6 posts tagged “books”
Tomorrow is my real last day of school, exempting Graduation Practice.
In review, my week was pretty good. Yesterday, I got my driver's license. I bought Neverwinter Nights 2 (which showed that I need a new video card...since thats the reason it won't work), and the first three books of the War of the Spiderqueen series.
On the bad side, nothing really 'awesome' happened. Alot of good stuff, but no awesome stuff. I need to go hang out with my friends more. At least there's Kevin's graduation party that will be a guaranteed gathering of chaos.
Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read in the future, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and do not do anything the ones you've never even heard of.
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The
Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkein)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkein)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two
Towers
(Tolkein)
8. Anne of
Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(Rowling)
14. A Prayer
for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane
Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkein)
22. The Catcher in the Rye
(J.D. Salinger)
23. Little
Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of
Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas
Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden
(John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas
Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The
Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The
Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Aurel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Mitch Albom)
45. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)
46. Anna
Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of
Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's
Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great
Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The
Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time
Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime
and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The
Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les
Miserables (Hugo)
70. The
Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World
According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane
Austen)
86.
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good
Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The
Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James
Joyce)
What word(s) do you always make a typo in?
For some reason or another, my fingers decide to type up the word 'the' as 'teh'. I really don't know why they do it. I guess the fingers of a writer are their worst enemy.
In other news, while I try to overcome my writer's block with Arcanum, I am taking up a new project: Kenzoku. Inspired by Naruto, it is a story about ninjas (who are way cooler than pirates, for your information). It will be multiple books, because I like sagas. :D
I'm also going to jump back on the World of Warcraft wagon once again, with The Burning Crusade coming out Tuesday. I'll be using my birthday money (125+) to buy it.
As of late, I have been reading a certain series called Homecoming by Orson Scott Card. It is essentially a story about a family of nobles fourty million years in the future who are chosen by a divine computer system called the Oversoul to somehow bring it back to Earth so that it can be repaired. Despite its lack of action, I found the political intrigue very enjoyable to say the least.
Due to the gracious attitude of my teachers, I got close to no homework last night. Thus, I was able to get some pages done in Legacy of the Demon. I managed to finish Chapter One, which ended up at a whomping sixteen pages. Chapter Two is currentley a page and a half, bringing the book to thrity six pages.
On another note, I, for one reason or another, found myself running for president of the book club (trust me when I say it is not as geeky as it sounds to surrond yoruself with fellow book lovers). The only problem is that I'm running against an Indian girl.
I think it will be safe to assume that my fate is sealed.
EDIT It would appear that I need to explain the last line. I heard somewhere that Indians, on average, do as well as Asians academicly. So now that you know why, know also I am not a racist bastard. :-P
