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Library residency
Maria Harffy
The book I'm reading currently
I just finished The Ugly Sister from Jane Fallon, it was surprisingly good. I prefer sci-fi, fantasy, this was very good but it was about normal life.
A book that had a big impact on me
It by Stephen King, I was quite young. It was a story through childhood, when they are about 12 or thirteen, and something they encounter, and seeing something the adults couldn't see that was really scary, and how they cope with it. Then confronting that something that nobody could see when they were older. It is about friendship and overcoming hardship. It is a really scary book but for me it was about friendship because they would not have survived without their friendship.
My desert island reading
I will go for Wilt, Tom Sharpe, because it was very funny. I will also go for I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, and I am Legend, Richard Matheson, my favourite sci-fi stories.
My choice of lifetime magazine subscription
I like cooking magazines or food magazines.
My must-see film
Again, the thing is, I love sci-fi, but something like Dances with Wolves really impressed me. War of the Worlds I really love because it has to do with sci-fi. I think though Schindler's List is a film the world should see. Of all the films I watch again and again that film gets me every time, because obviously the background story is real but it happened and even listening to the music, it brings back all the memories.
My guilty-pleasure telly
I like American series, right now it's the Westwing that we are nearly finishing. We have been watching it continuously and we cannot stop ourselves, although we are slowing down because there are only like five episodes left, three months of our lives!
My radio turn-on and turn-off
I listen to it with my husband and my daughter and she loves it, Just a Minute on Radio 4, I love that. I like Radio 1 too, I have teenage daughters, I cannot escape it.
I don't like the news, it tends to be one-sided, they don't tell you two sides of the story. It's like that everywhere, in America too. Any news about the Israel Palestine conflict, it's one-sided, any news about Syria and people who don't have all the information feel one-sided too.
The weekend paper I am most likely to pick up
I hate the politics of the Telegraph but some of their entertainment and science articles are really good, but I hate the politics. To be honest I get most of my news online.
The section of the weekend paper I read first
Science and entertainment articles. I'm terrible at science but I find it really interesting, all the new discoveries.
A piece of music that makes me smile
I listen to everything with my children. I like Vivaldi.
A piece of music that makes me cry
Beethoven makes me cry. Music from films too, I find them really moving. Sometimes music from adverts.
