Marianne
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Paris, France |
| Introduction | An English twenty-something swaps Austen for Baudelaire, Heat for Paris Match and curry for cassoulet. |
| Interests | England, France, French, Italy, Italian, cooking, eating, reading, writing, French cinemas, East Anglia, pebble beaches, Scots Pines, long walks, swimming in the sea, warming up afterwards, clean sheets, landscapes, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, twenty questions, scattergories, Dogtanian, celebrities, blogs, tights, textiles, portraits, thinking of good names for future but as yet non-existent dogs / children, schnauzers, poodles, schnoodles, the word schnoodle |
| Favorite Movies | Kind Hearts and Coronets, Annie Hall, Everyone Says I love you, Oedipus Wrecks, The 400 Blows, Groundhog Day, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Bicycle Thief, Badlands, All About Eve, The Birdcage, Wonder Boys, The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, The Big Lebowski, Babette's Feast, Crin Blanc, Les Enfants du Paradis, Escape to Witch Mountain, Herbie Goes Bananas, This is Spinal Tap, most Carry Ons, I like good films but I also enjoyed While You Were Sleeping so I sometimes question my critical abilities. |
| Favorite Music | Tom Petty, MC Hammer |
| Favorite Books | Sense and Sensibility, all Austen, The Great Gatsby, Catch 22, On The Road, A Moveable Feast, Love in the Time of Cholera, Mrs Dalloway, The Awakening, My Antonia, Love in a Cold Climate, Midnight's Children, The Thought Gang, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Films in My Life, David Copperfield, A Prayer for Owen Meany, most John Irving, The Catcher in the Rye, American Pastoral, all Philip Roth, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Paul Auster, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy's poetry, Augie March, The Sportswriter, Brideshead Revisited, Tintin, The Famous Five, I Capture the Castle, Cold Comfort Farm, Marianne Dreams |
Try writing your name with your other hand. Where was that person raised?
I'm ambidextrous. Nice try though.