Tout le Monde! & People who, like me, have a fondness for one way streets, and for whom stretching is the first and last activity each day. People who enjoy sun butter and experimental soups.& Leonard Nimoy, of course.
Amelie (like the name of my cat). City of Lost Children. Where the Boys Are. Manchurian Candidate (with Smooth Sinatra and the Lovely Leading Lady Lansbury). Paper Moon. Rebecca (and most other films by Hitchcock). Nightmare on Elm Street. First Love Last Rites. But I'm a Cheerleader. Garden State. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Scream. Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her. Breaking the Waves. Dancer in the Dark. On a Sunday Afternoon. Rambo: First Blood. American Werewolf in London. Little Voice. Everything is Illuminated. MAYA DEREN
Notables:
"The Edible Woman" by Margaret Atwood. "Krazy Kat" and "Great Neck" by Jay Cantor. "The Medium and the Light" by Marshall Mcluhan. "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway. "Dubliners" by James Joyce. "Little Girls Breathe Same Air We Do" by Paul Fournel (translated by Lee Fahnestock). "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margeret Mead. "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood. "Rabbit Redux" and "Licks of Love" by John Updike. "Awakening" by Kate Chopin. "Amsterdam" and "Atonement" by Ian McEwan. "Scripts for the Pagaent" by James Merrill. "The Prometheus Man" and "Blake's Progress" by Ray Nelson. "The Constitution of Society" by Anthony Giddens (sociological theory). "The Art of the Motor." "Fluke." "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See. "The Sea" (the new Booker prize winner) by John Banville. "Pride and Prejudice" trumps "Sense and Sensibility" by far, but both are worth reading (again).
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