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karen

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About Me


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My Interests

Music:

Current most listened to: Alkaline Trio, Descendents, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Morrissey, Manic Street Preachers, Propaghandi, The Weakerthans, Maxwell

Movies:

Harold and Maude. You don´t get it - you don´t get me :)

Books:

All time favourites: Milan Kundera - The Book of laughter and Forgetting, Banana Yoshimoto - Amrita, Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled, JRR Tolkein, JK Rowling...

Heroes:

"Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes, greater than the illustrious heroes". Victor Hugo

My Blog

Rain

Yesterday I went out for a walk and got absolutely soaked to my skin and loved every minute.  Obviously still happy enough to be back here not to complain about the weather.  A test of my re...
Posted by karen on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:31:00 PST

Reading Club

Just joined a reading club - more of an excuse to crack open a bottle or few of wine but I need no excuse to do that or crack open books so seem well suited to the idea.  First book on list was V...
Posted by karen on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:18:00 PST

Back in Scotland

Okay - am now back in the UK after lots of gallivanting abroad and am still pretty sure I've made the right decision.  Aberdeen is beginning to get dark, cold, and miserable so I'm hunkering...
Posted by karen on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:16:00 PST