Nina Berry

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Tiger in human guise. I write books about clever girls. Movie maven. Prone to wander. She/her. https://bio.site/ninaberry

A shot of the great bull's head from Persepolis, a black stone carved head of a bull, its neck gracefully curved, hair picked out in impeccable rows arcing up its head and around its jaw. A thing of beauty and power. A thing college-aged Nina dreamed of stealing away, though it weighed many tons, to live with her forever.
Book cover of Sublimation with the tagging "the Border Cuts You in Two."
A cat crouches atop a kitchen cupboard, framed by triangular windows, ready to pounce, kill, rend. That damn spider criticized her knock knock jokes, and he's about to reap the whirlwind.
Photo of a beautiful sticker showing a lovely petite brown mare on a sunlit green hill. The edges of the sticker sparkle!
Photo of John Cleese looking askance at someone - in this case, The Telegraph.
Close up of Sadie the cat, curled as if sleeping but with one eye ever so slightly open because she needs to know you're appreciating her cuteness.
Photo of my feet in black socks. The socks have an L on one sock for the left foot and an R on the other for the right foot. But I gave them switched and can't be bothered to switch them back.
Screenshot of my TV from the movie "Fools for Scandal" showing a gorgeous Carole Lombard wearing a silk bed gown with a fur collar in a sumptuous bed with a 10-ft high padded headboard. A row of eight women face her, all wearing hats and stoles. The bedroom around them is enormous, with wall to ceiling slated blinds by the bed and a padded fabric wall next to them. Everything gleams like it's made of satin.
A screenshot of the Wallace Stevens poem: Men Made Out of Words What should we be without the sexual myth, The human revery or poem of death? Castratos of moon-mash—Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
An elegant brown tabby lounges on the thick arm of a sofa. His long front legs jut outward, elegantly crossed. His eyes are shut, but he's listening, and judging.
Sadie the fluffy white and gray cat sleeps with one paw over her face, unfairly hiding her pink nose.
Illustration of a female praying mantis with her long elegant back legs holding her up on some green branches. Her upper half is raised triumphantly upward, forelegs extended up in a victory stance or a lovely morning stretch, back wings fluttering happily.
A glorious stretch of white sand stretches toward sheer green cliffs with frothy turquoise ocean on one side and dark green ironwood trees on the other. Blue sky and white clouds above. Hardly any people below.
Two gray lumps on a sugar white sand beach that I promise you are monk seals. Beyond them the blue ocean, rocks, and the sky. In the foreground is the protective fencing to keep meddling boneheads away.
A white regret stands outside in the sun, head turned to stare back curiously at the camera. Beyond, the green Nuuanu valley.
An orange cat with very short hair, huge ears, and a grumpy gremlin face crouches on a red stool, demanding that you answer he these questions three.
Thr angled white face of a big-eared cat with very short fur and enormous ears.
Looking toward Waimea Bay from Hale'iwa, you see black rock along the frothy white and blue of the water. The coastline winds into a cerulean haze of hills, cloud, and sky.
A young mom in a bikini holds a tiny redheaded baby's hands as they play on the sunny shoreline of Makua Beach on the north shore of Oahu. The water is so blue, and the Waianae mountains loom green in the distance.
A still from a Monty Python sketch of John Cleese looking at someone as if they are a complete idiot.
Book cover of On the Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle, a speculative novel translated by Barbara J. Haveland. The title is in a white circle on green background, and successively smaller rings of red, blue, and yellow circle wavering inside that white circle.
Close up of a handsome long-haired tabby cat with big green eyes. You can see a tiny bit of his pink tongue peeking out of his mouth.
Photo of a young black wolf in the spring molting fur phase. His body nearly fills the frame, and his back half is busy molting faded brownish fur, with chunks of black fur showing through. His head is turned toward the photographer, ears up, golden eyes glowing.
Nina in front of the pyramid of Khafre in Giza, Egypt. I'm wearing a pink t-shift and a crossbody bag because TRAVEL, and sunglasses. I'm smiling and squinting in disbelief that I finally made my dream of going to Egypt come true.
The book cover of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder with the author's name "Nina McConigley, author of Cowboys and East Indians" at the bottom. The image is of a large bottle of anti-freeze on an orange table and pink and orange wallpaper on the wall behind it. The wallpaper has tiny buffaloes on it. A hand with pink nailpolish on the nails grips the handle of the bottle.
