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Stolen from rowenamckinnon
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 LOVED THIS
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi LOVED THIS
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran but I'm in the process of reading it and will finish it soon.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
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
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath I hated this book, but it was four years ago.
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
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
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
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
The Scarlet Letter Ugh.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Although I haven't read a lot of this list, there are a ton on it that I want to read. *tags for future reading reference*
BLAAAAH class tonight...was actually good. We discussed women's role in relation to De Bouvoir's The Second Sex and Wollstonecraft's Vindication on the Rights of Woman or whatever its called; I haven't read it yet as it is homework for next class. But anyway, it was interesting and I pulled out some NZ knowledge because we were discussing how the US makes such a big deal about voting but we were slow to give it to women. NZ, on the other hand, was the first in 1893 to give that right to women, and I pointed that out. Seeing as my American History class at VUW talked about the hypocrisy of the US for awhile I felt an obligation to voice their opinions as well. It was really interesting; we discussed women in the workplace too. I mentioned reading this book while I was in Wellington that was about 100 things women do that hold them back in their jobs. Often they step back and take a female role instead of the assertive "male" role because assertive men are viewed favorably while assertive women are bitchy. My group got an A- on our presentation last week, so I'm thinking I'm pretty set in this class because I fully expect to get an A on our midterm this upcoming Monday.
I have so much reading to catch up on for my Jewish Studies and Geography class, but tomorrow I meet with my therapist and I finally sucked it up and started taking my B12 shots again and surprise! I'm not tired today. I think I just got so far out of the habit of taking shots that I have this weird mental block about it. Oh, to go back to the days when I'd take four or five shots a day....oh wait, that sucked a lot. Insulin pump>many many shots.
I also got my new harddrive!! Its a 500 GB Western Digital MyBook, and it was only $150 at Costco. The 1 TB version was actually $319, which is silly because you could just buy two 500s. But whatever. I'm now in the process of redownloading files and moving all my files from my desktop to the harddrive so that if the Dell kicks it, I've at least saved everything.
Another random thing - today at work my GM kept saying how great of a worker I am and it really made me feel awesome, which is stupid because I'm just a waitress but whatever. I can name all 8 of our new wines and describe them as well as where they are from, and last night I had 17% alcohol sales for my total which meant I sold almost $70 of liquor. Which means I made at least $14 more than I would have if I hadn't been so good at selling it. Today I sold 10%, which for a day shift from noon to four is pretty decent. I don't think my mom understands that even though work can be draining, it feels good to interact with customers and my coworkers as well as to see the immediate effects of my work in the form of tips and compliments from management etc. No, its not what I want to do for the rest of my life by any means but that doesn't mean I can't be good at it while I do it. I made $60 in tips in four hours, plus $3 for my wages. That is pretty good pay considering I could be working a minimum wage job on campus, or an internship where the stipend barely covers anything.
Ok, time to finish rambling. I do it so often. Off to study and then maybe make some icons!!
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 LOVED THIS
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi LOVED THIS
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran but I'm in the process of reading it and will finish it soon.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
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
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath I hated this book, but it was four years ago.
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
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
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
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
The Scarlet Letter Ugh.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Although I haven't read a lot of this list, there are a ton on it that I want to read. *tags for future reading reference*
BLAAAAH class tonight...was actually good. We discussed women's role in relation to De Bouvoir's The Second Sex and Wollstonecraft's Vindication on the Rights of Woman or whatever its called; I haven't read it yet as it is homework for next class. But anyway, it was interesting and I pulled out some NZ knowledge because we were discussing how the US makes such a big deal about voting but we were slow to give it to women. NZ, on the other hand, was the first in 1893 to give that right to women, and I pointed that out. Seeing as my American History class at VUW talked about the hypocrisy of the US for awhile I felt an obligation to voice their opinions as well. It was really interesting; we discussed women in the workplace too. I mentioned reading this book while I was in Wellington that was about 100 things women do that hold them back in their jobs. Often they step back and take a female role instead of the assertive "male" role because assertive men are viewed favorably while assertive women are bitchy. My group got an A- on our presentation last week, so I'm thinking I'm pretty set in this class because I fully expect to get an A on our midterm this upcoming Monday.
I have so much reading to catch up on for my Jewish Studies and Geography class, but tomorrow I meet with my therapist and I finally sucked it up and started taking my B12 shots again and surprise! I'm not tired today. I think I just got so far out of the habit of taking shots that I have this weird mental block about it. Oh, to go back to the days when I'd take four or five shots a day....oh wait, that sucked a lot. Insulin pump>many many shots.
I also got my new harddrive!! Its a 500 GB Western Digital MyBook, and it was only $150 at Costco. The 1 TB version was actually $319, which is silly because you could just buy two 500s. But whatever. I'm now in the process of redownloading files and moving all my files from my desktop to the harddrive so that if the Dell kicks it, I've at least saved everything.
Another random thing - today at work my GM kept saying how great of a worker I am and it really made me feel awesome, which is stupid because I'm just a waitress but whatever. I can name all 8 of our new wines and describe them as well as where they are from, and last night I had 17% alcohol sales for my total which meant I sold almost $70 of liquor. Which means I made at least $14 more than I would have if I hadn't been so good at selling it. Today I sold 10%, which for a day shift from noon to four is pretty decent. I don't think my mom understands that even though work can be draining, it feels good to interact with customers and my coworkers as well as to see the immediate effects of my work in the form of tips and compliments from management etc. No, its not what I want to do for the rest of my life by any means but that doesn't mean I can't be good at it while I do it. I made $60 in tips in four hours, plus $3 for my wages. That is pretty good pay considering I could be working a minimum wage job on campus, or an internship where the stipend barely covers anything.
Ok, time to finish rambling. I do it so often. Off to study and then maybe make some icons!!