Margaret Powell - happy out at sea...
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Translator, Language tutor |
| Location | Oban, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | yin and yang, seda/silk and jeans, fire/fuego y agua/water, ... |
| Interests | People, animals (especially cats), languages, landscapes, books, photography, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming, mountain skiing; would like to take up sailing and/or kayaking |
| Favorite movies | Brave, An Inconvenient Truth, La estrategia del caracol, Out of Africa, Amélie de Montmartre, Como agua para chocolate, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, When Harry Met Sally, Le Rayon vert, Cris et chuchotements, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Il Postino, ... |
| Favorite music | Pacomé 2009 -- my middle nephew's CD. Cool stuff! Otherwise, see above; depends on where I am and what I do; jazz (Round Midnight, Green Dolphin Street); The Unusual Suspects; classical: (almost) anything by Louise Farrenc, Sophia Gubaidulina, Chopin, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Felix Mendelssohn, Manuel de Falla, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no. 1, ... |
| Favorite books | In general, ask me about authors: Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Amy Tan, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel García Márquez, Irmtraud Morgner, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Jeremias Gotthelf, Ursula K. LeGuin, Els Jegen, Therese Bichsel, Beryl Bainbridge, ... |