book meme and some photos
book meme:
some of these don't surprise me at all...it even made me feel slightly better!
Below are the .
The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.
Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina (i want to re-read this, i actually enjoyed it!)
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel (i have tried to read this too many times to count, ugh)
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (there's a graphic novel based on this story - called emma bovary i believe. i want to read that too!)
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities (i love charles dickens!)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife (LOVE this book)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha (HA, it makes me feel better i'm not the only one who can't finish this book!)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (i almost gave up on it, but it was great!)
The Canterbury Tales (this was on the line - we had to read it for extra credit in 9th grade global history, and i ended up reading summaries of it online because i couldn't get through it all in time, haha)
The Historian (bought it, haven't been able to get into it yet)
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (i think i bought this..)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula*
A clockwork orange (couldn't get too far into it, once i put it down i was finished haha. i want to finish the book now for the principle of it)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath (uugh, chris's favorite book and i've heard it's great, i'm just not a fan of steinbeck)
The Poisonwood Bible
1984* (loved it)
Angels & Demons (to be fair the only reason i didn't finish it was i lost it for awhile)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (heard it's good)
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things (bought it at a garage sale, can't remember if i still have it...)
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five (UUUUUUGH. i HATE this book. didn't finish it by choice.)
The Scarlet Letter (NOT A FAN of hawthorne.)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics (didn't impress me too much from what i've read)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (not my favorite. tolkien is sooooo long winded..)
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
some photos from today while i was packing:
i love the way colors end up grouping in my room :D
some of these don't surprise me at all...it even made me feel slightly better!
Below are the .
The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.
Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina (i want to re-read this, i actually enjoyed it!)
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel (i have tried to read this too many times to count, ugh)
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (there's a graphic novel based on this story - called emma bovary i believe. i want to read that too!)
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities (i love charles dickens!)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife (LOVE this book)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha (HA, it makes me feel better i'm not the only one who can't finish this book!)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (i almost gave up on it, but it was great!)
The Canterbury Tales (this was on the line - we had to read it for extra credit in 9th grade global history, and i ended up reading summaries of it online because i couldn't get through it all in time, haha)
The Historian (bought it, haven't been able to get into it yet)
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein (i think i bought this..)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula*
A clockwork orange (couldn't get too far into it, once i put it down i was finished haha. i want to finish the book now for the principle of it)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath (uugh, chris's favorite book and i've heard it's great, i'm just not a fan of steinbeck)
The Poisonwood Bible
1984* (loved it)
Angels & Demons (to be fair the only reason i didn't finish it was i lost it for awhile)
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (heard it's good)
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things (bought it at a garage sale, can't remember if i still have it...)
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five (UUUUUUGH. i HATE this book. didn't finish it by choice.)
The Scarlet Letter (NOT A FAN of hawthorne.)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics (didn't impress me too much from what i've read)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit (not my favorite. tolkien is sooooo long winded..)
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
some photos from today while i was packing:
i love the way colors end up grouping in my room :D