Daphne's WEbook Profile

Daphne

Join Date: 5/2/2007

What I like to read:
Favorite books:
This is too hard! Partly because I have a terrible memory, even for things I love. But here's a random beginning:
All books by Ann Patchett (but especially Bel Canto)
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men
John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius
Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
Hamlet -- does this count as a book or a play? I've studied it, produced it, and seen at least fifteen productions in my lifetime.
What I'm reading now:
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here, by Felicia Sullivan -- a memoir to be released next week, which I'm reviewing for Newsday.
For non-work, just finished re-reading Madame Bovary and before that, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union (one of the best books I've ever read).
Favorite place to read:
My other writing:
What I like to write:
Character I'd like to be for a day:
Favorite authors:
If you have a favorite book, doesn't that mean its author is your favorite author? Maybe not, because while I love some of Updike's work, I definitely don't like it all. This is too hard a question, too! But, see above. Ann Patchett, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shakespeare and yes, back in the day, Judy Blume. I loved her books so much as a child that they made me want to become a writer of accessible fiction, too.