shelgo
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Location | Kailua, Hawaii, United States |
| Introduction | The life examined; Isaiah 1:17; writing, literature, art & film with an ounce of pretension; sitting at the Lanikai pillboxes during sunrise; hipchecking other girls on the roller derby track; black and white paisley prints; wikipedia-ing everything I'd like to learn more about; an etude, a symphony; a McCullers' kind of brooding; duende; punctuation; being the change; being next to people I love. |
| Interests | Making lists. Feeling organized. |
| Favorite movies | Good cinema. |
| Favorite music | Have a penchant for indies & singer/songwriter types, and when I say I like variety, that's not an empty phrase. I know what's good, and I'm always looking. |
| Favorite books | "Brothers of Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky... "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho... "Jane Eyre" by C. Bronte... "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook for the Innocent, The Eager, and the Doomed" by Gordon... works by C.S. Lewis... "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Nafisi... works by Thomas Merton... "Summa Theologica" by St. Thomas Aquinas... works by V. Woolfe... "Grapes of Wrath" by Steinback... "Beloved" by Toni Morrison... "No Telephone to Heaven" by Cliff... "The Middleman & Other Stories" by Mukherjee... "Como Agua Para Chocolate" by Esquivel... works by David Sedaris... "Bell Jar" by Plath... "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Pirsig... "Nietzsche in Turin" by Chamberlain..."City of God" by Doctorow... "Guns, Germs & Steel" by Diamond... Post-Colonial Reader(s)... "Northanger Abbey" & "Mansfield Park" by Austen... and the favorites' list details longer, but I'll stop there for now. And poets, you ask? Works by Sharon Olds, Hilda Doolittle, Adrienne Rich, Ted Kooser, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Rita Dove, Jack Gilbert, Saadi Youssef, (e.e. cummings since we share same birthdate; Randall Jarrell since he died on my birthdate), Czeslaw Milosz, Jelaluddin Rumi, and my friend, Katrina Outland... |