Well, like lots of people I have more than one book on the go at any one time. At the very least I have at least one non-fiction and one fiction to choose from in the pile next to my bed.

Right now my non-fiction is Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath (I just finished 'The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property' by Lewis Hyde which was fabulous and re-read Anne Lamotts priceless 'Bird by Bird'). Rich Rich Rich.!

For fiction, I'm just starting the 5th of the series of Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon, The Firey Cross. :-) I also just went to a session at Book Passage with Tracy Chevalier last night. She read from her newest book (on William Blake) Burning Bright and I couldn't help myself from buying it so that's next on my fiction list. The Outlander novels are great fun and - amazingly - have kept my interest in the characters and story strong even through 4 thick volumes. And I deeply love Blake, so imagine Travy's will be good too.

Just for the record, two of my favorite novels of the last few years have been Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Amy

My latest all-consuming passion is digital photography. I'm taking a class, and as part of that we have to keep a photo blog... I find myself posting to it even when I don't have to :-) just because I find the whole concept of 'writing with light' absolutely fascinating.

It doesn't stop when I talked my guy into lettin gme buy a fancy SLR camera, either. I've started to spend our money on lenses and external flashes, additional memory and USB drives to carry images to and from class. I've been lugging a tripod around, trolling the photography section in bookstores (the photo to the left is from a book of flower portraits by Joyce Tenneson - I wrote about it in my photo blog today), and lusting after out of print classics.

But most of all I am looking at everything with an eye to capturing it in visual verse... watching light, stalking it, ready to click my adoration at the perfect moment.

If you like images too, come play with me on Flickr and see the images I've uploaded there. Write to me and tell me about your work.