Melanie Hooks
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer & Editor |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Favorite Movies | Room with a View, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Money Pit, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Women, Romancing the Stone, Kiss Me Kate, Ball of Fire, Fellowship of the Ring, Star Wars (the original 3), About a Boy, My Fair Lady, Sixteen Candles, Better Off Dead, Castaway, Howards End, Sense & Sensibility, Emma, Pride & Prejudice (all of them), Possession, Airplane!, Anchorman, Much Ado about Nothing, Henry V, and many, many more... |
| Favorite Music | Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, classic torch singers and songs, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Alanis Morisette, Sarah MacLaughlan, Dixie Chicks, big band, rug-cutter swing, rockabilly, steel guitar country, Chuck Berry through the Beatles, a little disco for fun, a classic funk groove, the modern jazz women of wonder - Jill Scott, Cassandra Wilson, Lizz Wright, the list goes on -, skateboard 80s tunes, movie scores from Star Wars to Shrek, reinvented punk & ska, Old Country Irish fiddling; in short, this chick likes to dance and/or sing along whenever possible. |
| Favorite Books | Again, far too many for one tiny space: classics - Room with a View, Howards End, MacBeth, How Green Was My Valley, The Mabinogian, Lewis Carroll, Judy Blume, Madeline L’Engle, and The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; comedy - Dorothy Parker quips, Christopher Moore novels, P.G. Wodehouse, Edward Gorey, Douglas Adams & Shel Silverstein everything; sci-fi/fantasy - Tolkien, Garth Nix's Sabriel series, the big HP, assorted Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman; sheer beauty and joy - Roald Dahl, Isabel Allende and Han Nolan; tie for the creepiest, tingliest books ever, both featuring lost children - Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly |