About Us

We're two friends who've known each other since elementary school. We bonded over our love of books and both being new kids. Even when Rachael moved away, we kept in touch for years through letters and phone calls and, later, email and Facebook. We talk about books a lot, so we decided to start this blog to share that enthusiasm.

About Rae:

I'm a student, attending a state college in my home state of Rhode Island. To remain true to my love of literature, I'm majoring in English and minoring in Literature. I aspire, of course, to be a writer. Outside of reading and writing, I like baking, motorcycling, and Netflixing (is that a word?). I'm a die hard Star Wars fan and grew up engrossed in the world of the Expanded Universe. (Shout out to Disney for de-legitimizing us!) As a kid, the works of such persons as JRR Tolkien, Madeline L'Engle, and C.S. Lewis really helped to develop my imagination and passion for far flung worlds and heroic deeds. It's no surprise then that the genres that I enjoy reading in the most are science fiction and fantasy, but, honestly, give me anything with a binding and printed pages and I will devour that right up. Alina and I decided that to introduce ourselves, we should make a list of our Top Ten Reads of All Time, but neither of us could actually come up with ten books that surpassed that bar. So here are my nine!

Top Ten (Or Nine) Favorite Reads:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover

 The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

A Song of Fire and Ice (All of them!) by George RR Martin

About Alina: I'm an introvert, passionate reader, sometime baker, and during-class crocheter. I'm currently a graduate student in something that has nothing to do with literature, living away from home for what feels like the first time and not entirely enjoying it. Ah, well. My book tastes are rather all over the place, except when it comes to violence and gratuitous sex--no, thank you. I love reading and writing, possibly why I'm in graduate school, and this seemed like a great way to combine them!

And, most important of all, my top ten books/series (in absolutely no order):

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Narnia series by C. S. Lewis

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle