Books, Torchwood, and Death
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 journal. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. No cheating...and don't count it if you started it but never completed it or something like that!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling-X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - There are lots of bibles...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X (I don't care what anyone says, I loved this book.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X (BRILLIANT!)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare- Not all of them, yet. :(
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X (Did you hear they're making it into a movie?!)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -X (Angst, angst, angst, and more angst. Some butterflies and a field. I wanted to shoot myself after reading it.)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell-
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X
34 Emma-Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X (Wait, isn't that included in 'Chronicles of Narnia?...)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X (And thus we see why communism just doesn't work.)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving-
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery-X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -X (That was fun. No really, it was.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan-
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel-
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons-
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - (I saw the movie, and I love it, and I don't want to ruin a movie with the wonderful Alan Rickman in it.)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X (Well, sort of. I think I skipped some chapters in the middle.)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddonx -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- (OMG! That's a book?!)
69 Midnight’s Children -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - (Eww, Melville.)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens- (I've started it like thirty times...)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray-
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
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-
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton-
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X (One of my favorites. I read it when I was in sixth grade, then again in seventh and eighth. I should read it again. :))
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare-
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -X (Loved the 'Square candies that looked round'!)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo-
Dear Torchwood,
I really really love your show. I do. It's got explosions, torture, sex (both het, and slash, all I could ask for on that is a threesome), but I got a slight bone to pick with you. Why must you make death seem so depressing? You know with both episodes, "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Running Shoes" death becomes either a depressing nothing of darkness or a nothing of light. And it freaks me out, it really does. On the other hand, it is making me want to do more with my life. Because while I believe in reincarnation, I also believe there's only so many times, after that, I don't know. And it scares me.
You're doing your job well.
Please keep up the torture. I really love watching that.
-Yasona
Instructions: Copy this into your journal. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. No cheating...and don't count it if you started it but never completed it or something like that!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling-X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - There are lots of bibles...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X (I don't care what anyone says, I loved this book.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X (BRILLIANT!)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare- Not all of them, yet. :(
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X (Did you hear they're making it into a movie?!)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -X (Angst, angst, angst, and more angst. Some butterflies and a field. I wanted to shoot myself after reading it.)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell-
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X
34 Emma-Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X (Wait, isn't that included in 'Chronicles of Narnia?...)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X (And thus we see why communism just doesn't work.)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving-
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery-X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -X (That was fun. No really, it was.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan-
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel-
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons-
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - (I saw the movie, and I love it, and I don't want to ruin a movie with the wonderful Alan Rickman in it.)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X (Well, sort of. I think I skipped some chapters in the middle.)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddonx -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- (OMG! That's a book?!)
69 Midnight’s Children -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - (Eww, Melville.)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens- (I've started it like thirty times...)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray-
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
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-
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton-
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X (One of my favorites. I read it when I was in sixth grade, then again in seventh and eighth. I should read it again. :))
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare-
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -X (Loved the 'Square candies that looked round'!)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo-
Dear Torchwood,
I really really love your show. I do. It's got explosions, torture, sex (both het, and slash, all I could ask for on that is a threesome), but I got a slight bone to pick with you. Why must you make death seem so depressing? You know with both episodes, "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Running Shoes" death becomes either a depressing nothing of darkness or a nothing of light. And it freaks me out, it really does. On the other hand, it is making me want to do more with my life. Because while I believe in reincarnation, I also believe there's only so many times, after that, I don't know. And it scares me.
You're doing your job well.
Please keep up the torture. I really love watching that.
-Yasona