Although my own creative outlet is generally limited to the visual arts (with a few attempts at venturing into writing... generally about art) my first love (my wife would say "obsession") has always been books. The walls of my home are all lined with book shelves. Nearly every room boasts of towering stacks of books which often spill out onto the floors making navagation a real challenge. The scale of my personal collection is such that it can only be refered to as a "library." This library, as might be expected, boasts of a sizable collection of art books... but the heart of my collection is an in-depth collection of Western literature in every genre imaginable: novels and novellas, short stories and other short fiction, poetry, histories, essays, criticism, philosophy, etc...
Beyond my obsession with books and art I am a great fan (as in "fanatic") of classical music and jazz).
