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My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | New England, MA, United States |
| Introduction | This is not a blog to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. |
| Interests | french things, movies, plays, museums, history, ancient rome, books on ancient rome, british comedy, books, music, style, cooking, traveling, dandies, cake eaters, flappers, vintage everything, antiquing, dancing, taking insanely long walks a la flâneurism, interior design and decor & the usual oddities. And blind gossip items. |
| Favorite music | Every thing from Frederic Chopin to The Sex Pistols. |
| Favorite books | "Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Anaïs Nin, Dorothy Parker, Jean Rhys, Henry Miller, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Colette, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Anna Kavan, Iris Murdoch, Evelyn Waugh, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Sookie Stackhouse books, Agatha Christie, many many more writers and books!!! I adore atheistic Russian novels read during the long winters by the fire with copious amounts of tea. |