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Meet the Bookstagrammer!

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I recently decided that a pandemic is the perfect time to start blogging again. It’s been a couple of years since I last posted, so I thought I would reintroduce myself! My main platform is Instagram, so you can also find this post over there, on @fionareads.

So, hi! My name is Fiona, I’m 27 years old, and I live in the UK. There is nothing in the world I love more than getting lost in a good book, and then discussing it afterwards!

Here are a few facts about me:

📚 I work in children’s book publishing.

📚 I love dogs! I have a Springer Spaniel named Luna who is just as wise and loony as her namesake, Luna Lovegood.

📚 I’m currently writing an adult fantasy novel, but I’ve been at it for about three years, so who knows when it will be finished! I write every single day. It’s my way of winding down, of relaxing, and of letting the creative side of myself flow. I have dozens of notebooks full of unfinished novels. I am still waiting for an idea to truly stick and last all the way to a final draft.

📚 I lived in London for several years, but now I live in the Suffolk countryside. Me, my husband and my lovely dog Luna are always outdoors and we love it!

📚 My favourite authors are J.K. Rowling, Sarah J Maas and Charlotte Brontë

📚 I recently completed my Masters. I wrote my dissertation on Harry Potter. I also wrote my undergrad dissertation on Harry Potter, so we all saw that one coming.

📚 If I didn’t work in publishing, I’d love to work in academia. I love to study, and I hope that makes me cool in a Hermione kinda way!

📚 My favourite TV show at the moment is Brooklyn 99. It never fails to cheer me up on a gloomy day!

📚 I am obsessed with Harry Potter. I have been since I was seven years old. It is my one true love and I could not imagine my childhood, or my life, without Rowling’s words. They inspired my love of literature and pushed me to write my own stories.

📚 My favourite place in the world is the Scottish Highlands. In particular, Glen Coe and Glennfinnan. It is the one place that I truly feel at one with nature, and for me, there is nothing more centring or relaxing. Also, you feel as though you need only take a step backwards to find yourself in the world of Outlander or the grounds of Hogwarts!

Do we have anything in common? Tell me something about yourself in the comments!

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Someone once told me

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Someone once told me

the moon is never wider

than your thumb

And it got me to thinking

of your thumbs and

how calloused and strong

the skin on your hands is

And how they wrap mine in

warmth and ownership

that I am grateful for

More than Aristotle was

grateful for physics

Someone once told me

that the stars tell stories

And I believe they do

So I gazed at the

blackening abyss

And saw a brightening,

a fiery milky way

Of memories

Of us

Someone once told me

that the world

is what you make it

And so I made it about us

About the way you love

me regardless of

flaws and anger

and sorrow

Someone once told me

you can read a person

through their eyes

And I realised

For the first time

That your eyes show me

a story you have written

in your mind of

hazel and green

that could rival Brontë

And a poem you wrote

that could vanquish Dante

About the fact that

we are one person

with more love

than any galaxy could hold

Someone once told me

the moon is never wider

than your thumb

And you’re somewhere

lost, away, too far

And I’m not sure

you can see me

So I think of you

there, wherever

there is and wonder

if we are the same

Or if we love and feel

and think and long

for one another

Differently but equally,

Strong and wholly

each other’s only

one