Rowena
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer/Editor/Reader |
| Location | Coupeville, Washington |
| Introduction | I am a bibliomaniac.I lived with two Scottish Deerhounds and an old cat. In December Oona died and I (and Taz) still miss her very much. Her ashes are buried under the mountain ash with the other deerhounds-my pack. Now, Taz and I are much happier to have Fingal in our pack. I read a lot, write a lot-working away on about the 20th rewrite of two novels about the Battle of Culloden. I like cooking, walking, movies, writing of course, being with my friends. I live on Whidbey Island, surounded by sea and mountains, so much as I love to travel, I love coming home. Oh, yes, and I travel when I can. I've been to Scotland and Belize 5 times, to Morocco, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, and best of all (except Scotland) Italy. I'm always looking for my next destination- and the next book to read. |
| Interests | Bibliomania, Cooking, slow food, The Battle of Culloden, Scottish History, almost any history, Reading, writing, walking, travel, wine, Scotland, history, environment, snorkeling, Belize, Shakespeare, Scottish Deerhounds, organic vegetable gardening, archaeology, genealogy, movies |
| Favorite Movies | The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Up, Julie and Julia, The Third Man, Mama Mia, Bread and Tulips, The Man Who Would Be King, Dangerous Liaisons, The Last Metro, Wages of Fear, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Fargo, Coen Brothers in general, Goya's Ghost, The Curious Story of Benjamin Button, Doubt, In Bruges, I Know Where I'm Going, Pride and Prejudice-the best is still the one with Colin Firth. Emma, with Kate Beckensale, Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson |
| Favorite Music | Folk, blues, opera, bagpipes!, Prokofiev, The Four Seasons, medieval music, Elizbethan music, Kris Kristopherson & Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, The Corries, North Sea Gas, Bessie Smith, early blues |
| Favorite Books | Kate Morton, The Shadow of the Wind, All the Steig Larssen books, Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond and Nicccolo series, Fred Vargas mysteries, Georgiana, Jane Austen, 18thC lit, mysteries, historical novels, NOT bodice rippers, Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Phil Rickman, P. F. Chisholm, George Macdonald Fraser, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Christopher Moore, history, Neil Gunn, John Buchan, Ordinary Wolves, Rosemary Sutcliff, Ian Rankin, George Mackay Brown, Jacobite Spy Wars, Four Seasons in Rome, Ordinary Wolves, Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings, The Little Stranger, Isabel Allende, People of the Book, The Swan Thieves, Janet Evanovich I keep this more up to date in my Bibliomania blog. |
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