Josephine Damian

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Writer
• Location: Location: Mentally - On the dark side : Physically - Somewhere in sunny Florida : United States

About Me

My blog banner pretty much says it all - but do check out my profile for a list of books I highly recommend.

Interests

• Chocolate
• Chess
• Corpses
• Cats
• The Criminal Mind

Favorite Movies

• The Third Man
• Laura
• Doctor Zhivago
• Out of Africa
• Harold and Maude
• Strangers on a Train
• Rear Window
• Gloria (original version)
• Reds
• Raging Bull
• Amadeus
• The Age of Innocence
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Eve's Bayou
• Fight Club
• The Apostle
• 25th Hour
• House of Flying Daggers
• Hustle and Flow
• Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
• Garden State

Favorite Music

• U2
• Miles Davis
• Jill Scott
• Sade
• Indigo Girls
• Steely Dan
• David Bowie
• Cat Stevens
• Joni Mitchell
• Chicago
• Peter Frampton
• Bruce Springsteen
• Fleetwood Mac
• Boz Scaggs
• Prince
• Diana Krall
• Eva Cassidy
• Dave Matthews
• Incognito
• Maysa
• Beyonce
• Jamie Cullum
• John Mayer
• Mary J. Blige
• Kelly Clarkson
• Daughtry
• Mozart

Favorite Books

• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
• The Professor's House - Willa Cather
• The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
• Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
• The Alienist - Caleb Carr
• Loitering with Intent - Murial Spark
• Turn Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell
• Lying Awake - Mark Salzman
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
• The Wings of the Wind - Ronald Hardy
• Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
• The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Grand Complication - Allen Kurzweil
• Kill Me First - Kate Morganroth (I dare you to put this one down once you start)
• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
• The Music Lesson - Katherine Weber
• Light of Falling Stars - J. Robert Lennon
• Harbor - Lorraine Adams
• The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
• Embers - Sandor Marai
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
• The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland Headlong - Michael Frayn My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - Thad Carhart