Introducing Tara
Recently we added two new staff members to the
Teen Room, Tara and Ann. Here is a short bio and photo
of Tara so you can get to know her. Next time you're
in the library, stop by the Teen Room and say hi!
HOMETOWN: Hendersonville, NC (known to all outsiders as “kind of near Asheville”)
THEN WHAT?: college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT (where I learned that I am not cut out for wintry adventures)
NOW: I live in Arden, NC (or, “Asheville…ish”) with my kittycat pal Lou Diamond Phillips. I am in grad school at Appalachian, getting my MLS.
HOBBIES: kitty-cuddling, knitting, marathon napping, pretending I am a dinosaur, pop culture consumption
FAVORITE QUOTE: “A little glitter can turn your whole day around” –Junie B. Jones
FAVORITE TEEN BOOKS: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky); Heavy Metal & You (Krovatin); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon); Boy Meets Boy (Levithan); Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging (Rennison); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (Townsend)
FAVORITE NON-TEEN BOOKS: All Families are Psychotic (Coupland); The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky); The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner); Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (Keyes); Diary (Palahniuk); Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked (Park); Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter (Pearl-McPhee); We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier (Rivenbark); Cowboy & Octopus (Scieszka); War & Peace (Tolstoy); Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Willems)
RECENTLY READ: Eleanor Rigby (Coupland); Venomous (Krovatin); The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (Mackler); Cycler (McLaughlin); Mountain Man Dance Moves: McSweeney’s Book of Lists; Mississippi Sissy (Sessums)
