Today I got a postcard from Rachel from Greece! It made my day. Also, I went to Herpeton to get some sand for the gerbs, and scored a pack of free treats.
So today was a pretty good day overall, for me and the gerbilies.
Also, it's the 24th, which means on this day, seven years ago, I was a fifteen year old nervously agonizing about whether I should ask Aaron to eat lunch with me. eek. I'm glad I did.
Now, I'm going to go watch Antitrust avec Aaron on the phone.
(four weeks and counting till I'm in L.A.!!!!!)
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Friday, June 23, 2006
man, my schedule is all f-ed up--i'm having frito pie at 2:16 am and talking on im and talking on the phone. What's amazing is there's actually still people up to talk to.
I'm giving up onions and resolving to drink more water. (my frito pie is lacking in zip.)
tonight i watched House of Sand and Fog (which was really good and i think i might read the book) and started reading The Lakehouse. Which is terrible, by the way. If this is the kind of drivel they're feeding to the American public as "the best beach read this summer!" (i actually heard that on the radio) it is a sad state of affairs. But I will finish reading it, still--though I still can't finish Anna Karenina. Very sad. Yes, yes I know this is all pretentious babble, but I miss being an English major already, so let me marinate in it for a while.
Have a book of short stories by Shirley Jackson and a Kazuo Ishiguro book also, next in line.
This summer I'm trying to live like a twelve year old. while also packing up my apartment. I spent $30 and all day today organizing the stuff on just one shelf of my bookshelf. office depot is a total rip-off, but hopefully it will help keep everything organized. So Elissa won't be ashamed of my housekeeping skills anymore. Well...who am I kidding.
I'm giving up onions and resolving to drink more water. (my frito pie is lacking in zip.)
tonight i watched House of Sand and Fog (which was really good and i think i might read the book) and started reading The Lakehouse. Which is terrible, by the way. If this is the kind of drivel they're feeding to the American public as "the best beach read this summer!" (i actually heard that on the radio) it is a sad state of affairs. But I will finish reading it, still--though I still can't finish Anna Karenina. Very sad. Yes, yes I know this is all pretentious babble, but I miss being an English major already, so let me marinate in it for a while.
Have a book of short stories by Shirley Jackson and a Kazuo Ishiguro book also, next in line.
This summer I'm trying to live like a twelve year old. while also packing up my apartment. I spent $30 and all day today organizing the stuff on just one shelf of my bookshelf. office depot is a total rip-off, but hopefully it will help keep everything organized. So Elissa won't be ashamed of my housekeeping skills anymore. Well...who am I kidding.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Go to http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly/, click enter site, then go to the links at the top left of the page, and click on Room 203 to play the game that Aaron designed for his company...
Ok, I know that's complicated, but it's awesome. He wrote all the questions and everything. There's even hidden numbers, like Chris Carter put into the X-files.
Books that I finished in the last two weeks:
Chris Crutcher's The Sledding Hill: didn't live up to his other books...but he does admit he has writer's block so at least he knows it.
a Robert Cormier book: disturbing as always, and I hated the title so I will not mention it here.
Alex Garland's The Beach: there's no way to describe how amazing this book is. I'll be reading it on every trip I take for the rest of my life.
Alex Garland's The Tesseract and The Coma: doesn't stand up to the beach, though one of them's also about thailand. But still good. I'm in the middle of reading The Coma to Aaron.
And up next:
A Brave New World by A.H. (courtesy of Aaron B.) and Terry Pratchett's Soul Music (i always thought Terry Pratchett was a black ethnic author, probably bc of this title, but instead, she's the exact opposite, writing sci-fi for skinny white boys.)
(edit: she's a he...and the book did not interest me, so i didn't finish it. 6.23.06)
Also, Alice Hoffman's The Ice Queen which I bought at Border's today with Elissa.
currently listening to: clap your hands say yeah!
i am not looking for indie street cred here, seeing as every toy-joy shopping, wheatsville-coop loving austinite has been talking about this band since a year ago. just saying.
a list of words that i hate: tender, purse, dumpling.
is there a commonality to all these words? a phoneme, or whatever?? perhaps the "uh" sound. anyways, just hearing these makes me cringe. And yes, the robert cormier book title is within these.
ok, enough randomness. have fun deciphering that.
