Last month, just before the new year began, I drove north to the kibbutz where I was born, on the shores of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).

This NYT piece takes a different angle—Jane Austen's relationship with music. It got me thinking about my own musical choices, particularly the soundtrack that weaves through my first book, Crunching Her Numbers.

Do you remember the game Two Truths and a Lie? I last played it a few years ago in Nepal, in a town called Pokhara.