Booked Club for Grown-Ups

Abby Dan (she/her) has been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces. A co-owner of Booked and a southern gal at heart, she fell in love with Evanston as a Northwestern undergrad back at the turn of the century and was delighted to schlep her family to live here in 2018 after stints in New York and London (you can be impressed, it's fine). Abby believes in fresh air, queer joy, and curated shelf tchotchkes. She toys with endurance sports and has been known to jog whilst listening to audiobooks and/or show tunes, thanks to her absolutely not secret life as a theater nerd. She loves families, overalls, and Central time.

Betsy Haberl (she/her) is co-owner of Booked. In a former life, she wrote Sad Fiction for Grown-Ups and is very grateful that her job now includes reading middle grade fiction that makes her feel feelings, dystopian YA, and weird-ish adult fiction. Betsy takes her role as Booked's events coordinator extremely seriously, ensuring that whimsy and silliness levels remain elevated at all times. She also loves building school and community partnerships and welcoming anyone and everything to come chat with her about books at the store! She loves using exclamation points when talking about books! But perhaps most importantly, Betsy is the store's resident Bubble Fairy, often boasting that Booked's bubble machine produces 2000 bpm (bubbles per minute).