Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader… in a series of bullet points.
Physical Features:
Dark Blonde with The Bluest Eye (well, blue eyes, anyway 😉 )
Personality / Attitude:
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and a Deep River, where Here be Dragons
- Perfectly happy to remain Miss Lonelyhearts and a Lonesome Dove
- One of The Warrior Queens, thoroughly familiar with The Art of War
- Catering to Nobody and No Man’s Nightingale
- Plain Speaker with plenty of Resolution, giving others A Test Of Wills and Face Off with them on anything that matters to me, or to ward off an Invasion of Privacy
- However, big On Liberty and generally speaking, ready to give everybody A Place Called Freedom and To Each His Own, and to Let the Great World Spin
- Dreamcatcher, given to Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Flights of the Mind and a Celebration of Being
- Though lately a bit wearied by The Way of the World and therefore occasionally in need of A Place of Safety
- And if something is over or hasn’t worked out: Walk On
Needs:
- Freedom
- A Room of One’s Own
- Silence, and A Time to Keep Silence
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (or to be able to lose myself in The Labyrinth of Solitude)
Obsessions:
- Searching for Shakespeare: Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life (Living in a Shakespearean World)
- Books in general, but particularly The Great Books: This Reader won’t ever forget How Reading Changed My Life from early childhood on
- Cats, Cats, Cats
Other Likes and Loves:
- ars musica and the right combination of Music & Silence
- Moviegoer
- World History: A Dance to the Music of Time
- Journeys of a Lifetime
- My California: There is Nothing Like the Sun, The Sea, The Mountains of California, and my very own L.A. Confidential
- Travel Photography (and photography in general)
- R is for Rose
- Tea at Fortnum & Mason (or at home or, heck, anywhere, actually)
- Whisky in Your Pocket … or preferably, in a tumbler or a Glencairn glass, actually …
By Day:
The Lost Lawyer, in pursuit of A Certain Justice
Random Other Bits:
- A person with two Mother Tongues; the one I was born with (German) and an adopted one (English)
- Zodiac (Western): Libra
