Laurie Tobenkin
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I have a BA in English from UCLA and a Master's Degree in English Literature from CSUF. In addition to teaching AP Literature and SAS Honors English at Hollywood High, I teach a rotating variety of English courses at two local community colleges. |
| Interests | Reading, movies, hiking, plays, creative writing, yoga, drawing, meditation |
| Favorite Movies | Magnolia, Harold and Maude, The Lives of Others, The Hurt Locker, The Rapture, Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain, I Am Love, The White Ribbon, Face to Face, Prime Suspect (PBS series), Breaking the Waves |
| Favorite Music | Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Johnny Flynn, Bright Eyes, The Mountain Goats, Joan Armatrading, Conor Oberst, Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes, Ryan Adams, Cake, Monsters of Folk, Mumford and Sons, Rodney Crowell, Cat Power |
| Favorite Books | A partial list, and in no particular order: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, Lightness in August, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Atonement, Saturday, Lolita, Pale Fire, The Hours, A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Great Gatsby, Still Kids, Middlemarch, Garnethill Trilogy, Millennium Trilogy, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Franny and Zooey, Harriet the Spy, A Little Princess, Little Women, The Handmaid's Tale, The Things They Carried, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, Kurt Wallander Series, The Night of the Hunter, Olive Kitteridge, Mrs. Dalloway, Lonesome Dove, The Exception, The Road, On Beauty, Never Let Me Go, The Memory of Running, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Vagabond, Out, American Pastoral, Disquiet, The House of Mirth |