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I’m a Bette, who are you?

3m — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:42:05 +0000

Saw this at Educating Petunia. Overall, my results do fit. These memes are interesting…

Take your own quiz here.

You Are a Bette!

You are a Bette — “I must be strong”

Bettes are direct, self-reliant, self-confident, and protective.

How to Get Along with Me

* Stand up for yourself… and me.
* Be confident, strong, and direct.
* Don’t gossip about me or betray my trust.
* Be vulnerable and share your feelings. See and acknowledge my tender, vulnerable side.
* Give me space to be alone.
* Acknowledge the contributions I make, but don’t flatter me.
* I often speak in an assertive way. Don’t automatically assume it’s a personal attack.
* When I scream, curse, and stomp around, try to remember that’s just the way I am.

What I Like About Being a Bette

* being independent and self-reliant
* being able to take charge and meet challenges head on
* being courageous, straightforward, and honest
* getting all the enjoyment I can out of life
* supporting, empowering, and protecting those close to me
* upholding just causes

What’s Hard About Being a Bette

* overwhelming people with my bluntness; scaring them away when I don’t intend to
* being restless and impatient with others’ incompetence
* sticking my neck out for people and receiving no appreciation for it
* never forgetting injuries or injustices
* putting too much pressure on myself
* getting high blood pressure when people don’t obey the rules or when things don’t go right

Bettes as Children Often

* are independent; have an inner strength and a fighting spirit
* are sometimes loners
* seize control so they won’t be controlled
* figure out others’ weaknesses
* attack verbally or physically when provoked
* take charge in the family because they perceive themselves as the strongest, or grow up in difficult or abusive surroundings

Bettes as Parents

* are often loyal, caring, involved, and devoted
* are sometimes overprotective
* can be demanding, controlling, and rigid

6 Weird Things About Me

3m — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:48 +0000

Laura over at Musings tagged me for this meme. Sorry it took me so long to respond. I had to think about it for awhile because most of my ‘weirdness’ is related to books, and we’re all weird that way! Though, I did think of one book related thing most people don’t do. Anyway….

THE RULES:

Link to the person who tagged you
Post the rules on your blog
Write 6 random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself
Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them
Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog
Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.

6 THINGS

I was in the Middle East when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. My family was a little freaked out about it but I never felt in any danger.
I’ve been to both Alaska and Hawaii and was pregnant both times but with different sons.
I can wiggle my ears, but I can’t curl my tongue.
My husband and I got married after only 3 months of dating. (Not really recommended, but we’re still going after almost 18 years!)
I like to get up in the middle of the night to read and/or check my bookmooch wishlist. I’ve gotten several books that way!
I don’t like change. At all. Even if it’s good, it takes me a long time to adapt.

I’m going to bend the rules a bit and say if you’re reading this and want to play along, consider yourself tagged. Weirdness is fun!

July Book Blowout

3m — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:29:44 +0000

Mrs. S is hosting a challenge to read as many books as possible during July.
Click on the button for more info.
She’s also written a meme to get us started:

1. Describe yourself in one sentence

I’m a wife, a mother to two wonderful teenage boys, and an avid book lover.

2. What book will you start the challenge with?

Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger

3. Where is your favourite place to read?

I like to read outside by the pool, in bed, and on my comfy leather couch.

4. What is your favourite book of all time?

Probably Jane Eyre and/or Persuasion

5. Remind us all of your challenge target

I’m going to say 10 because even though some months I’ve been reading over that, I’m going to be working full-time soon and won’t have as much time to read as I used to.

My books for the challenge (I’m going for 10):

Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger (2008, 320 pp.)
The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton (2008, 256 pp.)
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (2007, 336 pp.)
The Photograph by Penelope Lively (2003, 231 pp.)
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (2008 in the U.S.)

Some titles I’m thinking about:

The White Mary
The Poisonwood Bible

Movie Meme

3m — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:02:30 +0000

I’ve seen this movie meme floating around about quoting your favorite movies and letting people guess what they are. Here are mine. The first one is probably the toughest. I’ll post the answers in a few days if no one guesses. Remember, no googling the quote — that’s cheating!