Ok, I know that's complicated, but it's awesome. He wrote all the questions and everything. There's even hidden numbers, like Chris Carter put into the X-files.
Books that I finished in the last two weeks:
Chris Crutcher's The Sledding Hill: didn't live up to his other books...but he does admit he has writer's block so at least he knows it.
a Robert Cormier book: disturbing as always, and I hated the title so I will not mention it here.
Alex Garland's The Beach: there's no way to describe how amazing this book is. I'll be reading it on every trip I take for the rest of my life.
Alex Garland's The Tesseract and The Coma: doesn't stand up to the beach, though one of them's also about thailand. But still good. I'm in the middle of reading The Coma to Aaron.
And up next:
A Brave New World by A.H. (courtesy of Aaron B.) and Terry Pratchett's Soul Music (i always thought Terry Pratchett was a black ethnic author, probably bc of this title, but instead, she's the exact opposite, writing sci-fi for skinny white boys.)
(edit: she's a he...and the book did not interest me, so i didn't finish it. 6.23.06)
Also, Alice Hoffman's The Ice Queen which I bought at Border's today with Elissa.
currently listening to: clap your hands say yeah!
i am not looking for indie street cred here, seeing as every toy-joy shopping, wheatsville-coop loving austinite has been talking about this band since a year ago. just saying.
a list of words that i hate: tender, purse, dumpling.
is there a commonality to all these words? a phoneme, or whatever?? perhaps the "uh" sound. anyways, just hearing these makes me cringe. And yes, the robert cormier book title is within these.
ok, enough randomness. have fun deciphering that.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
I have a confession to make...I don't get along with my parents. Yes, I'm twelve and angst-ridden.
People my age, when asked about their parents, always say, "Oh, I love my parents, we get along great!" as if it's become uncool to argue with them anymore.
But my guess is, you all started getting along with their parents once said parents started having no say on how you live your life. Either that, or your parents were one of those who believed in being best friends! with their kids.
Well, neither of those apply to me--my parents still pay for my livelihood, and they are nobody's best friends, much less their kids'.
And I still feel guilty and ashamed everytime I fight with them, like it's some inborn trait, guilt. Even if the issue is something that I know they're wrong about, I always have that doubt in the back of my mind about whether I'm really right or not. Ugh, parents. Once I convince my subconscious that they are just people, after all, and just as capable of being wrong as any other person (my conscious knows this quite well) I'm sure all the problems will stop.
On a less annoying note, I went to Dallas this weekend. Apartment-hunting and all that. Which would have been much improved if Aaron was here. But the good news is I saw plenty of Blockbusters and Taco C's and Borders. Which made me feel much better about life in general. I am very much a child of capitalism, and I don't mind admitting it.
People my age, when asked about their parents, always say, "Oh, I love my parents, we get along great!" as if it's become uncool to argue with them anymore.
But my guess is, you all started getting along with their parents once said parents started having no say on how you live your life. Either that, or your parents were one of those who believed in being best friends! with their kids.
Well, neither of those apply to me--my parents still pay for my livelihood, and they are nobody's best friends, much less their kids'.
And I still feel guilty and ashamed everytime I fight with them, like it's some inborn trait, guilt. Even if the issue is something that I know they're wrong about, I always have that doubt in the back of my mind about whether I'm really right or not. Ugh, parents. Once I convince my subconscious that they are just people, after all, and just as capable of being wrong as any other person (my conscious knows this quite well) I'm sure all the problems will stop.
On a less annoying note, I went to Dallas this weekend. Apartment-hunting and all that. Which would have been much improved if Aaron was here. But the good news is I saw plenty of Blockbusters and Taco C's and Borders. Which made me feel much better about life in general. I am very much a child of capitalism, and I don't mind admitting it.
