Book stuff
I saw this survey (?) on Beth's Blog, original post is here. The blue type is from the original post. It looks like fun in a book-nerdy way, so I am letting my inner book-nerd out to play. My thoughts in green.
Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen () thinking of trying P&P and Zombies
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien () tried, couldn't wade through it
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X) when I was 11, and again when I was 15, and again in my 20's
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X) every single one; felt silly at first reading a childrens book when I was 38.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee () saw the movie! I'd like to read the book
6 The Bible () tried a few times, has bad family memories for me-(wipes emo tear away)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X) required reading in middle school (1972)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman () just got it for the school library, in my tbr along with the other two in the series
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens () I have an old copy, so old there is no year printed on it, not even in roman numerals. The spine is decorated with "curly-cue" decor and the front cover has no writing at all on it- just an embossed design. Beautiful copy- but old. The publisher is the "Book League of America". (just a tidbit of info)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X) twice- at 10 years old, and again at 17. cried both times
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X) although I don't remember much
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X) loved it- read it when I was 13
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare () oh hell no (I'm not worthy... haha) not patient enough
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (X) another "heavy" book read when I was 12
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien () just could not get past the third (?) chapter-very verbose
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk () never heard of it
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X) when I was 11, don't remember much
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger () possibly, maybe i would like to read it
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot () never heard of it
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X) read when I was 12
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X) in my teens (13 or 14)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens () another one I haven't heard of (there are many I haven't heard of, especially the classics)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (X) I read this in 1973, the summer of reading (13 yrs old)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X) when I was 16, and then again in my 30's
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky () nope!
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X) 1973 for school - should read it again
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X) one of the easier versions when I was 9
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame () not yet, though probably will.
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy () not sure if I want to- 1 and a half years ago I saw that book everywhere! it was like a FAD
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens () I have a hardback copy on my shelf. geez it's dated 1887, with an inscription on the inside that says "Horace MacGowan, Christmas 1888 from Alice". Then someone pasted a piece of paper in it saying written "Horace is the father of Catherine MacGowan Cutler and Eliz.MacGowan Kotsch and Rober Alan MacGowan, Grandfather to Deborah Kotsch Imhoff." There is a little drawing (by a kid probably) of a BIRD also, with a 1, 2 and G written on the first page of chapter one. Somebody was trippin'! It's in amazing shape for a 121 year old book. I'm afraid to read this copy.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis () tried when I was 12, but at that time I was reading "grown up" books, like Harold Robbins, so I wasn't into it
34 Emma - Jane Austen () haven't read any Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein () heard of this one, good reviews, but seems to sad-I need happy or horror
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres () never heard of it
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden () started it, was never into it, gave it away
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne () nope, but I just picked up (out of a giveaway from a school) a set of W.Pooh books. Might save them from grandchildren use, or put in school library-not sure yet
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X) oh lord yes- required reading in middleschool (12 years old)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown () tried it, couldn't get into it, tried the movie, boring for me
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez () never heard of it
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (X) loved it, then there was the sad part...still have it
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins () never heard of it
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X) it was okay- read it when I was 30-something
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy () seen the title used over and over and over, crossword puzzles, quotes, etc.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X) an odd one
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X) a compelling read (like a train wreck) but a good lesson I was 12, right around the time that teacher made us read Animal Farm. it was a traumatic year for required reading : )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan () never heard of it- (is it the same as the movie?)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert () this book was on my mom's bookshelf when I was a kid, though I never read it (I was sneaking looks at the Joy of sex- wondering why she had it when she was a single mom....I was 10, okay?)
53 Cold Comfort Farm () never heard of it - looked it up, there was a movie made from this, I saw it, good movie
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen () nope, but Sense and Sensibility and Zombies is coming out!
