Favorite Books: The Gun Seller, God-Shaped Hole, Gentlemen & Players, Blindness, The Tale of the Unknown Island, The Double, An Honorable Profession, Like the Red Panda, Tuck Everlasting, Killing Mr. Griffin, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Rebecca, The Harry Potter Series, The One True Ocean, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Tuesdays With Morrie, Surrender Dorothy, etc.

Favorite Quotes: "Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do." (Emma) "Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men" (The Great Gatsby) "There are two oceans, Mom used to tell me. There is one that is blue--a clean, bright Disney World blue, which simply is the mirror of a clear sky above. But look at the ocean on a cloudy day, she would say, and here lies the green ocean--the true ocean, full of algae and kelp and slimy creatures, evil lurking in the shadows." (The One True Ocean)