So, your Holiness, now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness, the spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living. [The Mission guessed by Susan]
Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it’s on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss. [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind guessed by Carrie]
And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon. When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone they shall have stars at elbow and foot. Though they go mad they shall be sane. Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again. Though lovers be lost love shall not. And death shall have no dominion. Another hint: The book it’s based on was originally written in Polish. Another quote: Earth. Even the word sounded strange to me now… unfamiliar. How long had I been gone? How long had I been back? Did it matter? I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live. I followed the current. I was silent, attentive, I made a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand, and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on earth. I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again. But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong, and somehow I was wrong about everything. [Solaris guessed by my sister Jamie]
Your life, as you know it… is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk… and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life. Another hint: Lip my stockings!! [Lost in Translation guessed by Petunia]
I cannot hear them, but I know they are making a hash of it. What do you think? Music is… a dreadful thing. What is it? I don’t understand it. What does it mean? [Immortal Beloved guessed by Carrie]
My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. [Amadeus guessed by MLight]
We’re the sons of peasants. Glory, and riches, and stars are beyond our grasps. But a full stomach, that dream can come true. [A Knight's Tale guessed by Amy]
I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It’s inspiring in a way. [Groundhog Day guessed by Janiejane]
I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. [2001: A Space Odyssey guessed by CJHill]
You all wanna be looking very intently at your own belly buttons. I see a head start to rise, violence is going to ensue. Probably guessed we mean to be thieving here but what we’re after is not yours. So, let’s have no undue fussing. [Serenity, guessed by Bookfool]

Non-fiction meme

3m — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:08:40 +0000

Both Melody from Melody’s Reading Corner and Bellezza from Dolce Bellezza tagged me for this meme.

a) What issues/topic interests you most–non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that has nothing to do with novels?
Christianity, history, computer programming, and science.

b) Would you like to review books concerning those?
Not really, though I did review a few last year. I much prefer fiction.

c) Would you like to be paid or do it as interest or hobby? Tell reasons for what ever you choose.
I’m not a good enough reviewer to be paid, but no, I wouldn’t be interested at this time of my life anyway. I have too many other commitments.

d) Would you recommend those to your friends and how?
Yes, with caution. Only if I know someone is interested in those topics.

e) If you have already done something like this, link it to your post.
My best non-fiction titles from last year were the following:

1. Wild Swans ****1/2 by Jung Chang (2007 #1 Best Non-Fiction)
2. The Bookseller of Kabul **** by Seierstad (2007 #2 Best Non-Fiction)

f) Please don’t forget to link to whoever tags you.
I linked to the two people who tagged me above.

If you haven’t done this meme yet and want to, consider yourself tagged!

Mwah-You Make My Day!

3m — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:58:31 +0000

I’ve been so late in recognizing these awards I’ve received. Thank you so much, everyone! Caribousmom, Framed, Suey, Amy, and Julie gave me the Make My Day Award, and Raidergirl3 and Teddy gave me the Mwah Award. I hope I didn’t leave anyone out. Let me know if I did.

I’m going to give all 7 of you both awards. I love reading your blogs, and I love our little (but growing!) book blogging community. It’s so great to find kinship with like minds.

I am also going to give a special shout out to Raidergirl3 for helping me moderate The Pulitzer Project, 888, and Book Awards Challenge blogs. Thank you so much for all your help. It has blessed me tremendously!

Eva’s meme

3m — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:22:12 +0000

Eva

Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Any Stephen King novel. I just can’t take horror anymore. Maybe that’s not irrational, though. It used to be the Harry Potter series, but I’ve resolved to read them all this year. So far I’ve enjoyed the first two.

If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be? I would bring the two main characters from Everyman by Philip Roth and The Sea by John Banville to life to be grilled and skewered (verbally, not literally) by the strongest feminist character available. Who would that be? Give me some ideas.

(Borrowing shamelessly from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde): you are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realise it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave? A book on housekeeping or maybe party planning? Hee hee. Maybe that’s why I didn’t like Mrs. Dalloway.

Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it? The Hobbit. I’ve only seen the cartoon version a bazillion times.

As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realise when you read a review about it/go to ‘reread’ it that you haven’t? Which book? I don’t think I’ve done that, but I HAVE forgotten that I’ve read some books when I thought I hadn’t. I forgot that I had already read Emma and Sense and Sensibility. I had seen the movies so many times that I guess I just forgot. I never used to forget things like that. It must be a sign of age. Sigh.

You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (if you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead of personalise the VIP) To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s just a classic that everyone should read and almost everyone loves. If the VIP wanted something humorous instead, I’d go with Tom Sawyer. I loved this book when I was a kid, and my kids got the biggest kick out of it a few months ago. Even adults can appreciate it-at least I do.

