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| Occupation | Free lance in international mobility |
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| Location | Near Paris, France |
| Introduction | Is this an existential question ? A rhetorical one ? Or is it one of those tricky ones from a corporate handbook on how to fuck up your employees by asking them questions and telling them they've given the wrong answer ? |
| Interests | Books, books, books, cooking, books, knitting, reading, eating, literature, family, friends, books, art and, dare I mention it, reading. |
| Favorite movies | The City of Lost Children, Monsters Inc, Some Like It Hot, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, LIP L'Imagination au Pouvoir, In Her Shoes, Erin Brockovich, Payback, Get Shorty, The Big Lebowski, Nell, My Left Foot, Vera Drake, MIB |
| Favorite music | BB King, Santana, Genesis (but only when Peter Gabriel was the singer), Portishead, Tracy Chapman, Ben Harper, Gorillaz, loads of classical stuff, some blues, some of this, some of that, have been known to hum Elvis Presley.... |
| Favorite books | Here are the authors who come to mind right now and one book chosen for each even if I like more than one : Terry Pratchett (Small Gods), Ed McBain (Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man), Julie Smith (New Orleans Mourning), Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin), Jane Gardam (The Queen of the Tambourine), Alistair Reynolds (Century Rain), Neil Gaiman (American Gods), Zadie Smith (The Autograph Man), Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), Jane Austen (Persuasion), Anthony Trollope (Doctor Thorne), Joanna Trollope (Marrying the Mistress), Mary Wesley (The Vacillations of Poppy Carew), Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible), Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance), Alexandre Dumas (The Black Tulip) and I could go on and on and on (and usually do)! |