literary post!
shamelessly stolen from butterflyweb! ridiculously surprised that some of these are even on here (um, time traveler's wife? really? i loved it, but still. really? and his dark materials? also, there's no mark twain? why is it like this.)
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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
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 Austen
35 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 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
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 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
read: 33
dabbled: 20
- - - - -
i was sick from early this morning to around the middle of the afternoon, so the two mandatory classes i was supposed to go to today? i didn't go to them. i threw up twice this morning and went back to bed, didn't wake up till around 1PM, sent my professor and my history TA emails explaining why i couldn't go to class (or didn't show up at class, since fiction/poetry is at 11AM). i'm hoping they give me excused absences because i was, well, feverish and throwing up :|
some tylenol and chicken noodle soup patched me up, though, since i'm feeling marginally better now. at least my head's not pounding anymore, jfc.
because i missed fiction/poetry i'm supposed to memorize a poem! last time i did a sonnet (shakespeare's my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) so this time i decided to have some fun with it and chose jeffrey mcdaniel's the quiet world. which i will proceed to type out from memory to you now! (gotta practice some way >__>a):
in an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided to allot each person exactly
one hundred and sixty seven words, per day.
when the phone rings, i put it to my ear
without saying hello. in the restaurant,
i point at chicken noodle soup.
i am adjusting well to the new way.
late at night, i call my long-distance lover,
proudly say i only used fifty-nine today.
i saved the rest for you.
when she doesn't respond,
i know she's used up all her words,
so i slowly whisper i love you
thirty-two and a third times.
after that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.
\o/ hopefully i do as well in person with my professor on monday n__nv
since i didn't want to do homework tonight (i have the weekend ahead of me, after all) i decided to reread abarat. for anyone who loves harry potter and its simple style + jk rowling's world building, i really really recommend abarat. it's written and illustrated by clive barker and is ridiculously beautiful. also whetstone tells me that the paperback version's only 12 dollars! the art is gorgeous (sweet amazing bb), and i think it's like 400+ pages including illustrations, so it's definitely worth it. for those of you who are more criminally inclined (like me), here is a (sadly artless) .pdf file of book 1 that you can download to read. book two has been out for years as well, but unfortunately there's no illegal download version that i can find on the net, sob. the third book is supposed to be coming out in late fall of 2011, so i am extremely excited :') seems like a lot of good things are going to be happening next autumn.
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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
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 Austen
35 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 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
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 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
read: 33
dabbled: 20
- - - - -
i was sick from early this morning to around the middle of the afternoon, so the two mandatory classes i was supposed to go to today? i didn't go to them. i threw up twice this morning and went back to bed, didn't wake up till around 1PM, sent my professor and my history TA emails explaining why i couldn't go to class (or didn't show up at class, since fiction/poetry is at 11AM). i'm hoping they give me excused absences because i was, well, feverish and throwing up :|
some tylenol and chicken noodle soup patched me up, though, since i'm feeling marginally better now. at least my head's not pounding anymore, jfc.
because i missed fiction/poetry i'm supposed to memorize a poem! last time i did a sonnet (shakespeare's my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) so this time i decided to have some fun with it and chose jeffrey mcdaniel's the quiet world. which i will proceed to type out from memory to you now! (gotta practice some way >__>a):
in an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided to allot each person exactly
one hundred and sixty seven words, per day.
when the phone rings, i put it to my ear
without saying hello. in the restaurant,
i point at chicken noodle soup.
i am adjusting well to the new way.
late at night, i call my long-distance lover,
proudly say i only used fifty-nine today.
i saved the rest for you.
when she doesn't respond,
i know she's used up all her words,
so i slowly whisper i love you
thirty-two and a third times.
after that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.
\o/ hopefully i do as well in person with my professor on monday n__nv
since i didn't want to do homework tonight (i have the weekend ahead of me, after all) i decided to reread abarat. for anyone who loves harry potter and its simple style + jk rowling's world building, i really really recommend abarat. it's written and illustrated by clive barker and is ridiculously beautiful. also whetstone tells me that the paperback version's only 12 dollars! the art is gorgeous (sweet amazing bb), and i think it's like 400+ pages including illustrations, so it's definitely worth it. for those of you who are more criminally inclined (like me), here is a (sadly artless) .pdf file of book 1 that you can download to read. book two has been out for years as well, but unfortunately there's no illegal download version that i can find on the net, sob. the third book is supposed to be coming out in late fall of 2011, so i am extremely excited :') seems like a lot of good things are going to be happening next autumn.