Just because I have seen other people do this, and I keep wondering how I would do if I REALLY counted:
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Have you read more than 6 of these books? Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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
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 Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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
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 - 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 - 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 Inferno - Dante
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 - E.B. 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 - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
It'd be even more than that if they included the ones I've seen the movie for! There are some good ones on here that I haven't considered recently... May be a good guide for my late winter book reading!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
"The Bane of a Fake Date"
Found this written by one Jessica Hoopes and posted on Facebook. I find it hilarious, and share it in hopes that this posting will expand her fame and future as a blogger extraordinaire.
I AM happily married right now, but this brings back memories. Just for the record: Dale asked me on our first date via text message, but on Wednesday, not Friday night.
"Ok fellas, you know the drill. There you are, fresh off the mish, looking for your eternal companion. Lo and behold, an angel appears....
WHOA WHOA WHOA REWIND! (sound effect of record disc being stopped abruptly)
Who we trying to kid here? no way! you are home and you are FREEEEEEE! so thus pose the next dilemma: Commandment: multiply and replenish the earth.
Desire: Playtime! -perhaps potential arm candy on the side.
Ok ladies, you know the drill. You're focused on school and your career right now, and you love being single. However, you are young and energetic and open for something new.
So there you are, it's 9:30 on a Friday night. -Note: just late enough that you're about to not make plans because you need to be in the library early on Saturday morning anyway to study for that big test that's gonna land you that sweet job you want.
You start getting ready for bed, maybe a quick hour of Grey's Anatomy and Ben&Jerry's; we have all done it.
10:30 p.m. -commence annoying cell phone beep of an inbox about to be completely bombarded
Here it comes. You KNEW it was going to happen.*
*Names have been changed to maintain confidentiality
Bill: "hey" (how original and inspired, yet expected every Friday night for weeks on end)
Charlie: "What's goin on?" (it's Friday night, what do you think? Also an anticipated text.)
Fred: "Hey pretty girl, whatcha doin tonight?" (You're thinking, I have looked the same since 11th grade and you STILL have never asked me out)
But lady, after several years of experience, you know how to make this go down. Though all of these boys are potentially attractive, successful, charismatic partners, you know that it would be completely socially unacceptable to 1.) admit to not having plans on a Friday night, and 2.) accept shoddy effort and set yourself up for a lifetime of Fake Dates. That's right. Fake.
As every BYU student has undoubtedly heard from one religion professor or another, dates are as mentioned: Planned, Paired off, and Paid for.
Simple, right? Wrong. Apparently many of our fellow students on campus have failed to acknowledge this brilliant piece of advice. Favorite lines include the following:
9:30 p.m . question: "hey, what are you doing?"
12:00 a.m. response: "getting ready for bed. good night."
I AM happily married right now, but this brings back memories. Just for the record: Dale asked me on our first date via text message, but on Wednesday, not Friday night.
"Ok fellas, you know the drill. There you are, fresh off the mish, looking for your eternal companion. Lo and behold, an angel appears....
WHOA WHOA WHOA REWIND! (sound effect of record disc being stopped abruptly)
Who we trying to kid here? no way! you are home and you are FREEEEEEE! so thus pose the next dilemma: Commandment: multiply and replenish the earth.
Desire: Playtime! -perhaps potential arm candy on the side.
Ok ladies, you know the drill. You're focused on school and your career right now, and you love being single. However, you are young and energetic and open for something new.
So there you are, it's 9:30 on a Friday night. -Note: just late enough that you're about to not make plans because you need to be in the library early on Saturday morning anyway to study for that big test that's gonna land you that sweet job you want.
You start getting ready for bed, maybe a quick hour of Grey's Anatomy and Ben&Jerry's; we have all done it.
10:30 p.m. -commence annoying cell phone beep of an inbox about to be completely bombarded
Here it comes. You KNEW it was going to happen.*
*Names have been changed to maintain confidentiality
Bill: "hey" (how original and inspired, yet expected every Friday night for weeks on end)
Charlie: "What's goin on?" (it's Friday night, what do you think? Also an anticipated text.)
Fred: "Hey pretty girl, whatcha doin tonight?" (You're thinking, I have looked the same since 11th grade and you STILL have never asked me out)
But lady, after several years of experience, you know how to make this go down. Though all of these boys are potentially attractive, successful, charismatic partners, you know that it would be completely socially unacceptable to 1.) admit to not having plans on a Friday night, and 2.) accept shoddy effort and set yourself up for a lifetime of Fake Dates. That's right. Fake.
As every BYU student has undoubtedly heard from one religion professor or another, dates are as mentioned: Planned, Paired off, and Paid for.
Simple, right? Wrong. Apparently many of our fellow students on campus have failed to acknowledge this brilliant piece of advice. Favorite lines include the following:
- "hey, wanna come over and watch a movie?" -it's now 11:30 p.m. Common knowledge prime movie time.
- "I don't have any food, but if you wanna bring some cookies and come over that would be great!"
- "Oh, and bring your roommate if she wants to come"
- "I'm bored"
- "What of the color of your toothbrush?"
- "Hey, it's been a while!" (since when? your last text like this? yeah. approximately seven days.)
- "Hey, when are we ever gonna chill?"
- "I miss you" interchangeable with "i miss your face"
- "Hey, do you wanna come sleep in my bed?" (WTF? HELL-O! NO!)
- "Hey let's be spontaneous and get Betos at midnight!"
- "wanna go hike the Y?" (code for: prep yourself, I am about to DTR you.)
- "The stars are really bright tonight" (there is snow on the ground. no WAY am I hanging out outside.)
- "Hey you" (handy, easy mass text)
- "I just heard something interesting about you that I think you should know about"
- "So i met your friend _____ tonight" (boy you once hooked up with. awkward.)
- "Hey, do you wanna do somethin?"
- "Hey, I know we had plans, but I don't really feel like doing anything. Wanna just come over?"
9:30 p.m . question: "hey, what are you doing?"
12:00 a.m. response: "getting ready for bed. good night."
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wow
Chuck Norris to become honorary Texas Ranger
Thursday, December 02, 2010
TEXAS -- Actor Chuck Norris for years played a Texas Ranger on television. Now he's going to become one in real life.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to present the actor and executive director of "Walker, Texas Ranger" with a designation as an honorary member of the famed law enforcement group Thursday.
Ceremonies to honor the 70-year-old martial arts star and entertainment action hero, who is known for doing good and going after bad guys and gals in the long-running TV series, will take place at a Texas Rangers office in suburban Dallas.
Perry also will honor the actor's younger brother, 59-year-old stunt coordinator and producer Aaron Norris, as an honorary Texas Ranger. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=7820630&rss=rss-wabc-article-7820630
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