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Gender | Female |
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Industry | Communications or Media |
Occupation | Bookseller/Writer |
Location | Medina, Ohio, United States |
Introduction | I'm a bookseller/writer, passionate about what I do and grateful to be doing it these past 17 years. My business is Garrison House Books (www.garrisonhousebooks.com), a shared endeavor with my husband of 41 years, Eric, and the spirit of our bookshop cat, Mickey, a handsome tortoiseshell tabby and reformed street thug who is dearly missed. The photo accompanying this was taken in April, 2012 at the Akron Antiquarian Book Fair. |
Interests | Bookselling, book collecting, writing, interior design, altered books, collage, cooking, New York Times crossword, dancing, being Gran to my cute boys Tyler and Dylan the Lost Generation, Elbert Hubbard |
Favorite movies | Capote, You've Got Mail, Monsoon Wedding, Miss Potter, 84 Charing Cross Road, Midnight In Paris, The Marigold Hotel |
Favorite music | Mo-town, other sixties oldies, some opera, jazz, traditional Irish, Etta James |
Favorite books | European travel memoirs, books about books, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Tyler, Wally Lamb, May Sarton, Richard Halanga, Richard Russo, the occasional Mary Kay Andrews for fun, An Illuminated Life -- the biography of Belle da Costa Greene; |
What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?
Merry Abandon