of the week in general
Books books books!
While I did some research regarding various websites, I came across an article about the "top 100 books online everyone should read". So I posted the list in an LJ cut for my records. It's kind of like a meme, and kinda...not, especially since I've read oh so very few of these. Besides, I'm not a really big fan of e-books. I mostly only have a bunch to highlight my favorite parts (like I've done in Song of the Lioness, Harry Potter, and The Belgariad). So yeah, I've read books in bold, and the books I want to read are in italics.
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - Read a few stories, particularly the ones I had to do a project in school for.
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - I never really liked Mark Twain...
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Gawd. Nothx.
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Still love it to pieces.
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Ugh. Hate Brontes.
10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
11. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - This book is filled with deliciously naughty plots.
13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
14. Ulysses by James Joyce
15. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - I've heard so many horror stories with this book from the sister, so I'm not at all interested.
16. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Little Women by Louise May Alcott
20. Don Quixote by Cervantes
21. The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - Sounds interesting, if it is indeed a satire.
22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - I have this lying around in my house somewhere...
23. Dracula by Bram Stoker - Also lying around in my house.
24. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
25. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary - Nothx.
27. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
28. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietszche - Lol, Nietzsche's a funny guy.
30. Discourse of a Method by Renee Descartes - Mostly due to philosophy class.
31. The Tao Te Ching by Laozi
32. The Bible - This made me laugh just a bit. But I have read most of the passages, albeit I can't remember a thing :D
33. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
34. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - I vaguely remember the research I had to do with him.
35. The Sayings of Confucius - CONFUCIUS! XD
36. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
37. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens - Erm, I'm not sure why this of all books speaks for all the other Greek myth books.
38. The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
39. The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
40. Common Sense by Thomas Paine - *cringes*
41. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
42. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli - No lie. I really did like this book.
43. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - I've yet to finish this one by a landslide.
44. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
45. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - I like how it's THE COMPLETE WORKS. Because clearly, the Bard just needs all his books up in the top 100.
46. The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
47. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
48. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - I've been meaning to start reading Purgatorio and Paradiso.
49. Paradise Lost by John Milton
50. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe - Though I'm not sure if this ever came out as a standalone book.
51. Hedda Gabler by Heinrich Ibsen
52. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
53. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
54. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
55. The Iliad by Homer
56. The Odyssey by Homer
57. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Sun Tzu is just as awesome as Confucius XD.
58. The Works of Aristotle
59. Symposium by Plato
60. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
61. Aesop’s Fables - I'm making my way through it, actually.
62. Beowulf
63. The Aeneid by Virgil
64. Poetics by Aristotle
65. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
66. Professional Customer Service
67. Fail As Fast As You Can and Other Contrarian Business Secrets
68. Beginners Guide to the Internet
69. Web Marketing Success
70. Art and Science of Obtaining Venture or Angel Investor Capital
71. What Women Need to Know About Retirement
72. ID Theft
73. Estate Planning
74. Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future
75. Get the Facts on Saving and Investing
76. Building a Better Credit Report
77. Consumer Action Handbook
78. Taking Control of Your Finances
79. Banking Basics
80. Know Before You Go: To Get a Mortgage
81. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - You can learn a lot of things from the flowers *hums*
82. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
83. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
84. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
85. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
86. Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
87. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
89. Beatrix Potter Collected Works
90. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
91. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
92. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
93. The Education of Henry Adams
94. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
95. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
96. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
97. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - *twitches at her remembering her research*
98. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
100. The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana - Hahahaha.
Cooking Skillznit!
Also, go figure, on my day off, I had the urge to cook up a storm. I felt like having some healthy veggies today, and what better time to have some spinach? So of course, I go to my favorite recipe website All Recipes and found one for spinach and cream stuffed shells. Granted, the recipe called for whipped cream, which I found odd. So I substituted that with sour cream instead. Still delish.
Also baked oatmeal raisin + walnut cookies! I have to admit, I was worried that the cookie would be too hard to eat once it's cooled down (since I only used half the amount of butter the recipe called for). However, it came out okay, and I didn't clog up my bloodstream too much either! I shall remember to add more cinnamon and less nutmeg. Oh, and more raisins.
Gaaaames
Mari has seen what she wants for next year! *foams at the mouth* WANT IT
Sleeping with Howard Roark
So, while I'm not a big fan of e-books, I am becoming very attached to the audiobook. Granted, I've already read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, so it's not so hard to visualize things by just listening. I would still rather read the story on paper first before I listen to it. Maybe I'll do the Alanna books next. We'll see.
And that's all, hoers! Maybe next time I'll regale with the random things I've been reading/watching. I haven't done those in a while!
