How long have you worked at Lemuria? About 5 months.
What do you do at Lemuria? Whale, I am part time so I usually come in during the afternoon and do some shelving and annoy my co-workers at the front desk who are ready to leave for the day ? I just finished high school and will graduate in July, so I will be around a lot more now and will really experience the everyday flow of the store.
Talk to us what you’re reading right now. I recently dove into Murakami’s 1Q84 and am enjoying my swim around in it a whole lot. It’s the first Marukami I’ve ever read, and I can’t really seem to put it down or stop thinking about the characters. I am also reading my first graphic novel, Watchmen by Alan Moore, and am looking into becoming a superhero.
What’s currently on your bedside table (book purgatory)? Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, and Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
How many books do you usually read at a time? Always 2, sometimes 3. There are definitely exceptions to this. If I start reading a book and know it needs my full and undivided attention, I won’t cheat on it.
I know it’s difficult, but give us your current top five books. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, The Shining by Stephen King, Searching for the Sound by Phil Lesh, 1984 by George Orwell, and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Favorite authors? George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, and Chuck Palahniuk
Any particular genre that you’re especially in love with? Fiction. I love fiction.
What did you do before you worked at Lemuria? My first job was as a hostess at a restaurant and Lemuria is my second job.
If you could share lasagna with any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you ask them? I’d eat some lasagna with J.D. Salinger. He was a pretty reserved guy while he was alive and wrote some really great stuff. All of his works have a TON of underlying meanings, and I’d love for him to explain those to me. I know I’ll never figure all of them out.
Why do you like working at Lemuria? Man, I learn so much. Whether it’s from the books or my coworkers or the customers or the visiting authors, I am always learning something.
If we could have any living author visit the store and do a reading, who would you want to come? Stephen King. The man has got fear figured out. To have him read part of a chilling story in the dimly lit DotCom building… amazing.
If Lemuria could have ANY pet (mythical or real), what do you think it should be? We do have a jar for bear money… or it may be beer… but either way it has like $7 in it so I think we should get a bear. Abbie had the great idea of naming it Bear-y Hannah, and he could reach all the high shelves for me since I can only comfortably reach the fifth.
If you had the ability to teleport, where would you go first? I would love to go camping on an uninhabited (but safe) island in the middle of the ocean.
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