Miss Havisham

Favorites: "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov; "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens;"The House of Sleep" by Jonathan Coe; "The Death of Vishnu" by Manil Suri; "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk; "The Pet Goat" by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner; the Inspector Rebus series by Ian Rankin; "Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgeman; "A Place of Execution" by Val McDermid; the Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn series by Tony Hillerman. *****Books read so far this year: "Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra; "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke; "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan; "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel; "May's New Fangled Mirth" by Mary Jo Adamson; "The Bad Girl" by Mario Vargas Llosa; "Changing Light" by Nora Gallagher; "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory.

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Flight of the Conchords, The Sopranos, Big Love, In Therapy

Maine, Montreal, New York City, Flagstaff, Tuba City, Madawaska, Yorkshire Dales, Isle of Skye

reading, politics, gardening, cooking, writing.

world peace ( just like Miss America) and a pair of saddle shoes.

Miss Havisham knows crazy when she sees it ... after all, she is Miss Havisham.

liberal

agnostic (aka cowardly athiest)

myself -- I freelance

McGill University, Montreal