Favorite things:

• I love to run, kayak, hike, needlefelt, and garden. I take photos. I play board games, video games, enjoy all things sci-fi/fantasy, anime/manga, and most nerdy pursuits. As a Teen Librarian I get to interact most days with art, games, and young inquisitive minds.
• I’m a New England transplant. I spent a number of my early years moving around the states and Europe but have found a home here on the Seacoast. Being near the ocean and around so many small towns with great people makes me happy to be part of the seacoast community.
• I have an Undergraduate Degree in Anthropology. Learning about people, in both the past and the present, and discovering why they do what they do, their story, is fascinating.
  

Reading interests:

• Reading caught a hold of me in fifth grade and hasn’t let go yet. I love finding a story that will captivate a person. Better yet when it brings them back for more. It just takes one good book to make a life long reader. I tend towards books in the science fiction and fantasy genre, with a dabbling of romantic novels. I collect antiquated, old pulp, and children’s books to an almost hording level of compulsion.

• Some of my favorite authors are Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Carol Berg, Tad Williams, Libba Bray, Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Raymond E. Feist, Diana Wayne Jones, Robin McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip , Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, James S. A. Corey, and Sharon Shinn.

Favorite Things

• Oh, so many! 
• I am passionate about literature (no surprise there! =), history, art, interior design, fashion history, organic living, animals, architecture, music, and movies.
  Travel.
• I’ve lived in Puerto Rico, have traveled a bit in Europe (UK, France, and Iceland), and enjoyed day jaunts to Mexico and Canada, but am itching to do lots more traveling.
• I’m a “language magpie” and enjoy collecting words from countries all over the world. If you need someone to count to four in Finnish or ask how you are in Welsh, I’m your girl.

Reading Interests

• I’m an omnivorous reader with a special place in my heart for children’s classics such as The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Little Women, Johnny Tremain, the Prydain series, and A Wrinkle in Time.  I am in awe of illustrators NC Wyeth and Trina Schart Hyman.
• I love the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen, GK Chesterton, and CS Lewis.
• Nathaniel Philbrick, Jon Krakauer, and Bill Bryson are 3 of my favorite non-fiction authors. I was also impressed by Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales, which examines why some survive catastrophes and others don’t.
• Audiobooks are my constant car companion.  Jim Dale and Frank Muller are two of the best narrators going—listening to them is like hearing an entire—and amazing--acting company. 

Favorite things:

• Books. I was an avid reader growing up and an English major in college, so becoming a librarian was a natural progression for me!
  Animals, especially dogs.
• Baseball, in particular the Phillies, though the Red Sox are growing on me after two years of living in Boston.
• My home state of Maryland.
  

Reading interests:

• I mostly read science fiction and fantasy. Some of my favorites are Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Tamora Pierce, J.K. Rowling, Diane Duane, Victoria Schwab, and Seanan McGuire.
• I also enjoy the occasional romance novel, especially historical romances by Courtney Milan, Rose Lerner, and Tessa Dare.
• I fell in love with Jane Austen in high school and she remains one of my favorite authors to this day.

Favorite things:

• I'm happy to have found the Lane Memorial Library. Having been a teacher, a theatre person, and in the corporate world, I am very pleased to have returned to my first love -- BOOKS!!
  

Reading interests:

• Historical mysteries and contemporary mysteries set in other countries allow vicarious travel and insight into other cultures and the universal human psyche.

Favorite things:

• Family and friends!  I love living on the Seacoast and enjoying everything the area has to offer.  Some of my favorites include being at the beach (is there anything better than sitting at the beach with a great book?!) … lobsterfests, swimming, beach walking, collecting heart rocks and sea glass, biking, gardening, kayaking, and any sort of fresh air exercise. I can spend hours walking in the woods looking for tracks and other hidden treasures.   I’m also an avid photographer, and (like Stan) enjoy cat herding in my spare time.
  

Reading interests:

• When I was in the 5th Grade, I decided to read every book in my then library's childrens room starting at the As.  While that was obviously impossible it contributed to my love of reading anything and everything.  Some early favorites include The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, The Princess and the Goblin, and The Secret Garden.  I enjoy historical fiction/nonfiction, true crime, mysteries, thrillers, and "what if" stories, along with anything by Maeve Binchy.

Favorite things:

• Family is #1! Husband, children, grandchildren, siblings, etc. take top priority. I love to read, walk, golf do crosswords and play word games, eat and bake. We have traveled near and far, by planes, trains and automobiles--and river boats! There are many more destinations we hope to visit, including northern Italy and the Pacific Northwest.
  

Reading interests:

• I am an eclectic and voracious reader, enjoying 20th Century historical fiction, memoirs, autobiographies and mysteries the most. At home I choose actual books over e-readers, and always have an audio book in the car. Because I can read anywhere, I am never bored!

Favorite things:

• My absolute top favorites are my wonderful family, my great friends, my awesome church, my super co-workers, and my terrific jobs – I love them all. I also love live theatre, going to great restaurants, listening to all kinds of music, appreciating fine art, crafting and creating (especially for the Children’s Room), and computing.

• I love my Hampton home! I am an original New Englander, and growing up as a Navy brat I have lived on both coasts as well as in Hawai’i. After all those years of traveling from state to state, it was nice to finally become “grounded.” My husband and I chose to settle in Hampton more than 30 years ago because we both love the town and because we felt it would be a great place to raise our family. We were right!

Reading interests:

• Among my absolute all-time favorite books are the Holy Bible, "Champagne for the Soul: Celebrating God's Gift of Joy," "The Message," "Little Women," "The Hiding Place," "Diary of Anne Frank," "Charlotte's Web," "Beautiful Joe: A Dog's Own Story," Nancy Drew mysteries, and many others. My favorite writers include C.S. Lewis, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Colleen McCullough, et al. I especially love short story collections, craft and needle art books, and big, colorful photographic coffee table books. I have also been known to read the dictionary and assorted reference books just for fun.
• As a member of the Children’s Room staff, I have enjoyed “catching up” on all kinds of current titles, mainly so I can better serve our youngest patrons. Among my favorites: “Wonder,” “Counting by Sevens,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “Punk Farm,” and many more to come!