Tina-Marie Virkus
paintings, drawings, and photography

Currently on my reading list:

 

 

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Recommended:

007 series by Ian Fleming (read in order)

Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933-1953 by Margaret C. Rung.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. I also recommend The Botany of Desire.

Anything by Jasper Fforde.

Matisse The Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling. Nearly 500 pages and this is volume 2!

First movie I ever saw in a theatre: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969).