I'm guilty of both. Here's the URL for my writing page:
And a list of some of my favorite reading:
Memoirs:
Thompson: Lark Rise to Candleford
Santmyer: Ohio Town
Bracken: A Window Over the Sink
Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Mitford: The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate
Bird: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Dana: Two Years Before the Mast
Poetry and Plays:
Everything by T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson
Thornton Wilder: Our Town
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Marquis: Archy and Mehitabel
Fiction
Tyler: The Clock Winder
Kingsolver: The Bean Trees
Davies: The Deptford Trilogy
Salinger: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Nine Stories
Cary: The Horse's Mouth
Doig: English Creek
Finney: Time and Again
Babs H. Deal: The Reason for Roses (wonderful, out of print, and
almost impossible to find. It's the only one of her books I like, too)
Robinson: Housekeeping
Butler: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Children's Books
Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
Dickinson: Time and the Clockmice
Gregory: Through the Mickle Wood
Pope: The Sherwood Ring
Shepard: The Gifts of Wali Dad
Lewis: The Magician's Nephew (but not the other Narnia books)
Norton: The Borrowers (and sequels)
Tolkien: The Hobbit
White: Mistress Masham's Repose
Nonfiction
Kohn: No Contest
Smedes: Forgive and Forget
Fields, et al: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching
Thich Nhat Hanh: Living Buddha, Living Christ
Mander: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Artists
Dora Holzhandler
Gustav Klimt
Grandma Moses
Kate Trepagnier
French Impressionists, particularly Pisarro and Van Gogh
