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Me & MTM are tight like that

Hi, I’m Stacey.

If you’re looking for bookish enthusiasm, delivered by your friendly neighborhood book geek, you’ve landed at the right place.

I’ll tell you what books I like and why I like them—in a way that’ll help you decide pretty fast if you’d like them, too.

If I don’t like a book, typically I bail on it, and I don’t say a peep.

(I was raised in Iowa to be a polite little human.)

I’ll read almost anything, but mostly we’re talking lots of nonfiction, plus a decent dose of general fiction and mysteries.

But I read whatever I feel like reading (when it comes to books, I am actually Unruly) so really, it could be anything.

Librarian, age 1

I’ve been…

a reference librarian since the last
millennium (public libraries, baby!)

a book club member since the ’90s

blogging since 2008

bookish since birth

Based on the family photo albums, in my early years I did little other than look at books, eat paper, and parade around the house in a very fetching boots/diaper ensemble.

Yep, that’s the potty chair

My logo is based on a photo of me at age 3, reading outdoors on the lid of my tractor-tire sandbox.

I’m pretty sure my mom had told me to go outside and play… so I did.

Despite all this reading—and in spite of my early book-cataloging tendencies (when I was 10, I typed Author, Title, and Series catalog cards for all of my books)—it took me another 11 years to realize I was librarian material.

When I’m not reading or librarian-ing, I can be found…