Books

  • Favorite Books: Rebecca, All the Kings Men, The Things they Carried, Suspect Relations, Kindred, Needful things, Peace Like a River, Things Fall Apart, The Giver, Wish You Well, Gone with the Wind, Candide, Winesburg Ohio, The Prince, Harry Potter, Ishmael, The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Sorrow of War, Ethan Frome, Spare Parts, Bless Me Ultima, White Boy Shuffle, The Awakening, The Thanatos Syndrome, Sam's Letters to Jennifer, The Notebook, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Favorite Quotes: " 'Why do you love him when you ought not to?'... 'Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because--' 'Because you do in short...' " Edna& Mlle. Reisz, The Awakening -----------------------------------------------------"It's only the trappings of aristocracy that I find worthwhile--the fine furniture, the paintings, the silver--the very things they have to sell when the money runs out. And it always does. Then all they're left with is their lovely manners." Jim Williams, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ----------------------------------------------------------lots of other ones sprinkled throughout other books
  • Recent Reads: Gods and Generals, The Sorrow of War, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Television

  • Favorite Shows: men in trees, ghost whisperer, law&order svu, law&order criminal intent, criminal minds, numbers, house, bones, grey's anatomy, how i met your mother, csi new york, miami &the original, new adventures of old christine, ugly betty, cold case, the bachelor, hell's kitchen, big brother and occasionaly the amazing race, miss marple
  • Favorite Reruns: Homicide, MASH, malcolm in the middle, sex&the city, king of the hill, the simpsons, girlfriends, everybody loves raymond, friends, are you being served?, keeping up appearances, the vicar of dibley
  • Show I Secretly Watch: arthur, martha stewart, all my children
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: the ones that they never gave a real chance

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Notebook, Sabrina, Father Goose, Houseboat, Shawshank Redemption, men of honor, a few good men, A new Kind of Love, Doctor Zhivago, Gone with the wind, The Green Berets, Good Morning Vietnam, The Sword and the Stone, Dances with Wolves, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Must love dogs, Elf, A Christmas Story, Circle of Friends, gettysburg, glory, Sixteen candles, Footloose, Dirty Dancing, The Patriot, Fire down below, Under Siege, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Some of the James Bond movies, Tortilla Soup, Life is Beautiful, Schindler's List, The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe, Backdraft, the herbie movies, Summer Magic, So dear to my heart, State Fair, Seven brides for seven brothers,
  • Favorite Actors: Kevin Costner, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Liam Neeson, Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley, Cary Grant, Hugh Grant, Joseph Fiennes, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Sophia Loren, Lucille Ball
  • Favorite Genre: historical, war, action, romance, comedy,
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Forrest Gump, Moulin Rouge
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Enemy at the Gates, War games, Ferris Bueller's Day off, Gangs of New york, Midnight in the garden of good and evil, Pride and Prejudice, Girl with a pearl earring, Shakespeare in Love, any of the watercolor background disney movies,

Travel

  • Places I love: annapolis, washington dc, the hill country of texas, leakey, the frio, home, aggieland
  • Places I've been: washington dc, maryland, virginia, florida, mississippi, arkansas, kansas, oklahoma, texas, south dakota nebraska, missouri, louisiana
  • Places to see before I die: ireland, england, italy, russia, vietnam, india, south africa, egypt, germany, greece, scotland, wales, mexico, brasil, argentina, cambodia, morocco, saudia arabia, kenya, mozambique, chile, peru, venezuela, indonesia, laos, japan, thailand, turkey, philippines, qatar, romania, spain, france, portugal, austria, switzerland, denmark, czech republic, macedonia,
  • Dream Vacation: any of the places above

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Josh Turner, Rascal Flatts, Ross King, Clay Walker, Taylor Swift, Granger Smith, Ornan's Floor, FFH, Goo Goo Dolls, Robin Thicke, Gavin DeGraw, Building 429, Brad Paisley, Beach boys, Michael W. Smith, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Texas Singer/Songwriters, one hit wonders, really depends on the mood that I'm in, look through the entries
  • Favorite Songs: walk with me, watch the sun go down, bless the broken road, kiss me, anyway, mayberry, escape, fearless, iris, truly madly deeply, marvelous light
  • Songs I repeat the most: all the ones that i say are my favorites

More About Me

  • Interests: reading, writing, people watching, being called by real name not amy, michelle, melanie, martha, candice, sally or amber, music, color, art, rain, sleeping, staring into space
  • Expertise: being dazed and confused, being clumsy, wandering around aimlessly, being predictable
  • Occupation: Student

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    • Name: lissalinn
    • Country: United States
    • State: Texas
    • Metro: College Station
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 12/10/2005