Monday, December 13, 2010
Christmas!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Missing Computer.
Monday, December 6, 2010
100 books
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
- 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 Berniere
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
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 (Abridged Version)
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 - 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
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExupĂ©ry
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
Oh, dear me. I was expecting I would have read more. This actually seems to be a seriously bizarre list with several books I've never even heard of. Why would anyone need to read "the five people you meet in heaven" is beyond me. It's silly and confusing and not biblically sound in even the broadest sense of the phrase.
The complete works of Shakespeare? I can't believe anyone would read all those. Didn't he write like hundreds of plays and poetry too?
I will probably have read more of these by the time I graduate because a lot of them are on the list of books I have to read.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
If this were a movie
Monday, October 18, 2010
Oh money, money, money.
life was so much simpler when I didn't have any money to spend. Having to figure out how much money you can use and how much you can't is difficult. When I didn't have any money to spend I only had to say "nope, can't afford it." Now I have to deal with whether actually be able to afford it and whether I wanted to spend my hard earned money on that and how I am going to get the money out of the bank.
I need to buy a winter Coat and A Camera and save up for sixty dollar tickets for Les Miserables in April or May next year.
I want to buy a pea coat with my money but they are so expensive. I found one at an overstock site for forty-three dollars and I'm planning on purchasing it next month with all my money and then I'll have no money left and be poor for the rest of that month but I'll have my coat.
And I don't want to spend all my money on a camera but I really really really want one.
Do you see my problem?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Wicked and, Movies and, concerts and, square dancing, Oh My! (that was really four things so it doesn' work as well if you know where I'm coming from)
Last Friday I went to see wicked in Madison. That entire experience was amazing beyond compare. Even being subject to experience intense emotions that come from driving on six lane highways and MERGING TRAFFIC!!! Wicked was incredible. The actresses and actors were very talented acting-wise and singing-wise. I was jealous, as I should be. When we sat down and the show began I was so thrilled beyond concentration I thought I'd die. Defying Gravity was the crowning glory of the entire play. It was positively delicious!
The day after that I was off with friends to a Paul Colman Concert and everything was so jolly and friendly. The concert was fun and Someone (I'm not sure who) suggested that we ask Paul Colman impertinent questions and tape his responses. Now we have a hilarious video to show for it.
After that was Sunday. I love Sundays. Every time I think of it I give it mental hugs. Church and then square dancing. Both where grand but square dancing especially. It was the funnest of all of the square dances I've been to sense Barn Dance.
And Yesterday I went over to my friend Lauren's house with Kelsey and Kristen and we watched movies and had too much ice cream and M&M's. The first Movie was Prince of Persia. It was kinda weird and annoying and the guy who was s'pos't to be rugged and handsome and sly was kind'of stupid and very ugly. After that we watched "17Again" Which I liked. It was funny and sweet. Occasionally awkward though. :)
Friday, October 8, 2010
Wicked
I'm going to see wicked tonight in Madison! I'm so excited.
Now I'll be able to connect songs to events in the play. hmm... I don't even know were I'm sitting. I hope it's a good seat, they cost me enough. All the same it's going to be awesome!!
Is this all rather mundane to you? Sorry but I can't think of anything else to talk about.
I'm so Excited!!
Yay!!
:)