Here are the rules: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated. 5) Reprint this list in your own LJ (or blog)
Here is my bending of the rules: I have about had it with editing the html so I'm not going to do the strikethrough thing. Even if I haven't underlined a book, meaning I LOVED it, you can assume that I at least "liked" all of the books I read, because I don't finish books I don't like. All the books left in plain text you may assume I did not read (or only read part of) even if they were assigned in school. I also do not plan to read these books, but that doesn't mean I won't ever.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (No way. Never ever.) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible (part of it) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (part of it) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I'm certainly not ruling this or maybe Anna Karenina out so as to have read something by Tolstoy.) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (or The Brothers Karamazov) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I actually may have already read this, but I'm not exactly sure.) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (see War and Peace) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (or something else by Dickens) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (maybe...) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (I think this another for the "never ever" pile.) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Watching: The Breakfast Club (1984) starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. I was under the mistaken impression that Sweetie had never seen this so I added it to our Netflix queue. Turns out he had, he just didn't remember it the way I did. "What if your house, your family, no... your dope... was on fire?"
Ballet Russes (2005) A documentary about a ballet company and all the fascinating stuff that went on behind the scenes.
Savage Grace (2007) starring Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane and Eddie Redmayne. Saw this at the Little Art Cinema last night. Didn't get the greatest reviews, but I enjoyed it. Nothing like a wealthy, f***ed up family to get my attention. And it's based on a true story!
1. Where is your cell phone? purse 2. Your significant other? upstairs 3. Your hair? long 4. Your mother? cool 5. Your father? dead 6. Your favorite thing? animals 7. Your dream last night? forgot 8. Your favorite drink? water 9. Your dream/goal? contentment 10. The room you’re in? living 11. Your ex? schizophrenic* 12. Your fear? attack 13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? library 14. Where were you last night? home 15. What you’re not? thin 16. Muffins? blueberry 17. One of your wish list items? Benet's 18. Where you grew up? Plainville 19. The last thing you did? sip 20. What are you wearing? capris 21. Your TV? tennis 22. Your pets? two 23. Your computer? Mac 24. Your life? good 25. Your mood? peaceful 26. Missing someone? Dad 27. Your car? Honda 28. Something you’re not wearing? earrings 29. Favorite store? athleta.com 30. Your summer? hot 31. Like (love) someone? Sweetie 32. Your favorite color? purple 33. Last time you laughed? today 34. Last time you cried? Tuesday? 35. Who will re-post this? who?
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.
Laura says: This is an interesting blog meme, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. (If you participate, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.) You're supposed to bold the things that were true for you.
Privileged childhood? 1. Father went to college 2. Father finished college 3. Mother went to college 4. Mother finished college 5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor 6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers 7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home 8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home 9. Were read children's books by a parent 10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively 13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs 15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs 16. Went to a private high school 17. Went to summer camp 18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18 19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels *You know, I realized I should highlight this one because from the time I was age 5 on, we had a vacation cottage. So no, we didn't really go on vacations to other places anymore, but we had a vacation home. 20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18 21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them 22. There was original art in your house when you were a child 23. You and your family lived in a single-family house 24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home 25. You had your own room as a child 26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18 28. Had your own TV in your room in high school 30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 31. Went on a cruise with your family 32. Went on more than one cruise with your family 33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up 34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
You scored the Caterpillar! You like to enjoy your relaxation in solitude and look down your nose at people who don't make sense. However begrudginly, you end up helping people out and give sound advice.
Got this from Laura. She is the walrus (she is the Egg Man coo coo ca-choo).
1. When I was a child, I often had short hair and often hung out with my brother and got mistaken for a boy a couple times. It was only a couple times and it was by adults who weren't really paying attention, but it really bothered me. I think these incidents are part of the reason I am now so attached to having long hair.
2. I didn't like / was afraid of cats until I was about 13, when I met the cat owned by some people I babysat for. Ever since then, I have been a cat lover.
3. Even though I'm a vegetarian, I still get cravings for hamburgers sometimes. One time a couple of years ago, I succumbed and went out and got a double cheeseburger at McDonald's.
4. I can sing / recite the words to many old TV show theme songs - Alice, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, Rhoda, to name a few.
5. My brother and sister and I loved Christmas so much when we were little. One year in October we took out all sorts of decorations, including a small artificial tree, and put them up in the basement. It was Christmas in the basement of our house, even though it was only October.