While I did some research regarding various websites, I came across an article about the "top 100 books online everyone should read". So I posted the list in an LJ cut for my records. It's kind of like a meme, and kinda...not, especially since I've read oh so very few of these. Besides, I'm not a really big fan of e-books. I mostly only have a bunch to highlight my favorite parts (like I've done in Song of the Lioness, Harry Potter, and The Belgariad). So yeah, I've read books in bold, and the books I want to read are in italics.
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - Read a few stories, particularly the ones I had to do a project in school for.
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - I never really liked Mark Twain...
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Gawd. Nothx.
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Still love it to pieces.
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Ugh. Hate Brontes.
10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
11. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - This book is filled with deliciously naughty plots.
13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
14. Ulysses by James Joyce
15. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - I've heard so many horror stories with this book from the sister, so I'm not at all interested.
16. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Little Women by Louise May Alcott
20. Don Quixote by Cervantes
21. The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - Sounds interesting, if it is indeed a satire.
22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - I have this lying around in my house somewhere...
23. Dracula by Bram Stoker - Also lying around in my house.
24. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
25. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary - Nothx.
27. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
28. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietszche - Lol, Nietzsche's a funny guy.
30. Discourse of a Method by Renee Descartes - Mostly due to philosophy class.
31. The Tao Te Ching by Laozi
32. The Bible - This made me laugh just a bit. But I have read most of the passages, albeit I can't remember a thing :D
33. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
34. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - I vaguely remember the research I had to do with him.
35. The Sayings of Confucius - CONFUCIUS! XD
36. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
37. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens - Erm, I'm not sure why this of all books speaks for all the other Greek myth books.
38. The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
39. The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
40. Common Sense by Thomas Paine - *cringes*
41. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
42. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli - No lie. I really did like this book.
43. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - I've yet to finish this one by a landslide.
44. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
45. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - I like how it's THE COMPLETE WORKS. Because clearly, the Bard just needs all his books up in the top 100.
46. The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
47. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
48. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - I've been meaning to start reading Purgatorio and Paradiso.
49. Paradise Lost by John Milton
50. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe - Though I'm not sure if this ever came out as a standalone book.
51. Hedda Gabler by Heinrich Ibsen
52. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
53. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
54. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
55. The Iliad by Homer
56. The Odyssey by Homer
57. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Sun Tzu is just as awesome as Confucius XD.
58. The Works of Aristotle
59. Symposium by Plato
60. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
61. Aesop’s Fables - I'm making my way through it, actually.
62. Beowulf
63. The Aeneid by Virgil
64. Poetics by Aristotle
65. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
66. Professional Customer Service
67. Fail As Fast As You Can and Other Contrarian Business Secrets
68. Beginners Guide to the Internet
69. Web Marketing Success
70. Art and Science of Obtaining Venture or Angel Investor Capital
71. What Women Need to Know About Retirement
72. ID Theft
73. Estate Planning
74. Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future
75. Get the Facts on Saving and Investing
76. Building a Better Credit Report
77. Consumer Action Handbook
78. Taking Control of Your Finances
79. Banking Basics
80. Know Before You Go: To Get a Mortgage
81. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - You can learn a lot of things from the flowers *hums*
82. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
83. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
84. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
85. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
86. Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
87. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
89. Beatrix Potter Collected Works
90. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
91. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
92. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
93. The Education of Henry Adams
94. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
95. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
96. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
97. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - *twitches at her remembering her research*
98. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
100. The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana - Hahahaha.
Cooking Skillznit!
Also, go figure, on my day off, I had the urge to cook up a storm. I felt like having some healthy veggies today, and what better time to have some spinach? So of course, I go to my favorite recipe website All Recipes and found one for spinach and cream stuffed shells. Granted, the recipe called for whipped cream, which I found odd. So I substituted that with sour cream instead. Still delish.
Also baked oatmeal raisin + walnut cookies! I have to admit, I was worried that the cookie would be too hard to eat once it's cooled down (since I only used half the amount of butter the recipe called for). However, it came out okay, and I didn't clog up my bloodstream too much either! I shall remember to add more cinnamon and less nutmeg. Oh, and more raisins.
Gaaaames
Mari has seen what she wants for next year! *foams at the mouth* WANT IT
Sleeping with Howard Roark
So, while I'm not a big fan of e-books, I am becoming very attached to the audiobook. Granted, I've already read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, so it's not so hard to visualize things by just listening. I would still rather read the story on paper first before I listen to it. Maybe I'll do the Alanna books next. We'll see.
And that's all, hoers! Maybe next time I'll regale with the random things I've been reading/watching. I haven't done those in a while!