About the Reviewer

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So who here is responsible for this menagerie?

That would be me. Salutations, my name is Joana (pronounced: jo-ah-nah although everyone insists upon saying it as jo-anne-na). I am a 29 year old female with a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice and a double minor in Forensic Science and Anthropology from New Mexico State University. Where and what do I see myself doing in the future, you ask? Heck, even I don’t know.

Truth be told, I’m a fiction reader. Primarily I read books in the Horror, SciFi, and Fantasy genres as I think reading should allow you the ability to escape from reality to collect yourself. I do enjoy reading biographies, memoirs, autobiographies, historical works (as well as historical fiction), and true crime. In all honesty I’ll read just about anything you put in front of me though.

I have been active in the online community now since 1998. I’ve hosted a number of sites but my longest lived sites are two fanshrines and my own personal site Nanashi-Inc.net (formerly called just Nanashi). I’ve been blogging since 2003, although I only became a consistent blogger towards the end of 2006. Initially I hosted my book reviews as a subsection of N-I.net but I found that by handling it in that manner I didn’t update nearly as often as I wanted to. I decided to give the reviews their own site so to speak and after my adaptation to Wordpress I made the idea a reality. I enjoy reading a lot and I enjoy sharing my thoughts nearly as much. Running The Symposium allows me to combine the two and have some fun. :)

For more about me please visit my personal site and blog Nanashi-Inc.net. You can click here to view the books currently taking up residence in my personal library.

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Last updated on: September 15, 2009