Reviewer Spotlight

Branch: University City Regional

Reader’s Club honors Meri, a librarian at University City Regional Library. She has reviewed fiction and non-fiction for adults and teens. Here are her thoughts on reading and writing reviews:

“No one was surprised when I announced my plans to become a librarian. I’ve been addicted to reading since I learned how. One of my earliest memories is of leaving my class group to go sit in the stacks and read in my elementary school library. The librarian must have noticed I was missing from the group, but allowed me to pursue my own reading, and I’ve been doing so ever since.

I’ve been through phases when I read for pleasure or escape, and I’ve read books across all genres. At the moment I read for knowledge. There’s so much I don’t know about the world!

The nonfiction I read is normally history, biography, or science, and I’ve always been fascinated with mythology and folklore. I have recently rediscovered my love for literature. If you pinned me down, I’d have to choose Salman Rushdie and Haruki Murakami as my favorite authors and Midnight’s Children and The Master and Margarita as my favorite books, though I also love Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Neil Gaiman. I like graphic novels, and both of my cats are named for characters in The Sandman. My perfect book will teach me about a different time and culture as well as make me reexamine my personal philosophy.”

Thanks Meri!