Contributor - Maud Newton

A new day, a new contributor! Maud Newton is a writer, reviewer, critic, and lover of language. In many ways she reminds me of my family, all of us loving and devouring books (though very different kinds/genres) and losing ourselves in a different world then the one we are constantly standing in.

In Maud's own words:

"As a child I lived in novels as much as I did in the world, stumbling around hunched and dreamy, tearing through my alloted seven library books and then begging my mother to take me to check out more. Nowadays the challenge isn’t getting my hands on books, it’s finding stories that excite me, as a reader, writer, and critic.

My passion for unusual, well-told stories sends me foraging not just through bookstores—though I do spend a ridiculous amount of time circling the staff recommendations tables at McNally Jackson—but all kinds of media: TV, movies, magazines, blogs, apps, whatever. I still love books best of all, but it took me a while to know that for sure after devouring The Wire.

My Quarterly objects will be books and other great stories that I hope will make you cancel plans or miss your stop or ignore the doorbell. Sometimes they’ll be juicy and suspenseful; other times they’ll be weirder, less about sinking into a story than thinking about the way we tell them. Occasionally they’ll be both, so you can experience them, and ponder them, and then experience them again."

Random side note, don't you just love her name? (That's rhetorical, of course you do!). 

If you are a book worm or just love to learn and discover new things that you might never have heard of, then a subscription to Maud Newton would be like receiving a present each "quarter". Then, when your friends or family are looking for a good new book they've never read to read on a flight home for the holidays or vacation, or just to lose themselves in during the winter months, you can stand up and say that you have a great suggestion. You can set yourself as the knowledgable "what to read" trend setter. And believe me, as someone who travels a lot, we all need someone like that in our lives that helps us to discover new things so we don't get  incredibly bored in the monotonous security lines, flight delays, or just lazy sunday mornings of our lives.