Book(fair) meme.
Grabbed from Ginneh. Funny. This Yesterday morning I was thinking I should read more again. And then I bumped into this. Amusing coincidence, yes? Or, Bookfair aftermath? Lol. I was a (bit of a) bookworm when I was younger, and I haven't finished Mark Haddon's novel that I borrowed. (and may have to replace. ;_; P~chanravenel , gomen nasai~ But, with the way things are now, do I really have to~ *coughbeingstingycough*) Also, I have a bunch of books waiting to be read so, I really think I should pick up the pace. o_o Anyway, on with the meme.
Rules:
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) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them. I have to object, see, because--- *cough* >_>
Side note: This meme, had made me realize that there are quite a number of books that I've started but never finished. Not that I don't plan to~ Uwa~ *ashamed* x_x
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (Not the entire series though. Does that count?)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (Ah, see, I honestly tried reading this. But I keep on falling asleep after a few pages. >_> I also tried reading the dictionary - I don't fall asleep after a few pages but instead my mind starts to wander. x_x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I, just kinda loved it? XD)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (Although I'm afraid it might bore me. Comments? Suggestions? Violent Reactions? >_>)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I have the book, but I've yet to read it~ *you'll be seeing more of this reason as we go on OTL*)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I didn't finish it, but I want to. I was 8 or 9 when I first tried reading the unabridged version, so imagine how difficult it was for me then. >_> I tried reading it again when I was a little older, like, 12. --- I kept falling asleep. >_>)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I *want* to, but--- >.>)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (A classmate back in college was reading it. I got interested.)
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I already have the book, it's just waiting for me. x__x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Again, book here, reader--- occupied. *cough* OTL But I really intend to read this! Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat loooove! --- Okay that didn't sound right. >_>;)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (Ah, I needed the book for a book report back in high school. I want to read it since I already have a copy buuuut, Iunno. >_>; I think I've already tried reading a few pages and--- it bored me? ._.;)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -- (Um, I think this goes with 33? But, okay. o_O)
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 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 (My sister borrowed it. Hoy Ate Thea. Ibalik mo na. B|)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Hm, kinda want to read it, but not really a priority.)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (I read the children's version. XD I lurved it so much I want to read the original version. Sydney~ ;_;)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Remember the book I mentioned before the meme? >.>)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (There are a number of his novels that I'd like to read, actually. ._.;)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Uh, interested?)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Is this the one with the light blue gradient cover that has a picture of a necklace in front? I wanted to buy this before. Hm.)
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 (Another 'started but not finished.' Mehn. =___=)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Someone lend me the book. ... After I'm done with everything else on my shelf. >_>)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Long story short: same as 57.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (BAW. TT_TT)
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 (His works too~ They attract me. 'o')
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (I think I have the book somewhere. ...Or not.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Maybe if someone lends it to me?)
Additional stuff: (Personal list - If you'd like, you can copy them too if you do this meme.)
101. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Apparently I have a habit of buying a book but not reading it. =____=)
102. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (First, I need to find it, then, remember where I stopped reading. =_=)
103. The Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
104. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (I actually had the book, but I lost it. >_> Also, this book now reminds me of Adzhumenismastah )
105. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (I can't remember the entire story, but I like Ginger, haha. XD)
106. The Call of The Wild - Jack London (Duggeh gone wild. But I still luff him. *hearts* ;_;)
107. Ring - Suzuki Koji
108. Spiral - Suzuki Koji
109. Loop - Suzuki Koji
110. Birthday - Suzuki Koji (107-110, ITT: Sadako. Enough said. P-chan kindly donated 1/4 to me. Anyone wanna donate the other 3? :D *total cheapskate*)
111. Battle Royale - Takami Koushun (Somebody find this book for me. T_T *sniff*)
112. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami Haruki (This one's with my other sister, Tanya. Hoy, ipagbababalik niyo kaya. >_>)
113. Spooksville Series - Christopher Pike (Okay, this is young adult stuff, but I loved it. It was my childhood, uh, reading material. >_> ...Somehow that doesn't seem right. -_-;)
114. The Hardy Boys Series - Franklin W. Dixon (The hardbound ones. Childhooooood. Fine, fine, I'll stop with the young adult stuff. Haha.)
115. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty (It's actually pretty interesting, but I remember the last time I read this was in the middle of the night, and I had to stop before I creep myself out. Haha. >_> I think it was damaged when my room was flooded, and now it's missing. Great. =____= It's not even mine.)
116. Twilight (*looks sheepishly at Ginneh* Kidding ~ XP)
117. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (I borrowed the book from Mau. Yes, I haven't read it yet. Shut up. >_>)
118. Heavier Than Heaven - Charles R. Cross (I'm more than halfway when I stopped. --- I feel like such a failure nao. x_x)
119. Grimm's Fairy Tales (The original versions. I saw this nice hardbound copy at Fully Booked. Shall buy it when I have enough cash to spare. ;_; Rachelyukitsu also told me about the, erm, creepy(?) versions by one author. I wanna read that too. D:)
120. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving (It's a collection of short stories. Basically want to read it because it has The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in it. 'o' I had an ebook of it, but--- our pc took it with him when he died. B|)
Yeah, I should prolly stop now. >_>; Lol.
-----And this, proves that I seriously need to start reading moar again. Especially if I wanna read all of the items I italicized. =_=
Hm. Which brings to mind this question - Is there an author that you're not exactly fond of reading? I'm not saying hate but, you know, somewhere along that line I guess. I'm talking published/established(?) authors so, crappy fangirl fanfics are not included. XD
For me, I think it's Anne Rice. .-. No offense to Anne Rice lovers out there but, she kinda bored me. -_-; A friend back in high school loved her to bits, so I tried reading one of her books, but I couldn't get myself to read further after a few pages. Just something about her style I guess? Or it could be that certain book itself. I don't know. Maybe if I get to read another work of hers, I'd change my mind. After all, I do love the film adaptation of her first book, and have a big fascination towards vampires myself. Which is probably why it kinda surprised me when I found myself having trouble reading her novel back then? I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to put it down since it was about vampires. I was so much into vampires back then, I seriously thought I wouldn't mind being one. Emphasis on the serious here. Haha. >_> --- I'm such a dork. =_=
And, whoa. 6 am. >_>
Rules:
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) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them. I have to object, see, because--- *cough* >_>
Side note: This meme, had made me realize that there are quite a number of books that I've started but never finished. Not that I don't plan to~ Uwa~ *ashamed* x_x
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (Not the entire series though. Does that count?)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (Ah, see, I honestly tried reading this. But I keep on falling asleep after a few pages. >_> I also tried reading the dictionary - I don't fall asleep after a few pages but instead my mind starts to wander. x_x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I, just kinda loved it? XD)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (Although I'm afraid it might bore me. Comments? Suggestions? Violent Reactions? >_>)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I have the book, but I've yet to read it~ *you'll be seeing more of this reason as we go on OTL*)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I didn't finish it, but I want to. I was 8 or 9 when I first tried reading the unabridged version, so imagine how difficult it was for me then. >_> I tried reading it again when I was a little older, like, 12. --- I kept falling asleep. >_>)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I *want* to, but--- >.>)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (A classmate back in college was reading it. I got interested.)
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I already have the book, it's just waiting for me. x__x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Again, book here, reader--- occupied. *cough* OTL But I really intend to read this! Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat loooove! --- Okay that didn't sound right. >_>;)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (Ah, I needed the book for a book report back in high school. I want to read it since I already have a copy buuuut, Iunno. >_>; I think I've already tried reading a few pages and--- it bored me? ._.;)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -- (Um, I think this goes with 33? But, okay. o_O)
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 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 (My sister borrowed it. Hoy Ate Thea. Ibalik mo na. B|)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Hm, kinda want to read it, but not really a priority.)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (I read the children's version. XD I lurved it so much I want to read the original version. Sydney~ ;_;)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Remember the book I mentioned before the meme? >.>)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (There are a number of his novels that I'd like to read, actually. ._.;)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Uh, interested?)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Is this the one with the light blue gradient cover that has a picture of a necklace in front? I wanted to buy this before. Hm.)
