My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Occupation	Retired social services administrator (foster care & adoption)
Location	Santa Monica, California, United States
Introduction	I regret that I have but one life to spend reading.
Interests	Writing, reading, music, cooking, eating, thinking about travel, thinking about living on a farm, thinking about Washington State.
Favorite movies	The Dresser, Zulu, Apocalypse Now, Annie Hall, The Philadelphia Story, The Third Man, Blade Runner, The Birds, La Dolce Vita.
Favorite books	Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide, The Golden Bowl by Henry James, The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch, Turn Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell, A Heart for the Gods of Mexico by Conrad Aiken, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, The House of Breath by William Goyen, The Victim by Saul Bellow, The Recognitions by William Gaddis. I could go on but I don't want to be obnoxious.