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I love Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion are my favorites.

Russian literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol...

L.M. Montgomery (especially the Anne of Green Gables series).

I love children's books with beautiful illustrations. Make Way for Ducklings, Stellaluna, Amazing Grace,

Bunnicula, Harry Potter, Shel Silverstein,

The Hero and the Crown, & The Blue Sword - both by Robin McKinley, actually EVERYTHING by Robin McKinley

Moby Dick,
Lord of the Rings! Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Under Milk Wood, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books

The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis by my favorite philosophy professor, Jerry Miller.

Literature about Native Americans is very important to me and I think that all Americans should have some knowledge of it. I've read and enjoyed Custer Died for Your Sins, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

For the Once Upon A Time Group: I grew up reading The Blue Fairy Book and The Yellow Fairy Book with stories collected by Andrew Lang. I would love one day to have the whole color collection! I love the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Beauty and The Beast. I really love the old French film of Beauty & the Beast. I also read and really enjoyed Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE the book Deerskin by Robin McKinley, which is based around the fairytale Donkeyskin.

Hello, My name is Emilie. I am currently doing my masters in French in Boston, but I grew up in Maryland and have spent some time in Wisconsin and Louisiana, so I have a strong affinity for those states. I love hearing about where people live, what is unique to that place, etc. In college I was a double major in French and Philosophy and I loved it! Grad school is not as fun. I love writing letters and sending things in the mail. I enjoy doing crafty things. I love animals, especially horses and dogs. My family in WI has 3 mules currently.

I love stamps, and I have been wanting to start buying extra to hoard for the future, but it never works.

I blog the mail I send and receive at my website, Winnie's Girl, listed above.

I like a lot of different things... The Beatles (of course), Joanna Newsom, Talking Heads, XiuXiu, Cake, Antony and the Johnsons, CCR, Beirut, The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, The Violent Femmes, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, The Hidden Cameras, Tom Waits, Pixies, The Mountain Goats, Hefner, Van Morrison, Bob Marley, Desmond Dekker, THE CLASH!!!

I grew up without television... we had a tv, but no channels, only used for VCR and later DVD. But now I have Netflix, so I enjoy 30 Rock... I don't watch many tv shows. Oh! And MST3K!!

horses, mules, unicorns, centaurs (basically anything remotely equine) big dogs, any dogs, cats, I like dinosaurs too... my boyfriend got me into them. My favorite dinosaur is the parasaurolophus. I think basically all animals are cool... except I don't really like bugs... but I do like dragonflies and butterflies I love looking at www.zooborns.com, a wonderful website with photos of baby animals from zoos all over the world. I find wild animals amazing... the variety! And there really are monsters in the world.

bright colors, postal stamps and rubber stamps, french and France, Caribbean culture and literature, stickers, Glitter Glue!

I like stationary, cards, flowers!!! trees, fairies, collage art, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts,

Art Nouveau, Edward Gorey, John William Waterhouse paintings, Van Gogh, Monet, Botticelli, Matisse,

The children's magazine "Cricket"!!!

dresses!!! pretty flowy dresses and skirts... not really tight things.

earrings, because I don't have my ears pierced Also I don't really wear any type of jewelry, so if you send some to me I will probably pass it on. I hope you won't mind. I'm a rather plain person ;)

I don't have any allergies besides seasonal and medicine, so don't worry about that.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Mikado, Sabrina (new and old), My Man Godfrey, StarWars (but not so much the prequels), The Sound of Music, Babbett's Feast, The Man Who Knew Too Little, What About Bob?, Calamity Jane, Moonstruck, Singing in the Rain, The Blues Brothers, American Graffiti, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sense and Sensibility, Back to the Future, The King and I, Help, Who am I this Time?

I'm a real wimp when it comes to scary movies.

As to preferences about postcards, please write on it! :-) And naked! Thank you!

I love holidays!!

I think my favorite is Halloween. I love cutesy, funny Halloween imagery as well as spooky, scary, freaky things! black cats, witches, zombies, monsters, pumpkins, everything!!

I love Christmas too, but I'm not religious.