About

"Pocket Mermaid" by Enigma Wing

Mermaid Pants started in June 2009 as a way for me to keep track of the crazy book-collecting sprees I go on. I like books. A lot. Library book sales make me salivate, and when I'm at one I shove books in my tote bag like it's some sort of bookpocalypse and I need to stockpile them all for my bibliofort. I hoard books more than I can actually get around to around to reading them. It's sort of a problem.

I'm Jenna. I was born on the first day of Autumn. I live in New Jersey, home of all-night diners, a stretch of shoreline, and the mythical "Jersey Devil." I'm a bibliophile, aspiring librarian, and have an affinity for anything purple. I'm a part-time student with a full-time passion for books. And mermaids.

Why Mermaid Pants?

When I decided I wanted to blog about books, all of the names I could think of were in use. So I decided to think a little bit different and choose something that no one else would have chosen, something that is uniquely mine.

I named my blog Mermaid Pants because mermaids are my favorite mythical creature, and "pants" is my favorite word in the English language. I love the idea of a mermaid wearing pants.

The thought may have been inadvertently inspired by the Tori Amos lyric "what if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of with her name still on it" from her song "Silent All These Years," a favorite of mine as a teen. Either way, when I came up with the title it made me laugh. And anything that makes me laugh is a keeper.

Now I use the handle Mermaid Pants on lots of different sites, particularly Twitter where you can most often find me!