I am a scientist who believes in giving the right side of my brain regular exercise. Writing technical (hopefully non-fiction) articles for scholarly journals is part of my daily life. I am used to, and appreciate the value of, critical reviews. My writing has been rejected more times than it has been accepted, and I learn more from the rejections. So keep the reviews on my fan fiction coming please! Reading has always been my favorite past time, and my bookshelves contain an eclectic mix. I enjoy mystery, fantasy, westerns, classics, and espionage. I tend to think of an entire series as a single book. So to my mind, Harry Potter should be read as a 7 chapter book with multiple sub-chapters. I own an ebook reader, but feel sensory deprivation every time I use it. I can see the words, but I miss the smell of a book that has aged gracefully, the sound of pages rustling drying and the crackling of a well broken in spine, and the feel of the rough textured pages in my hands. For the record, I don't taste my books.