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Favorite books: Count of Monte Cristo, The Last Unicorn, Baby Be-Bop, Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, The Spiral Staircase, The Lonely Life by Bette Davis, The Writer's Journey
What's on your night table: Man Who Laughs, Les Miserables (again), Bringing God Home
Favorite authors: On my bookshelf: Isaac Asimov, Alan Dean Foster, Darren Shan, Robert Fulgum, and Douglas Adams.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Time and Newsweek
Interest and taste in the arts: Museums. Metropolitan Museum of Art is my favorite. Not into Modern Art. Also enjoy plays if they are about something; exs. Wicked, Doubt, & Pacific Overtures.
Interest in taste in music: Variety. Show tunes, Rock and Roll, Classical non opera, Spiritual, Irish, Folk, etc.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Classical 30's - 50's. Enjoy modern movies too. I like a movie with strong plots, great scripts, and strong characters. Galaxy Quest, Now Voyager, Inherit the Wind, and Casablanca are favorites.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Love to travel. Recently have been to Germany, Quebec City, down the Danube, and now onto Calgary. Hope to do more European travel.
Hobbies & pastimes: Playing and collecting European board games. Check the web for more info. Needlepoint and latch hooking. Baking cakes, entertaining, and writing for own amusement. Plus I have two cats.
Religion and interest in religion: Unitarian Universalist
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Something to talk about.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: That people mix more with various types.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Meaness in pop culture that filters into the general culture. The widening gap between the classes.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Sense of humor. Laughter is the key to my heart.
Write a short sketch about yourself: At first, reserved and at times quiet. Until picture book time when I sing, use puppets, and dramatize books. I'm also a storyteller. I turn my condo into a haunted house at Halloween - People are now looking for my place.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): Prefer either letters or email.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: The World - past member
White Plains, NY
A2018, 54, D, 53 3/4, Compliance Officer, University of Pennsylvania.
Favorite books: Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, Villeette.
What's on your night table: Sun Storm, Telegrams of the Soul.
Religion and interest in religion: I'm a spiritual person. When I attend Church services I go to a Catholic or Episcopal Church.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: I thinking of working toward a Ph.D.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: improvement in the treatment of many diseases.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: violence/ open abuse of one another loss of the family as the center.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: sense of humor, engaging conversation, kind/honest.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I am a divorced healthy woman. I enjoy my career, friends and my hobbies. I am fortunate to have my sister and her family as part of my support system. I'm average height/ slim with hazel green eyes and brown with highlights hair.
Blue Bell, PA
A2014, 60, D, 56, Consultant.
Favorite books: Many-Pride and Prejudice; The World is Flat; Blink; The Last Flower; mindless mysteries; OED; the Oractical Nomad; Eats, Shoots, and Leaves;The Sorrow of War; anything by John D Mac Donald, Gone With the Wind.
What's on your night table: The Pig that Wants to be Eaten (Baggini); Close Range (Annie Proulx).
Favorite authors: Larry McMurtry, Jane Austen, Ayn Rand, John D Mac Donald, Sue Grafton, ee cummings, Carl Hiaasen.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: NY Times, WSJ, the Star, NY Observer, Financial Times.
Interest and taste in the arts: Music, Museums, Plays, Concerts, the occasional opera and ballet, rodeos and street and juried crafts fairs.
Interest in taste in music: classical, oldies, rock and roll, crossover country,folkish, an occasional whimsical accordion and/or bagpipe.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: classic films, chick flicks, suspense, drama, tearjerkers, documentaries, foreign films.
Interest in travel/favorite places: anywhere, anyplace, anytime--there's always something to see and something to learn-lust places--Greek Island cruising, hanging out in Portugal in a cool rental house, Morocco, South Africa.
Hobbies & pastimes: Photography, music, reading.