A panel from a comic of Lying Cat, a pointy eared, giant blue-gray cat, with her mouth open, eyes like angry slits, saying the one thing she says, because she always knows: "Lying."
Photo from inside an empty permanent set on Midwest Street on the Warner Bros. lot. You're looking from an empty "shop" through windows and an open door to a "street" with little white midwesty houses on it, and a crane.
Close up from a comic book depiction of Lying Cat, in which the large, pointy-eared, blue-gray feline squints at someone and says: "Lying."
The cover for the book EVIL GENIUS shows the back of a man's neck with a woman's hands wrapped, perhaps lovingly, perhaps not, around it as if to pull his head down, perhaps for a kiss. Perhaps not. She has a diamond ring on her ring finger and red fingernails. The background is also a blood red. The style screams conservative 1950s. The title is in big yellow font, and at the bottom it says "Author of Poor Deer, Claire Osheltsky.)
Photo of the cover of the book WHY DOES HE DO THAT: Inside the minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft. It's brown with the title in big white letters, and the subtitle in smaller black letters. Ms. Bancroft's name is in white. Read it.
A long shot of the shoe library at the WB costume department. Three walls of shoes about twenty feet high surround you, with one of those sliding library ladders to help you reach the very top.
Lisa Simpson extends her arms up, hands in fists triumphantly, eyes closed as she yells, "It's apt. Apt!"
The ghosts of the Friends characters gather on the famous red-orange couch to reminisce and punch each other with impunity since ghosts can't feel pain, except maybe on cold days like today when the loneliness seeps in between the cracks in their souls.
The black curtain the upper left open window is having a fabulous time in today's breeze over the WB backlot. Waving hi to the clouds and stating that everything's on the table when it comes to mergers.
A photo of two wild rabbits conferring over great box office for Wuthering Heights on the Warner Bros lot.
Photo of a pretty pink, blue, and black whistle keychain next to a tiny, adorable pink and purple turtle. The flippers move!
The sunlight fluff of a gray and white cat in her cozy bed. She has that back right leg justting out from her otherwise circular form again, like a flag or a beacon.
A plump fluffy gray and white cat lounges in a fuzzy cat bed in the sunshine. She has one white leg sticking out like a ballet dancer mid stetch.
Close up of a fluffy white and gray cat sleeping with one paw over her eyes because she forgot her sleep mask. Her nose is a rosy pink.
Photo of a pretty pink flower.
The purple cover of The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, with the title in big gold letters and the sharp-beaked profile of a raven sketched in white.
A fluffy gray and white cat lies in a snug fuzzy bed staring at the camera insolently. One white rear leg sticks out of the bed, toe pointed.
A photo of the SJ Ross theater on the WB lot with the water tower in the distance. The water tower is lit with faintly pink lights.
A series of gorgeous shots including a pink sky with a hill and tree silhouetted as Mary Pickford climbs across some rocks, a lighthouse sweeping its lamp across crashing waves, Pickford in a doorway speaking to a seated man with a crucifix on the wall beside them, a longshot inside a church of Pickford on her knees before a nun as light streams through the windows upon them, and Pickford and a male actor in silhouette with the sea behind them, bathed in pink light.
Sadie the cat on top of Nina's white kitchen cupboards, looking down at the lesser counter with disdain.
A chunky gray and white cat sleeps the sleep of the righteous after turning my blanket into her lollipop.
A gray tabby cat gets scritches from Non's hand.
old timey photo of a nun in a round wimple that totally surrounds her face. She looks peaceful, unlike the owl.
Sadie the overfed gray and white cat sleeps with her back legs splayed out, clearly exhausted after a night of clubbing and karaoke.
Photo of Nina's Christmas tree, decorated with colorful lights, an angel on top, and ornaments collected over many years.
Photo of a fluffy gray and brown tabby cat lying in the meatloaf position on a fuzzy ivory colored chair. His eyes are very green and full of wisdom.
Photo of a street sign with arrows pointing out which lanes can turn which way, and under one set of black arrows is a sticker of a man's jowly face in profile. He has a small dark mustache, receding dark hair, and sunglasses on top of his head.
Poster for Mo with Mo leaning against his car with the border wall in the background.
Cover art for the Daggerheart book featuring all sorts of creatures, from a magical frog person to a fairy to a dragon.
Poster for ANDOR, Season 2.
Theatrical poster for the movie Sinnes featuring Michael B. Jordan with a sun setting behind him and the tagline "Dance with the Devil."