice of it. 18h

monalyisha Ah! What are you writing?! So exciting. Also, excellent taste per usual. 😉 17h

TheKidUpstairs @monalyisha these days it's mostly scraps of stories and mediocre poetry. But I've got an idea for a novel rattling around in my brain and I need to make the time to get it out of my head and onto paper :) 16h

monalyisha @TheKidUpstairs I love that for you. 💓 16h

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Faranae

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•What are your favorite genres?
history, queer romance, classic lit

•What are a few of your desert island reads?
LotR, You Should Be So Lucky, Das Capital (I'd finally have time to read the whole thing!)

•What's your go-to reading snack?
Coffee?

•Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book?
Sitting on a garbage bag in an empty parking lot

•What do you do when you're not reading?
play video games, hike

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monalyisha Ha! Your weird/interesting place is very evocative. 😅 19h

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Eggs

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What are your favorite genres? HF, MG, some YA
• What are a few of your desert island reads? NOT SURE…
•What's your go-to reading snack?decaf latte and berries
•Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book? middle school dance
• What do you do when you're not reading? Walk, time with these 3 women ☝️and my grands
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monalyisha The desert island reads question is hard! If I‘m marooned, I‘d actually love a combo of books I‘ve read and loved (safe bets) and a few I‘ve never read but have always meant to. Also, love berries — to the point where I struggle to choose a favorite. Blackberries are my “I‘m trying to be interesting” answer but I think the truth is that strawberries are my fav. 🍓 Thanks for playing! 19h

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! ❤️🏷 19h

Gissy Beautiful photo😍🌸🌺🌼💖 18h

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Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! Lovely pic! 17h

BooksandCoffee4Me I love that you read a book during a middle school dance! My son read Of Mice and Men during a Nationals game while on his 8th-grade trip to Washington DC. 😂 16h

BooksandCoffee4Me @monalyisha Love “I‘m trying to be interesting answer” 💛 16h

BooksandCoffee4Me @Eggs Beautiful photo! 16h

Eggs @monalyisha I‘ve never had the pleasure of being on desert isle; so am I alone? In which case I would have a stack of TBRs!!! 15h

Eggs @TheSpineView 🌟 15h

Eggs @Gissy Thank you 🙏🏻 🩷 15h

Eggs @Deblovestoread Thank you 💝 15h

Eggs @BooksandCoffee4Me 😂😂 15h

Eggs @BooksandCoffee4Me Thank you🥰 15h

Eggs @monalyisha I‘m currently on a blueberry streak, the big juicy ones 🫐 15h

monalyisha @Eggs Yes! I‘ve always viewed it as you‘re stranded, alone. Best-case scenario, which books do you have with you to keep you company? And I don‘t think survival/how-to books are really keeping in the spirit of the question. 😉 15h

Eggs @monalyisha great point! In the scenario of being stranded on said isle, I‘d like an oft-read book like Dandelion Wine, some poetry, and a journal to write in! 11h

monalyisha @Eggs Brilliant! And I love Dandelion Wine. 🌼 11h

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monalyisha

A Life in Words: Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt | Paul Auster, I. B. Siegumfeldt

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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE GENRES?
Literary fiction, speculative fiction, nature writing, memoirs, essays, & romance.

WHAT ARE A FEW OF YOUR DESERT-ISLAND READS?
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, and Devotions by Mary Oliver.

WHAT'S YOUR GO-TO READING SNACK?
Coffee and frosted animal crackers or beer and wasabi peas.

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monalyisha WEIRDEST OR MOST INTERESTING PLACE YOU'VE READ A BOOK?
At an amateur pro-wrestling match, while my partner‘s band played intro music and sound effects for the wrestlers. 20h

monalyisha WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT READING?
I work as a Children‘s Librarian; moonlight as a wedding officiant, creating custom rituals and ceremonies; and go for nature walks with my dog. Sometimes, I tap dance. 20h

Prairiegirl_reading Oh wow!! Just curious, what inspired you to become a wedding officiant? 20h

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Donna1980 Beer and wasabi peas! Top tier choices 😊 19h

monalyisha @Prairiegirl_reading Looking for an officiant for my own wedding! We hired a woman who was a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant. She created rituals for us using coffee, wood rounds cut from different types of trees on her property, & all sorts of other fun details. I thought, “I could do that!” I have degrees in English Lit & Religious Studies, which seemed like a pretty tailor-made background. My husband is a wedding photographer, so it made sense! (edited) 19h

Prairiegirl_reading @monalyisha that‘s awesome! 19h

monalyisha @Prairiegirl_reading Thanks! I LOVE writing the ceremonies. Readers are naturally inclined to tell stories and imbue mundane objects with meaning and symbolism; it‘s fun and it comes easily. Standing before hundreds of their closest friends & family and delivering the finished product is a different thing altogether — and something I still find very nerve-wracking. In an ideal world, I‘d hand that part off to someone else. 😅 19h

BkClubCare ❤️ your desert island reads! 18h

Gissy Great photo😍 🌊 💙💙💙 18h

dabbe #lovelovelove!!! 💙🩵💙 18h

quietlycuriouskate Gorgeous photo! 18h

Suet624 I love all of this. 16h

BooksandCoffee4Me @monalyisha 😮😁👍 16h

LeahBergen Beautiful pic! 15h

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monalyisha

A Life in Words: Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt | Paul Auster, I. B. Siegumfeldt

I reactivated MyTBR account & have been daydreaming about being a bibliologist ever since. What would your profile look like if you worked for them? I‘ll share mine in a separate post!

QUESTIONS:

•What are your favorite genres?
•What are a few of your desert island reads?
•What‘s your go-to reading snack?
•Weirdest or most interesting place you‘ve read a book?
•What do you do when you‘re not reading?

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