Religion and interest in religion: non-practicing Lutheran, occasionally practicing Buddhist/Taoist.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: take more balloon rides, keep on laughing and finding the unexpected delight in every day.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: fast communication, integration of technology as a tool.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: the imposition of the government and invasion of individual privacy and a growing lack of personal accountability and responsibility, raging consumerism.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: intelligence, humor, tolerance, resilience, adaptability, self-sufficiency.
Write a short sketch about yourself: Relish the lunacies of life. Start and end the day with a smile and a chuckle.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): email or writing preferred
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: searched it out.
Religion and interest in religion: Non-practicing Jew, enjoy studying NT and Jesus and Paul.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: What George W. Bush has done to this country and the world.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Honesty, loyalty, integrity, kindness, lack of arrogance, creativity, interest in learning and writing. Enjoy walks, animals, quiet times, some solitude also.
Write a short sketch about yourself: Literate, NS, quiet, curious, native New Yorker, lives for her child (shared custody), plus learning, reading,hoping to bring America back to the way it should be, not a mixer, but treasure my friends, laughing, shared adventures.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): letter or email, not phone to start.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: was a member in 1979.
New York City
A2011, 74, D, 54. Hunter Colllege and University of New Mexico.
What's on your night table: Kundera, Dickens, Krishnamurti.
Favorite authors: Conrad, Gogol, Benchley, Julian Barnes, Sayers, Wharton, Flaubert, Parmuk, G.B. Shaw, Patrick O'Brian ( have read all of the Aubery/Maturin series.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: NY Times, New Yorker.
Interest and taste in the arts: All kinds, Love Sculpture.
Interest in taste in music: catholic taste in music. Love opera, Wagner, Rolling Stones, Salsa etc. Middle Eastern and Russian music. Especially Boris Godunov.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Independent films. Old Black and white. Spy movies. Old Topper movies. Terrible movies are fun, too. Love Almodovar, Fellini, Bergman..Ingmar and Ingrid, old 30's movies, Benchley shorts.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Often to France and Italy. LIved in Iran. Friends in England. Would travel all the time if I could. I prefer to drive around France and have made three trip in the last few years. Know Italy also, Want to go. I am of Danish descent and want to see Scandinavia. Father lived and is buried in London, UK.
Hobbies & pastimes: Reading and writing and continuing study of French-forever studying French; cooking healthy and delicious food, thinking, musing, scintillating conversations. Small dinner parties.
Religion and interest in religion: anti-religious but was interested in theologies.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: To feel that I had added something to this world.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: The potential of computers for the third world country children.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: lack of knowledge of humanities. Lack of civility, good manners. Ugly styles.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: sense of humor, good manners, intellectually stimulating and a good listener as well.
Write a short sketch about yourself: Restless. a futurist in a way with appreciation of past aesthetic. Easily bored. Like adventure. Wish I had been a spy. A good friend, but not a good person for marriage. I leave if bored. Not materialistic, sadly. Wish I had been a little more concerned with money. An original thinker. An interesting, funny and stimulating person. A tad eccentric. Iconoclastic happen. People think I am much younger. Everyone says that! Nonsmoker. Born in Manhattan but have lived in many places here and abroad. Last husband, there have been a few, was 15 years my junior. No one seemed to be aware of the difference. On very good terms with ex-husbands. No one left me. Am probably too independent but maybe I have learned how to accept whatever. On my own for quite a few years. Time to take a chance again.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): e-mail and then go from there. Letters are nice, too. I used to be a letter writer, but have switched to PC.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: a member 10 years ago.
What's on your night table: Tale of Two Cities, Short Stories.
Favorite authors: Unabridged dictionary, Virginia Wolff, Edward T. Hall, Mark Twain.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: New Yorker, The Ecologist, Scientific American.
Interest and taste in the arts: Ballet.
Interest in taste in music: Bach, Scarlatti.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Orlando.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Perhaps British Isles.
Hobbies & pastimes: Reading, listening to music, NPR, and the BBC.Writing, walking...
Religion and interest in religion: Nullifidian
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Publish short stories.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: The Internet.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Constant connection to electronics instead of nature.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Intelligent, kind, sense of humor, open to new ideas.
