These are the top 106 (why not just 100?) books LibraryThing's users listed as unread. As a rule, you're supposed to like bold the ones you've read and italicize something else, but I hate doing that, so I'm just listing them and saying yes or no. Er, well, yes or no, with commentary.

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Recently, I started thinking about Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which I haven't read all the way through since I was twelve or thirteen. I've started rereading it, and there's all kinds of stuff that affects me that didn't when I was in middle school. One of my dad's colleagues told him that I shouldn't be reading Dostoyevsky, since there ( Read more... )

New icon, because 'tis the season and Teatime is hot ( Read more... )

Here are some things that have happened in the last few days that I found depressing or baffling ( Read more... )

I finished The Sound and the Fury. Now, I have read many, many books. I have encountered many characters who have been evil, brutal, selfish, mean, and otherwise intolerable. Jason has blown them all away. He is officially the book character that I loathe the most.

We're reading Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in my literature class. This is my first time reading it; I absolutely love it, even if it did take me a while to figure out exactly what was going on in the Benjy narrative. In class today, we were broken up into small groups to discuss certain aspects of the first two sections (Benjy and Quentin; ( Read more... )

I have finally finished the entire Harry Potter saga. I just have to say, in terms of "Deathly Hallows," that while I didn't cry, I came close several times. "Deathly Hallows" and "Goblet of Fire" are definitely my two favorites of the series. I'm not sure which one I prefer; I may have to reread the series. My dad, meanwhile, has read the ( Read more... )

I am currently the only person in the world who isn't reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Why? Because I'm a total snob - up to this point, I've only read the British editions of the books (started because I objected to the substitution of "sorcerer's stone" for "philosopher's stone"), and why stop now? It'll be here in a couple days ( Read more... )

Well, I've performed my civic obligation for the next three years. Jury duty. I'd been half hoping I would actually be on a jury (for a short trial, since I have plans for the evening), but it didn't happen. See, there were ten cases on the docket for today. Nine of them, the defendants decided to plead in, and the tenth, the defense attorney ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you're having fun. I am currently doing absolutely nothing, and am kinda bored. Meredith was over earlier, and that was nice, but she had to go to lab. I tried to mail a package, but the post office closed at four and I got there at 4:05. Much bitterness ( Read more... )