Have you ever wanted to just step into the setting of your book? Or wondered if what you’re reading has any real world relevance? And are you the kind that gravitates towards indie bookstores and libraries on vacation?
Then you’re in the right place!
About The Blog
A Suitcase Full of Books is a place for traveling bookworms and armchair adventurers to unite in discussions over books, travel, and everything literature. I’ll share tales of travel to literary inspired destinations, my latest reads, travel tips, and more. I hope you’ll find entertainment, inspiration, and a small bookclub-like community here. So grab a mug of tea, kick off your shoes, and stay a while!
Meet Me
Hi, I’m Elizabeth!
While cleaning out papers from a box labeled “Kindergarten” I found a page that asked, “When I grow up I want…” and in shaky scrawl below I’d written, “to own my own library.” Proof that from a young age, I knew my life would center around books. I just had no idea that the world would become my library.
As soon as I could read chapter books, Enid Blyton’s Famous Five mysteries quickly became my favorite. I imagined myself as curly-headed Georgina who rowed her own boat to her own abandoned castle. I don’t remember when I first learned that Corfe Castle was the real-life inspiration for George’s Kirrin Castle, but I made it my life goal to see Corfe Castle one day.
In the meantime, it was during a college class I found myself in a special collections library staring at a stack of Dickens’ original manuscripts that I decided to pursue archiving so that I could care for old manuscripts for the rest of my life. After earning my MA in Library School, and landing a job where I could live between the pages of the library stacks, I was in serious need of a vacation and decided it was finally time to book that dream trip to Corfe.
Standing on the grassy slopes of the medieval castle ruins, following in the footsteps of Blyton, I wondered where else books could take me. Since then I’ve followed Jane Austen from Bath to Chawton to Winchester. I’ve seen Anne of Green Gables’ Prince Edward Island. I’ve walked the halls of Charles Dickens’ London home. I’ve stood face to face with Paddington Bear, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland. And even found out how King Arthur’s table ended up on a wall.
Walking in the footsteps of authors, connecting words on a page to real world places, visiting bookstores and libraries around the world, and finding ways to make everyday a literary life brings me inexplicable delight and I want to share it all with you!
Want to know more?
If you’re interested in collaborating, please see my Work With Me page, find podcasts, interviews, and other writing I’ve done on the Around the Web page.
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One more thing…
If you’ve made it this far, I should tell you that my first name is really Sara. The views expressed in this blog are solely mine and do not reflect those of any employer. The name change is to help differentiate between my full-time work and blogging life.
