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. Eccentric hobbies - I collect oriental fans and Swedish dala horses.
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. David Bowie. Also jazz, especially John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Miles. And classical, especially "Madam Butterfly." And even the occasional country song.
Movies
Loved the new Star Trek! I've got a crush on Spock all over again!All time favorite movie: Casablanca. On happy days: Singin' in the Rain, the Wizard of Oz, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Fish Called Wanda, Wings of Desire. Not so happy days: Don't Look Now, The Vanishing, The Conversation, Deliverance. I also love Excalibur, Blade Runner, and Alien. My favorite director is probably Ridley Scott.
Television
Burn Notice, The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Torchwood, Doctor Who. Hanging in there with Lost because I'm a total sucker for time travel plots. Missing BSG. Allowing myself to be sucked in by the weirdness that is Flashforward, but will probably regret it later.
All time favorites include: 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. Ultraviolet - an obscure British miniseries about Vampires. And Sex and the City.
Guilty pleasures - Dancing With the Stars, What Not to Wear, and of course, 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: Life As We Knew It and the dead and the gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Heart and Soul by Sarah A. Hoyt 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, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Unger, Alexandra Sokoloff, Jennifer Crusie, Lani Diane Rich, Jayne Ann Krentz & Amanda Quick, Lisa Kleypas, Alison Kent, Diana Gabaldon, Jane Austen, Doug Adams, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Ursula LeGuin, Salman Rushdie, Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Peter Spiegelman, Lee Child, Shirley Jackson, C.S. Lewis, and yes, J. K. Rowling.
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You are Eliza Bennett from Pride and Prejudice! Yay, you! Perhaps the brightest and best character in all of English literature, you are intelligent, lively, lovely-- in short, you are the best of company. Your only foibles are that you stick with your first impressions... and your family is quite intolerable. Take this quiz!
I'm a writer, wife and mom - although not necessarily in that order. I'm a city girl trapped in Green Acres. Sharing my captivity are the tall, dark and handsome Matt; the always loud and very creative Chris, future astrophysicist or heavy metal drummer; and of course, Tiger, the lethargic wonder cat.
In my other life as a journalist, my feature articles have appeared in major daily and weekly newspapers. Remember those? My short stories and poetry have been published in a few obscure literary mags that you've never heard of. At various times in my life, I've also been a child model, an actress, a stagehand, a secretary, a seller of ladies' lingerie and - in a brief fit of practicality, a computer programmer.
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On her first thirty-ninth birthday, Sabrina O’Hara battled cancer. This year, she discovers her fiancé Scott’s leading a treacherous double life. Now she’s on the run – from Scott, from the Mexican Mafia, and from one dangerously sexy Homeland Security Agent. Thirty-nine the first time was horrible. But can Sabrina survive Thirty-Nine Again?
You can find out more about me at my website. Visit me at www.lynnreynolds.com.
Secret ambition: To be a wench at the Renaissance Faire.
Who I'd like to meet: Bono. Except it will probably just disillusion me, and I hate it when that happens.
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A HAPPILY EVER AFTER OF HER OWN
Melinda Lightfoot, a preschool teacher with an unusual ability to flit in and out of fairy tales, never thought she would get into trouble...
...until the Fairy Tale Police arrest her while she is in Beauty and the Beast. They offer her a deal: Find Beauty, who left the story when Melinda trespassed into it, or be charged with the ultimate crime -- Fairy Tale Killer. If that's not bad enough the Beast tags along in search of his true love, and Melinda starts falling for the fairy tale prince. She must choose between doing the right thing and having her own happily ever after.
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