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Bold the books you've read from cover to cover and italize the ones you're not done with. Thanks to Beth for starting the trend.
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (i've read tiny bits of this)
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (started it like a year ago, good but I haven't finished)
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (start this a few months ago, excellent, haven't finished yet)
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud (yay for TBE)
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Long time ago)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (read an abridged version in 7th grade)
I've only read 13. What an unlucky number! I love lists like this but at the same time I hate them because I feel so dumb. I long to be widely read, but with homework like I have, there's no way I can read like I want. I'm not widely read, I'm thinly read. Quoth Eddie Izzard.
I've been updating on my xanga a lot. It's cool, but so is LJ. However, I feel LJ is becoming a pain because I belong to about a million communities and it takes 7 hours each day to skim over my friends page. So, I'm contemplating severely editing my community list. I already took off a few. I love the urban decay stuff but too often it's pointless and ugly. I guess I'm staying in it for the rare occasion when I find a nice entry. God I love urban decay photography. Wichita has some plausible places but I doubt it's anything like Detriot or Chicago. Who else likes urban decay photography? I know Morgan and Marcela do. We should totally go on a day trip around Wichita to take lots of pictures. :)
I'm loving my new cell phone. I don't care what other people say about it. :) I still need Matt's number. Haven't talked to him in days. We ought to do something this weekend. However, I'm far too busy. Got a party and dinner with my grandparents so that takes up the evening. Saturday afternoon I have to spend 3 hours helping to make French Club Valentine's Day cards. And I have tons of homework including an essay to write which I'm hoping won't be too much of a bitch since I'm almost done with the outline of it.
In first hour we continued to take notes on the Renaissance and talked about Botticelli. I really like The Holy Trinity and The Birth Of Venus. I'm not too hot on Primavera because the compostion is crap. I love art history and I love the Renaissance. My favorite painting thus far is probably The Expulsion From The Garden Of Eden because the emotion on Adam and Eve's face just really gets me. Hits me hard like art is supposed to. I forget who it's by, but I believe it's Massacio? I'm not sure. When Kellerby first talked about Massacio yesterday I mentioned to Taylor "I could really go for a Massacio right now." And acted like I had sore shoulders or something. Anyway, I thought it was humorous. I'm such a dork in the fact that I make jokes like that, laugh at them, and laugh at Mr. Reimer's math jokes. Gardner's and the Islamic art powerpoint for homework.
In second hour we had the dreaded pre-calc test. I really regret not studying more, though I think Jenna and I did a fine job studying. Guess I just got over-confidant. Now, I've got to pay for it. There's no way I can let my grade slip. I left some questions partially unfinished. I'll get the grade tomorrow. I'm hoping for a B. Don't tell me to loosen up and accept a B. I can do better than this and I should. It doesn't matter that I don't have to make As. I want to and I'm capable of it, so why should I slack? I shouldn't be justifying myself here anyway. Lol. No homework. Yay!
In third hour (French), we took a test. It was pretty easy and I think I got an A. I need to finish the skit for Shane and I.
In 4th hour (art) I worked on my Audrey Hepburn drawing a while. I got bored and needed blending sticks. I've got to remember to bring one tomorrow. They're essential to drawing. Did Escher have them? I think my drawing is going to turn out nice, but I don't want Mom to feel obligated to spend $20 on a stupid frame for everything I do. Homework is sketchbook.
In APUSH we took notes from Buck again. He's okay but I don't like the fact that I can't write fast enough because he speaks too fast and the names are hard enough to spell anyway. Bah! Well, perhaps I'll just try to read the chapters then, eh? I really ought to do that. That's another 2 hours from my weekend.
In Physics we took some notes and did a lab. Mr. Hutchinson wasn't very pleased because a lot of people were trying to cheat and we all kept getting caught. I don't know why it mattered. We really tried hard to set up the laser and mirrors correctly, but it's a lot harder than it looks. :-\ No homework.
