Pride and Facebook

I find myself immensely amused and diverted by Austenbook, and must therefore recommend this account of Miss Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as documented in Facebook to my gentle readers.

(I’m probably the last person in the known universe to see this, and I can’t remember from whom I stole the link. Oops. Edit: Austenbook was created by Dee Dee at ramble on.)

Fluff: Review of ‘The Winds of Tara’

Here’s another book-related bit of fluff for you, since I’ve not posted much actual content recently. I wrote the review of The Winds of Tara below as part of the LibraryThing* Early Reviewer program. Anyway, I just thought I’d share it with you:

Another Book Meme

via Oro at Birch and Maple:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read.

3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE

4) Reprint this list in your blog.

The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.

5) Strikethrough those you hated or couldn’t get through (my addition)

The Book Meme

From Ceci n’est pas un blog. and via Ottermatic here’s a book meme about what you have read.

You bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve started but can’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. (And I guess italicize and strike through what you started and dropped because you couldn’t stand it?)

So here’s mine:

50 Books You Must Own

Books Alive have put out a list of 50 ‘must own’ books, which Neerav has kindly transcribed to her his blog.

I have indicated below what books I own, have read or have BookCrossed. Some of the books listed as ‘Owned’ may in the future be released through BookCrossing.:

1. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho R
2. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac Mccarthy
3. Almost French, Sarah Turnbull
4. Battleaxe, Sara Douglas
5. Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood O R
6. Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding R
   
7. Candy, Luke Davies
8. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
9. Constant Gardener, The John Le Carre
10. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
11. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown R
    B – joined bookray
12. Dirt Music, Tim Winton
13. Dune, Frank Herbert O R
    
14. Eat Me, Linda Jaivin
15. Enduring Love, Ian Mcewan
16. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
17. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury O R
    
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
    R
19. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
20. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
    
21. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
22. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein O R
    
23. The Hunt For Red October, Tom Clancy
24. Ice Station, Matthew Reilly
25. It, Stephen King O R
    
26. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte O R
    
27. Life of Pi, Yann Martel R
    B
28. The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
29. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold B
    – I think I’ve signed up for a bookray
30. Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
31. My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin O
    R
32. Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey R
33. Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
34. Perfect Match, Jodi Picoult
35. Perfume, Patrick Suskind O R
36. The Poet, Michael Connelly
37. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver R
    B – joined bookray
38. Possession, As. Byatt O R
39. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen O
    R
40. Secret History, Donna Tartt R B
    – joined bookray
41. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
42. Sophie’s World Jostein Gaarder
43. The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
    
44. This Side Of Brightness, Colum Mccann
45. Three Dog Night, Peter Goldsworthy
46. Time To Kill, A John Grisham
47. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee R
    
48. Tully, Paullina Simons
49. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice O R
    
50. Year Of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks O
    R B – wild release