Ah, Lazy Hump Day.
RIP Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Thank you for the Special Olympics.
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You guys, THIS is what the much reviled "Club Nice" is all about: DBAD - DON'T BE A DICK.
Seriously, how much better would our planet be if we were just NICE to each other? BEING KIND DOESN'T HURT.
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Had the weirdest dream last night -- 1st great love and last great love, and me in a gym? Like a high school gym, eating at a salad bar. I lost my shoes, missed the bus, and had to get a ride home with the latter in his Lamborghini (which, uh, he so doesn't have. Although he had a sports car once upon a time. He used to be such a label conscious yuppie.). Oh, and former wanted to go dancing, but only at a "rainbow kind of place." Dudes... WTF?
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I think I end up taking this book nerd meme a couple of times a year.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
Total so far: 10/10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
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 (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
Total so far: 14/20
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
Total so far: 21/30
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (X)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
Total so far: 28/40
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ( )
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (X)
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 (X)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
Total so far: 32/50
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (X)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon (X)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
Total so far: 39/60
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (X)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (X)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X)
Total so far: 45/70
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante (X)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt (X)
Total so far: 49/80
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (X)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
Total so far: 55/90
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (X)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X )
Total 62/100
You know, I suspect all my book nerd friends have done this already -- probably several times, like me. So I'll just randomly tag some. *G* divajess, yourlibrarian, and anyone else who's in the mood! :D
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Top SIXTEEN awesome women of fandom! Come by and vote for your favorites! Come on, guys -- ELIZABETH BENNETT IS BEATING FAITH! Do not allow this travesty to happen! Plus, Miss Piggy and River Tam are NECK AND NECK -- do you know what Piggy will do if she loses?
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Damn picky ass dragons! So... As you can see, I have a couple new adults in the pen! The silly, fat pink one is Andy Bellefleur, and the lovely purple one is Pam Ravenscroft (Another female! YAY!) Well, the first thing I did with Pam was try and mate her with Rosey... and you might be able to guess what happened. They "wouldn't go anywhere near each other" WTF, you guys? I want a pretty purple and pink dragon! *sigh* Well, we'll just have to try again next week.
~
You guys, THIS is what the much reviled "Club Nice" is all about: DBAD - DON'T BE A DICK.
Seriously, how much better would our planet be if we were just NICE to each other? BEING KIND DOESN'T HURT.
~
Had the weirdest dream last night -- 1st great love and last great love, and me in a gym? Like a high school gym, eating at a salad bar. I lost my shoes, missed the bus, and had to get a ride home with the latter in his Lamborghini (which, uh, he so doesn't have. Although he had a sports car once upon a time. He used to be such a label conscious yuppie.). Oh, and former wanted to go dancing, but only at a "rainbow kind of place." Dudes... WTF?
~
I think I end up taking this book nerd meme a couple of times a year.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
Total so far: 10/10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
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 (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
Total so far: 14/20
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
Total so far: 21/30
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (X)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
Total so far: 28/40
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ( )
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (X)
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 (X)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
Total so far: 32/50
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (X)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon (X)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
Total so far: 39/60
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (X)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (X)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X)
Total so far: 45/70
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante (X)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt (X)
Total so far: 49/80
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (X)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
Total so far: 55/90
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (X)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X )
Total 62/100
You know, I suspect all my book nerd friends have done this already -- probably several times, like me. So I'll just randomly tag some. *G* divajess, yourlibrarian, and anyone else who's in the mood! :D
~
Top SIXTEEN awesome women of fandom! Come by and vote for your favorites! Come on, guys -- ELIZABETH BENNETT IS BEATING FAITH! Do not allow this travesty to happen! Plus, Miss Piggy and River Tam are NECK AND NECK -- do you know what Piggy will do if she loses?
~
Damn picky ass dragons! So... As you can see, I have a couple new adults in the pen! The silly, fat pink one is Andy Bellefleur, and the lovely purple one is Pam Ravenscroft (Another female! YAY!) Well, the first thing I did with Pam was try and mate her with Rosey... and you might be able to guess what happened. They "wouldn't go anywhere near each other" WTF, you guys? I want a pretty purple and pink dragon! *sigh* Well, we'll just have to try again next week.