About Zizzy
November 1, 2008
Joined NaNoWriMo 24 August 2008
Location: Costa Rica (for now)
Currently Reading: Girls of Riyadah by Rajaa Alsanea.
Currently Contemplating: A Tree Within by Octavio Paz
Favorite Novels (works that I continue to pick-up just to read passages – favorites and at random): Audrey Hepburn’s Neck, Mauprat, Indiana, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping (non-fiction), Love in the Time Of Cholera, Paradise, The Bluest Eye, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Diaries of Anais Nin, Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, The Yacoubian Building, Remains of the Day, An Artist of the Floating World, Love in the Kingdom of Oil, Snow, Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978, The Certificate, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, La Vagabonde, Claudine Novels
Favorite Writers: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle), George Sand, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Octavio Paz, Anne Rice, Ala’ al-Aswany, Kazuo Ishiguro, Nawal Saadawi, Orhan Pahmuk, Andrei Codrescu, Maya Angelou
Favorite Poets: Octavio Paz, Jamie Sabines, Pablo Nerudo, Don Marquis, Maya Angelou, Andrei Codrescu
Favorite music while writing: Anything by or featuring John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Regina Carter or Stephane Grappelli
Non-noveling interests: Travel, Photography, Deserts, Cinema, Love, Sex, Violence, Jazz, Rock (molten),
A little bit more
NaNoWriMo virgin
World Traveler
Avid Reader
Writer when I get the itch
Loner
Sex Diva
Long-time Octavio Paz crush
