Madeleine
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer and literacy tutor |
| Location | Livermore, California, United States |
| Introduction | If I could eat books I would, but I can't, so I eat other things instead. |
| Interests | reading, writing, baking, cooking, knitting, my daughter, my husband, my cats, quiet |
| Favorite movies | Gosford Park, Tombstone, Lord of the Rings (all 3), The Thin Man, Possession, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Clue, Granada Sherlock Holmes series, |
| Favorite music | Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Django Reinhardt, Tchaichovsky's ballets, Prokofiev, The Ditty Bops, k.d. lang, Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner, Loreena McKennitt, Inga Swearingan, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Morphine |
| Favorite books | Dracula by Bram Stoker, Possession by A.S. Byatt, Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter, Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Cassandra by Christa Wolf, Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillian by J.R.R. Tolkien, I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan, The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters, The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper, The French Chef by Julia Child (my grandmother's edition), Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, All of Kelly Link's short story collections, Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
Oh, but it can be a fish... and it is.