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Tilly

books to read before I graduate college =)

I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...

Kelly

Holy crap.

My coworker just loaned me three books, which I have dutifully put on the Book Project list. And then I looked at the list, and it is out of control. This is where we are: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Undertow by Sydney...

Emily

Polysyllabic Spree - January 2008

Books Purchased: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2003 edited by Dave Eggers Something Happened by Joseph Heller The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides People of the Book by...

michellemybelle

Another List of Books!

This is the Entertainment Weekly Top 100 books from 1983 to the present. Despite its source, I find it to be pretty interesting. Since I love books and most of you love books, I thought I'd share it. Red ones are ones I've read. 1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of...

Kelly

Book Project Update

Clearly I have a lot of reading left to do. The Sister by Poppy Adams Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Because We're All in it Together by Suzanne Barnett, Jennifer...

The Girl in the Mismatched Suit

Books to Read Before You Die

"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 –...

Kelly

Book Project

It's been updated. Again. (I'm also going to add the books I buy this year as I buy them--and the new releases that I know I'm buying--so that it's a better list of what I've read and what I want to read.) The Sister by Poppy Adams Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison...

CrowSeer

Black is Beautiful - No. 7

Today, the English actress Naomie Harris: Although she’d been in various TV shows since childhood, the role that probably brought her to most people’s attention was the lead in White Teeth, an adaptation of the Zadie Smith novel. The photo above is a publicity shot of her “in character” from...

Cactina

New Year promises I think I can keep.

It looks like I will start working only from March. Till then, I am going to take it easy and stay at home, and travel to Delhi to visit my parents and younger brother between February 7 and 19. This means that I'll have some time to catch up on reading, viewing films, and designing. So, I have made...

M-----l

170 down, 831 to go

I recently picked up a used copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. As the title would suggest, it features essays on 1,001 books that the editors have chosen as important or essential reading. The book is fundamentally flawed as it features eleven selections by J.M. Coetzee and only two by...

Ruth Wilson

Speaking Volumes: Book I Half-Read

Everybody writes about books they've read. Today I'm going to write about the books I read only the first half of, books that were good enough to entice me into their middle parts but then lost me. Some of them I might have finished if a better book hadn't come along--but one always does. Caveat...

ThatGirl

Get Booked

Summer is here! Network television is running repeats until well after Labor Day! Grab your favorite book, and a few others for that matter, and let's go plot hunting! Below is a list of twenty great books, in no particular order, I think everyone should read. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel...

Jodi

Less than 10%

Since Ben had remarks regarding the 1001 Books to read before you die, I thought I'd add my list. It is clear to me that not having read any Dickens or Austen or Joyce has really hurt my numbers. However, I make up a little bit my reading all of the Irving and Winterson and Vonnegut. The ones I...