My pile of books is a mile high.*
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bending_sickleToday I:
a) Cleaned my room (in preparation for Willy's visit tomorrow)
b) Skyped with Robert (thrice!)
c) Correctly identified a lion from Rob's photo (booya!)
In sum, a good day. There was a lot of squee and misty eyes. Now, if only I had some new episodes to watch...
Book Meme! via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
celestineangel
According to the BBC, the average person has only read about 6 of these books.
Bold = read completely.
Italic = read partially.
Underline = future read.
My total = 30 from the list were read completely, which means, adding on books in a series, a total of 35. The average person is illiterate.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling - This is more than one book, dimwits.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - We hates it, my precious.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 - How does this count as one book?
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
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 - Again, this is lots of books.
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 - Oh gods the movie was aweful.
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A.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 - L.M.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 - Love it! Until the end, that is.
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 - DonnaTartt
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 - Love it!
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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - DavidMitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - KazuoIshiguro
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 - The fox made me cry.
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 - And this isn't in the complete works of Billy because...?
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Links of the Day:
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
quoteymcquote's icons
ontd_political's Women Will Be Hurt By Gay Marriage - Has comments that renews my faith in humanity. Especially mirkwood's comment
zqfans's Post Finale News
greygirlbeast's SyFy, worse even than you expected. - Alas, SciFi SyFy, you had such promise.
The "I Love..." Meme:teand loves, [Unknown site tag] loves, ,lj user=destina> loves
Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon and Fan community:marmalade_fish
phantmgreeneyes's Fic: The Zombie Apocalypse Difficulty
girlmostlikely's SPN Reading List, Fic Recs, Fic Rec Continued
candle_beck's SPN Fic: On the Dodge
beckaandzac's RPF (J2): The One With the Pandas In It and Sequel: Cuddly Voyeur
whereupon's SPN Fic: Quicksand
Loving True Blood In Dallas's Recipie Index, including Sam Merlotte's Louisiana Swamp Gas Chili and Gran's Pecan Pie or 'Crying pie' the True Blood version
Demons - Six-part British TV show (with Philip Glenister) which is basically Buffy
Book: A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
* Arnorld Lobel
a) Cleaned my room (in preparation for Willy's visit tomorrow)
b) Skyped with Robert (thrice!)
c) Correctly identified a lion from Rob's photo (booya!)
In sum, a good day. There was a lot of squee and misty eyes. Now, if only I had some new episodes to watch...
Book Meme! via
celestineangel According to the BBC, the average person has only read about 6 of these books.
Bold = read completely.
Italic = read partially.
Underline = future read.
My total = 30 from the list were read completely, which means, adding on books in a series, a total of 35. The average person is illiterate.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling - This is more than one book, dimwits.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - We hates it, my precious.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 - How does this count as one book?
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
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 - Again, this is lots of books.
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 - Oh gods the movie was aweful.
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A.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 - L.M.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 - Love it! Until the end, that is.
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 - DonnaTartt
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 - Love it!
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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - DavidMitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - KazuoIshiguro
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 - The fox made me cry.
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 - And this isn't in the complete works of Billy because...?
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Links of the Day:
quoteymcquote's iconsontd_political's Women Will Be Hurt By Gay Marriage - Has comments that renews my faith in humanity. Especially mirkwood's commentzqfans's Post Finale Newsgreygirlbeast's SyFy, worse even than you expected. - Alas, The "I Love..." Meme:
teand loves, [Unknown site tag] loves, ,lj user=destina> lovesSarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon and Fan community:
marmalade_fishphantmgreeneyes's Fic: The Zombie Apocalypse Difficultygirlmostlikely's SPN Reading List, Fic Recs, Fic Rec Continuedcandle_beck's SPN Fic: On the Dodgebeckaandzac's RPF (J2): The One With the Pandas In It and Sequel: Cuddly Voyeurwhereupon's SPN Fic: QuicksandLoving True Blood In Dallas's Recipie Index, including Sam Merlotte's Louisiana Swamp Gas Chili and Gran's Pecan Pie or 'Crying pie' the True Blood version
Demons - Six-part British TV show (with Philip Glenister) which is basically Buffy
Book: A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
* Arnorld Lobel
