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| Booksie Address: | http://www.booksie.com/Lina_Leigh |
| Country: | United States |
| Favorite book: | Gone with the Wind |
| Member Since: | Oct 8, 2007 |
A Short Story by Lina Leigh
Posted: Dec 15, 2007
It's basically just the story of how my Behemoth came to...
A Novel by Lina Leigh
Posted: Nov 22, 2007
Marguerite Kassirer is about as far from excitement as...
A Short Story by Lina Leigh
Posted: Nov 19, 2007
Banning laughter? Are you on crack?
A Short Story by Lina Leigh
Posted: Nov 9, 2007
This is more of an essay than anything done a while back...
A Short Story by Lina Leigh
Posted: Oct 19, 2007
Well...myspace pissed me off one day when they decided to...
Hi! My name is Lina and I am a freshman in college. I've been writing a novel for about two years and what I really am looking for now are objective reviews. It's pretty long (about 600 pages, fifty chapters, and four parts) but I've put a lot into it. It deals with history, sociology, individualilty, and the capacity in humans to overcome themselves and each other. "Gumption", as Margaret Mitchell would call it. It started off very small and as nothing really worthwhile to me and then somehow snowballed. It doesn't have a title yet. I've been tossing around a few ideas: "Little Bird", "Phoenix Reigning". I refer to it as "my behemoth" because it's mine and it's huge. My grandfather likes to call it, "Gone with the Windbags." Hardy har har.
I read and/or admire many people including Margaret Mitchell, Vivien Leigh, Hannah Senesh, Irene Gut Opdyke, Somerset Maugham, Marquis de Sade, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, Ray Bradbury, and dozens of others.
Random facts: I'm an avid reader and writer. My favourite colours are red, black, and yellow. I'm an American but I use British spelling. I butter my bread before I toast it. I have a tendency to memorize films. I'm addicted to iced tea. I like rain and fog better than sun. I have to sleep in a room that acts also as a library. I snort when I laugh. When I sleep there must be something in my arms. My eyes are the colour of congealed honey. I have a love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with money. You will almost never see me without my blue notebook. I listen to just about every kind of music, ranging from Lulu to The Ramones to The Zombies to Suzanne Vega. Fall and spring are my favourite seasons. I've always wanted to be arrested for protesting.
I'm dating a magnificent man named Myles Tandy. He's flannelman here on booksie. Look him up; his poetry is brilliant.
Oh, and "Gone with the Wind", both novel and film, is my heart and soul. I have five copies of the book, I've read it I don't know how many times, I know every word to the film, I have dozens of books about it, Christmas ornaments, shirts, I could go on and on. It also has influenced my writing heavily, which I'm sure will be apparent. It acts for me in the way that Bibles act for Catholics: I have a copy with me almost everywhere I go, I can cite it, I read it when I'm in times of deep distress, and honestly, it makes me cry with happiness, as lame as that sounds. When I see the opening credits or the end of the film or a line that always evokes feeling in me, or when I read certain passages, I weep with pleasure. Because I'm a dork, and I've had this by my side for ten years. Anyway, I felt it very important that I get that out there as soon as possible.
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