Rick

I'd like to meet:

Collecting Friends

I don’t believe collecting “friends” is a contest. I’m primarily trying to connect with other writers, sculptors and artists. If you’re interested in radio and voice work, that’s a plus. If you like the writers I read, we have something in common. If you enjoy my reviews, step right up. If you like my books, well (blush), how could I refuse your friendship?

However, if you want me to follow a link to your personal webcam, that’s not why I’m here. I’m not looking for a date or a chance to talk about sex. Or politics, at least on this site. I’ll rant about those weasels somewhere else.

Music:

I was a radio announcer for 13 years and knew music inside and out at that time. When I moved on to another career, I sort of sat back and let others pick the music for a while. When the weather’s warm and the top is down I grab a CD by Warren Zevon, Elton, Meatloaf, Susan Tedeschi or whatever has a driving bass beat. I like Ani Difranco, and just about every other angry gay girl, for some reason. Left to my own designs, I go to Pandora.com, plug in a couple of favorites, and let it introduce me to something new. Anything from Greenday to African rhythms. If it’s not polka, I’ll probably listen to it.

Books:

Top Ten Favorite Books

(Not necessarily in order; still some holes)

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols

Ciderhouse Rules, John Irving

The Three Junes, Julia Glass

The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov

Some books I've read in the last couple of years

Now reading The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall
Author Title Rating
Charles Frazier Thirteen Moons 4
Ridley Pearson Cut and Run 3
Corman McCarthy The Road 3.5
Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby 4.5
Anna Quindlen Rise and Shine 4
Susan Orlean My Kind of Place 3
Carol Plum-Ucci The Body of Christopher Creed 3
Sara Gruen Water for Elephants 3.5
Dean Koontz The Husband 3
Carl Hiaasen Double Whammy 3
Ali Smith The Accidental 3.5
John Hart The King of Lies 3.5
Dave Freedman Natural Selection 1.5
John Sanford Certain Prey 4
Larry McMurtry Telegraph Days 3.5
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go 3.5
Jonathan Kellerman Gone 4
Michael Connelly Crime Beat 2
Patrick McManus The Blight Way 4
David Baldacci The Camel Club 4
Alan Lightman The Diagnosis 2
Ursula K. Le Guin Changing Planes 3.5
Stephen King Cell 4
Gregory Maguire Wicked 4
Dean Koontz Forever Odd 4
Marilynne Robinson Gilead 3
Scott Turow Ordinary Heros 4
Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer 4
Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones 4.5
Terry Pratchett Thud! 4.5
Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum 4.5
David Plotz The Genius Factory 4
James Paterson Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment 4
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner 4.5
Ian McEwan Saturday 4
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 4.5
Robert Hough The Ha-Ha 3
Robert Hough The Final Confession of Mabel Stark 4.5
Temp Grandin Animals in Translation 4.5
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees 4.5
John Fusco Paradise Salvage 4
Annie Proulx That Old Ace in the Hole 3
Edward P. Jones The Known World 4
John Grisham The Last Juror 3.5
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas 4.5
Tom Wolfe I Am Charlotte Simmons 4
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace 3.5
Jon Krakauer Under the Banner of Heaven 4
Jasper Fforde Lost in a Good Book 4
Joyce Carol Oates The Falls 3
Michael Connelly Angels Flight 4
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair 4
Jonathan Kellerman The Conspiracy Club 4
Mary Roach Stiff 3
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife 5
William Gibson Pattern Recognition 4.5
Ron McLarty The Memory of Running 3.5
Eric Schlosser Refer Madness 3
Dan Brown The DaVinci Code 3
Dean Koontze Odd Thomas 3.5
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City 4.5
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them 4
Kathy Reichs Bare Bones 3
Yann Martel Life of Pi 4
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex 4
Dean Koontz The Face 3
Anna Quindlen Blessings 4.5
James Lee Burke Jolie Blons Bounce 3.5
Scott Turow Reversible Errors 3.5
Julia Glass Three Junes 5
John Grisham Skipping Christmas 2
Michael Connelly Chasing the Dime 4
John Irving The Fourth Hand 3.5
Douglas Dams Salmon of Doubt 4
Michael Connelly City of Bones 3.5
Robert T. Kiyosake Rich Dad, Poor Dad 2.5
Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 4.5
Stephen King & Peter Straub Black House 4
Stephen King & Peter Straub The Talisman 3.5
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 4.5
Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation 4.5
Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven 3
Stephen King Dreamcatcher 3
John Grisham The Brethren 3
Michael Connelly A Darkness More Than Night 4
John Grisham A Painted House 4