Reading Profile
I'm a reader without rules, likely to pick up any bound collection of pages that comes my way be it a historical mystery, a space opera, a bodice ripper, or a reimagining of Shakespeare! I'm a big fan of the art of browsing library shelves. Like other life-long enthusiasts of the printed page I have favorite books that I've read time and again throughout my life : Little Women, The Witch of Blackbird Pond , Harry Potter , The Catcher in the Rye , to name a few. The classics, those authors-whose-names-we-all-know tend to draw me in. Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, and Willa Cather are all some of my favorites. In my heart these literary canon luminaries are on par with authors like Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Lorrie Moore, and Raymond Chandler, Shirley Jackson, and Frank Herbert. I think perhaps what these authors, spanning the realistic fiction, horror, mystery, romance and science fiction genres, have in common is the abil...