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Quinn is a late twenty-something Hufflepuff currently living in the suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut. She has worn many hats in her life, from retail monkey to park ranger to campaign worker, and is currently helping out at the Connecticut General Assembly. In her free time, she sings and corrals kids and arranges music for her local choir. When she's not working, she is followed around by Administrative Daleks, bidding her to ADMINISTRATE.

The Story’s The Thing: HG Wells; The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau

May 1, 2013 1 Comment

Sometimes it’s hard to find things that you like. Recommendations from friends are always a good thing or asking people in libraries or bookstores can many times help you find new loves or new fandoms. My favourite way to find a new story or fandom is, well… current fandoms. My biggest current fandom obsession, as [...]

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The War Outside Our Door Keeps Raging On

April 15, 2013 Leave a comment

I never thought a few months ago when I was writing about Newtown that I would be watching yet another tragedy unfold in front of me so soon. Earlier today, two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Reports have varied about how many people were hurt or killed, but let’s just say [...]

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Weird Question Weekly: Book Stories

April 14, 2013 4 Comments

Coming at you yet again, that time of the week where you can get to know your bloggers better through sometimes strange, sometimes bittersweet questions. This week, our question is: What is your fondest memory related to a book and/or reading? Erin: When my sister and I were little, our parents really stressed the importance [...]

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This Book Will Change Your Life

April 9, 2013 2 Comments

I think almost all of us have a story about books, about how they changed or shaped our lives. I have more than a few of my own, from hiding from recess in elementary school because I wanted to read Choose Your Own Adventure books, to walking around high school with my nose stuck in [...]

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Weird Question Weekly: Life Changing Book Edition

April 7, 2013 6 Comments

Coming at you yet again, that time of the week where you can get to know your bloggers better through sometimes strange, sometimes bittersweet questions. This week: If you could give one book to a child, one that you knew would change their lives because it had changed yours, what would it be?

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The Story’s The Thing: To Say Nothing of the Dog

April 3, 2013 2 Comments

I must admit that I was a bit thrown off last week by Kara’s lovely blog about my newest fandom obsession, which I’d planned on writing about this week. Instead of re-hashing the Warehouse (which, by the way comes back in a couple weeks with new episodes, watch it, it is amazing), it got me [...]

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Everyone’s a Hero in Their Own Way

March 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Holy potatoes, wizard Batman! I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve been able to talk to you wonderful people. I have certainly missed you all! I have been busy both trying to fight my computer’s nargles, and working at The Ministry’s Department of Magical Transportation my clerking job. However, things have very much settled [...]

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How Can You Sit Idly By?

February 5, 2013 2 Comments

Last week I had the honour of attending and helping out with a hearing in Newtown, CT about the effect of the Sandy Hook tragedy on the community. Hundreds of people came to talk for a few minutes to the legislature’s task force about how the tragedy impacted them, and to give ideas about how [...]

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The Story’s the Thing: Ender’s Game

January 30, 2013 3 Comments

In my last foray into storytelling, I mentioned a story that changed my life. Now, I have to tell you all about a story that shaped my life. I don’t even remember who first told me about Ender’s Game. I think it was a college roommate who first gave me the book. After staying up [...]

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Why’d You Have to Go and Make Things so Complicated?

January 22, 2013 3 Comments

One of the things that I always hear people say when I talk to them about activism of all sorts is ‘well, I won’t make any difference by myself’. Honestly? That’s really completely untrue. Every small voice, especially when joined together can make a huge impact, even over seemingly impossible obstacles. Today, we have a [...]

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