Sherry Truffle
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| Gender | Female |
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| Introduction | I'm a 38-year-old freelance writer living and working in rural France |
| Interests | I love baking, making birthday cakes, experimenting with new recipes, cooking for Christmas and celebrations, horse-riding, working with horses, particularly training youngsters, generally being outdoors, being dafty with my kids, hearing a good joke, reading, laughing, eating, drinking, feeding friends, loved ones and often complete strangers, and spending long evenings around a rowdy table in good company |
| Favorite Movies | West Side Story, South Pacific, Birdy, The Deerhunter, A Room with a View, Hair, Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Luc Besson’s Leon, The Fifth Element, Taxi (fantastic!), Trois couleurs – especially Bleu, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Les amants du pont-neuf, The English Patient, Shine - the one with Geoffrey Rush (I love him!), East is East, Secrets and Lies, Billy Elliot, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, Paris Texas, The Piano, An Angel at My Table, A Life Less Ordinary, La vita es bella, Cinema paradiso, Il postino, Volver, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Chaplin, Romancing the Stone, The Great Escape, Mystery Train, The Shipping News, K-Pax, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, the new Edith Piaff film - fantastic! The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and The Lives of Others |
| Favorite Music | Where to start... james, Tracey Thorn, Martha Wainwright, Kate Bush, Radiohead, U2, Japan, Martin Stephenson, Bloc Party, Paul Weller, Elvis Costello, Badly Drawn Boy, Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini, The Killers, The Rakes, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, Ryan Adams, Josh Rouse, Damien Rice, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Moby, White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Zutons, and my old faves The Waterboys, Hothouse Flowers, Blur, The Beatles, The Clash, Elvis and Abba |
| Favorite Books | Cookbooks in general... Fiction: DH Lawrence (all-time fave), John Fowles (The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman), Thomas Hardy (especially Tess, Far From Madding Crowd), Milan Kundera, Sebastian Faulkes (Birdsong and Girl at the Lion d'Or especially), Ben Okri, Michael Ondaatje, Maya Angelou, Isabel Allende, Doris Lessing, Amy Tan, Primo Levi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby... I love poems too, especially Yeats, Heaney, Neruda, Lorca, Eluard, Rumi, Tagore, Gibran, Ponge, Ted Hughes, Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine... |