Welcome to my introductory post! This is my very first Armchair BEA event. I’m looking forward to participating. The lovely folks over at the Armchair BEA site have asked us to introduce ourselves by answering a few questions.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging? 

Howdy! I’m Jennifer and I’ve been blogging for just under a year. I used to drive my Facebook friends nutty by flooding their feeds with book stuff. I decided to start a book blog when my sister begged me to stop gently suggested that I needed a different outlet for all of my bookish thoughts. Tah dah!

Where in the world are you blogging from? Tell a random fact or something special about your current location. 

Practically in Canada

I’m located in the lovely north woods of Hayward, Wisconsin. Hayward is a small city of just over 2000 people. Our claims to fame?  The Lumberjack World Championships, the American Birkebeiner ski race, and the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging but do you have a humongous 4-story fiberglass musky in your town? I thought not.

What are you currently reading, or what is your favorite book you have read so far in 2013? 

Right now I’m participating in a readalong of Under the Dome by Stephen King. 

I put together a Hall of Fame post to highlight my favorites from the first quarter of 2013. One book that I keep telling everyone to read is The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne.

Tell us one non-book-related thing that everyone reading your blog may not know about you.

There are two animals that give me the heebie-jeebies: standard size poodles and hyenas. Gross.

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