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Danielle's Favourites and Influences


Music:

Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Ani DiFranco, Emm Gryner, Suzanne Vega, David Gray, Andy Stochansky


Prose:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
     Because sometimes revisionist history is better than the real thing.
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
     Because sometimes you need to believe in the idea when you hate the institution.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
     Because sometimes the shortest distance between two points is full circle.
Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
     Because sometimes people change and you wish they wouldn�t.
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Cohelo
     Because things are rarely, if ever, what they seem to be.

Poetry:

Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda
     Passion and imagery and sadness, oh my.
[somewhere I have never travelled] by e.e. cummings
     Things are either complex and simply said, or simple and explained with complications. Or not.