ABOUT
Biblio-Therapy is your guide to books and stories that matter – to you.
Books expand our imagination’s greatest dreams.
Biblio-Therapy
Creating literary journeys and personal library collections for readers of all ages.
Reading is a vehicle for joy.
Biblio-Therapy’s Founder Stories
WENDY NORRIS
Founder
The closest thing I’ve ever found that resembles my idea of magic is how stories can unfold and reverberate in one’s life. Books create pathways of hope, tunnels of light, moments of joy, solace, amazement, adventure, and so much more. From the moment I could read I’ve never been truly alone. Growing up, my family moved incessantly from one state to the next. A dozen different schools and towns, with a dozen different, yet always familiar, libraries. My one constant in life, my North Star, has always been books. My imagination has known no limits because of my love of reading, my love of stories. Whether being read to or reading for myself, the written word has always captivated me. Reading and books still to this day elicit profound joy for me and their magic has only deepened throughout the decades of my life. As a kid I believed that if you had a library, you could learn everything you need in the world. I still believe this today, which is one among many reasons Biblio-Therapy was founded. Non-sequitur fact, I love the Oxford comma, but I don’t think I’ve ever once thought about it when I was reading a great story.
KATIE LEMKE
Co-Founder
I first fell in love with reading under a silver maple in the backyard of my childhood home with a fat orange tom cat as my audience as I read aloud. The book was The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. My first-grade teacher had read it to us during the school year, and it was the first chapter book I ever checked out of the public library. Since then, reading has been the ultimate escape. I have traveled to places my passport dreams of getting a stamp from. I have eaten meals alongside Ernest Hemingway in Paris, have traveled to Morocco with Edith Wharton and collected books as John Baxter’s sidekick. Reading has brought me heart thumping excitement as I cheer on the underdog as well as tears of heartbreaking sadness as I mourn all kinds of loss. Throughout my reading life I have a knack for suggesting books to people; sometimes those who I am not even that close with but have had brief interactions or abbreviated conversations. As an enthusiast of the Sunday New York Times Book Review, my copy is usually covered in post it notes, or circles with names of who I know, would like that book. I have been known to “book bomb” folks, example: a recent coworker was retiring and mentioned wanting to read more. Knowing a few facts about him, I chose books that would suit his new life and sent them off, much to his surprise. I am a big fan of the biblio double-feature; back-to-back reading of books with similar themes but different in ways, sometimes by the same author, but most of the time they are not. I am an introvert with a talent of going deep when one-on-one and look forward to learning more about what individuals have been reading, what they are seeking, and wanting to experience though books.