Katie E.
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Grad Student |
| Location | Provo, UT, United States |
| Introduction | My life (and consequently my blog) is dominated by books, music, movies, and faith. I belong in academia, and I am grateful to BYU for recognizing this and affording me the opportunity to persue a master's in English--step one in my quest to be The Coolest Professor of British Modernism EVER! I am currently The Coolest Young Spinster EVER and will continue to be such until Providence directs otherwise. |
| Interests | British Modernism, Great Britain, Literature, History, Literary Theory, Music, Psychology, Cooking, Yoga, Dance (tap and modern), good movies, art, museums, people, becoming a better person. |
| Favorite movies | Movie of the moment: (500) Days of Summer, It Might Get Loud. Young Family Classics: Forget Paris, French Kiss, IQ, Moonstruck, Young Frankenstein, Uncle Buck, Surf Ninjas, Big Trouble in Little China, McClintock,The Quiet Man, The Trouble with Harry, and The Philadelphia Story. Two movies I have claimed as favorites: Miracle, Good Night and Good Luck. |
| Favorite music | Janis Joplin, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, Garbage, The Foo Fighters, Interpol, Patsy Cline, Kate Nash. |
| Favorite books | This is always been so hard. I appreciate a lot of things--some as great pieces of literature, others as great pieces of genre fiction or as horribly-written, masterful examinations of the human condition. So, yea, here goes: Virginia Woolf's-- especially "A Room of One's Own," To the Lighthouse, and The Years, (and her short story "Lapin and Lapinova"), Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime, Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories, The Grapes of Wrath, Madeleine L'Engle's Crosswicks Journals, Amy Tan's--especially The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Kitchen God's Wife, A Christmas Carol--the book is better, and funnier, than any movie, My anthologies-- especially the criticism one, My usage dictionaries, My style guides, The Bell Jar, And others. I own over 200 books. Choosing favorites is a problem. The above is really only a start. |