A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with? Russian! I love Russian literature.

A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick? To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book Thief, Persuasion, or Jane Eyre. I can’t decide, any of the four would do.

I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)? Margaret Atwood and/or Carol Shields. I’d never even heard of them until last year. Now I want to read everything they’ve written.

That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leatherbound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free. It would be a library as big as a house with gorgeous wood bookcases. It would have comfortable leather chairs and a fireplace or two. A few tables would be needed, as well as some lamps. It would be in the ‘Arts and Crafts’ architectural style. All the classics and newer ‘keepers’ that I’ve read would be leatherbound, while new titles I haven’t read would be brand new trade paperbacks.

I feel like a number. . .

3m — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:50:11 +0000

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
788,036
people named Michelle
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
95
people with my first and last name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

LT Book Meme

3m — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:09:28 +0000

Got this from Nicola at Back to Books.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment (I didn’t finish, but it’s not because I didn’t want to. I plan on reading it in ’08)
Catch-22
~~One hundred years of solitude~~
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel (tbr in ’08)
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre*
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace (tbr in ’08)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife (can’t wait for the movie)
The Iliad
Emma (tbr in ’08)
The Blind Assassin (love Atwood, but didn’t care for this)
The Kite Runner (tbr in ’07)
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch (tbr in ’08)
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible (tbr in ’08)
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility (tbr in ’08)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (tbr in ’07)
Mansfield Park (tbr in ’08)
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (tbr in ’08)
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (tbr in ’08)
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being (tbr in ’07)
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey (tbr in ’08)
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Book meme

3m — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:10:16 +0000

What are you reading right now? I am reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones and desperately trying to finish it before midnight Friday so I can complete the Southern Reading Challenge.

Do you have any idea what you’ll read when you’re done with that? I have a reading schedule that I’m following for the rest of this year. My next reading selections will be (not necessarily in this order):

Middlesex (Pulitzer, BAC)
Blue Like Jazz (NF5)
The Travels of Marco Polo (NF5)
Bookseller of Kabul (NF5, RAB)
Half of a Yellow Sun (NYT, BookAwards)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (FC, RIP)
Lisey’s Story (NYT, BAC, RIP)
Never Let Me Go (DC)

What magazines do you have in your bathroom right now? I don’t read in the bathroom; I just think it’s gross. But the magazines I do subscribe to are Bookmarks, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

What’s the worst thing you were ever forced to read? I usually like almost anything, but in high school I really didn’t care for The Red Badge of Courage.

What’s the one book you always recommend to just about everyone? To Kill a Mockingbird

Admit it, the librarians at your library know you on a first name basis, don’t they? I know they recognize my face, but it’s a big library. I’m not sure they know my name or not.

Is there a book you absolutely love, but for some reason, people never think it sounds interesting, or maybe they read it and don’t like it at all? I really loved Gilead, which some people love, but others are bored to tears by it. I think it has truly magnificent writing.

Do you read books while you do other things? Not really. Of course I listen to audiobooks while I’m driving. I usually bring a book to the doctor’s office or anywhere else I might be kept waiting.

When you were little, did other children tease you about your reading habits? I don’t think so; I know my family and friends used to call me Bookworm or Bookgeek, though.

What’s the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn’t put it down? Sometimes I read late just so I can finish a challenge! I actually do this quite frequently, sad to say. The last two books I read almost straight through were The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

3M needs. . .

3m — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:44:54 +0000

This meme has been circulating the blogosphere and turned out really well using 3M. If you want to participate just type in “(your name) needs” into google and see the fun results.

3M needs little introduction (I’m so vain–hee!)
3M needs to be relocated (relocation 80% complete)
3M needs some refurbishing (sad, but true)
3M needs a heavy tined rear (not that kind of refurbishing!)
3M needs to be custom built (tell me about it!)
3M needs to get its top-line growth moving (I’m past the age for any growth here-ha!)
3M needs information about Procter & Gamble’s production schedule of diapers (I hope not!)
3M needs a little miracle (that WOULD be a miracle!)
3M needs to maintain financial discipline (maybe. . . )
3M needs to start spending again (thanks for your permission!)
3M needs to have a webcam watching that thing so we can have a good laugh (no, and on that note. . . )
3M needs to make privacy filters for this screen
3M needs some time on your lap (I guess that’s what the screen’s for!)
3M needs to send me a free box or two, don’t you agree? (stay away from my books!)
3M Needs to Get MMMoving (bye, now!)