Write a short sketch about yourself: New England country background. Family had a hobbyfarm. Quaker H.S.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): E-MAIL:
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: Friend
Berkeley, CA
A2009, 74, W, 56, Retired school administrator, retail sales. University of Connecticut,
University of Rhode Island, University of Pennsylvania.
Favorite authors: Sena Naslund, Sarah Dunant, Susan Vreeland.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Opera News, Smithsonian, The New Yorker.
Interest and taste in the arts: Opera, ballet, dance, visual, theatre, symphony.
Interest in taste in music: modern; choral of any period.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: I see films selectively. The Queen was a good one recently; also Dreamgirls.
Interest in travel/favorite places: South West in the U.S. (Sante Fe). New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
Hobbies & pastimes: Reading; book club; lunch with Seniors group; in the summer I also follow sports.
Religion and interest in religion: Unitarian. I belong to a large Main Line congregation.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: To live happily and feel affection for people who have become close to me.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: That we are making progress in equality without discrimination on the basis of sex, color or age.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: People want too many things.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: An interest in whats going on; ability to relate one on one and to share.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I am an active, healthy woman who likes to do things and go places. I would enjoy sharing these good times with a man of similar interests.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): Any.
Malvern, PA
A2008, 49, D, 54, Librarian/Administrator. University of Kentucky.
Favorite books: Standing by Words by Wendell Berry, Charming Billy Alice McDermott, Anne Tyler--Accidental Tourist, Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion.
What's on your night table: The Book that Saved my Life (Collections of Essays by Writers), Whole World Over by Julia Glass, Cork Boat by John Pollan.
Favorite authors: Wendell Berry, Joan didion, Bill Bryson, Alice McDermott, Anne Tyler, Frank McCourt.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: New Yorker, National Geographic, Cooking Light, Sunset, Harpers.
Interest and taste in the arts: Love Theatre, Choral Concerts, Art Galleries, Latin American Art and Culture.
Interest in taste in music: Latin, Female Vocalists, Bluegrass, All Music!
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Romantic comedies, Dramas.Jerry McGuire, Dead Man Walking, Off the Map, When Harry met Sally.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Went to Italy last year. want to go to Ireland, France, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
Religion and interest in religion: Raised Catholic. Go to a Methodist Church. Interested in Community aspect of church and social justice.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Write Books. Create Family of Friends and Partner.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: Most don't.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Violence, and alienation.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Kind, thoughtful, dependable. Loving and Tolerant, Wise and Nurturing.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I'm a highly educated woman of working class parents. Irish Catholic, feisty, direct, funny, passionate to a fault at times.
I love to sing and write poetry and hang out with kids and friends.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): I prefer letters.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: Not sure.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: NY Times,The ONION, SF Chronicle, NE Journal Medicine.
Interest and taste in the arts: Visual especially film, art museums.
Interest in taste in music: eclectic.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: American Beauty, Crash, recently old Fellini and often current foreign flicks, Cohen Bros: some, Scorcesse.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Mexico, Canada, England, France, Costa Rica, etc. etc.
Hobbies & pastimes: reading reading reading, H.Yoga, writing a novel, big adventure hiking out west: ex. GrCanyon).
Religion and interest in religion: spirituality is a very personal matter, though generally very flexible and compassionate regarding other people's religions/dogma as structure for moral/ethical/enlightenment as important for understanding philosophical queries.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: publishing novel in progress, long-term guardian to the health of friends/family, be instrumental in encouraging non fossil fueling of industry.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: Global care/concern for societies other than one's own, warp speed technology esp. in area of healthcare.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: that we are yet to resolve turf wars without bloodshed over economic sharing of world resources: fossil fuels, water, food.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: physical chemistry, socially responsible though competitive enough to maintain self economically, reasonable vitality (ie: maintains his health: ie:sound mental and physical protocols).
