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Membro: JoannaON

ColecçõesNon-fiction (306), Fiction (195), A sua biblioteca (538), Todas as colecções (577)

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EtiquetasHorses (6), horsemanship (6), design (5), Design (3), Fantasy (3), Drama (2), humour (2), sidesaddle (2), riding (2), bits (2) — ver todas as etiquetas

Nuvensnuvem de etiquetas, nuvem de autores

GruposRead YA Lit, The Green Dragon, What Are You Reading Now?

Autores favoritosFannie Flagg, Laurie Graham, Nicholas Stuart Gray, K.M. Peyton (Favoritos partilhados)

Sobre mimI was born in 1955. I'm married to one engineer and mother to two more, one part way through a doctorate (zapping cancer cells) and one soon to graduate.

I was a full time mother in so far as getting paid for anything goes, but as soon as the younger one started school I shot off to college one day a week and studied stitched textiles. This led to exhibiting, speaking, contributing to magazines and quilt judging.

And I was horse-mad from the age of seven, although I've never had my own. I groomed, taught, exercised polo ponies, jumped sidesaddle, and even had a brief taste of in-hand pair driving. Then in 2006 I discovered Kelly Marks' Intelligent Horsemanship organisation (google "intelligent horsemanship") and now hold the MRPCH and am collecting case studies prior to (I hope) become one of Kelly's recommended associates.

And the writing... After decades of destroying the fiction I wrote, I belatedly realised that constructing a novel is like painting a picture - you don't start at the top left and paint your way down to the bottom right, but you underpaint first, then block in major shapes and add layers of detail, adjusting as you go. Now here I am with my first novel published and out there, and to my slight surprise being enjoyed by an unexpectedly wide range of ages.

The problem is that promoting that is interfering with writing the second novel, but I guess that's a nice problem to have.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaNot complete, of course. For a start, my sister and I split our childhood collection many years ago, and anyway I don't have the space to keep everything. Some years ago an Oxfam van took away several boxes of books I knew (ha!) I'd never read again, and do I regret some of them? Of course I do. Oh well. Not as bad as the Stilton pots.

From our first Christmas together, I bought my husband a nice ceramic pot of Stilton every year. I had cloudy notions of displaying a vast collection when I was eighty. Then one day I started drawing them together and realised there were several missing. That blew that idea out of the water, so I selected the best three and wrapped the rest up in newspaper and took them to the Oxfam shop.

The next day I suddenly "saw" one acting as a receptacle of brown coins. Oh! Then there was the one with the parslay pot in it, and another full of paperclips in the study. Well! (I still buy him a Christmas pot, but the sparkle has gone out of it now.)

Ah, having looked at some other profiles I see it is acceptable to add virtual books - books borrowed or lost. I'll expand from memory, then.

I was pretty ruthless with the star rating. It was hard to be consistent, so I walloped through acting on impulse. In any case, the ratings represent how I feel about the books rather than my objective assessment of them.

Página pessoalhttp://www.joanna-oneill.com

Nome realJoanna O'Neill

LocalizaçãoBerkshire, England

Tipo de contapública, vitalícia

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Membro desdeOct 16, 2009