Jan 24, 2011 03:17
My very first LJ entry... EVER. So please bear with me if I end up, like blowing up a tracking device or something in the process of figuring out how to do all this.
But as usual with me, this is a meme. Which is totally Merle's fault. Of course.
(To clarify for everyone with the book titles - bold is books I've read. Italics are books I've only read/heard parts/excerpts/abridged versions of.)
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 (and it's AWESOME :D)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 (um, isn't this part of the Chronicles of Narnia series?)
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 - A.A. 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 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 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 - E.B. 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 (en français)
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
Full credit: 11 Partial credit: 13. Wow am I not a literary person.
Tell you what. Somebody get me a cinematic list. My credit will be HUGE.
1. What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Um, uh, spaghetti XD
2. Where was your Facebook profile picture taken?
In my room... not my residence room, my, actual room.
3. Can you play Guitar Hero?
Apparently I'm pretty damn good for a beginner :P
4. Name someone who made you laugh today?
James Rolfe, Linkara, Merle, Ry, and ohwaitthat'sit.
5. How late did you stay up last night and why?
11:00pm. Because I was genuinely tired. Isn't that abnormal XD
6. If you could move somewhere else, would you?
-Ish.
7. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
... *goes to sit in a corner*
8. Which of your friends lives closest to you on FaceBook?
Oh, I'd say my sister. You know, seeing as I have easy access to her a couple of doors across the common area XD
9. Do you believe ex's can be friends?
GodIhopeso.
10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?
Ew >_>
11. When was the last time you cried really hard?
... DoIhavetoanswerthis?
12. Who took your Facebook profile picture?
Myself. On Li's webcam.
13. Who was the last person you took a picture of?
Geez, since when DO I take pictures? Um, a rainbow was the last "person" I took a picture of. The last person I filmed was Atlas XD
14. Was yesterday better than today?
Eheheheheno.
15. Can you live a day without TV?
TV? Pft, easy *tosses TV out the window*
16. Are you upset about anything?
Mooooving on.
17. Do you think relationships are worth it?
'Course I do. But I said MOVING ON. *shoves meme downward*
18. Are you a bad influence?
You're the judge of that >.>
19. Night out or night in?
Night out, night out! For SCREENINGS 8D
20. What items could you not go without during the day?
Um, Joey and my brain. That's... pretty much it. And possibly a pen and paper.
21. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
My mother, which was, like, back in November.
22. How do you feel about your life right now?
Say it with me now... UP and DOWN. UP and DOWN. Hehe, Pete's Dragon.
23. Do you hate anyone?
Not at the moment.
24. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass?
Yep.
25. Has anyone ever called you perfect before?
*nods* Nowtheyknowwhytheyshouldn't.
26. What song is stuck in your head?
What's playing right now, which is... *checks* Couldn't Have Said It Better by Meat Loaf. EPIC!
27. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be?
Someone who won't demand too much mental work from me at that time of the night. And Ry. And all of my male friends whose names start with the letter J. ... Which is all of them, now that I think about it XD
28. Wanna have grandkids before you’re 50?
*shrug* I just want to be a crazy aunt.
29. Name something you have to do tomorrow?
Go to two screenings and finally get my bloody Writing essay back. The first two I look forward to... the latter not-so-much.
30. Do you think too much or too little?
Deeeefinitely too much.
31. Do you smile a lot?
Enh. Depends on who I'm hanging out with.
32. Do you like being tagged in notes?
*shrug* F'anyone wants to.
first entry,
lj newbie,
merle,
meme-thingy,
literary goodness