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| book meme june 28th, 2008 at 09:57pm mood â‹…  hungry |
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According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicise those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-) I've read 6, with some on my 'to read' list :) 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I love this book!!) 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I read one of those child abridged a long time ago) 12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I want to read some of His... esp. "Hamlet" and "Much Ado About Nothing") 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 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32. David Copperfield - Charles 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 (currently reading) 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 (this is such a wonderfully written & beautiful book! :) 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' 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 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 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| 2008 reading list may 18th, 2008 at 05:00pm mood â‹…  thoughtful |
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Here it is!- My 2007 Reading List was pitiful... at only 21 books :'( That makes me sad. This year, I must do more reading! :D ~*~*~**~*~ Currently Reading: CoN: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - by C.S. Lewis | Eragon - by Christopher Paolini | Black - by Ted Dekker | Skin - by Ted Dekker | Brother's of The Outlaw Trail | Battlefield of The Mind - by Joyce Meyers ~*~*~*~*~*~~* {1} Ghost in The House - by Daniel Cohen /*/ started & finished in mar. 2008 * Very interesting book... especially the first story about Sarah Winchester. I feel a fic coming on! :D {2} Goosebumps #22: Ghost Beach - by R.L. Stine /*/ started & finished in mar. 2008 * Little scary for kids, but pretty good... the ending is a twist, but I kinda wondered, but still... it's typical RL ;) {3} How to Eat Fried Worms - by Thomas Rockwell /*/ started: mar. 2008 /*/ finished: mar/apr. 2008 * Are you hungry yet? :p LOL. This book isn't bad so far, Billy makes a bet with Alan to eat a worm once a day for 15 days, for $50 dollars. He acts all like he doesn't mind the worms, but he really just thinks "worm" sometimes when he's eating them and doesn't like it. I hope Billy wins the bet - esp. after eating all the wigglies! :) {4} Jack Sparrow #9: Dance of The Hours - by Robb Kidd ^ Quite a good one :) - with a twist at the end... I can't wait for the next one :) {5} Orphan Train Children #3: A Place to Belong - by Joan Lowery Nixon {6} Dangerous Ghosts - by Daniel Cohen {7} G.I. Joe and Lillie - by Joseph Bonsall |
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| 2008 movie list may 18th, 2008 at 04:58pm mood â‹… hot |
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2008 Movie List I think the point is to watch 100 movies between January 1st and December 31st. Keep the list public and rate the movies. -- snagged from Jimmy @ Scribbld.net updated 5/18/2008
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| now not so 'ugh' april 14th, 2008 at 05:50pm mood â‹…  cheerful |
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Today has gotten better, yay! I went to the dentist, and for once --- no cavities! :D I've talked to my mom a bit more, and we're not upset at each other anymore. I find that as of more recent, I've been honest/open/blunt with her about things, and usually with a better result. Actually, it seems I'm being more open and honest with people as of more recent. Sometimes I have to be blunt with them, because it's the best way to get my point across. I've started reading "Battlefield of The Mind" by Joyce Meyers -- and so far it's really good, and she's right. I've only read about 20-22 pages, but when she got to fictional character of John as an example, I read it, and I was like 'Oh my word! This is my dad's life story!' John in the book, has a mother who put him down saying 'he would never make anything of himself' -- which is like my dad, only it was his dad who told him that. His dad never believed in him, and never encouraged him. John didn't like confrontation, and let the wife handle the children, the finances, and everything, and sinked into the TV and sports realm -- something my dad does a lot. He's involved with us, but my mom handles a lot of the finances and everything. John avoids confrontation, and when he has been involved with it, it seems no one listens to him anyway, so he's like 'why bother?' I read that to my mom, and she agreed that it fit dad pretty much to a tee. I'm reading through this book, to see if it might help my sister. I was shelf reading one day @ work, and it seemed to jump off at me, as something that might be good for her. So, I'm checking it out, and so far, so good :D I didn't pass my driver's test today. At first I was really pissed about it, but now after some time has passed, I realize that she probably did the best thing by not passing me. I crossed to far into the other lane of traffic while making a turn in the parking lot, which disqualified me. I also must've gotten quite a bit wrong on the eye test --- so I'm gonna have an eye exam and then re-take the test -- also hopefully with a bit of more practice going around the curves more. I think I was a little nervous about that too ' cause I'm always afraid I might hit the curve... so I'll have to work on that more :D hope everyone has a nice monday (and relaxing too :) love & hugs, ~* Kelly ^_^ |
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| please pray for my dad... april 5th, 2008 at 06:11pm mood â‹… sad |
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Please pray for my Dad... he's drinking a lot, and he's saying God doesn't love him.... he's letting the past come back to haunt him. my sister just talked to him, and he's feeling awful about his friends during the Vietnam War who died and he can't remember them. He feels that God will hold it against him for what he did during the war... he was in the Air Force, a crew chief for C-130s, and he never killed anyone, but he feels because he contributed to others killing, and he feels that God won't forgive him for that. And he brought up David... David made a lot of mistakes, but he realized that, and God forgave him. David was a man after God's heart --- God used him for great things!!! Just because you were/are a soldier, I don't believe God holds that against you at all!! He knows the predicament soldiers are in, He also knows that a lot of times you don't want to be there, but you are, and I feel that God holds a special place in his heart for soldiers. I know God loves him and forgives him, but he needs to know and accept. If you could pray for my dad, I'd really appreciate it. He needs more than what he's living for now. |
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