Interpol, Postal Service, Deathcab for Cutie, Jack Johnson, the Smiths, Keane, Radiohead, Ben Harper, Elliot Smith, Elvis, Fat Boy Slim, Arcade Fire, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, Tracy Chapman, REM, Timmy Curran, Beastie Boys, TMBG, Franz Ferdinand, David Bowie, Portishead, Flaming Lips, Joe Strummer, Pet Shop Boys
Movies
Amadeus, Amelie, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Best in Show, Chocolat, Cinemania, Crash, The Hanging Garden, Home Movie, In America, Life is Beautiful, Memento, My Flesh and Blood, The Namesake, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pecker, The Red Violin, Spellbound, Super Size Me, The Shipping News, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Winged Migration
Television
Lost, The Office, Six Feet Under
Books
Angela’s Ashes, Anne of Green Gables, Bee Season, Beloved, Blankets, Charlotte’s Web, A Clockwork Orange, The Collector, The Color Purple, A Confederacy of Dunces, Confederates in the Attic, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Enslaved by Ducks, Expecting Adam, Faithful Elephants, Fast Food Nation, Frankenstein, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Gone with the Wind, The House of Sand and Fog, Hugging the Rock, In the Shadow of Man, Interpreter of Maladies, The Kite Runner, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Little Children, Lucky, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Monsters, My Year of Meats, The Namesake, Nickel and Dimed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ordinary Resurrections, The Poisonwood Bible, Postcards, Primate’s Memoir, Ramona the Brave, Rebecca, Running with Scissors, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, Sickened, Stiff, The Time Traveler's Wife, To Kill a Mockingbird, Typical American, An Unnatural Order, Walk Two Moons, When Elephants Weep, The Women of Brewster Place, Woodsong
University Of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Library and Information Studies
Clubs: American Library Association, Public Library Association
2006 to 2007
Webster University
St Louis, MO
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English Literature
I am Gina: an enigmatically obvious, half-hearted radical; a shy social-butterfly, a curious, energetic teen librarian. I hate football, the vibration of planes overhead, racism, dogma, clunky words, goosebumps, chick flicks, and root beer floats. I love the smell of babies, beautiful eyebrows, summer rain, risk, fresh mint, lullabys, cemeteries, weird dolls, libraries, books, enthusiasts, coffee, periodicals, fruit, clean sheets, handmade wares, humor, belly laughs, smiling faces, suspense, gratitude, generosity.
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Who I'd like to meet: Fresno teens, librarians, authors, poets, libraries, independent bookstores, geeks, teachers, youth advocates, readers, listeners, artists, musicians, optimists, weirdos, dreamers, suckers, individualists, minimalists, freaks, geeks, and brooders
Thanks for the add! Beth Fehlbaum, author Courage in Patience, a story of hope for those who have endured abuse http://courageinpatience. blogspot. com Chapter One is online!
Thanks for the add and supporting us as we celebrate African American children's literature! Visit The Brown Bookshelf to see the authors and illustrators being spotlighted during our 28 Days Later Campaign in February. Stay in the know by reading The Brown Bookshelf blog.
Thanks for the add. I hope you’ll check out my new tween novel, GIVING UP THE GHOST, set on a haunted plantation near New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina.
It’s my dearest wish that my novel’s themes of fear, grief, and forgiveness, leavened with humor and gripped by a ghostly mystery, will bring comfort and healing to young teens living with uncertainty in unsettling times.
KIRKUS says (9/15/07) it has “teen appeal in spades” and is “a good choice for reluctant readers”!
"Science, politics, economics and spirituality fuse explosively in this visionary thriller. In some far future--or is it past?--Philip K. Dick nods with satisfaction."
--Jeffrey Satinover, physicist and psychiatrist, author of The Quantum Brain. Dr. Satinover appeared in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?
Thanks for finding me. If you'd like to read about a nifty librarian with powers, check out my book (just released by Scholastic), The Traitor King. To learn more, or to read the latest reviews, please visit www.toddmitchellbooks.com Rock on! T.
