I am a lifelong reader.  I read everything from science fiction to romance.  If it's a good read I am going to read it.  I love poetry, sizzling romance, paranormal and of course murder.  However, if it doesn't grab me in the first chapter it's a wrap. One of my first character book-romances was Sherlock Holmes.  And of course who doesn't love a little spy-romance-murder novel? 

If I ever make it our of grad school, I will surely start writing my own  novel.