Write a short sketch about yourself: Always reading: on subway etc. R & D type, like to problem solve, develop unique ideas well, red hair, look like a celebrity, not sure who, not Faye Dunaway(?), thin curvy body type, athletic enjoy playing sports or others playing sports though not with use of gyms often ie: upper body needs work. Domestic, like to entertain: dinner parties etc.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): email then phone, writing also fine.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: Unitarian newsletter.
Favorite books: Sarum, Pillars of the Earth, A Tale of Two Cities, Cold Mountain, About Alice.
What's on your night table: Gilead, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Time Magazine.
Favorite authors: Pat Conroy, A. J. Cronin, Stephen King, Lewis Grizzard.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Time magazine, The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Interest and taste in the arts: Any live performance - particularly jazz.
Interest in taste in music: R & B, Jazz, vintage rock.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: horror, mystery, See No Evil with Mia Farrow is an all time favorite.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Like the beach, like the mountains. Would like to travel overseas.
Hobbies & pastimes: Gardening, golf, reading, walking the dog.
Religion and interest in religion: enthusiastic Episcopalian.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: keep bees, make wine.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: advances in medicine, the example that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have set with their philanthropy.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: The inordinate amount of time, money and attention that we spend on athletes and entertainers. It says so much about our priorities.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Sense of humor. Good communicator.
Write a short sketch about yourself: Well read. Likes kids and dogs. Attractive. Enjoys lively debate.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): e-mail
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: Web
South Amherst, Ohio
A2006, 45, S, 53, Children's librarian/author.
Favorite books: Of Human Bondage, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, My Name is Asher Lev, Black Like Me, Roots, The Pearl, Cry, The Beloved Country...
What's on your night table: Voices of Our Time by Studs Terkel; Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard; Words from the Myths by Isaac Asimov; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: I am very interested in all sorts of periodicals but regularly read The New York Times.
Interest and taste in the arts: I am most passionate about the ways that literature and the arts can serve to inspire and uplift our lives, create a sense of community, expose us to those we would never ordinarily meet, help us to pause and reflect and move us to feel deeply.
Interest in taste in music: I am especially interested in folk songs--songs that tell a story. I write my own folk songs although I do not play an instrument.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: I particularly like documentaries.
Interest in travel/favorite places: I love to be near the water, trees and mountains.
As far as travel outside of the country goes, I have been to Israel, Egypt, Mexico and Barbados--all fascinating in their own ways.
Hobbies & pastimes: reading, writing, visiting with friends, visiting museums, browsing in bookstores and libraries, singing with others, sitting with a cup of tea in front of a fireplace...
Religion and interest in religion: I am deeply connected to my Judaism on a cultural level, not on a religious one.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: I would like to become known as a writer, find a husband, adopt a child, help raise awareness of various cultures via my writing, help my mother become known as a playwright...
What changes in recent society please you the most?: better educational options for girls exist in various parts of the world where none existed before.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: sexualization of girls and women.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Jewishly connected in some way, honesty, interest and awareness of the world, kindness, thoughtfulness, chemistry between us.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I am a creative, earnest, warm 45 year old Jewish woman who cares a great deal about children, nature and the power of books and the arts. I hope to meet a Jewish male who has discovered his place in the world.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): email.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: a friend.
Pittsburgh, PA
A2005, 52, D, 53, Library branch manager.
Favorite books: To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Simple Abundance.
What's on your night table: Portrait of Great Britain, The Library Paradox, Gnomes.
Favorite authors: Mitch Albom, The Bronte sisters, Sarah Ban Breathnach
Interest and taste in the arts: Love museums, concerts, theater, film.
Interest in taste in music: classical, classic rock, celtic, alternative, love it all except for rap.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: To Kill a Mockingbird, Pay it Forward, Lord of the Rings, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Anne of Green Gables.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Want to travel through Great Britain, Canada. Love nature, pine trees and cabins near the water.
Hobbies & pastimes: Reading, collecting gnomes and fairies. Gardening.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: To travel, to learn as much as I can about people, places and ideas.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Would like to see a kinder gentler society.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Kindness, gentleness, humor and humbleness, takes responsibility, but knows how to have fun! Likes to travel. Looks not important but heart is.
