Amor Towles, James Lee Burke, Mark Twain, Edward Rutherford, Florence King, Taylor Caldwell, Vardis Fisher, Thomas Hardy, Irving Stone, Gary Jennings
The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, Anthony Adverse, Those Who Love, Roughing It, Orphans in Gesthamane, Gargantua and Pantagruel, And the Ladies of the Club, Sarum, Handling Sin, The Journeyer
Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Wired
Washingtonl Post, New York Times
The Help, Amadeus, Second Hand Lions, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Strangers in Good Company, Walkabout, Edward Scissorhands
Michael Caine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Maggie Smith, Robert Duvall, Kathy Bates, Frances McDormand
Classical, 50's West or East Coast Jazz
Art Pepper, Arturo Sandoval, Illinois Jacquet, Cannonball Adderley, Vido Musso, Charlie Byrd, Django Reinhardt, Shorty Rodgers, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Alicia Delarocha
Resting, Sleeping, Staring into space
Backyard
selected vertebrates and invertebrates, seeds or seed coverings--both monocotyledon and dicotyledon, various plant leaves, stems, roots, tubers and products made from lactic secretions from female bovines.