Semaphore
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Books. Lots of 'em. |
| Interests | Things past, photography, gentle academia, travel, books |
| Favorite movies | When Harry Met Sally, Pirates of the Carribean, Master and Commander, West Side Story, Empire Records, The Dish, The Sound of Music, Good Night and Good Luck, Some Like It Hot, Romeo and Juliet (Baz Lurrhman's version), Muppet Treasure Island, Gosford Park, Volver, The History Boys (although the play is better...), Three Colours: Blue, Enchanted, Cruel Intentions, Top Hat |
| Favorite music | Richard Strauss, Puccini (especially La Boheme), Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Radiohead, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, The Beatles, Cajun Dance Party, Bombay Bicycle Club, Franz Ferdinand, Patrick Wolf, Regina Spektor, Sia, Portishead, The Maccabees, Nina Simone, Billie Holliday, M.I.A, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Juanes, Tinariwen, Otis Redding |
| Favorite books | The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy), Coming Home (Rosamund Pilcher), Middlemarch (George Eliot), His Dark Materials (Phillip Pullman), The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets (Eva Rice), Georgia Nicholson Series (Louise Rennison), Elegance (Kathleen Tessaro), I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith), Harry Potter (JKR), Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Swallows and Amazons series (Arthur Ransome), Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman), Writing Home, and Untold Stories (Alan Bennett), anything by Terry Pratchett, The Female Eunuch (Germaine Greer), Friday's Child (Georgette Heyer), The Nanny (Melissa Nathan) |