About anamericaninoxford

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Home Region:
Europe :: England :: Oxfordshire

Age:23

Favorite novels: Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Jane Eyre, Cranford, North and South, Ivanhoe, The Once and Future King, Beowulf, Candide, Utopia, Le Morte d'Arthur, The Canterbury Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Cyrano de Bergerac, Robinson Crusoe, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Book of Lost Things, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Other Boleyn Girl, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Dune, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, The Mists of Avalon, The Earthsea Cycle, The Abhorsen Trilogy, Rhiannon's Ride, Crown Duel, The Bartimeus Trilogy, Shield of Three Lions, 1984, The Giver, Anne of Green Gables, Spindle's End, The Princess Bride, A Well-Timed Enchantment, The Little House on the Prairie, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Redwall, Watership Down, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Peter Pan, The Edge Chronicles, Muddle Earth...the list is virtually endless.

Favorite writers: William Shakespeare, John Donne, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bill Bryson, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Tennyson, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Gregory, Garth Nix, Juliet Marillier, Robin McKinley, Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell, Shel Silverstein...oh, so many.

Favorite music: Various instrumental soundtracks and classical.

Non-noveling interests: Reading and writing non-novels. ;o) Music, photography, nature, travel, swimming, history, psychology, education.