ACHUKA Authorfile #33
Adele Geras
ACHUKA Authorfile #33
Adele Geras
| My
hair colour: |
Very dark brown | |
| My
eye colour: |
Muddy hazel | |
| My
star sign: |
Pisces | |
| My
shoe size: |
Size 6 | |
| My
favourite book when child: |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | |
|
My favourite fictional character: |
Jane Eyre | |
| Books
that inspired me to become a writer: |
Indirectly, it's hard to say. More directly, it was reading books by Maurice Sendak which opened my eyes to the possibilities of children's books. | |
| My
favourite author: |
Shakespeare | |
| My
ideal reading position: |
On a very comfortable sofa, with my feet up | |
| My
usual means of marking a place in a book: |
With a thin, cardboard bookmark...usually a freebie from a bookshop, though I do buy the occasional one for its beauty! I've got a great one now with a quote on it from Sam Goldwyn, the movie mogul: "I read part of it all the way through." | |
| My
favourite time of year: |
Late spring...May. Also October... | |
| My
favourite time of day: |
5 pm when I usually stop work, go downstairs and start cooking... | |
| My
best time for working: |
Either 9-11.30 ish, or else 2-4.30 ish. Don't want to overdo it! | |
| The
first piece of work I was paid for was: |
An essay about the language and imagery of Marx's "Capital" which appeared in a US periodical called Monthly Review, in 1972 - I got $50. | |
| My
favourite TV show: |
Good drama (Our Friends in the North, Holding On, Clocking Off, etc) Late Review, and lots of movies. I also like Newsnight, and was a great Brookside fan, but feel it's going pear-shaped with amazing speed... | |
| My
favourite song: |
Please may I have four? 'Hotel California' by the Eagles; 'Don't think twice, it's all right' by Bob Dylan; 'Good Vibrations' by the Beach Boys; 'Yesterday' by the Beatles. | |
| My
favourite actor: |
Marlon Brando (male) Vanessa Redgrave (female) | |
| The
creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: |
My bed | |
| My
favourite sweet food: |
All sort of cakes...strudel, chocolate, home-made meringues, eclairs... | |
| My
favourite savory food: |
Falafel, eaten on the street in Israel in a pitta full of salad, hummus and fiercely hot pepper sauce... | |
| My
typical bedtime is: |
Midnight, or round there... | |
|
My favourite
year of childhood: |
Aged 9, I lived in Jesselton, North Borneo which looked like the adverts for Bacardi...I had a beach like that literally at the bottom of our garden. | |
| My
mousemat design: |
The cover of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album... | |
| The
tidiest place in my home is: |
My husband's filing cabinet and cupboard. | |
| The
untidiest place in my home is: |
My filing cabinet and cupboard. | |
| The
working tool I would least like to do without: |
Pentel 0.07 black pen, and hardback notebooks with pretty covers...I'm a stationery freak! | |