Carole
My blogs
| Occupation | former teacher/academic; now, writer-researcher. |
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| Location | Devon, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Reclusive, writing, reading, researching, reviewing, walking, mountaineering, yoga-ing, sewing, painting,feminist, atheist and assumption-hating,former working-class teacher/academic, now not earning a living as a Devon-based writer-researcher. |
| Interests | Reading-writing-research, walking-mountaineering-yoga, sewing-design-painting, poetry-film-music |
| Favorite movies | Don't Look Now,The Reader,Some Like it Hot,Missing,There Will Be Blood,Fargo ... . |
| Favorite music | World Music, trad Irish, Scottish etc folk music; adore Dick Gaughan; have not added anything to my likes list for ages, most recent: Martha Wainright, Fleet Foxes; don't like v popular stuff, but find it impossible to stay aware. Otherwise, like early, classical, romantic etc. music, but I'm hopeless at remembering and just not very musical. |
| Favorite books | Recent: Darkmans,Maps for Lost Lovers,The Wasted Vigil,Love and Summer,Wolf Hall,Brooklyn,The Road ... ; older: The Master The Biographer's Tale Earthly Powers The Siege of Krishnapur ... ; much older: Jane Eyre Villette Wuthering Heights Persuasion P&P Vanity Fair. Also anything by George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Alice Munro, Shirley Hazzard, Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Mansfield and more ... (short stories) |