The Name of the Game

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Only 24 out of 100. Many of these are on my list of things I should read/want to read. But, at least I did better than 6! I wonder if is that some kind of suggestion that today's society does not have adequate reading habits...

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 (Well, not all of it, but I’ve read parts of it...)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott1
2 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not everything, but a great deal. I love the Bard)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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 Austen35 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 - AA 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 Meany - 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 Both Dracula - Bram Stoker and Frankenstein -Mary Shelley (Not fair! I’ve read one but not the other! ½ credit?)
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 Mitchell83 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 - EB 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 (Why is this listed separately?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Brighter Than Sunshine

Probably one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen. Wow...


A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

More Than Words

So... I'm going back to school in a week. Didn't I just get back? :-( And I have a bunch of books that I should read... and a bunch of books that I want to read. It's a dilemma. I really should be reading some plays to get ahead for class. And I guess I will. But poo. I want to read for pleasure! :-S Here is my list of books to read for fun... I hope I can at least get through 2 in a week. (I def can...) and then I guess I will bring the rest.

BOOKS
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (re-read)
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is more.... but that's the pile by my bed right now. I did just finish Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein. It was pretty good. I found it in the 'Young Adult' section of B&N... and it was a little young. The language was also a tiny bit too modern at times; but, overall, the storyline was quite good. I was say it was really good read and worth it, besides minor complaints. The story is basically another take on Hamlet by Shakespeare from Ophelia's point of view. It definitely gives the character more depth... and it gives a lot more depth to the story.

Swing

Pieces of Me

Oh goodness. I got bored and wound up on blogthings. This is the result! Ha ha. Who knows how much of this junk is true! But... it's fun! :-)

Your Outfit Says You're Chic

Your style is very sophisticated and elegant. Even if you're wearing jeans, you still know how to look classy. You are enchanting and mysterious. You take your image seriously. You are glamourous in a delightfully old-fashioned way. Your high end fashion designer match: Nanette Lepore Your must have accessory: Long gloves

The Outfit Test

Your Cute Monster Says Your Inner Demon is Intensity

You are a vibrant, vivacious person. When you live, you live as wildly and loudly as possible. You are very bold. You are willing to stand up and be a leader. You have a tendency to let your passions take over. People think you're cute because you're fiery. When you get worked up, it's charming.

The Cute Monster Test

Your Gemstone Says You Love Doing the Right Thing

You are a person of high morals and ethics. You have a lot of personal integrity, and you are very loyal. You are a very charitable person, and you have faith in others. Almost everyone is very impressed with you.

The Gemstone Test

Your Daisies Say You're Very Resilient

You have a spirt of pure optimism. Your view of the world is eternally cheerful. You are bold and vibrant. Incredibly striking, you always stand out in a crowd. You are adaptable and flexible. You can thrive in almost any situation. You are often under estimated. Your critics and enemies are in for a surprise.

What Do The Flowers You Pick Say About You?

Your Favorite Color Says You're Charming

Ambitious --- Energetic --- Passionate Spontaneous --- Attractive --- Inspiring Seductive --- Powerful --- Addicting

What Does Your Favorite Color Say About You?

Goodies

Very very silly. :-) But very funny. I'm really liking Barats and Bareta. :-P

Don't Stop Me Now.

Well... this is new. I keep trying to make websites. And I tend to fail miserably every time. I usually intend them to be a blog of some sorts... but then I'm too lazy to actually keep up with it. What a thought... right? So... I thought, instead of useless facebook notes (that nobody actually cares about or reads...) I would actually start a blog. I wouldn't necessarily use it very often... but it would be something for me. A place to write, rant, post random pictures and videos, add quizzes, post book/movie reviews... do whatever the hell I feel like. Basically, a place to put my thoughts.

So, here it is. If nobody reads... oh well! It's mine, and I don't really care! :-)