No real update on the fires. We’re all safe, though, thanks for the prayers and happy thoughts.
Well, given that I have not much to blog about today, here’s a book MEME:
Instructions:
- Bold all the books you have read
- Underline those you loved &/or have read more than once
- Italicize books on your To Be Read list (books you own just haven’t read yet)
- Add an asterisk to those you started but didn’t/couldn’t finish
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Complete Works of Shakespeare (actually, I haven’t finished, but I don’t like the implications of “can’t” finish that go with the asterisk.)
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes (I read it in Spanish. Does that count?)
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Dune – Frank Herbert
Emma – Jane Austen *
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Germinal – Emile Zola
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman * (read the first book, thought it was ok, couldn’t get into the second)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke *
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Middlesex: A Novel – Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Northanger Abby – Jane Austen
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Bible (in progress, much like Shakespeare)
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Iliad – Homer
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (Wasn’t the whole Chronicles on this list a short while ago?)
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Odyssey – Homer
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame * (did I finish this one? I don’t remember.)
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
