3 posts tagged “books”
Stolen from Pookie808!
Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read in the future, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and do not do anything the ones you've never even heard of.
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkein) (I hated The Hobbit and now I won't touch anything by Tolkien.)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkein)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkein)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkein) (UGH GROSS!)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) (Haha I read this in two hours while volunteering at the most boring place, ever.)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Aurel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) (Awaiting Jackie's review :P)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) (I LOVE THIS BOOK, OMGGGG.)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
What books are on your nightstand?
I've been trying to finish this book so that I may go on to the last book of the trilogy, but school's always gotten in the way. The second book of the trilogy highlights Darcy when he wasn't in Austen's book and mysteriously disappeared; in Aidan's version of Darcy, he is tempted by another woman and finds himself always thinking about Elizabeth. Or something like that...I'm not very far :P
I feel like I've been neglecting Vox. But never fear! To compensate, I bring you one of the pieces we're currently playing in orchestra! Like always, I haven't been practicing. I really should, because there's some weird string crossing, but I never feel like it or have the time thanks to other subjects in school. Oh well. I like being in the back. :D
What was the highlight of this past weekend?
Hm. I'd say getting to part two of Crime and Punishment. Although I have to admit, I've been finding the book intriguing and interesting now. The beginning of all, if not most, books are extremely boring anyways, but I've been so against the books assigned for school reading that I don't give them a chance anymore. Don't judge a book by its cover!
The only reason why I'm probably liking this book is because of Raskolnikov's demented mind. He's a confused individual who believes he's exempt from moral law...and we all know how I love those characters who seem to cross moral boundaries. Morally ambiguous villians/protagonists are the love! Plus his thought process is something interesting to read, and I found the scene where he committed his crime particularly faascinating. My eyes were speeding across the page at a very rapid speed :3
Speaking of books, how about a book meme?
HA! Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pride and Prejudice (one of the greatest novels ever), just to start off the list. Asriel from His Dark Materials, and Demandred from Wheel of Time. There's tons really, but those three come to mind. OH! AND DRACO MALFOY OF HARRY POTTER. I only love him in the books though, because his character in the movies is puke-worthy.
The last book you bought is?
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. That book is pure genius and comes highly recommended from me. Before that I got The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky for school summer reading.
What are you currently reading?
Crime and Punishment as aforementioned, Wheel of Time: Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan (because I still haven't gotten book 11), and also the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy by Pamela Aidan. I seem to have misplaced the second book in the trilogy though, which seriously sucks because I can't find it and it's a 13 dollar book. Not to mention that it was a birthday gift ._.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
Anyways, I think I need to take some pictures. If this is going to be a photolog, might as well make it happen right?
