Happy National Library Week!!!!!

And now, it's storytime.

The summer after I graduated from high school, my mom and I spent a week in Montreal.

It's a beautiful city, but the first night we were there, we were looking in a bookstore (that's just how we do things)... and I happened upon a display of a certain series of historical romances. They looked intriguing, so I picked one up... and this is what the rest of the trip looked like:

On a boat going down the river*... I was reading...

at the top of a mountain**... reading again...

I spent every minute of every subway, bus, boat, and train ride devouring these books, and somehow managed to read three whole 800+ page books in a week.

And you're probably wondering... what wonderful series of books am I talking about? Have you guessed it yet?

Outlander*** by Diana Gabaldon.

So, you can guess how happy, nay, how ecstatic I was to find out that Gabaldon herself is coming to my library system for National Library Week. Our library normally has an author come and give a talk, but usually, it's a local author, or someone who I've never heard of (which is probably more my fault than theirs, seeing as how I rarely read adult fiction).

*Please don't ask me what river, I clearly wasn't paying the least bit of attention

**Same goes for the mountain.

*** Granted, not technically YA books -- but as you can see from the pictures, I was clearly a teen when I read them (not that I look any older five years later)!