Welcome to Diary of an Eccentric! My name is Anna, and I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. I’ve loved the written word since I was a little girl, and I started writing poems and stories as soon as I could read and write. In high school, I worked on the literary magazine and a newsletter for a local nursing home. In college, I also worked on a literary magazine and ended up switching majors from Veterinary Technology to English, with a dream of becoming a college English professor (maybe someday). I graduated from Suffolk University in Boston in 2000 with a B.A. in English and Sociology.
I started Diary of an Eccentric in 2007 as a knitting blog where I would occasionally talk about books. I wanted to record my knitting projects, but I was always reading more than I was knitting, and I soon became immersed in the world of book blogging.
The Girl with R.L Stine, Book Expo America 2010
I share this online space with my 11-year-old daughter, known here as The Girl. She shares my love of books and reading, and she enjoys reviewing books here when she’s not too busy with school. She’s in 6th grade and loves historical fiction and humorous diary-type books.
To help you get to know us better, we thought we’d share some of our favorite bookish things:
Anna’s Favorite Books
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Girl’s Favorite Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Anna’s Favorite Authors
Jane Austen
Amy Tan
Anita Shreve
Tim O’Brien
Frank Delaney
Michelle Moran
The Girl’s Favorite Authors
R.L. Stine
Jeff Kinney
Kate DiCamillo
Carl Hiaasen
Anna’s Favorite Characters
Captain Frederick Wentworth from Persuasion by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lieutenant Hawke from Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Anne Shirley from the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
Betsy Ray from the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Queen of England in The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Maisie Dobbs
The Girl’s Favorite Characters
Desperaux from The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
Greg Heffley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
Nate from Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce
We hope you enjoy our reviews and will stop by often and share your thoughts.
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