Writing, of course; reading - everything from romance to mysteries to magical realism and sf/fantasy - and all points in between; all things Irish; also history, especially Tudor and Elizabethan England. I'm also into running, gardening, cooking and photography.
I'd like to meet:
Bono. Except it will probably just disillusion me, and I hate it when that happens.
Music:
U2. Van Morrison. Kate Bush. The Police. The Clash (yes, I'm an aging punk). Snow Patrol. Foo Fighters. Dave Matthews Band. Imogen Heap, Jem. Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, James Morrison. Also jazz, especially John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Miles. And classical, especially "Madam Butterfly." And even the occasional country song.
Movies:
All time favorite movie: Casablanca. On happy days: Singin' in the Rain, the Wizard of Oz, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Fish Called Wanda. Not so happy days: Don't Look Now, The Vanishing, The Conversation, Deliverance. I also love Excalibur, Blade Runner, Alien. My favorite director is probably Ridley Scott.
Television:
Slings and Arrows - all about a company of Shakespearean actors in Canada. Brilliant. Best TV ever, next to the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. Battlestar Galactica. Sex and the City (still). Ultraviolet - an obscure British miniseries about Vampires. And of course, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report! Guilty pleasures - Dancing With the Stars, The Bionic Woman and Spongebob Squarepants.
Books:
Where to begin? I am a book slut. If it is printed on paper and between two covers, I will at least try to read it. Actually, it doesn't even need to be that good. I will read cereal boxes if there's nothing else around. A few of them have been more entertaining than some novels I've read.
Recent Really Good Reads:
North by Northanger by Carrie Bebris
Some Deaths Before Dying by Peter Dickinson
Dry Moon by Karyna DaRosa
Some all-time favorite books are Pride & Prejudice, The Master and Margarita, V, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, and Outlander. Some fave writers, in no order: Julia Spencer-Fleming, P.D. James, C.J. Sansom, Mark Helprin, Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Lisa Unger, Deanna Raybourn, Jennifer Crusie, Jayne Ann Krentz & Amanda Quick, Lisa Kleypas, Alison Kent, Diana Gabaldon, Jane Austen, Doug Adams, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Ursula LeGuin, Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Peter Spiegelman, Lee Child, Shirley Jackson, C.S. Lewis, and yes, J. K. Rowling.