Saturday, February 28, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Which ones have YOU read?
The 100 Books Quiz
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read ENTIRELY
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
Additionally, I put minus signs next to the ones I strongly disliked.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x/+)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x/+)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x/+)
6 The Bible (x/+)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x/-)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Never finished. Not a huge Dickens fan)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x/+)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Many, but certainly not COMPLETE)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (x)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x/+)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x/+)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x/+)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x/+)
30 The Wind in the Willows (x/+)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x/+)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x/+)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (x/+)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x/+)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x/-)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x/+)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x/+)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x/-)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (almost, but not quite)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x/+)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
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 (x/+)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x/-)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x/+)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (can’t remember if I finished this or not)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (couldn’t bring myself to finish it)
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 (x/+)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce *
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (x)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (x)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x/+)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x/-)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (couldn’t make myself wade all the way through)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x/+)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
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 (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
I counted 49 that I’ve read in their entirety, most of them in the nearly 7 years that I’ve been out of college. This is a rather strange list—I’ve never even heard of at least a dozen of these books.
I can just about guarantee that all of my children will have read 6 books from this list by the time they’re 10 years old.
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read ENTIRELY
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
Additionally, I put minus signs next to the ones I strongly disliked.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x/+)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x/+)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x/+)
6 The Bible (x/+)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x/-)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Never finished. Not a huge Dickens fan)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x/+)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Many, but certainly not COMPLETE)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (x)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x/+)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x/+)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x/+)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x/+)
30 The Wind in the Willows (x/+)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x/+)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x/+)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (x/+)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x/+)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x/-)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x/+)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x/+)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x/-)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (almost, but not quite)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x/+)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
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 (x/+)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x/-)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x/+)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (can’t remember if I finished this or not)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (couldn’t bring myself to finish it)
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 (x/+)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce *
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (x)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (x)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x/+)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x/-)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (couldn’t make myself wade all the way through)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x/+)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
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 (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
I counted 49 that I’ve read in their entirety, most of them in the nearly 7 years that I’ve been out of college. This is a rather strange list—I’ve never even heard of at least a dozen of these books.
I can just about guarantee that all of my children will have read 6 books from this list by the time they’re 10 years old.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Warm Winter days!
A couple of pics from a sunny day outside...
Looking quite mature these days
Who does this remind you of?
The family sweetheart
Yes, he always looks this happy!
Looking quite mature these days
Who does this remind you of?
The family sweetheart
Yes, he always looks this happy!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
On Becoming Parochial
You know you've hit a new cultural low when your spouse comes home and extols the "menu" at the local University Cafeteria, and then excitedly tells you that he can't wait to take YOU there someday. I almost spit out my cookie.
Thankfully, we're going to Kansas City for a little getaway, where I pray he will be reminded of what dining out is supposed to be.
Thankfully, we're going to Kansas City for a little getaway, where I pray he will be reminded of what dining out is supposed to be.
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