Write a short sketch about yourself: Down to earth lady who loves balance. Enjoys city activities but likes coming home to a quiet rural setting with a view. Love to laugh, be a bit crazy and wacky but always in good taste. A nurturer and an optimist. Soft music, scented candles, pine trees and water soothe my inner spirit. Love nautical things.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): Email
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: found it listed in a book.
Lexington, MO
A2004, 36, S, 58, Teacher. UGA/Georgia State University.
Favorite books: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Man in Full, Big Stone Gap, London.
What's on your night table: The God Delusion, Lord of the Flies, The Devil in the Junior League.
Favorite authors: John Irving, Jane Austen, Tom Wolfe, Adriana Trigiana, Edward Rutherford.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, New Yorker (when I have time!).
Interest and taste in the arts: plays, music, art exhibits, photography. I like to go to festivals and see different types of art.
Interest in taste in music: HUGE music fan! Classic rock, 80s (British is even better), popular stuff, too.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Wide range. I do prefer the arty/independent films, historical period films, British humor.
Interest in travel/favorite places: England, Scotland, Ireland. Oxford University. Want to go to Italy and Greece next.
Religion and interest in religion: Methodist, but a questioning one. I would say I am on a journey, but it's not the forefront of my life at the moment.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Getting a Ph.D.. Traveling to Italy and Greece.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: That Georgia is considering having alcohol sales on Sunday!
What disturbs you most about today's society?: The undervaluing of education and intelligence in this country.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Someone comfortable with themselves, loves to learn, someone who likes to experience life and gets out there and does it!
Write a short sketch about yourself: Definitely a Pisces who has found her life's calling as a teacher. I am a confident, articulate woman who enjoys good conversations with people who enjoy the same. I definitely have a silly side, am usually 'one of the guys,' but just as likely to have a baseball cap on earlier in the day, playing tennis and then switches to an elegant, sexy dress for a nice dinner or night out.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): email.
Favorite books: Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Year in the Provence, The Bean Trees, The Beekeeper, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
What's on your night table: A Good Year, The Prophet
Favorite authors: William Styron, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Barbara Kingsolver, Tennessee Williams, Maya Angelou
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: The New Yorker, The International Herald Tribune, National Geographic, Art Matters
Interest and taste in the arts: Passionate about all the arts, especially visual arts, theatre and music.
Interest in taste in music: Great!!! My taste is quite eclectic, although my favorites are jazz and blues.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Great! Foreign films, drama, comedy, romance, some documentaries, and films about the human condition.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Passionate about travel! Favorites include all of Europe, especially Greece, France, Italy; Southwestern U.S.; Paris, Venice,New York, San Francisco
Hobbies & pastimes: Travel, reading, antiques, textile design, interior design, museum and gallery browsing, and cooking.
Religion and interest in religion: Spiritual....no organized religion.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Have a loving and intimate relationship, travel to new destinations, learn to play the piano, when I retire to volunteer to aid those less fortunate.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: Election of more liberal leaning officials, increased attention to global warming, AIDS awareness, advanced medical discoveries.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Lack of funding for quality education, the Iraq war, the deterioration of our country's reputation abroad, children's reliance on technology, corporate fraud.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Honesty, humor, intelligence, affectionate, adventurous, openly communicative, chemistry and a passion for life.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I am an art teacher working on a NATO Base in The Netherlands. I previously taught in Germany, and in June will complete my 13th year of teaching and living in Europe. In June of 2008 I will return to my home near Lake Erie in OH as my base. I look forward to more travel, warm sunny locations, and perhaps spending a couple months a year in Europe. I love the slower pace of life here and the more liberal leaning attitude of its people. I am a romantic who loves to explore cobblestone pathways, sip wine at outdoor cafes while journaling my observations of many cultures, and I hope to meet a like minded person to share these adventures with me.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: I am a former member of Single Booklovers-Europe