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Poe Vlog

Was Poe Creepy, or Coping? | All 4 Edgar Allan Poe Museums Vlog

October 10, 2021 by A Suitcase Full of Books 1 Comment

I visited all 4 Edgar Allan Poe Museums to learn more about the author that scares me the most. Watch the vlog to find out if Poe really was creepy, or maybe using writing as a form of coping with life. 

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Filed Under: Author Graves, Author House, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Travel, Travel Vlog, USA, Virginia Tagged With: Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, Grave, New York City, Philadelphia, Richmond, Video

Haverford College Library

Revisiting Haverford College Library: Petition to Rename It

September 5, 2021 by A Suitcase Full of Books 2 Comments

I recently revisited Haverford College Library to see the new renovations, but couldn’t go inside. So I walked around outside instead.

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Filed Under: Library, Pennsylvania, Travel Tagged With: Haverford College, Library

Good Eats: Amish Country, Pennsylvania

March 15, 2016 by A Suitcase Full of Books Leave a Comment

Amish bakers make the most mouthwatering goods. That’s a fact. If you’ve ever tried Amish baked apple bread, you know what I’m talking about. Thus, if you happen to find yourself within visiting distance of Amish Country Pennsylvania, here are a couple food locals where you should definitely eat: Lancaster’s Central Market We rolled into…

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Filed Under: Food & Drink, Pennsylvania, Travel, USA Tagged With: Amish Country, Restaurants

Amish Country for the Weekend

March 11, 2016 by A Suitcase Full of Books Leave a Comment

While in the Pennsylvania vicinity, I thought my partner-in-adventure and I would spend a nice romantic weekend together in Amish Country. I envisioned buggy riding, eating delectable Amish-cooked food, and a stay in a quaint B&B. Some of you may have caught the error in my planning already. The weekend, while fun, did not turn…

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Filed Under: Pennsylvania, Travel, USA Tagged With: Amish Country, Theme Park

Amish Country Wedding Venues

March 6, 2016 by A Suitcase Full of Books 2 Comments

No, we’re not in the stages of planning a wedding. We’re not even engaged. But, if we had been on a vacation to choose a wedding venue, we’d come to the right place. We had come for a romantic weekend getaway, but that’s speeding things up a bit too fast. While visiting Amish country we…

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Filed Under: Bookish Accommodations, Pennsylvania, Travel, USA Tagged With: Amish Country, B&B, Farm, Wedding Venue

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Hello Traveling Bookworms!
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!
I’m Elizabeth, a former librarian turned travel blogging bookworm. Join me as I explore the real places behind our favorite reads, introduce you to your next favorite book, and discover all the literary sights this world has to offer!

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I tried the Sherlock Holmes: Blue Carbuncle StoryTourist App guided walking tour while in London. This is not sponsored, I just needed something to do while getting over jet lag. Join me to find out what a StoryTourist guided walk is like and my thoughts on the adventure.

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I visited Columbus, Ohio, where I picked up the book My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber from the indepentent bookstore The Book Loft, visited the James Thurber house museum, and Thurber's grave, where a statue of his dog Muggs has been installed. 

Thurber was the foremost humor writer of the 20th century and he has some very funny stories that take place in the house that is now a museum and one about his dog Muggs.  

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Visiting the home of James and Muggs Thurber in Columbus, Ohio
I went back to Prince Edward Island, Canada to stay at Dalvay by the Sea because of its Anne connection and instead had an early honeymoon! 

Then I spent a week touring wedding venues, the Anne Museum and Green Gables, doing a little golfing, and having a professional photoshoot session. 

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I read that the best way to get an Instagram reel I read that the best way to get an Instagram reel to trend is to put some meaningful text over a few seconds of film, but as a professional Web Accessibility specialist, I am begging this trend to stop! If you’re going to put text on your video:
1. Make sure you’ve checked the color contrast of the text to your background.
2. Is your text too small? Viewers can’t expand reel images to make the text bigger if they can’t read it.
3. Have you added any text on the image in the caption or alt text incase it can’t be read while watching the video? 
Please consider Accessibility guidelines when creating online content of any type! 
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Now back to the bookish content:
Welcome to my home library!

#webaccessibility #contentcreatorproblems
I used @mixbook to make photo books for my wedding I used @mixbook to make photo books for my wedding trip and my 2017 Open Palace trip to England. The books just arrived and I love them! 😍 I used the Mixbooks software for the wedding album and I used Canva for the England album then copied images downloaded from Canva to Mixbook. Both ways worked pretty well, I feel like I had more options for creativity using Canva. I can’t wait to put together a book of my most recent trip to England! I may have to do this for all major trips from now on. 

Not sponsored by Canva or Mixbook (tho if either wanted to sponsor me I wouldn’t say no 😂) Just hoping I can provide a little inspiration for the traveler stuck at home for the time being.
 
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New post on the blog! Making Shakespeare Understan New post on the blog! Making Shakespeare Understandable and Enjoyable in Stratford-Upon-Avon 
While visiting Stratford-Upon-Avon with @hayleysolano's Enchanted Book Club, my goal was to make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable. I think I succeeded thanks to our visits to the @shakespearebtrust museums, and with a little help from @sparknotes_  during our outing to see Macbeth at the @thersc Theater.
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My blog post about visiting Oxford with @hayleysol My blog post about visiting Oxford with @hayleysolano's Enchanted Book Club got quite long, but I think if you start reading it now you should just be able to finish it by the time my next post comes out tomorrow! Kidding... kind of. 
Are you a fantasy genre junkie? Which Oxford prof would you rather have taken a class from, Tolkein, Lewis, or Carroll? 
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The last time I visited Bath, England, there was a The last time I visited Bath, England, there was a lot of playing dress-up in Regency attire to pretend we'd stepped back into Jane Austen's 1800s. After C-vid though, I had no interest in touching the play clothes in the museums! So this time while I visited with @hayleysolano's Enchanted Book Club,  I challenged myself to "modernly" follow in Jane Austen's footsteps, and it turned out better than expected! 
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Did you see any of my previous posts about my late Did you see any of my previous posts about my latest vlog? After playing around with Threads, it seems posts in which I include a link away from the platform perform more poorly than other posts. So here's a post about my latest vlog incase you're new here or missed my previous posts about it.

While spending a couple days in London to overcome jetlag before meeting up with the Enchanted Book Club group tour, I spent an afternoon amusing myself by taking the @storytourist London Sherlock Holmes guided walk through The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.

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