After being found as an infant crawling among old and dusty books in an abandoned library, Kimberly Richardson grew up to be an eccentric woman with a taste for listening to dark cabaret music while drinking tea, reading books in every genre ...
Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Graham Joyce, Ian McEwan, Charles deLint, JK Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alison Lurie, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima, Alice Waler, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Dan Simmons, Larry Brown, Paco Alhgren, Simon Van Booy, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Barry Unsworth, and many others!
Favorite Books
A Tale of Two Cities, Flowers in the Attic, And Then There Were None, the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, Love Begins In Winter, all books by Clive Barker, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, all books by Harlan Coben, all books by Charles deLint, The Mentor's Gift, Women Who Run With the Wolves, all books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Thin Place, The Corrections, American Gods, Neverwhere, Roots, Lord of the Flies, all books by Laura Joh Rowland, the Harry Potter series, The Human Stain, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Franny and Zoey, Catcher in the Rye, Eaters of the Dead, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, The Alchemist, A Miracle of Catfish, Big Bad Love, and many, many, many more . . . .
This is the poem that inspired Joanne Harris' novel Sleep, Pale Sister: She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh'd The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our mother, who had leaned all day Over the bed from chime to chime, Then raised herself for the first time, And as she sat her ...
Gothic Literature has a special place in my heart; I truly enjoy reading books filled with mystery and suspense with a touch of the macabre, foreboding castles and manors, and long buried secrets rising to the surface like a skeletal hand poking from its grave. Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris is an excellent example of said genre; she weaves a dark story using the ...
To those who have never attended a prep or boarding school, the thought of it may seem foreign and shrouded behind a veil of secrecy, while others who have attended may take it for granted, claiming it to be a natural part of their inner world. When I attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, a part of me felt I belonged there since I was and still am a lover of all things academia. Although some ...
