About Me

  • About Me: "My mentor said to me, "I never suggest that someone try to be writer, because it is lonely, frustrating, hard. Most of the time you end up a heartbroken drunk, but frankly, I don't think you have a choice." Frankly, I don't think you have much of a choice either." - My Writing Mentor to Me.

Books

  • Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice, Death on the Nile, Little Women, War and Peace, My Antonia, Arcadia, Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, Ring, Songlines, Northanger Abbey, A Horse and His Boy, How It Works, The Tiger in the Well, The Painted Bird, Dune, Ring, Gentlemen and Players, Watchmen, Pears on the Willow Tree, Harriet the Spy, Murder on the Orient Express, Holy Fools, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Awakening, Much Ado About Nothing
  • Favorite Authors: C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Anais Nin, Phillip Pullman, Joanne Dobson, Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare
  • Favorite Characters: Catherine Moreland, Elizabeth Bennet, Roy Straightly, Rosalie Cullen, Silk Spectre, Miss Marple, Rosalie Otterbourne, Beatrice
  • Recent Reads: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Winter's Tale

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Chocolat, Gosford Park, the Dark Knight, Bend it Like Beckham, Goal!, Green Street, Football Factory, Paris, Je t'aime, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol. 1, About A Boy, Fiddler on the Roof, Rent, Saved!, Inside Man, Can't Hardly Wait, Gladiator, Casablanca, the Holiday, She's the Man, Stranger than Fiction, Adaptation, Strings, the Squid and the Whale, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Atonement, Closer, Connie and Carla, Dial M for Murder, Dot the i, Igby Goes Down, Hotel Chevalier, the Royal Tennenbaums, the Darjeeling Limited, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Sin City, Snatch, the Departed, the Science of Sleep, the Third Man, Signs, the Village, Role Models
  • Favorite Directors: Robert Altman, Sophia Coppolla, Guillerme del Torro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Spike Lee, M. Night Shamalayn,
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Resevoir Dogs, Juno, O Brother Where art Thou?, Fiddler on the Roof, Rent, Moulin Rouge

Music

  • Favorite Artists: McFly, the Fratellis, Jem, the pillows, Puffy Amiyumi, the Kooks, Arctic Monkeys, KT Tunstall, Lily Allen, Modest Mouse, Eels, the Strokes, Letters to Cleo, the Ramones, the Decemberists, Jenny Owens Young, Kasabian, Iron and Wine, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Thermals, Mando Diao, She & Him, the Flobots, Regina Spektor, the Faders, Whiskeytown, Belle and Sebasitan, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Oasis, Stars, the Weepies, Postal Service, Rogue Wave, Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Kweller, Owen Pallet, David Garret, Devandra Banhart, Rilo Kiley, Maximo Park, the Libertines, Blur, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Kimya Dawson, Ani DiFranco, Antsy Pantsy, Jaymay, Ingrid Michaelson, Mates of State, the Dresden Dolls, The Velvet Underground, Susan Enan, the Clash, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, System of a Down, Jack Johnson, Joni Mitchell, Jem, the Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, No Doubt, Metisse, the Beatles, Casting Crowns, Estelle, Garbage, Tracy Chapman, REM, Je5st, the Verve Pipe, Feist, Little, of Montreal, Sex Pistols, Sandi Thom, Coldplay, U2, Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper, Relient K, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Rachel Yamagata, Imogen Heap, the Flaming Lips, Bon Jovi, the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Babybird, Atomic Kitten

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: pretty much everything
  • Favorite Dishes: American Chop Suey, Chili, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Fetticini Alfredo, Sushi, Pierogi and Kielbasa, Steak and Garlic mashed Potatoes, Quesadillas, Nachos, Pollo en Mole
  • Favorite Desserts: Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Ice Cream
  • Favorite Drinks: Coffee, Milk, Water, Cranberry Juice, Pomegranate Juice, Vodka, Merlot, Cider, Apple Juice
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, Skittles, Juinor Mints, Donuts, Cheese Danishes
  • Best meal ever: Fooooooood
  • Favorite Restaurants: Wagamama's, China Taste, Acapulco's, Common Grounds Cafe (which isn't there anymore!), Tully's
  • Foods I hate: Cabbage

Style

  • Where I shop: Thrift Stores and Consignment Shops, H&M
  • Brands I love: GLO Jeans
  • I like to wear: jeans and tee shirts
  • Can't live without: jeans
  • Prized Possessions: jeans and bandanas
  • Guilty Pleasure: high heels and bras

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Coupling, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, Hustle, Charlie Rose, Poirot, Sex and the City, Marple, First Kiss, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Bones, The Office, Ugly Betty, Daria, How I Met Your Mother
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Gossip Girl
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development

Travel

  • Places I love: Boston, Cape Cod, Canterbury
  • Places I've been: England, Scotland, Sweden, France
  • Places to see before I die: Paris, Greece, Seattle, Barcelona, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, San Francisco, Iran, Israel, Lisbon, Florence, Rome, Crawcow, Finland, Uzbekistan, India, Thailand, Cambodia

More About Me

  • Heroes: Agatha Christie, Dorothoy Parker, Sarah Jane Gillman, Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Joanne Harris, Jorges Luis Borges
  • Interests: Coffee, Writing, Reading, Baking, Movies, Drawing, Cooking, Music, Acting, Painting
  • Occupation: Writer