JFH Former Staff: Caitlin Schesser

Name: Caitlin Schesser

Former Role At JFH: Book Review Writer

Pets: Dog (1)--status: adorable and thinks she's a lap dog (she's not, she's 90 pounds); Cat (1)--status: Totoro in cat form

Education: Eastern Nazarene College

Hobbies: Writing; reading; wrangling unicorns; people watching; looking for Narnia.

Pet Peeves: Crooked pictures; willful ignorance; soggy macaroni; lopsided origami; false advertising, especially with books.

Thing you MUST Know: It's really difficult to offend me. Three things you must insult to earn my ire: 1) Family, 2) C.S. Lewis, 3) tea.

Guilty Pleasures: TERRIBLE puns. And Nutella. And really poorly-written books in the summertime.

Favorite TV Shows: Merlin; Whitechapel; Once Upon A Time; Downton Abbey; The Paradise; anything on the Food Network; Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law; Warehouse 13; Law & Order UK; Psych; Digimon; Tom and Jerry; Looney Tunes; The Three Stooges; Mr. Bean; Hell's Kitchen; Jeopardy!; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Favorite Movie: Interstellar

Favorite Actors: Jeremy Irons; Martin Freeman; Skandar Keynes; Hugh Bonneville; Colin Firth; Alan Rickman; Ben Daniels; Jamie Bell; Jared Harris; Sean Connery; Russel Crowe; David Strathairn; Daniel Day-Lewis; Tommy Lee Jones; Robert Carlyle; Gary Oldman; Andrew Eckhart; Nicolas Cage; Ioan Gruffud. (I'm gonna be the archetypal hipster here and say that I knew about Benedict Cumberbatch's acting career before most of America did, so there, he's obligatorily on my list FOR GOOD REASON.)

Favorite Actresses: Emma Thompson; Elizabeth McGovern; Barbara Stanwyck; Claudette Colbert; Maggie Smith; Georgie Henley; Emma Watson; Imelda Staunton; Cate Blanchett; Viola Davis; Emma Stone; Octavia Spencer; Sigourney Weaver; Helena Bonham Carter; Judy Garland.

Favorite Books: Everything C.S. Lewis; The Wingfeather Saga (Andrew Peterson); The Giver (Lois Lowry); Lady of Devices (Shelley Adina); Wuthering Heights (Emily Bront�); Matched (Ally Condie); Therese Raquin (Emile Zola); Redwall (Brian Jacques); Percy Jackson (Rick Riordan).

Favorite Cartoon Characters: Tom and Jerry; Courage, the cowardly dog; Norb and Dag from Angry Beavers; any Looney Tune.

Favorite Bands: Anberlin; Andrew Peterson; Lord Huron; Fleet Foxes; Brooke Fraser; Future of Forestry; The Whistles and the Bells; Imagine Dragons; Hurts; House of Heroes; Owl City; The Vespers; Plumb; Switchfoot; Men As Trees Walking.

Favorite Live Shows: Anything theater related

Favorite Animal: Great grey owl

Favorite Food: Anything with cheese

Favorite Fast Food: FIVE GUYS!

Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Reese's Puffs (or Cinnamon Toast Crunch...I can't decide.)

Favorite Drink: Well-brewed tea

Favorite Candy: Gummy sharks

Most Embarrassing Moment: Wearing a "got life?" shirt to a funeral. (Don't worry, I kept my coat on.)