Iris
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Student
Münster / Germany
Mitglied seit 13.01.2008
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Main fields of interest:
Life sciences, geo sciences, literature and history (especially American), education/psychology
Hobbies:
Music - listening and playing - bowling, writing (personal notes, essays, poems);
I'm especially interested in people who are interested , i. e. people obsessed by special fields of interest, preferably those that I would not normally pick for my private reading, I therefore like to read biographies and books by people like Oliver Sacks, Torey Hayden, Axel Brauns and Temple Grandin and of course I like internet communication
List of great authors:
Lynn Margulis,
Carl Sagan,
Debbie Meier,
Richard Powers,
A. S. Byatt,
Emily Dickinson,
Torey Hayden
(of course I like a lot of other writers, too, but that keeps changing!)
Some fairly impressive books I've read :
Lee Iacocca: Eine amerikanische Karriere;
Mein amerikanischer Traum;
Azar Nafisi: Lolita lesen in Teheran;
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief;
Paul Auster: The invention of solitude;
Carl Sagan: The demon-haunted world. Science as a candle in the dark,
Contact
Diana Beata Hellmann: Zwei Frauen;
Margaret Forster: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (E. B. B.) A biography
Diary by E. B. B.
I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum. Erlebnisse eines Naturforschers
Oliver Sacks: Uncle Tungston
S. Freedman: Small victories
J. Saul: Schule des Schreckens
Strange obsession:
During a stay in London I repeatedly went to the National Gallery to look at Hans Hohlbein Jun.'s "Die Gesandten"/"The embassadors" - there is an object in the foreground of the picture that looks like kind of a surfboard, but turns into a three-dimensional skull if the picture is viewed from a certain perpective; it's also funny to watch the other visitors crouches on the floor near the wall to see that skull... |
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