List of Books

I love books. I love to read. I love lists of books, because it gives order to what to read - not that I ever follow them in order. I just like them.

A friend posted this list stating that the BBC said most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. I wonder who they polled, as I have read 51 (and if you subtract the 2 I haven't read completely I still have read 49). I don't know where the quote from the BBC came from, but, as previously stated, I love lists of books.

Xs mark what I have read
*s mark what I plan to read (granted I plan to read everything on the list I haven't read)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X—wee parts
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles DickensX
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – I don’t remember
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X – not the complete works – but a fair amount
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier*
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk *
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot *
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell*
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens *
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X *
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X – I think I read a few of them as a child
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X I think so
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres * (saw the movie)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving X
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 X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan *
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel *
52 Dune - Frank Herbert *
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth *
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon *
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X (I think so)
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 X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt *
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X++
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy *
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
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 X
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 X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X (currently reading)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
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 X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X
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 X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
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 x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *

25 Random Things

So, on Facebook, I have been asked to write 25 random things. I think they are supposed to be things that most people don't know about me. So I am going to write 5 here and see how that goes. I will later post whatever it is I post on fb.

1. I miss my cat and I don't feel quite ready for a new one. Soon.
2. I have trouble getting myself to bed at a reasonable hour. (and not due to anything exciting)
3. I built my own bed.
4. I love my apartment although I wish it had more rooms (mostly so my sister could come and stay with the kids easily).
5. I am slowly expanding my culinary capacities.
6. I really dig TCM (traditional chinese medicine).

Okay, that is 6

Disneyland in the rain

I spent today at Disneyland and CA Adventure. It didn't really rain until we got into Disneyland and then... it poured. We did go on the newly reopened It's a Small World. And we rode around on the train (granted it didn't rain while we were on the train) but as soon as we got off to go to Toon Town...it poured again. But both Mickey and Minnie were home. And Pluto and Goofy were at Mickey's too. So we had a lot of fun. The Princessland doesn't have the show or storytime that they used to, which was a bummer for all of us ( especially the 4 yr old) - but we all took it in stride. Then as we were going to grab lunch - it hailed and then ... the sun came out (to cheers). And it didn't rain at all while we napped back at the HoJo. But as we headed back, it started to sprinkle. But thank goodness it stopped. I got to ride the bumper cars at CA Adventure with my niece before I had to drive back home to go to class tonite. It was fun. I think I am the only one that really napped during nap time, but, I will be up late for school and then driving back down to D-land for more tomorrow. It was one of those days when it seemed to pour, whenever we stepped out from under cover.
Last year when we were at Dland and it rained, they had little tents up to stand in while you were in line for rides. This year, they didn't. I don't know if they too are cutting back - it doesn't seem like them. hmmm... The ticket price is still up, so we should have the same amenities.
(pictures coming soon).