Take that BBC!!

My friend posted this on her blog a few weeks ago, and being the good friend that I am, I hurried right over to my blog I kept forgetting to blog about it I waited for just the right time to post it on my blog :)

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.

I have bolded (and enlargened cause bold isn't readible...yes, all of those words exist. I said so) the books I've read in their entirety and italicized the ones I want to read and plan on reading and underlined the ones I've started (and shranken them all to show a huge difference...yes, that is a word too), a lot of the others I've never heard of sadly...but they're on my list now.

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 (Old Testament, New Testament) 
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 May 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 Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’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 Hitchhiker’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 - A.A. 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 
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 Inferno - Dante
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 Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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

I've only read 9, which is a lot less than my friend has, but...it's a start right? I have read a lot of other books that are NOT on this list...does that count??

We're going to a family party tonight, so I have to go get ready

One of my goals is to read 10 more books on that list above

Another is to fix all of the problems wrong with my body so that I can be as healthy as possible and go to the gym as much as possible

That just requires me having healing powers...so I'll have to work on that

I hope you all have a Happy New Years Eve and that you have fun and enjoy the time spent with your family

Night!!

Letters

Linking up with Ms Dazee again

Dear Muddy Buddies, 

I love you...but I should not make you again because all I do is eat you...

Dear Lorelai, 

Do you think you could share your secrets with me so that I too can eat as unhealthy as you and look as good as you do?

Dear Gilmore Girls, 

Thank you for making my life happy. I appreciate it...really I do...you're just great and wonderful!!

Dear Friends, 

Do you know of a GGAA that should attend to overcome this addiction?

Dear Friends, 

Ignore that last question. I'm very happy with my addiction and never want to give it up

Dear Work, 

I'm getting very used to wearing my lounge clothes around...so if I come back not in work clothes, forgive me? Please?

Dear Boyfriend, 

Could you apply for the other job and get a bigger raise so that we can go out to eat to all of the places that I want to go to?

Dear Sprint, 

Do you think you could put the phone that I want on an even bigger sale? Thanks!!

Dear Friends,

Watch

:D 

Night!!

Merry Christmas late!!!!

Hi friends!! 

I've been kind of MIA this past week...did you miss me??


I"m just glad that I didn't come back to 50 new posts when I checked my reader on the random days that I did


My vacation has been full of:

Boyfriend didn't have the time off that I did...but whenever he was home, he was on the computer playing his game, taking advantage of a fabulous experience event (silly Boyfriend)

muddy buddies...one of my favorite snacks

A bookshelf I bought when Boyfriend's sister came up to visit...it just got hung and I am so excited!!

A cross-stich I'm working on for Papa Smurf. Shhh!! Don't tell. ;)

A new puzzle I just bought. :) My family thinks I'm crazy, but I'm excited!!

I LOVE Gilmore Girls!! :D


Christmas was wonderful. Boyfriend had to work, which was a bummer, but the time spent with my family was priceless. Watching the kids open presents is probably my favorite part, besides watching my siblings open their gifts. 


Boyfriend spoiled me to no end and I am very grateful for it 


He gave me:

A new iPod touch and more lovely ram for my computer!! :D He is very good to me


I got him:

A frame with some pictures of us...(we don't have any vertical ones, so I made some till we have them) he's been wanting a copy of some of them for a long time, so I figured I'd give him a nice frame with some of them


And, a new iPod touch :D


I had that one planned for a long time


I figured I could give him one, and he could give me one


I also got him a mug from the Disney Store that he really liked:

Mama and Papa Smurf got me a new camera :D


They had green...I tried to exchange it for purple, but the dude at the store said Nikon didn't make enough so he didn't know if they would ever get any more in... Bother


They also gave me an emergency kit for my car, which is very nice


And Santa brought me a big huge make-up kit with oodles and oodles of make-up and fingernail polish...the kind that Wallie World has had


It was crazy


It was a good Christmas


Everyone got the life history of my Grandma (P. Smurf's mom) and some CDs to remind us of our other grandparents


I'm excited to read the history. My grandma died before I was born, so it will be nice to learn about her a bit


I'm not exactly ready to go back to work next week...I know I have the rest of the week ahead of me, but I also know it will fly by quickly


Lightening speed kind of fast...I'm not really looking forward to it


I wish that I could meet some multi-millionaire one day, make a wonderful impression on them, have them die and not have anyone else to leave their money to, and leave it alllllllllllllllllllll to me


Then I wouldn't HAVE to work...it would only be a "Hey, I want to go to work today and don't have anything else to do!! Let's go"


If any of you meet anyone like that, could you let me know? 


Kay thanks


Now, I have to go get ready for scouts


*sigh*


The first sign that real life is returning


I hope you're all having a wonderful day!!


Bye!!

It's Tuesday!!

It's long...be aware...

(nothing was untouched by this beautiful snow!!) :)

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