Friday, June 2, 2006
I took this reading list from my sister, and she took it from BBC.
The ones in blue-green I've already read, the red ones are the ones next in line. The yellow ones I will probably never get to, with an explanation why.
edit: the purple ones are newly read.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien --I could cheat and say I've read this, but I got stuck in one of the many battle scenes near the end and stopped reading it. One of the few books (perhaps the only) that I started and never finished. Well, maybe one day if I can find my copy I will finish, but not in the near future.
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne--if this is short, I might give it a read at the library. But I think I might have read it while I was a kid, and anyways, I'm not a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh.
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - I know Elissa has a copy of this that I just might borrow. I've wanted to read it ever since my freshman year of high school when the seniors read it for their English class and Sidney Edward always had a copy around...
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson: "A must for 7 to 11 year olds," says Amazon.com. Maybe.
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute: A book about Australia and WWII. I'm surprised I haven't already read it for one of Graham's classes.
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert: You know, it's wierd--one of the most famous science-fiction books and I couldn't get into it. So it's a probably not.
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams - about rabbits, or some such, right?
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald - ppl keep recommending it to me, but I have 'The Aviator' Syndrome. The more I hear about it the more contrary I feel. But I'm going to get over it. (6.23.06 I read this, expecting to feel inexplicably guilty for not agreeing with everyone else about how great it was. But I was surprised, and really enjoyed it. Fitz. succeeded in explaining all kinds of fleeting, inexplicable feelings in it.)
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King: if i'm not mistaken, this contains one shockingly anti-feminist remark. and i'm not super feminist either. but i'll go back and check that, just to give old s.k. reasonable doubt.
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy: Ok, so Lord of the Rings wasn't the only one. This book is sitting on the nightstand next to my bed, and I'm at a perpetual half-way through.
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell: Does Children's Illustrated Abridged version count? It better, bc I probably won't read it again.
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden: I was just talking to Elissa last night about this. I'm going to try it out, even though a white man writing about asian women's sexuality makes me nauseous.
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton: "Ages 9-12." Maybe.
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett: So many Terry Pratchett books on this list, I wonder if BBC... NO! BBC couldn't be so dishonorable. haha. I have no idea. But since she writes science fiction, this is one I'll start with. Maybe she'll satisfy my craving for more MMS.
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley: quite good, and i can't believe they haven't made a movie of this...it's like the birth mother of gattaca, the island and all those...with a touch of 1984 thrown in, esp. near the end.
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons: I saw the movie and it was bizarre. How in the world did the book do it?
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland: the movie was like Lord of the Flies, but with adults. It was awesome. Done. It was great.
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson: good youth fiction...about tattoos! and bipolar-ism
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend: sounds right up my alley.
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian: wow, I bet I can get Aaron to read this as well. It's one of his favorite movies.
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz: terrible youth fiction...about spies. wierd pride about Britain being more hard-hearted about putting kids in danger than Americans.
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans: This book, I thought, was lame. I dislike sticky-sweet books. But maybe I'm remembering it too harshly.
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews: This was awesome! And even Aaron liked it. Though to be sure, it disturbed us all. But I'm so impressed that BBC saw through it's wierdness and put it on the list. It's this day and age's Lolita, I'd say.
Ok I must leave for the library. Yipee!
The Coma, Alex Garland: I liked this book a lot.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards: Typical wanna-be politically correct fare. Good at the beginning, perhaps, but ridiculous near the end. Paris? for heaven's sake. Not chic-lit, but close--women's lit, for all those Oprah reading clubs popping up in suburban living rooms around the country.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Wells: I agree with Aaron B. that space-set sci-fi sucks typically, but for me this book was an exception. Aaron my bf surprised me with it, and it was nothing short of amazing. I love discovering new authors and this one's almost as good as Michael Marshall Smith.
