About the girls

Yes, there are actually three bookish girls here!

Camille has been an avid reader since before kindergarten. Her first
book was “Milk and Cookies”. When she entered first grade, her joy of reading
became more instilled as she was privileged to go to the second grade for
reading classes. Her mother would often catch her reading after school. Her joy
for reading never died, it just became more focused. Now she enjoys reading
anything from Jane Austin to Biology. Anything that catches her attention, she
picks up. She especially enjoys analyzing books from the Catholic point of
view. A true Dominican finds VERITAS, Truth in everything.

Emily has been a voracious reader since before she could actually read; her mother would read her huge stacks of children’s books to prevent her from destroying the house. By age 6, she was sneaking books into school and could regularly be caught reading under her desk. This continued secretly until she became an English major and was allowed, nay encouraged, to read in class. Her favorite author is Jane Austen (who was the subject of her senior thesis), and she’ll read anything from biographies to science books. When she’s not reading, she’s blogging, or onstage performing (she’s been in, among other things, Parade, Oliver!, Jekyll & Hyde, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Ragtime), or she’s going to Third Order meetings with the other two Bookish Girls. She also loves to cook.

Nikita: What is with this book obsession that has a great hold on Nikita? “Blame it on Daddy and Grandma Jackie,” she proclaims. Nikita remembers her father reading fairy tales, but what she remembers most is both her father and grandmother never putting a book down that they started until they finished it. It caused Nikita to want to understand why they would pick up a book with just words and no pictures.

Once she picked her first chapter book in second grade she was hooked. She loves reading to the point that her family wonders if she wants a library for a room and not a bedroom. Her book obsession are not just chapter books, but letters by Popes, religious retreat books, comics/mangas, quote books, anthology books of poetry, and others.

If she is not reading, what is Nikita doing? Well, she might be found in her room praying (which for many would be considered reading), listening to music, updating her blog (that she tries to write in almost daily), spending time with her fiance, family, and friends, and if not that, then look for her working or walking and being awed by the nature created by God for Man.

It's Us!

L to R: Nikita, Emily, Camille