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth () never heard of it (suitable for WHAT?!)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon () never heard of it
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens(X) OOH, OOH, I read that one! think I was 14, maybe 13
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley () I think I have that one around here somewhere.....an older paperback
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon () never heard of it
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez () never heard of it
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck () George...George,...hey George! (quoted by my son, many times)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov () not interested, sounds creepy (woody allen?, morgan freeman?must play nice)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt () never heard of it
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X) sad, heartbreaking, horrifying,
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X) an edited version when I was 9. i loved it
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy () never heard of it
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding () I'd like to read this one
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie () never heard of it
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville () hasn't come up
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens () sounds familiar
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker () saw the movie...
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X) so long ago, don't remember much, or how old I was
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson () never heard of it
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome () never heard of it
78 Germinal - Emile Zola () never heard of it
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray () never heard of it
80 Possession - AS Byatt (X) found it a little depressing. I might have it around in one of my unpacked boxes
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) skimmed it when I was a kid, around 10 or 11
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell () never heard of it
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X) read it when in my early 20's (it's been a long time-doesn't feel like it)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro () never heard of it
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (x) tried, didn't quite finish, diffucult reading when I was 12
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry () never heard of it
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X) sad, sad book
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x) read one of the series, in elementary-kid version
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton () never heard of it
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad () never heard of it
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks () never heard of it
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams () saw the movie with my (at the time) two children, never knew it was a book
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole () never heard of it
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute () never heard of it
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas () started it, never finished- tried to read it when I was 14
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
Unless I counted wrong (it's hard to count while scrolling down on the screen) I have read 30 of these books. The wierd thing is, is that some of the most diffucult to read, I read when I was between 11 and 14. I was a odd child, I read books that some people would consider inappropriate for my age, as well as some pretty hefty "tomes" and now prefer to read purely for entertainment. Some of the other books read in my tween years were:
Hawaii, Iberia and Centennial (James Michener);
a few Harold Robbins books;
Captains and Kings and Testimony of Two Men (Taylor Caldwell);
Cannery Row , East of Eden and The Pearl by John Steinbeck;
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (in fourth grade); Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry);
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (s/b required reading for 6th graders);
Sow Not In Anger by Jack Hoffenburg;
I was born in 1960, so when I was in elementary school things were still pretty tame as far as media, radio and available reading material. in 1972 I started junior high, and even though the sexual revolution was going on, and women's lib was really taking off, we still lived in fairly simple times (compared to now) and in a small town (we weren't city sized in the 60's). The Smothers Brothers' show was censored regularly. Despite my mother coming from an extremely strict and religious background and my father also coming from an extremely religious and strict childhood (they grew in the 40's and 50's) neither one of them ever censored or restricted our reading. The closest my mom would come was to yell "are you still reading! put down that book" and do our homework/chores/babysit our brothers-stuff like that. Naturally as my kids grew up I never thought of restricting their reading either. So the only time I had to be secretive while reading is when I was sneaking into my moms adult books. I think the only one she would have taken away from me is "the Joy of Sex", but I never took a chance, I always looked at that one when she was out. Funny thing, is that book was kept right in the living room with all her other books which is where I picked out most of my reading material.
I was fortunate enough to win a contest for Skinwalker by Faith Hunter. The cool thing is that I received a bound uncorrected proof version of the book. Which means that later (when I have the cash) I can buy the final version without feeling guilty {for the cool cover!}, and I get to read it now rather than wait until I have extra cash for luxuries like books. Normally books are a necessity for me, but right now they are a luxury. I can't complain though, because I do own a lot of very good books. I have books that I can re-read, they are re-read worthy; I also have books in my TBR pile that I have been amassing over the last two years. Most of those are going to be wonderful reads, I know. there are some, in the garage, books that I have started and never finished. I should make an effort with those books.....someday.
the Charles Dickens Book Great Expectations - No idea when this one was printed/published
This is from David Copperfield, given in 1888, published 1887. See the bird? If you were able to buy a contemporary book with the type of covers they made then, boy would it cost a lot of money! But the covers were beautiful.
