I love books. Especially books that take 10 pages to write what could be said in a sentence, (i.e. anything written in the 19th Century). I also love, love, love to cook. To knit (my latest obsession).
Sinatra, Piaf, Alejandro Sanz, Ella, Santana, Billie, Eartha Kitt, The sound track to Finding Neverland, pretty much anything before 1980 I am an old old old person really.
Anything with Colin Firth, who is the sexiest man ever born. I am telling you. Mr.Darcy can have me any day of the week. I also love Ratatouille & Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont
I hate tv. That being said I am also obsessed with Desperate Housewives (I ADORE BREE!)and now I am all hooked on Lost, it is so so so bad.
Jane Austin, Virginia Woolf, Machiavelli (he cracks me up) Emily Bronte, Du Maurier, J.R.R. Tolkien, Borges, Cortazar, Muriel Spark, Laura Esquivel, Anya Seton, Flaubert and of cource Roald Dahl who you can learn more about on the ever enlightening http://www.roalddahl.com/)Douglas Adams, Helen Fielding (for a little fluff), dare I say it? J. K. Rowling, Madhur Jaffrey (she writes cook books, but they are really good!), Sue Townsend, Hawthorne, Neruda, Eavan Boland (poetry), Flannery O'Connor(oh yes please!, Dumas, Charles Dickens (but only for his 2ndary characters)... Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a lot of other people...
Anyone who makes less than $30,000 and has a masters degree, you have to admit that takes dedication.