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Gender Female
Location Towandaland
Interests GrandChildren, Books, Music, Certified Dish Junkie and I write some
Favorite Movies S&S, P&P, FGT, Betsy's Wedding, Room with a View, Serenity, Anything with Morgan Freeman, Robert Duval, Eric Roberts, Maggie Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Clancy Brown or Ciaran Hinds Any Shakespeare, especially with Emma and Kenneth
Favorite Music Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Goldberg Variations--Glenn Gould, Handel's Water Music, Vivaldi's Seasons, Celtic, Joe Cocker's "Feelin' All Right", Ray Charles, Gregorian Chants, Willie Nelson, Soprano Duets, James Galway, Susan Boyle's "I Had a Dream"
Favorite Books I have a new-found author---Daniel Woodrell, whose words captivated me from the very first page of WINTER'S BONE, and whose phrasings and imagery are the absolute best I've ever read---by anyone. Stark and spare and harsh, or scented with Ozark wildflowers, his books are magical creatures, with a crafting and a read I can't describe. I'm hunting up every book he's ever written, And of course, the old faithful favorites:, Poirot, Miss Marple, Jane Austen, EQMM, AHMM, Sherlock Holmes, Agnes Sligh Turnbull, Zenna Henderson, To Kill A Mockingbird, James Lee Burke, Gladys Taber, Harry Potter, Piers Anthony's Xanth, Mma Ramotswe, Trollope, Ann Rule, Nancy Drew, Maida Books, Fried Green Tomatoes, Florence King, Dean Koontz' Watchers, M.F.K. Fisher, Willie Morris, Eudora Welty, Cross Creek, On Beyond Zebra, The House at Old Vine, Aeronaut's Cryptic Crosswords