amandadinallo

General details


  • amandadinallo

  • Glastonbury, Connecticut

  • Amanda DiNallo

  • Manchester Community College - Sophomore

  • Female

In short

  • I am eighteen years young and have only recently discovered my love of reading, and even more recently - my love of writing.  I love to express creativity and imagination.  Sometimes when i start writing, I can't stop for hours.  Once it comes flowing, it's hard to stop.
    I don't have any credentials really, except for in 3rd grade i came in second place in my class for the Christmas story i wrote, and i got an 11/12 on my SAT for the essay section. 
    Like i mentioned before, I love to read and write.  I also love anything to do with being outdoors, or performing some kind of outrageously thrilling and adventurous activity.  Preferably one that gets my heart thumping and my adrenaline pumping.   Albeit i've never actually done the following, I can already imagine how much i'm going to love the rush and scare of them all: skydiving, hang gliding, bungee jumping, para sailing, cliff jumping.  I can also already imagine the look on my mother's face when i inform her of all these intentions.
    Two other activities I couldn't live without include: snowboarding and the beach.  It is great because since one occurs during the summer and the other occurs the oppisite end of the year, i always have something to keep me busy AND something to look forward to.
    I also enjoy the simpler side of life.  I am comfortably content sitting home at night with a bag of popcorn, and a few friends while enjoying a movie night.  Movies are also one of my favorite hobbies. Going out to eat is also another.
    I work at Stop and Shop, as a customer service attendant, and a starbucks clerk.  I thoroughly enjoy my job, and everyone that works there.  We are like one, big happy family.
    My real family is very important to me.  My book actually stems from my family, given my mother is actually not dead. Norian is based on my older brother, i am based on Aliaga, my younger brother is based on Adotlin and Sarah is based on my best friend/brother's girlfriend.   Prospero is my father, and they share in common Prospero's sagacity, and all knowing type of intellect.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • Fiction: Fairytales, Folklore & Mythology, Horror, Humor/Satire, Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult/Juvenile

    Non-Fiction: Biography, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

    Poetry: Epic, Fantasy, General, Romantic / Love

  • Holly Black's Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside.
    Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunters Trilogy (City of Ash, City of Bones, and City of Glass)
    Libba Brey's trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing)
    Beowulf
    Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe
    British Romantic Poetry - John Keats, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Samuel Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelley
    Shakespeare favorites - The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
    Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • At the beach on a day that it's not too windy, and laying in my waterbed
  • a random assortment of poetry
  • Fiction: Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Teen

    Poetry: General, Romantic / Love

  • Rose Hathaway from the Vampire Academy Series, or Kaye from the Tithe series
  • Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Christopher Pike, Libba Brey, Shakespeare, John Keats, Melissa De Le Cruz