Favorite Books
'La Ragazza di Via Maqueda' (Dacia Maraini), 'A Many-Splendoured Thing' (Han Suyin), 'Berlin Cantata' (Jeffrey Lewis), 'The Places in Between' (Rory Stewart), 'Le balene lo sanno' (Pino Cacucci), 'Portrait of the Gulf Stream' (Erik Orsenna), 'The Glass Room' (Simon Mawer), 'The Joy Luck Club' (Amy Tan), 'The Chimes' (Charles Dickens), 'Il Libro del Cortiggiano' (Baldassar Castiglione), 'Eugene Onegin' (Alexander Pushkin), 'Reading Lolita in Teheran' (Azar Nafisi), 'Bird Cloud' (Annie Proulx), 'Miss Garnet's Angel' (Salley Vickers), 'The Great Gatsby' (F. Scott Fitzgerald), 'The Loop' (Nicholas Evans), 'Possession' (AS Byatt), 'Wonderboys' (Michael Chabon), anything by Donna Leon.
What I'm Reading
Rory Stewart's 'The Places In Between', Baldassar Castiglione's 'Il Libro del Corteggiano' (The Book of the Courtier) and 'Little Dorrit' by Charles Dickens (halfway through after two years!)
Favorite Authors
Somerset Maugham, Damon Runyon, Han Suyin, Amy Tan, Nicholas Evans, Michael Ondaatje, Roberto Atxago, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, David Hare, Jennifer Johnston, Alexander Pushkin, Dacia Maraini, Donna Leon, Washington Irving, AS Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salley Vickers, Bernhard Schlink, Marcela Serrano, David Eyre, George Mikes, Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, Veronica Franco.
Katherine Gregor’s Bookmarks
Let's just say that I am old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.
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—(Georges Guétary in 'An American in Paris')
About Katherine
Before you ask – one half of me is English; the other half, a Middle-Eastern mix. I speak English, Italian, French and Russian, which accounts for my hybrid accent which has, so far, been mistaken for South African, Irish, Dutch, US American, German, and one...
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Katherine’s Favorite Books
'La Ragazza di Via Maqueda' (Dacia Maraini), 'A Many-Splendoured Thing' (Han Suyin), 'Berlin Cantata' (Jeffrey Lewis), 'The Places in Between' (Rory Stewart...