Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is:
Bookish Places I’ve Visited
I went to the Houston Rodeo and was able to find some of the Little Free Libraries that I helped to fill with my husband. His committee was in charge of filling those things and I saw one and HAD to get a picture. I was glad to see people using them and taking books that caught their eye!
So last year (2025) I was able to present at ALA for the first time. And it was amazingly in Philadelphia, where my favorite NFL team is. And I went to go talk about sports stories. I call that Divine Timing lmao And we had such a fun talk too! It was amazing! My first time in Philadelphia was crazy fun!
I’m going to count this as ALA and TLA too. Because I was here, but I was getting all the books while I was there. And that’s what I do every time I go to librarian conferences lol
Anytime we make a new library anywhere. This is our newest satellite location. We have more shelves and books in there now, but this was the bare bones. I loved the place and mission, for this one, so this was pretty cool.
I kept finding myself in so many different places with authors that I adore. Like Jasmine Guillory, Libba Bray, David Levithian, THE Sarah Dessen, THE DeAndra Davis, and THE Elixabeth Acvedo!
Probably the coolest thing I’ve done since I’ve become a librarian lol I got to go to Obama’s library and I got a card from there too!
Ayo I was on a National reading list committee. Surely it couldn’t get better than this right?!
My favorite Black owned bookstore in Houston, Kindred Stories! They always have all of my favorites there and I couldn’t be more thankful! (This shor is me hugging Kristina Forest for the first time while showing all 32! lmfao
This hasn’t happened yet, BUT as of yesterday I won one of the spots to go to Danielle Allen’s Sidelines game. I will be joining them for a game in DC! Y’all I’m so lit! I can’t wait!
I was able to go to New York Public Library and get a pic with the famous lions. I cried because this was on my bucket list for SO LONG. +10 points if you know which one this is and why I wanted to go see this one lol
And lastly I’ve found myslef at multiple movie premieres. And funnily enough, I was in shock every time, like it was the first time. (I mean it was to see that specific movie, but not from having that experience lol The top 2 I went to were The Hate U Give and Love, Simon!
What about you? Have you seen any of these on my social media? Have you been to any of these? Let me know in the comments!