In English we took our vocab test which I completely forgot about until 5 minutes before we started. I know I got an A. Probably a perfect. They're pretty easy tests. Then we discussed that short story. I keep forgetting the name of it. It's about the lady who finds out her husband dies and is reallly happy for the freedom but then it turns out her husband is alive and she dies from sorrow at the fact she'd be chained again. Neat story though. Homework is of course to read and work on the Huck Finn essay. I should do my vocab this weekend, but I just know I'll forget.
I've read about 75% of the Sparknotes for Huckleberry Finn. Instead of skimming through the entire book looking for support for my book, I decided that would be smarter. I've got quite a bit of support now. I just need to finish up. Tomorrow I won't be able to work on it at all. I ought to, but I just won't have time. I hate writing essays about books I hated. I long to read more modern literature. Thank God out next book is of course choice. I'm thinking Andrew Wyeth, Audrey Hepburn, or Howard Hughes biography? Possibly even a semi-autobiographical fiction from Atwood if I can convince him of it!
I haven't worked on my novel tonight. There's still time left. I haven't worked in a few days and I need inspiration. Perhaps I'll read more in that book by Atwood that Nina gave me. It seemed to do the trick last time! I need a corkboard for all my thoughts and ideas. One for my novel and one for my art. I'd really like to repaint the basement and claim it as my own, but Mom nor Dad would dig it. College, how I long for thee... I can't do poetic crap, who am I kidding? Speaking of which, I had a lovely conversation with Steve today. Thanks for the conversation, Steve. We must do it again when I can fit you in.
Oh! And I still haven't watched Everwood. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow night. I want to drive to the party real bad and I hope I get to. Apparently my parents are way overprotective compared to others. Hehe. I'd like to drive to Homecoming too. I need to apply more Fog-X to my windows. They fog up horribly. I need to get the present ready too. And my slacks! I just saw these 25% off Borders coupons laying on the desk. I should go to Borders this weekend and get my biography. :) Maybe even get some hot chocolate and a three cheese asiago bagel with sun-dried tomato cream cheese like I always do. Or, I should not eat out at all and loose some of my fat ass. My friend Ryan told me to drink a glass of grapefruit juice before you go to bed and you'll burn a lot of fat. He said it worked and that's what they did for the wrestling team. Awesome, eh? I drank a small glass tonight and will have another before I go to bed. I'm really intent on loosing some damn weight. I'm sick of it, I tell you. Don't comfort me. I want to degrade myself so I get the motivation to do something. I've lost about 8 pounds thus far, gotta keep it up. I wish the weather were nicer and I could take nice, long walks. Plus, the cold air is doing nothing for my sensitive face and skin.
I'm sick of looking at crappy xangas. Mine is nothing special, but I can't stand the outrageous colors, text sizes, and insanely crappy music. It's really annoying. I'm on the upstairs computer so I'm not listening to anything. I could go into the other room and get my iPod, but I'm going to pass. I didn't take it to school today and I didn't miss it because I spend about 20 minutes of the bus ride stealing half of Hannah's address book. I now have a lot of phone numbers, but not nearly enough. I just need to go through our phone book. I never know when I'll need someone's phone number and since it can hold about a billion #s why not? I still need to read the instruction booklet and all of that. I'm talking to Leanna. The poor doll is sick. :*( Get better soon, Leanna! (Even though you won't be reading this.)
I've been feeling really out of touch with God lately. Kind of a private matter, I suppose. I just feel like I need to be going to church and praying more. Things are good, but there's still plenty to pray for and express thanks for. I need to start making a list of things I'm thankful for. That might be fun and beyond tedious. I ought to look on ebay for volume 2 of Gardner's. I mentioned that before a while back but I still haven't done anything about it.
We have a four day weekend coming up that I'm pretty excited about. However, that Monday I have a dentist appointment. I hope everything's okay! Anyway, after that it's only a month unitl Spring break. Then, in a few months after that ... France! I need to hold out for that 4 day week and then I can veg. Have some friends over, go out, things like that. I suppose this is long enough. Off to work on my novel.
Love,
//drew