Sigrid Macdonald
- Age: 56
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Publishing
- Occupation: writer/editor
- Location: Ottawa : Ontario : Canada
About Me
Originally from New Jersey, I'm a book coach, the author of two books and a book editor.
Interests
- Politics
- social issues
- music
- theater
- walking
- comedy clubs
- concerts
- spanish movies (esp. pedro almodovar and guillermo de torres)
Favorite Movies
- Crash
- Dr. Zhivago
- Taxi Driver
- Hotel Rwanda
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Pulp Fiction
- Godfather
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Forrest Gump
- Streetcar Named Desire
- Ordinary People
- Walk the Line
- Alfred Hitchcock especially Rear Window
- the Birds
- and Psycho; early Woody Allen (e.g. Annie Hall and Manhattan). Comedy with Hugh Grant and Steve Martin. Anything with Will Smith
- Robin Williams
- Kate Winslet
- Meryl Streep and Kevin Spacey. Really love Pedro Almovodar (Bad Education
- Volver
- Y Tu Mama
- Tambien and Motorcycle Diaries.)
Favorite Music
- James Blunt
- The Killers
- The Wreckers
- The Fray
- Sam Roberts Band
- Green Day
- Kid Rock
- Eminem
- Stutter
- Rob Thomas
- Matchbox Twenty
- Sheryl Crow
- Jann Arden
- Nelly Furtado
- Snow Patrol
- Shakira
- Eric Clapton
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Jeff Healey band (RIP
- baby!)
- Nickelback
- Jet
- Gin Blossoms
- Coldplay
- Elton John
- Norah Jones
- Sugar Ray
- Natalie Merchant and 10
- 000 Maniacs
Favorite Books
- Salinger
- Updike
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Philip Roth
- Ann Rice (esp. the Lestat series)
- Ann Rule
- Jodi Picoult (esp. My Sister's Keeper)
- Barbara Gowdy
- Wally Lamb
- Harper Lee
- Harlan Coben
- Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes and Teacher Man)
- Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner and a Thousand Splendid Suns)
- Mary Lawson (Crow Lake
- the Other Side of the Bridge)
- Stephen King
- Doris Lessing
- Bill Maher
- Stephen Colbert
- Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point
- Outliers)
- Levin and Dubner (Freakonomics)
- Christopher Hitchens
- Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion). Just finished My Life by Bill Clinton
- Her Way
- a bio about Hillary and Godless by Ann Coulter. And I've read all the Harry Potter books and everything by Ayn Rand twice.
