Barbara Brown Taylor has been a bibliophile as long as she can remember. She now owns more books than she will ever read. The best present she has ever received is a bookshelf made out of found lumber by her beloved husband, Ed. Her fondest wish is to write a work of fiction one day. In hopes of finding her niche, she is presently reading murder mysteries featuring sleuths who are female Episcopal priests.
On your nightstand now:
The Book of Light by Michelle Blake and The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk.
Favorite book when you were a child:
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.
Your top five authors:
Alice Munro, Iris Murdoch, A.B. Yehoshua, Frederick Buechner and John Updike.
Authors you devour but don't readily admit to:
Lee Child, Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, James Lee Burke.
Book you've faked reading:
The Bible.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Learning to Fall by Philip Simmons.
Book you've bought for the cover:
Extraordinary Chickens by Stephen Green-Armytage.
Book that changed your life:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.
Favorite line from a book:
"The question is not what you look at but what you see."--Henry David Thoreau's Journal.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Book you think you should read next:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