Edited - I just realized how teeny the print was of some sections, I could hardly read my own post
Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen () thinking of trying P&P and Zombies
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien () tried, couldn't wade through it
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X) when I was 11, and again when I was 15, and again in my 20's
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X) every single one; felt silly at first reading a childrens book when I was 38.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee () saw the movie! I'd like to read the book
6 The Bible () tried a few times, has bad family memories for me-(wipes emo tear away)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X) required reading in middle school (1972)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman () just got it for the school library, in my tbr along with the other two in the series
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens () I have an old copy, so old there is no year printed on it, not even in roman numerals. The spine is decorated with "curly-cue" decor and the front cover has no writing at all on it- just an embossed design. Beautiful copy- but old. The publisher is the "Book League of America". (just a tidbit of info)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X) twice- at 10 years old, and again at 17. cried both times
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X) although I don't remember much
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X) loved it- read it when I was 13
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare () oh hell no (I'm not worthy... haha) not patient enough
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (X) another "heavy" book read when I was 12
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien () just could not get past the third (?) chapter-very verbose
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk () never heard of it
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X) when I was 11, don't remember much
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger () possibly, maybe i would like to read it
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot () never heard of it
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X) read when I was 12
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X) in my teens (13 or 14)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens () another one I haven't heard of (there are many I haven't heard of, especially the classics)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (X) I read this in 1973, the summer of reading (13 yrs old)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X) when I was 16, and then again in my 30's
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky () nope!
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X) 1973 for school - should read it again
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X) one of the easier versions when I was 9
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame () not yet, though probably will.
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy () not sure if I want to- 1 and a half years ago I saw that book everywhere! it was like a FAD
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens () I have a hardback copy on my shelf. geez it's dated 1887, with an inscription on the inside that says "Horace MacGowan, Christmas 1888 from Alice". Then someone pasted a piece of paper in it saying written "Horace is the father of Catherine MacGowan Cutler and Eliz.MacGowan Kotsch and Rober Alan MacGowan, Grandfather to Deborah Kotsch Imhoff." There is a little drawing (by a kid probably) of a BIRD also, with a 1, 2 and G written on the first page of chapter one. Somebody was trippin'! It's in amazing shape for a 121 year old book. I'm afraid to read this copy.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis () tried when I was 12, but at that time I was reading "grown up" books, like Harold Robbins, so I wasn't into it
34 Emma - Jane Austen () haven't read any Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein () heard of this one, good reviews, but seems to sad-I need happy or horror
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres () never heard of it
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden () started it, was never into it, gave it away
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne () nope, but I just picked up (out of a giveaway from a school) a set of W.Pooh books. Might save them from grandchildren use, or put in school library-not sure yet
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X) oh lord yes- required reading in middleschool (12 years old)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown () tried it, couldn't get into it, tried the movie, boring for me
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez () never heard of it
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (X) loved it, then there was the sad part...still have it
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins () never heard of it
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X) it was okay- read it when I was 30-something
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy () seen the title used over and over and over, crossword puzzles, quotes, etc.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X) an odd one
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X) a compelling read (like a train wreck) but a good lesson I was 12, right around the time that teacher made us read Animal Farm. it was a traumatic year for required reading : )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan () never heard of it- (is it the same as the movie?)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert () this book was on my mom's bookshelf when I was a kid, though I never read it (I was sneaking looks at the Joy of sex- wondering why she had it when she was a single mom....I was 10, okay?)
53 Cold Comfort Farm () never heard of it - looked it up, there was a movie made from this, I saw it, good movie
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen () nope, but Sense and Sensibility and Zombies is coming out!
