1) Look at the list and highlight in bold the books you have read.
2) Italicize those you plan to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your blog.
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 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
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 (Never in a Million Years!!)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 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
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (en francais)
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
Yes, I’m a complete Apple whore, or should that be iWhore? After weeks of endless “should I” or “shouldn’t I” type scenarios - I caved in and bought an iPod Touch. I love the touch features although it is taking me a while to get the hang of it. It’s a bit fiddly until you get the knack.
I bought the 16GB version figuring I would need the extra space for the video downloads and I practically have my entire Bon Jovi collection already on it. I’m still feeling a tad guilty about the expense but I’m due a BIG bonus payment soon from work and I’m not going on holiday this year so figured I could treat myself.
I was holding out for an iPhone but really didn’t feel £30 a month was worth it in the end, especially since I don’t have a contract at all at the moment. I don’t use my phone often enough to warrant such an expensive contract and the PAYG option would probably be just as bad if I started using the net a lot. I’m not the world’s most social creature at the best of times so a new iPod suits me better.
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
I bought this book after seeing a trailer for the movie which included a battle scene that looked like something out of the LOTR movies. When I started reading the book, I realised it was completely different from what I had perceived so it kinda threw me a bit.
The Night Watch, the forces of Light, and the Day Watch, the forces of the Dark, have reached an uneasy status quo where they prevent each other from becoming too powerful. If the Night Watch commit an act of good, the Day Watch can retaliate by doing an act of evil of equal power. There are three stories woven into the tale, each one threatening to upset the precarious balance.
I’m not actually sure how I feel about this book because I found some parts of it hard to read and suspect that has more to do with the translation more than anything else. It certainly wasn’t what I thought it was going to be about and for that reason alone, I feel the need to read again once I’ve finished the sequels.
I did rent the movie but found it dreadful.
I’m taking a couple of weeks off in August and am going over to Ayrshire to spend a week in my parent’s caravan. I’m not exactly thrilled at the prospect because there is no internet and a long weekend is usually about all I can stand at once. However, my mum kept pressuring me with promises of taking me to historic places in the area, so I caved in.
I usually take a bag full of books, my iPod and my DS to keep me amused but this year I’ve decided to take my Mac. I don’t need the internet to make use of it and it plays DVDs into the bargain. And then that’s when I decided to get The Sims 2 for it. My old laptop couldn’t play the new version of the game because the graphics card was too old and I was really bummed so I’m quite excited about playing it on the Mac. My Mac has more power than any computer I’ve ever had and the picture quality is always superb.
Do you think it is extreme buying an iPhone to get the internet? *grins*
Sidenote: my blog is being spammed something terrible at the moment so it looks like the spambots have found me. So far, Akisment is capturing it all but it is still really annoying. *growls*
One of our big supermarkets chains is in the news today for refusing to print a photo of a five month old child with a naked butt. The photo is deemed pornographic. Actually, the child in question is now 21 and his mother wanted a baby picture of him put on his birthday cake but staff refused to do it until the butt was covered with a star.
How utterly ridiculous is that?
A few years ago, Boots, another high street chain store, reported customers for having naked pictures of their children on their camera. The child in question was a baby enjoying a soak in his bath.
I have to confess to having taken pictures of numerous cousins, nephews and nieces in various states of undress, particularly cute ones in bathtubs with bubbles all over them, or on changing mats. So, does that make me a child molester? Should I confess my sins or burn the evidence?
The cost of living in the UK is becoming ridiculously high and it is starting to really hit pockets. The rising cost of fuel is prompting a few of my work colleagues to seriously consider shortening their hours or to car share if it is an option.
As a regular public transport user, my weekly ticket is increasing by £3 this weekend (that’s just under $6) which is an outrageous hike in price. Luckily for me I discounted travel as my dad works for the company and I’ve also managed to get more vouchers from his friends.
British Gas and other fuel suppliers are hinting their bills may increase by 40% this year which means a lot of families aren’t going to be able to keep themselves warm this winter. Yet, these same companies don’t even have the grace to be embarrassed when they announce record profits.
Food prices are also on the increase and there is a growing fear many families will default on their mortgage payments as they struggle to keep their heads above water.