pwatkins1
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Engineering Librarian, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University |
| Location | prescott, arizona, United States |
| Introduction | LibraryLand blogs a second career after a first one in Detroit working the automotive market research and advertising biz. Home is now in northern Arizona, hiking and having fun @ ERAU-Prescott's Hazy Library & Learning Center. |
| Interests | Books, history, music, museums, the world! |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather, Groundhog Day, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Bram Stoker's Dracula, There will be Blood, La Vie en Rose. More recently: Becoming Jane, Rachel Getting Married, Sunshine Cleaning and Slumdog. |
| Favorite music | Far too many musicians to name them all! All-time favorites include: Lou Reed, Alison Kraus/Robert Plant, Motown & old jazz & blues (Robert Johnson). Also U2 & indie songbirds Gillian Welch, Madelaine Peyroux and Ani diFranco. |
| Favorite books | I read LOTS of books every year. Recent memorable ones include "A Thousand Splendid Suns", Amy Chua's excellent, "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall" (2007), Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose (1971),Annie Proulx's fabulous, "The Shipping News" and " Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It " (Joshua C Ramo) |