Ex Libris

Valerie Vaschuk

Reader, voyager, and collector of worlds, from wizarding castles to the bottom of the sea.

The Twelfth Voyage

sets sail on the 20th of November

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On the Shelf

A few of the extraordinary voyages that brought me here.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Jules Verne Β· 1870

Captain Nemo, the Nautilus, and a world nobody had seen before.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne Β· 1872

A wager, a stopwatch, and Phileas Fogg racing the calendar.

In Search of the Castaways

Jules Verne Β· 1867 Β· The Children of Captain Grant

A message in a bottle, and two children who cross the world to find their father.

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne Β· 1875

Castaways, a balloon, and an island that keeps its secrets.

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling Β· seven books

Owls, spells, moving staircases, and a sorting that still needs deciding.

The Next Chapter

To be announced

Always looking for the next great book. Recommendations welcome.

β€œThe sea is everything.” β€” Captain Nemo, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
The pages are still being written