Favorite Books
My tastes lie all over the place. I have many favorites: Pride & Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Poisonwood Bible, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1984, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Memoirs of a Geisha, Saffron Dreams, Bitter is the New Black, When the Wind Blows, Civil Disobedience, Eat Pray Love, The Glass Castle, Life of Pi, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, A Woman of Independent Means, My Sister's Keeper, Number the Stars, The Tao Te Ching, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea
What I'm Reading
The Art of Tantra by Philip Rawson and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Favorite Authors
Jane Austen, Khaled Hosseini, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, James Patterson, Elizabeth Gilbert, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jen Lancaster, Jodi Picoult, Chinua Achebe, Michelle Moran, Anne Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver, Lev Vygotsky, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Influences
Personal Writing: Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Jen Lancaster
Child Development, Developmental Psychology, & Sociology Writing: Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Maria Montessori, Sharon L. Kagan, Marilou Hyson
Poetry: Browning, Angelou, Frost, Neruda, Atwood, Jong, Whitman, Nin
Songwriting: Carly Simon, Jewel Kilcher, Sheryl Crow, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Al Green, Joss Stone, Norah Jones
Children's Books: Eric Carle, Kevin Henkes, Audrey Wood, Leo Lionni, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Schoenherr
I am also greatly influenced by art.
Rebecca T.’s Bookmarks
About Rebecca
I am a early childhood educator who likes to flirt with the idea of becoming an author. For now I simply dance with writing- spinning an untold story or poem here and there, and writing mostly on my book blog. I want to make more time in my life for writing...
Rebecca’s Favorite Books
My tastes lie all over the place. I have many favorites: Pride & Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Poisonwood Bible, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1984,...