Favorite Books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Green Mile, Teacher Man, Getting Over Jack Wagner, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Middlesex, The Glass Castle

Favorite Genres: Negative Utopia/Distopian, Sci-Fi, Biography, Memoir

Favorite Quotes: "I didn't call myself anything. I was more than a teacher. And less. In the high school classroom you are a drill sergeant, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookkeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw." -Frank McCourt, 'Teacher Man'