Muddy's Favorite Books and Other Things

My Favorite Books

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  What are matters of consequence?
• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
  Real magic...no matter what I say about this one, it could never be enough
• Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  An epic of The South interwoven with beauty and sorrow
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  The nature of love and of vengeance
• Shadow Song - Terry Kay
  A bittersweet and breathtakingly beautiful novel of friendship and of love
• Southern Ladies and Gentlemen - Florence King
  An irreverently hilarious look at the characters that live below the Mason-Dixon line
• Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  The story of Jean Valjean and those whose lives were interwoven with his
• Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  On the building of the Canterbury Cathedral
• Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
  One man's search for immortality
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  Love, damnation, redemption, and the French Revolution

Other Literary and Musical Favorites

An Emily Dickinson Page
Her life, her poems, even some of her recipes! Also includes discussion/analysis of her work.
Paul's Case by Willa Cather
A full-text version of the poignant short story.
Rod McKuen: A Safe Place to Land
An official website, updated frequently; features new poems.
John Steinbeck on Traveling
An excerpt from Travels with Charley
James Taylor
Sony Music's official JT website
Cat Stevens
Majicat: Cat Stevens Scrapbook
Jimmy Buffett
Son of a Son of a Website
Sarah McLachlan
Official website of the ethereal-voiced lady behind Lilith Fair

My Favorite Movies

• Casablanca
• Life Is Beautiful
• Gone with the Wind
• The Piano
• It's a Wonderful Life
• My Cousin Vinny
• City of Angels
• The African Queen
• The Maltese Falcon
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Forrest Gump
• Tootsie
• Starman
• Cat Ballou
• No Time for Sargents
• Scent of a Woman

Navigating These Pages

My Someone Special, My DG   The One that I've been waiting for forever
Bienvenue au Monde Français   Muddy's links for people who love France and things French
Muddy's Commonplace Book   A general collection of quotations, with favorite extractions from favorite books
Muddy's Commonplace Book Two: Poems   Some I have written, others I have chosen
Muddy's Photo Album   Just a beginning effort
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