Meet Mary!

We’re very excited to welcome bookseller extraordinaire Mary OMalley to the Skylark team! Mary has been slinging books at the fabled Anderson’s Bookshop in Illinois for several years, and is beloved far and wide throughout the independent bookstore world. As the world adapts to a more online existence, we recognized an opportunity for Mary to join the Skylark team as our Roving Virtual Bookseller At Large, even though she won’t be coming to Missouri any time soon. She is super smart, reads absolutely everything, and really, really knows her stuff.

Mary will be posting reviews and other bookish content on the website and our social media pages, so we think you’ll get to know her pretty quickly. One of the things she’ll be doing is posting a weekly book talk via Facebook Live. The first of these will be tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. - go to our Facebook Page to see her in action and say hi!

Mary OMalley is a Ridiculously Enthusiastic Bookseller. An avid reader all her life, she rediscovered her passion for all things literary as a Bookseller for Anderson's Bookshop at their LaGrange location. She has been known to mildly stalk her favorite authors through social media, and reads across a large range of genres. When not reading, she and her husband are tending to their little suburban homestead with two cats, two dogs, two fish, and soon-to-arrive four chickens. She and her husband live outside Chicago and have three children and one adorable grandson. You can find Mary on FB, Insta and Twitter at Blurb Your Enthusiasm.