About Me

Hello! Welcome to my blog! I'm a 26 year old grad student in the Northern VA area. I'm going for my masters degree in history with a focus in early 20th century American history. I plan on working in a museum one day doing research for that time period. I really enjoy living up in the DC area (this is as big city as I'm going to get!). There's so much to do and see up here and as a history major it's wonderful to be near so much history-making.

I started blogging about 3 years ago because I wanted to tell people about the books I read. I figured I'm going to be reading these books, so I'd like to tell others about them and help them learn about the good books that I've read.

The title of my blog comes from three of my favorite things that makes for a perfect night in (or out I suppose):

Books: I love reading. I've been reading since I was three years old and haven't stopped since. One of my favorite jobs was being able to work in a library for 3 years. It was probably the best job a book lover could have. My own personal library is over 2000 books and I plan to keep growing! I need new bookshelves as currently my TBR pile is stacked against the wall and in danger of toppling over. I usually read about 200 books a year (not counting books for school)

Movies: I'm a huge movie fan as well. Some of my favorite movies include the Star Wars series, the Indiana Jones movies, the James Bond series, the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In short, when it comes to movies, I fall into the geek category. I don't really have favorite genres as I have to like the movie itself. For example: I am not a chick flick type of person, yet I do love Love Actually, The Holiday and He's Just Not That Into You. The Academy Awards are like my Superbowl, I compete in Oscar Pools, stay up the whole night to watch the awards, and I can tell you every major nominee/winner since 2000. I'm a trivia buff as well so if you ever play Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy against me, Beware!

Chinese Food: Really, can there be any other better kind of food? Roast pork lo mein, shrimp fried rice, General Tso's chicken, stir fry vegetables, Peking duck. Hungry yet? I love getting take out but Chinese buffets are awesome too. This also represents my Asian background, I'm half Chinese, half Burmese. (I don't speak either language so don't ask me something in either!) I've been to Malaysia twice, where my mother is from and I hope to go to Burma some day when all the tension has gone down.