Viola Larson

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Writer
Location Where the delta breezes blow at the end of hot days, Northern California, Sacramento, California
Introduction Writer, Lover of books, interested in the history of intellectual and religious ideas, tend with love gardens, grandchildren and great grandchildren. My husband, Brad, is a retired Steinway Piano tuner. We live in a hundred year old house that always needs repairs.
Favorite Movies So many: "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, The Spitfire Grill, Proof, The Lost City, To Sleep with Anger, Trip to Bountiful, Local Hero, etc., etc, and oh yes the best movie on Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, Hanged On A Twisted Cross. And a new movie done with a hand held camera, "Once."
Favorite Music Classic, hymns, folk
Favorite Books Where do I begin: All of C.S. Lewis, The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams, short stories "The River" and "Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor, The Samurai by Shusaku Endo, The Cancer Ward & One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Brideshead Revisited & The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Eveyn Waugh. All of the Puritan writers: the best, The Fountian of Life by John Flavel.