"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
Hey everyone. Here is another update. I’m playing Surreal Life the home game still and its not feeling normal just yet. Today I arrived to a third grade class to find one boy with his pants completely off and his shirt hanging on by one button. The curtains to one window parted and a boy smiled...
“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were...
My posting has been sparse lately, as a direct result of the olympics. For that matter almost all of my regular activities have taken the back burner to the olympics, first and foremost: sleep. However, I’ve been thinking about the subject matter of this post for a while now. There are lots of...
Lil did this first, Molly then got her hands on it. So I shall do my damage to it, because what's a meme without the added indignity of a haphazard blogger heeding it. Using the list below, bold all the titles that you’ve read. If you’ve read other titles by the same author, add them under that...
Occasionally I buy a new copy of a book I already own. The reason I do this is usually one of these three reasons: 1. There's an author event coming up that I plan to attend, and I'll buy a nice hardcover copy to replace my paperback copy. 2. The author is one of my favorites, and I've found a...
Taking this parameter of the top 100 books from Hapa Love. She suggests using the Modern Library list. So, here goes: 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Italics: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school...
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. This is going around my neighborhood, and I really like the idea of encouraging people (including myself) to read the classics. However, I'm changing the game, because I prefer the Modern Library's...
I saw this on Hapalove's blog and decided to play along just to see how many I'd read. I'm also going to add another category: "Never heard of it" By my count I've read 26 of them. 1. 1922 Ulysses James Joyce (got about 20 pages in, did not have the endurance for more) 2. 1925 The Great Gatsby F....
"I was nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on earth." - Listening to him gas on about his twisted obsession with "The Catcher in the Rye" and his identification with its troubled teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is torture. That J. D. Salinger novel set off the sort of brainstorm in...
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