What are you reading, Hannah Wood?

Please welcome our newest librarian, Hannah Wood! Hannah is joining us as Circulation Librarian and will become a familiar face when the fall starts.

So, Ms. Wood, what are you reading?
The Gates of Sleep by Mercedes Lackey and America: A Narrative History by Tindall and Shi

What do you plan to read next? The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

Are you going to see Harry Potter on Friday? I won’t be seeing it Friday, but I will definitely be seeing it! I’m sensing IMAX 3-D in my near future.

Are there any other book-to-movie adaptations you're looking forward to? The Help which comes out in August.

What's the WORST book-to-move adaptation you've endured? A couple come to mind: Timeline (based on the Michael Crichton book) because they rewrote most of the story, and The Da Vinci Code (based on Dan Brown’s novel) because it was Tom Hanks and not Johnny Depp. When you have a character pictured one way in your mind and the actor in the movie looks/acts nothing like what you had pictured, it makes it harder to like the movie.

Who is your favorite classic author? My favorite classic author is, hands down, Jane Austen. (Though I do have to admit I also love Anne Bronte.)

Contemporary? My favorite contemporary author really depends on the genre and my mood. Right now I’m on a Mercedes Lackey kick. I’m re-reading all of her books that I own.

BONUS question: If you could hop into any novel a la Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next character, which novel would you choose? There are so many that I would love to step into, but I think I would have to pick The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James. Even though it’s a fictionalized account of my favorite author, I would love meet the Jane in that book.

Be sure to stop by the circulation desk and say hello to Ms. Wood the next time you're in the library.