I generally don't tag people because I'm not sure if they'd like it, but if you want to play along, please do and let me know in the comments.
1. What is the soundtrack for this LJ? I don't really keep an LJ although I do have an account there. Recent soundtrack has been mostly podcasts: Marketplace, Grammar Girl and Hip Tranquil Chick.
2. What's bothering you right now? The war in Iraq.
3. Do you close the door when you are sleeping? No.
4. What is in your wallet? Some cash, credit cards, store cards, driver's license, 2 school IDs, my debit card, a few of those punch cards (your 10th coffee free type things).
5. Wallpaper on your computer's desktop? Hip Tranquil Chick.
6. Background on your cell phone? None. I barely know how to use my cell phone and have no idea how I would put wallpaper on it.
7. Next time you will kiss someone? This afternoon, I'm sure. :-)
8. Where was your default picture taken? It's a Yahoo avatar.
9. Eyes: Brown.
10. Life: I have a good life, but I do suffer from fear and frustration at times.
11. House: I love my house.
12. Doing this weekend? Relaxing and errands.
13. Wearing? T-shirt, yoga pants, socks, running shoes, sports bra top and a heart rate monitor (I just worked out).
14. Who was the last person to send you a text message? Months and months ago, this guy at work tried to send me one to show me how they worked, but I didn't get it. (Remember, I barely know how to use my cell phone.)
15. If you could have one thing right now what would it be? A satisfying career.
16. Listening to? The hum of the computer, the sound of the breeze blowing, cars going by on the highway.
17. Have you ever kissed anyone named Patty? No.
18. What do you smell like? Right now, probably sweat.
19. Eating? I had two scramled eggs for breakfast.
20. On your bed, what is your favorite thing? If not Sweetie or Trinka, um... I guess my pillow - ?
21. Do you believe in a soul mate? No.
22. What do you wear to bed? A white cotton nightie.
23. Do you remember your dreams? Just bits and pieces occasionally, and I'm usually extremely relieved to wake up and realize they were just dreams.
24. Do you burn easily in the sun? Yes.
25. Have you ever been gambling? We tried it on our honeymoon cruise with about $20 which we lost immediately. Not my thing at all. To me, it seems akin to throwing money in the trash.
26. What's something you wish you could understand better? Computer / technical kind of stuff, but probably not enough to seek it out. Other languages - I definitely want to learn at least one "foreign" language - probably German or French.
27. What did you do last weekend? The usual - relaxed, did chores, that sort of thing.
28. Who do you miss? My dad and my nana.
29. Who is the last girl you hugged? Probably my friend Writer.
30. Orange or apple juice? Orange.
31. Who was the last person you went somewhere with? Out of the house - Sweetie last night to pick up the take-out food.
32. What was the last text message? See number 14.
33. Have you kissed anyone on your friendslist? No.
34. Last time you ate a home grown tomato? I can't remember; it's probably been a couple years.
36. What was the last thing you drank? Water, and I'm having more right now.
37. Who's house did you go to last night? I stayed home.
38. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital? My sister-in-law in the spring after she had a baby.
39. Do you like someone right now? You mean like "like" someone? Ohmigod, totally!!!
40. What do you wear more, slacks, jeans, or sweatpants? Jeans.
41. What is the last movie you watched? With who? (I believe it should be "whom.") On video, The Control Room last night with Sweetie. In the theater, Waitress with Sweetie.
42. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink: Really only two - water and coffee (with milk and sugar). But I also enjoy Reed's Ginger Brew in the summer.
43. What are you excited about? Losing weight, getting a clothesline, visiting Rockport next weekend, reading Victory.
44. Do you want someone you can't have? No.
45. Who was last to slap your butt? Several years ago, this guy I know did as a joke. I did think it was kind of funny, but he felt bad later and called to apologize.
46. Where was the last place you went? Out of the house? Szechuan Tokyo to pick up the take-out.
47. What's on your mind right now? What I'm going to do today.
48. Have you cried recently? No, but I pretended to last night when Sweetie said he didn't believe me when I said that Blue sang a song.
49. When you think of your crush, who is it? Sweetie of course.
50. Is taking a shower a daily habit? Yes, but I do occasionally miss one.
Miss Rachel