Blogging Tips Meme

3m — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:03:14 +0000

Bonnie at Bonnie’s Books has tagged me with the Blogging Tips Meme. Here it is:

-Start Copy-

It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.)

Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general.

After that, tag 10 other people. Link love some friends!

Just think – if 10 people start this and the 10 people pass it on to another 10 people, you have 100 links already!

1. Look, read, and learn. **** http://www.neonscent.com/

2. Be EXCELLENT to each other. *** http://www.bushmackel.com/

3. Don’t let money change ya! * http://www.therandomforest.info/

4. Always reply to your comments. ****** http://chattiekat.com/

5. Link liberally — it keeps you and your friends afloat in the Sea of Technorati. ** http://chipsquips.com/

6. Don’t give up – persistence is fertile. ** http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/

7. Give link credit where credit is due. **** http://www.sfsignal.com/

8. Pictures say a thousand words and can usually add to any post. *** http://scifichick.com/

9. Visit all the bloggers that leave comments for you – it’s nice to know who is reading! ** http://stephaniesbooks.blogspot.com/

10. Thrown in something humorous occasionally, to keep things fun. * http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/

11. Do at least a few of the blogging quizzes available. It lets people know a little more about you. http://3m3am.wordpress.com

-End Copy-

If you’re reading this and want to participate, consider yourself tagged!

I had a feeling I was. . .

3m — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:40:00 +0000

You Are: 0% Dog, 100% Cat

You are are almost exactly like a cat.
You’re intelligent, independent, and set on getting your way.
And there’s no way you’re going to fetch a paper for anyone!

Are You More Cat or Dog?

8 (Not So Random) Things About Me

3m — Sat, 26 May 2007 03:31:00 +0000

Everyone has been doing the 8 Random Things About Me, and I thought I would play along. I guess it’s not random, though, because all of these happened the summer of 1990.

1. I was in the Middle East when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

2. I’ve been horseback riding at the foot of the pyramids.

3. I’ve been in King Tut’s tomb.

4. I was baptized in The Red Sea.

5. I saw a dead human body floating in the Nile.

6. My wallet was miraculously returned to me hours later by a taxi driver in Cairo when I left it in the cab.

7. I knew enough limited Arabic to direct taxi cabs to my destination without telling them my destination (so they wouldn’t go the long way).

8. I climbed what some people believe to be Mt. Sinai.

Thursday Thirteen #8

3m — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:19:00 +0000

Thirteen books I couldn’t live without, in no particular order except for #1.

[The top ten books I couldn't live without were requested here, but I had to make it 13 and wish it could have been a top 20!!]

1. The Bible
We weren’t supposed to count this unless we’d read it. I’ve read all except parts of Isaiah and Jeremiah–so I’m gonna count it!

2. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
This was read to my class by my 2nd grade teacher, Miss French. She read several goodies that year–who can forget their “first loves”?

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I always identified with Jo.

4. Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was another book read by Miss French. I went on to read the entire series and have probably read it at least 5 or 6 times.

5. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
I love all the books I’ve read by C.S. Lewis. If I only had just his books and the Bible on a desert island, I’d be happy.

6. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

7. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Beautiful writing, lessons to be learned, and I love the Russian authors!

9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
See #8.

10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Excellent book on the nature of guilt.

11. Complete works of Shakespeare
It’s Shakespeare–need I say more? I think his complete works were being counted as only one by others.

12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A masterpiece.

13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Heartrending.

What are the top 10 books you could not live without?

3m — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:24:00 +0000

Kailani’s Written World wants to compile a Bloggers’ Top Ten List of books we could not live without. She took her idea from the Guardian poll below, which also shows the results of 2000 respondents. I will be posting my top thirteen in my “Thursday Thirteen” post tonight or tomorrow. Consider participating by going to Kailani’s Written World.

