Maria
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Location | British Columbia, Canada |
| Introduction | Why Maria the Laughing Hyena? In grade 4 we were watching a nature movie in class and the Hyena came on the screen, I was known to laugh a lot. So someone yelled out hey Maria your distant relatives the Laughing Hyena! And for years after that the boys would call me "Maria the Laughing Hyena" |
| Interests | Food, music, film, theatre, painting, The outdoors, beaches, forests |
| Favorite movies | Girl with a pearl earing, Whale Rider, Water, Stranger then Fiction, Snow Cake, After the Wedding Garden State, Blood Diamond, Pursuit of Happyness, Benny & June, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine, Knights Tale, Sound of Music, Faerie Tale Theatre |
| Favorite music | Country, Blue Rodeo, BarenakedLadies, |
| Favorite books | A Fine Balance, East of Eden, Life of Pi, Secret Life of Bees, Sold, Glass Castle, Poisonwood Bible, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Let the Circle be unbroken, The Tent, The midwife's apprentice, Blankets (Graphic Novel) by Craig Thompson, To Kill and Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, The Flame Tree, Kite Runner, Girl with a pearl earing, Tree Girl, The Cage, Painted Deserts, The Bible, Lonesome Dove, Tuesdays with Morrie, Five people you meet in Heaven, Concubine's Daughter, Complicated Kindness, Forest Gump, My Name is AsherLev ... |