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 (Another 'started but not finished.' Mehn. =___=)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Someone lend me the book. ... After I'm done with everything else on my shelf. >_>)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Long story short: same as 57.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (BAW. TT_TT)
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 (His works too~ They attract me. 'o')
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (I think I have the book somewhere. ...Or not.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Maybe if someone lends it to me?)
Additional stuff: (Personal list - If you'd like, you can copy them too if you do this meme.)
101. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Apparently I have a habit of buying a book but not reading it. =____=)
102. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (First, I need to find it, then, remember where I stopped reading. =_=)
103. The Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
104. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (I actually had the book, but I lost it. >_> Also, this book now reminds me of Adzhumenismastah )
105. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (I can't remember the entire story, but I like Ginger, haha. XD)
106. The Call of The Wild - Jack London (Duggeh gone wild. But I still luff him. *hearts* ;_;)
107. Ring - Suzuki Koji
108. Spiral - Suzuki Koji
109. Loop - Suzuki Koji
110. Birthday - Suzuki Koji (107-110, ITT: Sadako. Enough said. P-chan kindly donated 1/4 to me. Anyone wanna donate the other 3? :D *total cheapskate*)
111. Battle Royale - Takami Koushun (Somebody find this book for me. T_T *sniff*)
112. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami Haruki (This one's with my other sister, Tanya. Hoy, ipagbababalik niyo kaya. >_>)
113. Spooksville Series - Christopher Pike (Okay, this is young adult stuff, but I loved it. It was my childhood, uh, reading material. >_> ...Somehow that doesn't seem right. -_-;)
114. The Hardy Boys Series - Franklin W. Dixon (The hardbound ones. Childhooooood. Fine, fine, I'll stop with the young adult stuff. Haha.)
115. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty (It's actually pretty interesting, but I remember the last time I read this was in the middle of the night, and I had to stop before I creep myself out. Haha. >_> I think it was damaged when my room was flooded, and now it's missing. Great. =____= It's not even mine.)
116. Twilight (*looks sheepishly at Ginneh* Kidding ~ XP)
117. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (I borrowed the book from Mau. Yes, I haven't read it yet. Shut up. >_>)
118. Heavier Than Heaven - Charles R. Cross (I'm more than halfway when I stopped. --- I feel like such a failure nao. x_x)
119. Grimm's Fairy Tales (The original versions. I saw this nice hardbound copy at Fully Booked. Shall buy it when I have enough cash to spare. ;_; Rachelyukitsu also told me about the, erm, creepy(?) versions by one author. I wanna read that too. D:)
120. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving (It's a collection of short stories. Basically want to read it because it has The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in it. 'o' I had an ebook of it, but--- our pc took it with him when he died. B|)
Yeah, I should prolly stop now. >_>; Lol.
-----And this, proves that I seriously need to start reading moar again. Especially if I wanna read all of the items I italicized. =_=
Hm. Which brings to mind this question - Is there an author that you're not exactly fond of reading? I'm not saying hate but, you know, somewhere along that line I guess. I'm talking published/established(?) authors so, crappy fangirl fanfics are not included. XD
For me, I think it's Anne Rice. .-. No offense to Anne Rice lovers out there but, she kinda bored me. -_-; A friend back in high school loved her to bits, so I tried reading one of her books, but I couldn't get myself to read further after a few pages. Just something about her style I guess? Or it could be that certain book itself. I don't know. Maybe if I get to read another work of hers, I'd change my mind. After all, I do love the film adaptation of her first book, and have a big fascination towards vampires myself. Which is probably why it kinda surprised me when I found myself having trouble reading her novel back then? I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to put it down since it was about vampires. I was so much into vampires back then, I seriously thought I wouldn't mind being one. Emphasis on the serious here. Haha. >_> --- I'm such a dork. =_=
And, whoa. 6 am. >_>