S. D. Youngren's "Homepage"

But I hate talking about myself!

Me:

Name:

Shelley [mumble] Youngren

Born:

1961, San José, California

Location:

Los Angeles, California

Marital Status:

Really quite astonishingly married, to Mark Strohm.

Height:

5' 8" (173cm)

Weight:

Yes, thank you.

Measurements:

Mark! Don't you dare!

Hair:

Blonde

Eyes:

Grey

Culture (pop or otherwise):

Favorite Bands:

Jethro Tull and the Baltimore Consort.

Favorite Male Vocalists:

Ian Anderson and Luciano Pavarotti.

Favorite Female Vocalist:

Custer La Rue.

Favorite Actor:

Tom Baker.

Favorite Actress:

Jane Horrocks.

Favorite TV Shows:

Doctor Who, Port Charles and Red Dwarf.

Favorite Movie:

The Producers.

Brush with Fame:

I was taking an Honors Colloquium from Scott Rice when he founded the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing Contest.

Favorite Books and Authors:

Books	Authors
- Portnoy's Complaint - The Counterlife - Patrimony	Philip Roth
- The Glorious Ones	Francine Prose
- Breakfast of Champions - Slaughterhouse 5 - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut
- The Lost Continent	Bill Bryson
- The Garden Party	Katherine Mansfield
- The Satanic Verses - Shame	Salman Rushdie
- The Day of the Locust	Nathanael West
- The Burning Book	Maggie Gee
- The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Midsummer Nights Dream	William Shakespeare
- Blood Tie	Mary Lee Settle
- The Kitchen God's Wife	Amy Tan
- Losta stuff	Anton Chekhov
- Goodness	Tim Parks
- A Pale View of Hills - The Unconsoled	Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Bachelors	Muriel Spark
- The Bookshop	Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
- Grendel	John Gardner
- Alice in Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll
- Edwin Mullhouse	Steven Millhauser
- The Flounder	Günter Grass
- The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies	Beatrix Potter
- The Dark is Rising Sequence - The King of Shadows	Susan Cooper
- Winnie the Pooh	A. A. Milne
- Dave Barry's Guide to Life	Dave Barry
- The Collected Poems	T. S. Eliot
- Riddle of Stars	Patricia McKillip
- My Name Is Asher Lev - The Gift Of Asher Lev	Chaim Potok
- The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien

among others.

Critters:

Favorite Kind of Animal:

What do you mean one! Oh, all right, Bunnies.

Past Pets:

One dog, four hamsters, scores of aquarium fish, and two rabbits.

Current Pet:

One cat.

Humpback Whales Adopted:

Silver and Nurse.

Favorite song about rats:

The Famous Ratketcher.

Stupidest name my husband ever came up with for a wild tree rat:

Velveeta.