Shawn M.
"Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know." - Walker Percy
What I do when I'm not at the library: Cooking, backpacking and camping, travel (domestically and internationally) and catching live music in Baltimore and D.C.
My Passion: Food. Reading cookbooks. Trying out new recipes and restaurants. Cooking and sharing food with others.
Something unique about me: I have traveled to Africa twice, visiting Madagascar and Ethiopia. Lemurs and Gelada Baboons. Now I need to get to West Africa, specifically Senegal.
If I wrote an autobiography, its title would be: A New Hampshire Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The last thing that I read: On the Plain of Snake: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux
What I'm reading now: Great American outpost: dreamers, mavericks, and the making of an oil frontier by Maya Rao
Top 5 Favorite Books:
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Favorite Genres:
Adult Nonfiction - History
Adult Fiction - Short Stories
Adult Nonfiction- Cooking & Baking
Adult Nonfiction - Memoir/Biographies
Other languages that I can speak and read it: Russian and Spanish
My Passion: Food. Reading cookbooks. Trying out new recipes and restaurants. Cooking and sharing food with others.
Something unique about me: I have traveled to Africa twice, visiting Madagascar and Ethiopia. Lemurs and Gelada Baboons. Now I need to get to West Africa, specifically Senegal.
If I wrote an autobiography, its title would be: A New Hampshire Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The last thing that I read: On the Plain of Snake: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux
What I'm reading now: Great American outpost: dreamers, mavericks, and the making of an oil frontier by Maya Rao
Top 5 Favorite Books:
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Favorite Genres:
Adult Nonfiction - History
Adult Fiction - Short Stories
Adult Nonfiction- Cooking & Baking
Adult Nonfiction - Memoir/Biographies
Other languages that I can speak and read it: Russian and Spanish