Last updated: Dec 27 2003, 21:38:09

Danelle Harmon's Favourites

These are a few of my favourite things...

Danelle Harmon's Short-list of Keepers (Books); in no particular order...

Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, and Appassionata, all by British author Jilly Cooper
Wideacre, The Favoured Child, and Meridon, all by Phillippa Gregory
No Sweeter Heaven, by Katherine Kingsley
Minx, by Julia Quinn
If You Believe and Home Again, both by Kristin Hannah
Archangel, by Sharon Shinn
Sleeping Beauty, by Judith Ivory
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
Faith and Honor, by Robin Maderich
The Windflower, by Laura London
The Bolitho Series, by Alexander Kent

Danelle Harmon's List of Favourite Music:

Top 20 Singles:

"Don't You Forget About Me," by Simple Minds
"Express Yourself," by Madonna
"Mysterious Ways," by U2
"All Around the World," by Oasis
"Stayin' Alive," by the Bee Gees
"My Heart Will Go On," by Celine Dion
"My Sweet Lord," by George Harrison
"Itchycoo Park," by M People
"Sight for Sore Eyes," by M People
"Let It Rain," by Eric Clapton
"Listen To The Music," by the Doobie Brothers
"Once In A Lifetime," by the Talking Heads
"Still the One," by Orleans
"It Don't Come Easy," by Ringo Starr
"Country House," by Blur
"Philadelphia Freedom," by Elton John
"Mr. Blue Sky," by ELO
"Calling America," by ELO
"Baker Street," by Gerry Rafferty
"New World Man," by Rush

Albums:

Blur: anything, especially The Great Escape
M People: Bizarre Fruit II
Black Grape: It's Great When You're Straight
The Beatles: anything and everything
The Proclaimers: Sunshine On Leith
Dubstar: Goodbye

Classical:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Anything and everything (especially Piano Concerto No. 21)
Joseph Haydn: Anything and everything (especially "Nelson Mass"
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
James Thomson & Thomas Arne: "Rule Britannia"

These are some of my favourite things...

England
Branch Lake in Ellsworth, Maine
Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Fields of wild poppies
Getting letters from readers
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
A week with no commitments
Cadbury's chocolate -- the British made kind
When the phone doesn't ring all day
All things 18th century in England and New England
The seaside when absolutely no one else is around
Horatio, Lord Nelson (British admiral)
Dr. Joseph Warren (American patriot and Paul Revere's young boss)
The smell of autumn leaves
Being up early in the morning
Orion on a crystal-clear January night
The sound of cuckoos in England
Salt air, salt water, salt marshes
Spending time and money on our dogs
USS Constitution

(And these are some of my UNfavourite things!):

Flying
British quarantine
People who don't love their animals
People who won't spay or neuter their pets
The smell and presence of cigarette smoke
People who litter
Snobs
Most Massachusetts drivers (though I'm one myself!)
Property development
Going to the dentist
The smell of most metals
Dangerous and aggressive driving
People who have no consideration for others
Dirty bathrooms in restaurants
February in Massachusetts
Rap, country and western, and most 19th century classical music
Crowded places
Raw onions
Loud, badly behaved, and spoiled children
Driving in Logan Airport