jessica
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Author, The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club
Female
37 years old
Canada
Last Login: 6/8/2007
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jessica's Interests
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| General | writing, reading, painting, drawing, movies, music, seeing bands, walking everywhere with my ipod, hanging out with my friends, hanging out with my family, eating good food and drinking good wine, dancing (at a club or in my living room), people who get it, travelling, laughing, learning things | | Music | Right now: Athlete, Beck, Bob Marley, The Cardigans, Crosby Stills Nash and Young,Caesars, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, The Coup, Death Cab for Cutie, The Format, The Fratellis, The Go-Gos, Green Day, the original INXS, Keane, The Like, Rilo Kiley, Louis XIV, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mobile, Nada Surf, Ok Go, Patsy Cline, Phoenix, The Raconteurs, Ray Charles,Sam Roberts, Snow Patrol, The Sounds, Steriogram, Stevie Wonder, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens | | Movies | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Joy Luck Club, Moonlight Mile, Moonstruck, Fargo, Heavenly Creatures, Boogie Nights, Almost Famous, Ground Hog Day, Gone with the Wind, Notes on a Scandal, Sin City, Christmas Vacation, Annie Hall, Being John Malkovich, Birdy, Donnie Brasco, Empire of the Sun, Always, Clueless, Bridget Jones' Diary, Goodfellas, Remains of the Day, The Others, Rushmore, The Graduate, Happiness, Dangerous Liasons, Shakespear in Love, Baby Boom, The Professional, The Good Girl, On Golden Pond, The Piano, Freeway, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, When Harry Met Sally, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Say Anything, Weird Science, Schindler's List, Forest Gump, Trainspotting, About a Boy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Welcome to the Dollhouse, | | Television | Lately: Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, E.R., What About Brian, Girls Next Door | | Books | Authors and books I love? There are too many to list, so I’ll just tell you which ones I’ve been thinking about or rereading lately, and the titles of their books that I’ll never give away:
Melissa Bank, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Jean Hegland, Into the Forest
Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
Jim Lynch, The Highest Tide
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award
| | Heroes | I don't have heros, but I admire many people, some I know well, some I hear about in passing conversation or on the news, some who are just an idea of someone I would like to know one day. |
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jessica's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Vancouver | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club goes to Germany!
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The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club hits bookstores May 29!
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About me:
I was born in 1971 in Quebec, becoming the only originally Canadian person in my family as far as we know. I am also the only blonde. I come from a short line of brown-haired Americans. These two discrepancies made my older sister’s claim that they’d found me in a garbage can disturbingly easy to believe.
I was painfully shy until I was 17, though no one knew it.
In my first years at college, you couldn’t pay me to take an English class, but I couldn’t graduate without one, as the administration continually reminded me. So I took a creative writing course. That was the beginning of an inkling of knowing what I was to be when I grew up. Of course, I later found out that creative writing didn’t count toward the requirement. (I’ve never been very detail oriented.) Eventually, I gave in and took a literature class, where I discovered that English majors didn’t have to read textbooks. I ended up graduating with a BA in English Literature.
After graduation, I immediately sent in my application for the Masters program because I love reading, and because I would do anything to prolong entry into the real world and, thus, the unsavoury business of growing up. Sadly the real world is very patient and was waiting for me when I finally finished my studies at 27. Luckily, the creative writing bug is very patient too. Five years after that, I sat down and began writing my first novel, The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club.
I got married at 22 and divorced at 28, the only true casualty being my parents’ hope that I will ever settle down. Why is it called that anyway? “Settle down” is what you say to loud, rowdy four-year olds to get them to stop having fun. Oh, please, sign me up for a lifetime of that.
Like the main character in The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club, I spent several, shall I say enlightening, months in Buenos Aires. This was back in 2003 so please don’t contact me to tell me that something I wrote about isn’t there anymore. One thing that won’t change: It is an amazing place. It had me, in this exact order, terrified, content, bored, charmed, captivated and desperately sad to leave. You should go. Soon. Seriously, book your ticket now.
I have had a great love, the kind of love that makes every cell in your body wake up and say “Oooh, now I get it!”
I have changed my hair color more times than Sarah Jessica Parker. Their should be a Pulitzer prize for that.
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Who I'd like to meet:
All of my favorite authors. And Johnny Depp.
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