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Once upon a time there was a girl who never read. She spent hour upon hour watching Are You Afraid of the Dark, Legend of the Hidden Temple, and the earliest Real World Seasons. The one summer, while vacationing on Cape Cod she stumbled into a used book store where she picked up Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, beyond the bodily lessons she learned from that most wonderfully educational book, she found a fondness for reading. Her life changed that summer. 

When sixth grade began in the fall, she read all of The Chronicles of Narnia, started the Harry Potter series, and devoured the Anne of Green Gables series. The years went one, and she realized she needed glasses in the middle of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Her parents blamed reading in the dark, and her face being in the book too much. She took books with her everywhere: hidden in large math textbooks, underneath tables at restaurants, and while shopping with her sister and mom (she was unknowingly photographed by her city's newspaper in a department store reading in a mass of people during an after-Christmas sale, mind you at a very unflattering angle at age 12... the photo was on the cover of the newspaper). 

After middle school, she read everything by Maeve Binchy, and imagined herself as a middle-aged, divorced woman with a garden outside Dublin, Ireland with many Irish friends. She read everything for school from Shakespeare to Mark Twain to Jane Austen. People remarked on how obsessed she was Mr. Darcy. 

She went through a dark stage after finishing the last Harry Potter series, not believing that it could really end. 

She met her first author, David Sedaris at one of his readings. He told her to "Keep your eyebrows thick, they are a wonderful feature," and gifted her a travel-sized soap from the Ritz-Carlton where he was staying. 

She read the Twilight Series, and yes, fell in love with Edward Cullen, wearing her "Future Mrs. Cullen" sweatshirt to all the movie premiers. She found The Hunger Games through Stephanie Meyer's website in 2008, and again she couldn't leave the house or interact with society till she finished it. 

Then, in the fall of 2011 she became part of a class that not only educated her on the world of Young Adult Literature, but celebrated it in every way possible! With six other classes, her plate was full, but she became immersed in this world of YA. After reading A.S. King's Everybody Sees the Ants and M.T. Anderson's Octavian Nothing, she knew this genre would be a favorite of hers for the rest of her life. 

And now, she's welcoming you to her very first book blog: Book Sundae. Because, besides reading, her second favorite thing is dessert! Both sweet in their own respects. 

Welcome!