Finding Alice, Melody Carlson: schizophrenia scares me. good book though, i liked it even if it was a little to hopeful in the end.
The ones in blue-green I've already read, the red ones are the ones next in line. The yellow ones I will probably never get to, with an explanation why.
edit: the purple ones are newly read.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien --I could cheat and say I've read this, but I got stuck in one of the many battle scenes near the end and stopped reading it. One of the few books (perhaps the only) that I started and never finished. Well, maybe one day if I can find my copy I will finish, but not in the near future.
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne--if this is short, I might give it a read at the library. But I think I might have read it while I was a kid, and anyways, I'm not a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh.
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - I know Elissa has a copy of this that I just might borrow. I've wanted to read it ever since my freshman year of high school when the seniors read it for their English class and Sidney Edward always had a copy around...
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson: "A must for 7 to 11 year olds," says Amazon.com. Maybe.
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute: A book about Australia and WWII. I'm surprised I haven't already read it for one of Graham's classes.
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert: You know, it's wierd--one of the most famous science-fiction books and I couldn't get into it. So it's a probably not.
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams - about rabbits, or some such, right?
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald - ppl keep recommending it to me, but I have 'The Aviator' Syndrome. The more I hear about it the more contrary I feel. But I'm going to get over it. (6.23.06 I read this, expecting to feel inexplicably guilty for not agreeing with everyone else about how great it was. But I was surprised, and really enjoyed it. Fitz. succeeded in explaining all kinds of fleeting, inexplicable feelings in it.)
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King: if i'm not mistaken, this contains one shockingly anti-feminist remark. and i'm not super feminist either. but i'll go back and check that, just to give old s.k. reasonable doubt.
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy: Ok, so Lord of the Rings wasn't the only one. This book is sitting on the nightstand next to my bed, and I'm at a perpetual half-way through.
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell: Does Children's Illustrated Abridged version count? It better, bc I probably won't read it again.
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden: I was just talking to Elissa last night about this. I'm going to try it out, even though a white man writing about asian women's sexuality makes me nauseous.
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton: "Ages 9-12." Maybe.
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett: So many Terry Pratchett books on this list, I wonder if BBC... NO! BBC couldn't be so dishonorable. haha. I have no idea. But since she writes science fiction, this is one I'll start with. Maybe she'll satisfy my craving for more MMS.
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley: quite good, and i can't believe they haven't made a movie of this...it's like the birth mother of gattaca, the island and all those...with a touch of 1984 thrown in, esp. near the end.
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons: I saw the movie and it was bizarre. How in the world did the book do it?
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland: the movie was like Lord of the Flies, but with adults. It was awesome. Done. It was great.
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson: good youth fiction...about tattoos! and bipolar-ism
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend: sounds right up my alley.
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian: wow, I bet I can get Aaron to read this as well. It's one of his favorite movies.
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz: terrible youth fiction...about spies. wierd pride about Britain being more hard-hearted about putting kids in danger than Americans.
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans: This book, I thought, was lame. I dislike sticky-sweet books. But maybe I'm remembering it too harshly.
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews: This was awesome! And even Aaron liked it. Though to be sure, it disturbed us all. But I'm so impressed that BBC saw through it's wierdness and put it on the list. It's this day and age's Lolita, I'd say.
Ok I must leave for the library. Yipee!
The Coma, Alex Garland: I liked this book a lot.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards: Typical wanna-be politically correct fare. Good at the beginning, perhaps, but ridiculous near the end. Paris? for heaven's sake. Not chic-lit, but close--women's lit, for all those Oprah reading clubs popping up in suburban living rooms around the country.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Wells: I agree with Aaron B. that space-set sci-fi sucks typically, but for me this book was an exception. Aaron my bf surprised me with it, and it was nothing short of amazing. I love discovering new authors and this one's almost as good as Michael Marshall Smith.
Finding Alice, Melody Carlson: schizophrenia scares me. good book though, i liked it even if it was a little to hopeful in the end.
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