Books

Introduce Yourself with Seven Books (borrowed from Twitter)

Ulysses- James Joyce
Pattern Recognition— William Gibson
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Pale Fire - V. Nabokov
Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka

Although should add...Ann McCaffrey's Dragon Rider Series, Sheri Tepper's Grass, Maria Doria Russell's The Sparrow, Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss Mysteries, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzy, Dune by Frank Herbert,
and The Seville Communion by Arturo Pereze-Reverte. Also, The Ice House by Minette Walters.

God, I love books. The lovely thing about books is you can take them pretty much anywhere, they don't criticize, they don't leave you unless you want them too, and they are always dependable.

Coworker: Are you one of those people who always has a book in their hand?
Me: Pretty much. Although now it is - have Kindle, will travel. I don't really go anywhere without a book handy.

Co-worker: I didn't mean to call you a nerd, although you kind of are -
Me: Eh, why?
Co-worker: how you are talking about theater and television -
Me: More Culture Junkie. Or Culture Nerd. Or maybe Culture Geek?

New Co-worker thinks I'm hilarious. Actually quite a few of them do. They've discovered my dry self-deprecating wit. (They don't realize it's deliberate. And can at times be scathing. You - probably do realize that by now. Sorry, well not really, if I was I'd change, and I don't, because I like my wit.)
( books I'm reading at the moment, or listening to )