The Guardian conducted a poll to mark World Book Day, which was on March 1 in the UK. 2,000 people took part and were asked to name the 10 titles they could not live without. The top 100 results were:

1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen [in my top 20]

2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien [in my top 25]

3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte [in my top 20]

4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling [I haven't read ANY of the Harry Potter series yet]

5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee [in my top 13]

6 The Bible [My #1 book--and yes, I've read all but parts of Isaiah and Jeremiah]

7 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte [in my top 30]

8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell [I read this in 1984 in high school. It would probably fall in a top 30 for me]

9 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman [Have not read]

10 Great Expectations Charles Dickens [Probably in a top 30]

11 Little Women Louisa M Alcott [in my top 13]

12 Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy [Have not read--slated for later this year, though]

13 Catch-22 Joseph Heller [Have not read]

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare [in my top 13]

15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier [Have not read]

16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien [in my top 30]

17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks [Never heard of it]

18 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger [Yuck!]

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger [I liked this book, but nowhere near my top 100]

20 Middlemarch George Eliot [Have not read]

21 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell [Have not read]

22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald [I think this is an important book, but I'm not sure where I'd place it]

23 Bleak House Charles Dickens [Have not read]

24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy [Have not read--slated for 2008]

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams [Have not read]

26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh [Have not read]

27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky [in my top 13]

28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck [in my top 30]

29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll [Have not read]

30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame [Have not read]

31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy [in my top 13]

32 David Copperfield Charles Dickens [Have not read]

33 Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis [in my top 13]

34 Emma Jane Austen [Have not read--loved the movies]

35 Persuasion Jane Austen [in my top 20]

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis [in my top 13, but it's part of #33]

37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini [Have not read--slated for later this year]

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières [Have not read]

39 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden [Have not read]

40 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne [in my top 30]

41 Animal Farm George Orwell [in my top 20]

42 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown [Have not read]

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez [I did not like this one]

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving [Have not read]

45 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins [Enjoyed this one]

46 Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery [Have not read]

47 Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy [Have not read]

48 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood [Have not read--slated for later this year]

49 Lord of the Flies William Golding [in my top 30]

50 Atonement Ian McEwan [I didin't like this one]

51 Life of Pi Yann Martel [Have not read--slated for later this year]

52 Dune Frank Herbert [Have not read]

53 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons [Never heard of it]

54 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen [Have not read--loved the movie!]

55 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth [Never heard of it]

56 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon [I did not like this book]

57 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens [Have not read]

58 Brave New World Aldous Huxley [Have not read]

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon [Have not read--slated for later this year]

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Have not read]

61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck [not sure where I'd place this one]

62 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov [Have not read]

63 The Secret History Donna Tartt [Have not read]

64 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold [Have not read]

65 Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas [Have not read]

66 On The Road Jack Kerouac [Have not read]

67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy ([Have not read]

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding [Have not read--liked the movie]

69 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie [Have not read]

70 Moby Dick Herman Melville [Have not read]

71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens [Have not read]

72 Dracula Bram Stoker [Have not read]

73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett [Have not read--loved the movie!]

74 Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson [Never heard of it]

75 Ulysses James Joyce [Have not read]

76 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath [Have not read]

77 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome [Have not read]

78 Germinal Emile Zola [Have not read--loved the movie with Gerard Depardieu]

79 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray [Have not read--liked the movie]

80 Possession AS Byatt [Have not read--slated for later this year]

81 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens [Good book, not sure where I'd place it, though]

82 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell [Have not read]

83 The Color Purple Alice Walker [Have not read]

84 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro [Have not read--LOVED the movie!]

85 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert [in my top 20]

86 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry [Never heard of it]

87 Charlotte’s Web EB White [in my top 13]

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom [Have not read]

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Have not read]

90 The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton [Never heard of it]

91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad [Excellent writing--not sure where I'd place it on my list]

92 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery [Have not read]

93 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks [Never heard of it]

94 Watership Down Richard Adams [Have not read--maybe next year?]

95 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole [Have not read]

96 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute [Never heard of it]

97 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas [Have not read--want to someday]

98 Hamlet William Shakespeare [in my top 13 as the Complete Works]

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl [Loved this as a kid!!]

100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo [Have not read--definitely want to someday]

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Book Meme

3m — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:14:00 +0000

I got this meme from a post on framed’s blog. The instructions are this: Look at the list of books below. Highlight in red the ones you’ve read, highlight in green the ones you might read, leave the ones you won’t read in black, italicize the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audry Niffenegger
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaba by J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman )
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dune by Frank Herbert
The History of Love by Nichole Krauss