About ShildeInMn

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

Home Region:
USA :: Minnesota :: Twin Cities

Age:51

Favorite novels: 100 Years of Solitude, Bel Canto, The Ties That Bind, The Kite Runner, Red Azalea, Oh My Stars, The Cape Ann, Emma, Persuasion, Great Expecations, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, and the occasional regency romance novel.

Favorite writers: Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Lorna Landvik, Hemingway, Austen, Dickens, Victoria Holt. Poets Louise Gluck, Billy Collins

Favorite music: The low-pitched hum of a coffee shop, movie sound tracks,songs without words, quiet

Non-noveling interests: Travel, far (Asia) and near (Duluth). All things cats. Going to movies. TV: "Glee" (that show is GENIUS!) "LOST" (an obsession), "CSI" and other assorted cop shows. "Desperate Housewives."