About Me
- I’m studying English and French at the University of Virginia.
- My ideal job: travel and write.
- I am a Francophile.
- I read The Catcher in the Rye in 4th grade, when doing so wasn’t a total cliché.
- I think so-called children’s literature, such as Roald Dahl, is some of the best.
- I started a Controversial Book Alliance at my high school with some friends. We wanted to start a book club, but one that people would actually attend. Suffice to say we had some great discussions.
- I actually LIKE reading (and writing) poetry.
- I don’t understand people who "don’t read."
- I think English teachers are some of the best people in the world. I hope to marry one some day.
Top 5 Books I’ll Never Forget
In no particular order:
-Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
-Seducing the Demon, Erica Jong
-Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
-100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and of course:
-The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Other interests besides reading
Writing (poetry, personal essays, reviews, and fiction), dance (ballroom, ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop), music, art, all things delicious, sitting in coffeehouses, traveling, and people-watching.
Favorite quotes by writers:
"Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde." (Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do harm to the world. )
--Voltaire
"Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie."
--Stephen King
"The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History."
--Derek Walcott
Why you love UL
The best of the book world from smart ladies who tell it like it is—what’s not to love?
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