About Me

Hello! My name is LaShaunda. I was born and raised in Alabama, spent my college and new adult years in sunny southern California and blazing Arizona, followed by an amazing year in South Korea. Now I’m back where I started. I’m a certified special education and elementary school teacher. I’m also an editor for all of you authors out there. I have a passion for films and fictional worlds (my real dream was to be a screenwriter and director). I love Broadway shows and New York City. I love music and going to live concerts, as well as binge-watching everything. BTS are my f o r e v e r biases. ♡ (Hey ARMY!)

If you’re here then you must be a huge bookworm like me. My book obsession started as early as my memories. I loved the little Disney board books and had a treasure chest full. My first bookish obsession was Sweet Valley High (it was the 90s, okay). I loved Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield like they were the best friends I never had. I lived so vicariously through their adventures in these novels.

Like most of us, college stole all the joy out of reading. (…and being a twenty-something alone in L.A. I was outside.) Then, Twilight happened. It completely renewed my fervor in reading, fantasy, and young adult novels and I haven’t stopped reading again since.

When I stumbled onto the book community on Instagram, I found a new love. I quickly started up my own bookstagram account and it’s been growing since. The purpose of creating LaShaunda Loves (formerly Perusing Pages) was  to immerse myself into this amazing community of bookworms and share my love and passion of reading and books outside of the small scope of an Instagram caption. It has been such a great experience. I’ve met so many wonderful new people and discovered amazing and wonderful bookish things I never knew existed.