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My list of favorite authors include, but are definitely not limited to:
Agatha Christie (read all of her books numerous times)
Dan Brown
Lillian Jackson Braun (read them all)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare
Classic literature
Mysteries, suspense, action, some romance (not too much - its got to be real! ), classics....
Just finished The Last Templar (wasn't all that impressed) and The Picture of Dorian Gray.... I need new material!
(Oh, favorite book is The Scarlet Pimpernel and all other books by Baroness Orczy - haven't read them??? Please do... its WELL worth it!)
Punked... wow.... kind of scary that there are two of us in the Eastern half of the country.... I'm sorry, but anyone who debates the fact that Yesterday Once More is one of the all time song greats is just stupid. (As literary as I am, the only insult I could come up with was "stupid"... wow....)
Cheesy historical fiction is just that, cheesy, and should be banned from all bookstores. But there is a fine line between the cheese and the greats... i.e., Gone With the Wind is a classic in my book. Scarlet Pimpernel, another.
The Poe Toaster... amazing. I was contemplating a trip to Baltimore (for the Lexington Market crab cakes and the Toaster), but alas, scheduling conflicts with work. I'd love to go one day. I actually re-read Tell-Tale Heart just this week. One of my favorite stories in grade school was the Pit and the Pendulum... odd, for a fourth grade girl to like Poe, but I was an odd child.
Kudos on going back to school! One of the reasons why I want to get back into the teaching realm is so that I can get my PhD in either Military History or Public History. My Master's thesis was based on the Civil War diary of my G, G, G Grandfather - he was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and sent to Andersonville.....and kept a daily diary.... One day, I'll publish it, but until then, my CW quest is ongoing. (BTW: the 21st Mass CW flag is in the State House in Boston! That was his regiment.)
Oh and by the way HistorianChick, take the teaching job in NYC!!!
It's more expensive to live around here and there but just go for it. I can tell you are bright, you write very well, you are witty and can make a total virtual stranger laugh so hard it brings tears, it's worth it. You must be an excellent teacher. Do it for you. Besides when is the last time you just did something most would find crazy? Pack and move to the Big Apple...
Everything you love is in that city. Maybe you will also find something you weren't looking for. Something we don't find in our romantic stories of true love....
I did it, I packed up and moved 1200 miles away from family and friends. And boy was I scared and it wasn't and hasn't been easy. But you know what? I'm glad I did it and I love Boston and I love the East!
Besides the fact that you write a hell of a lot better than I do and without question, are witty and I lack that incredible skill (which is why I stick to sarcasm as a disguise for my shortcomings) We had to be separated at birth or something along those lines.
Oh, you know, the normal "leaving my comfort zone" kind of thing. My current job is very comfortable. I'm the only writer (thanks for the kudos on that, btw!) for an international textbook publishing house. Today, I'm working on US History from 1969-present... that was actually dropped on me yesterday by my "Someone-has-a-case-of-the-Monday's-should-have-been-cast-in-Officespace" boss. My "real" job is writing the tenth grade World History course - I'm just about ready to start on WWI. But, I'm also the editor-in-chief of the two in-house magazines, the marketing writer, the ad campaign guru, and general gopher/go-to girl. My days go by VERY fast.
I'm comfortable here.... I have so much stinking job security, I could steal the company President's Fairy Waterfall Fountain and get away with it.
And that's it in a nutshell..... comfort. Settling. Rah. I'm too young to settle and I still don't know what I want to be when I "grow up."
Oh, and I spent two years after my Master's teaching English in China..... Go figure....
"Why do birds suddenly appear whenever you are near just like me they want to be close to you. On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your air and golden starlight in your eyes so blue..ue...ue...ue that is why all the girls in sight...girls in sight...girls in sight follow you...follow you all around...all around. Just like me they want to be close to you.."
That is from memory so don't shoot me id soome of the lyrics are wrong. When I sing it in the shower I sound just like her!
I enjoy american Idol and stink at giving cultural references. In fact when it comes to Pop Culture, I stink at knowing anything. I blame my parents because as children we were not allowed to watch to much TV unless it was PBS (I know I'm a loser) and the only music we were llowed to listen to were the oldies or my mothers favorites, Carpenters, Sandi Patty, Neil Diamond etc. Top that off with the fact that we attended church 5 and 6 days a week and it's no wonder I turned out this way.
I'm trying to pass on the tradition to my kids.....
), classics.... 
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