New girl
I just joined this community... I feel embarrassed about how excited I got when I found it though!
Here's some stuff about me for anyone who is interested.
Name: Lorelei
Age: 25
Location: USA
Occupation: student. I'm heading into my senior year of college (I took a few years off). My major is English Lit with a minor in Psych.
My interests are: singing, reading, writing, acting, dancing. I move to California next year to pursue acting. But for now I am finishing up some of my songs on my computer, hoping I can get a band together out west. I will probably get my master's in California in Psychology.
Some of my favorite books/authors:
Bukowski
Hemingway, esp. Sun Also Rises
Iyanla Vanzant
Virginia Woolf, esp. Orlando
Neruda
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky, esp. Brothers Karamazov
Bradbury, esp. Dandelion Wine
Lahiri, I loved Interpreter of Maladies
Cisneros, House on Mango Street
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Oh, and I saw that Meme below and filled one out too.
Two childhood books you read that you loved: The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye and Matilda by Dahl
Two books that you just couldn't put down: Wasted by Marya Hornbacher and DaVinci Code by Brown
Two books that you couldn't finish: I can't stand not to finish a book. Right now I'm moving too slowly through Letters From Prison by Gramsci so I'll use that one.
Two books that gave you nightmares: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury and Story of the Eye by Bataille
Two books that you've intended to read for years: Brief History of Time by Hawking and The Bible (yeah I know that's bad)
Two books that made you cry at the end: All Marilyn bios do... I always want her to not die but it never ends up that way. Brothers Karamazov I cried... oh! and definitely The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace
Two books that made you laugh til you cried: Me Talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris and any Bukowski book.
Two books that have changed the way you think: Gosh, a lot of them do this. I'd say Hesse's Siddhartha, Bach's Illusions, Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Neruda's Twenty Love Poems... I should stop there.
Two books that disappointed you: She's Come Undone by Lamb - I liked it but in the end I just wanted something MORE! Blonde by Oates - it is completely just Oates winding around and pretending she's inside the head of Marilyn Monroe; she doesn't adhere to any fact or any of Marilyn's actual qualities... it's a f*ing insult.
Well that was fun!
Glad to be here!
~LL
Here's some stuff about me for anyone who is interested.
Name: Lorelei
Age: 25
Location: USA
Occupation: student. I'm heading into my senior year of college (I took a few years off). My major is English Lit with a minor in Psych.
My interests are: singing, reading, writing, acting, dancing. I move to California next year to pursue acting. But for now I am finishing up some of my songs on my computer, hoping I can get a band together out west. I will probably get my master's in California in Psychology.
Some of my favorite books/authors:
Bukowski
Hemingway, esp. Sun Also Rises
Iyanla Vanzant
Virginia Woolf, esp. Orlando
Neruda
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky, esp. Brothers Karamazov
Bradbury, esp. Dandelion Wine
Lahiri, I loved Interpreter of Maladies
Cisneros, House on Mango Street
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Oh, and I saw that Meme below and filled one out too.
Two childhood books you read that you loved: The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye and Matilda by Dahl
Two books that you just couldn't put down: Wasted by Marya Hornbacher and DaVinci Code by Brown
Two books that you couldn't finish: I can't stand not to finish a book. Right now I'm moving too slowly through Letters From Prison by Gramsci so I'll use that one.
Two books that gave you nightmares: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury and Story of the Eye by Bataille
Two books that you've intended to read for years: Brief History of Time by Hawking and The Bible (yeah I know that's bad)
Two books that made you cry at the end: All Marilyn bios do... I always want her to not die but it never ends up that way. Brothers Karamazov I cried... oh! and definitely The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace
Two books that made you laugh til you cried: Me Talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris and any Bukowski book.
Two books that have changed the way you think: Gosh, a lot of them do this. I'd say Hesse's Siddhartha, Bach's Illusions, Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Neruda's Twenty Love Poems... I should stop there.
Two books that disappointed you: She's Come Undone by Lamb - I liked it but in the end I just wanted something MORE! Blonde by Oates - it is completely just Oates winding around and pretending she's inside the head of Marilyn Monroe; she doesn't adhere to any fact or any of Marilyn's actual qualities... it's a f*ing insult.
Well that was fun!
Glad to be here!
~LL