Jo
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Accounting |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Mum to two boys, 6 & 4, bookworm, writer, daydreamer and foodie. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, food, travel, natural health. |
| Favorite Movies | Shadowlands, Withnail and I, Kolya, Atonement, The Deer Hunter, Secrets and Lies, Sideways, Lost in Translation, Crash, The Goodbye Girl, Sunset Boulevard, Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Bullets over Broadway, Smoke, There's Something about Mary, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Contact, LA Confidential, Doctor Zhivago, The Fifth Element, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, Fargo, Pan's Labyrinth, Moonstruck, Little Miss Sunshine, Princess Bride, and so many more |
| Favorite Music | Eclectic but love indie; especially Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Verve, Primal Scream, Edwyn Collins, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, early Oasis, Snow Patrol... and I love opera, classical, and some blues. |
| Favorite Books | Beloved, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Birdsong, Mrs Dalloway (and all other Woolf), Love in a Time of Cholera, 100 Years of Solitude, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Colour Purple, Independence Day, Music and Silence, The Blue Afternoon, The New Confessions, Armadillo, Happenstance, The Stone Diaries, Atonement, Eight months on Ghazzah Street, Small World, Espedair Street, The House of the Spirits, The Crow Road, Amrita, Tender is the Night, Master Georgie, Restoration, The Samurai's Garden, Sons and Lovers, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Arthur and George, Song of Solomon, Ruby Fruit Jungle, Possession, The Portrait of a Lady, The Virgin Blue, The Lord of the Rings, Of Human Bondage, A Gathering Light, My Antonia, The Reader, Metroland, A Suitable Boy, The Drowner, The Weight of Water, any Anne Tyler, The Woman in White, Plainsong, The Lovely Bones, The Patron Saint of Liars, On Beauty, Run and so many more. And poetry especially TS Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Alice Walker (to name a few). |
Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?
Got fed up of the freight train's woo-oo-ooing.