where the writers are

Favorite Books

So many! I add new ones every month as I'm usually reading 3 or 4 books at a time. I love A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving, MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides, BLINK and OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell, THE MERMAID CHAIR by Sue Monk Kidd and childhood favorites LITTLE WOMEN and BRIDE TO TERABITHIA.

What I'm Reading

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert Soulless by Gail Carringer Flow by Elissa Stein

Favorite Authors

John Irving, Marisa de los Santos, Brooke Morgan (debut TAINTED comes out in early 2010), Gail Carringer (debut SOULLESS came out in 2009), also love Kristen Riggle, Joanne Rendell, Jenny Gardiner, Patrick Somerville (The Cradle), Michael Zadoorian (The Leisure Seeker), Christina Baker Kline, Sally Koslow, Elizabeth Gilbert and many, many more

Influences

John Irving, Anne Rice (religiously read her in my college years), Nora Ephron movies, studying psychology, my life