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth () never heard of it (suitable for WHAT?!)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon () never heard of it
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens(X) OOH, OOH, I read that one! think I was 14, maybe 13
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley () I think I have that one around here somewhere.....an older paperback
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon () never heard of it
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez () never heard of it
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck () George...George,...hey George! (quoted by my son, many times)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov () not interested, sounds creepy (woody allen?, morgan freeman?must play nice)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt () never heard of it
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X) sad, heartbreaking, horrifying,
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X) an edited version when I was 9. i loved it
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy () never heard of it
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding () I'd like to read this one
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie () never heard of it
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville () hasn't come up
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens () sounds familiar
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker () saw the movie...
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X) so long ago, don't remember much, or how old I was
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson () never heard of it
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome () never heard of it
78 Germinal - Emile Zola () never heard of it
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray () never heard of it
80 Possession - AS Byatt (X) found it a little depressing. I might have it around in one of my unpacked boxes
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) skimmed it when I was a kid, around 10 or 11
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell () never heard of it
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X) read it when in my early 20's (it's been a long time-doesn't feel like it)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro () never heard of it
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (x) tried, didn't quite finish, diffucult reading when I was 12
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry () never heard of it
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X) sad, sad book
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x) read one of the series, in elementary-kid version
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton () never heard of it
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad () never heard of it
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks () never heard of it
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams () saw the movie with my (at the time) two children, never knew it was a book
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole () never heard of it
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute () never heard of it
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas () started it, never finished- tried to read it when I was 14
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
Unless I counted wrong (it's hard to count while scrolling down on the screen) I have read 30 of these books. The wierd thing is, is that some of the most diffucult to read, I read when I was between 11 and 14. I was a odd child, I read books that some people would consider inappropriate for my age, as well as some pretty hefty "tomes" and now prefer to read purely for entertainment. Some of the other books read in my tween years were:
Hawaii, Iberia and Centennial (James Michener);
a few Harold Robbins books;
Captains and Kings and Testimony of Two Men (Taylor Caldwell);
Cannery Row , East of Eden and The Pearl by John Steinbeck;
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (in fourth grade); Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry);
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (s/b required reading for 6th graders);
Sow Not In Anger by Jack Hoffenburg;
I was born in 1960, so when I was in elementary school things were still pretty tame as far as media, radio and available reading material. in 1972 I started junior high, and even though the sexual revolution was going on, and women's lib was really taking off, we still lived in fairly simple times (compared to now) and in a small town (we weren't city sized in the 60's). The Smothers Brothers' show was censored regularly. Despite my mother coming from an extremely strict and religious background and my father also coming from an extremely religious and strict childhood (they grew in the 40's and 50's) neither one of them ever censored or restricted our reading. The closest my mom would come was to yell "are you still reading! put down that book" and do our homework/chores/babysit our brothers-stuff like that. Naturally as my kids grew up I never thought of restricting their reading either. So the only time I had to be secretive while reading is when I was sneaking into my moms adult books. I think the only one she would have taken away from me is "the Joy of Sex", but I never took a chance, I always looked at that one when she was out. Funny thing, is that book was kept right in the living room with all her other books which is where I picked out most of my reading material.
I was fortunate enough to win a contest for Skinwalker by Faith Hunter. The cool thing is that I received a bound uncorrected proof version of the book. Which means that later (when I have the cash) I can buy the final version without feeling guilty {for the cool cover!}, and I get to read it now rather than wait until I have extra cash for luxuries like books. Normally books are a necessity for me, but right now they are a luxury. I can't complain though, because I do own a lot of very good books. I have books that I can re-read, they are re-read worthy; I also have books in my TBR pile that I have been amassing over the last two years. Most of those are going to be wonderful reads, I know. there are some, in the garage, books that I have started and never finished. I should make an effort with those books.....someday.
the Charles Dickens Book Great Expectations - No idea when this one was printed/published
This is from David Copperfield, given in 1888, published 1887. See the bird? If you were able to buy a contemporary book with the type of covers they made then, boy would it cost a lot of money! But the covers were beautiful.
Edited - I just realized how teeny the print was of some sections, I could hardly read my own post