I was raised by two summer camp directors but spent all my time reading instead of being outdoors. I went to a tiny one-room schoolhouse in a charming mountain town, but always dreamed of living in a glamorous big city. Nowadays, I live in a tiny tiny house in glamorous(?) San Diego, CA and run a library in a different but also charming mountain town.

My favorite adult books: The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, True Grit by Charles Portis, and anything by Judith Krantz.
My favorite kids’ books: Little Women, of course! And...The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater, The BFG and Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace (but only the ones starting in high school), Victorian Cakes by Caroline B. King, the MacDonald Hall series by Gordon Korman, and all the Anne of Green Gables books.

Things I love to read about: how people did everyday things in other times and places; descriptions of fancy outfits and/or rituals and ceremonies; people working together to accomplish something; aftermaths of disasters; boarding schools (especially if magical); slow-burn romance; found families; makeovers and renovations; footnotes/diagrams/equations/codes/maps or other hidden workings of things; people with very proscribed lifestyles (nuns, astronauts, royalty); someone succeeding through clever means.