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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:

1984
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : A Novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : A Novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
The Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake : A Novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
The Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values

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

As Julia Kristeva writes in her contemporary theorization of abstraction, “These body fluids, this defilement, this shit are what life withstands, hardly and with difficulty on the part of death.”
Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism by Karen Redrobe Beckman

The above was posted as part of this meme found at Easy Back Coven:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Since I am in our office space, the closest book was the one on the top of John’s MA research pile.

It’s Christmas Eve, and all my and John’s Christmases have come early. Let’s see…

• One of our Amazon DVD orders arrived today, with about 5 DVDs.
• My order of cool clothes from Torrid came, so I can get all gussied up for Christmas
• Our brand new G5 tower computer arrived. I’m typing this on it, using the Safari browser
• John’s new NAD amp came
• I got two deliveries of BookCrossing bookrays

…AND… drum roll please!!!

• a 40g ipod(!!!) which is my present from John (although I paid for part of it). Thank you, John.

It’s a wonderful Christmas Eve when you can sit at your brand spanking new computer, ripping songs to transfer to your ultra-cool ipod.

Anyway, have a very Merry Christmas, even if you don’t have an ipod.

What?

Crass materialism? Not the spirit of Christmas?

What on earth could you mean by that?

I’ve released a few books via BookCrossing recently, the latest tonight… and I actually saw someone make a catch. Just hope she registers it and keeps it going.

My favourite entry from the 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which the aim is to write the worst first line possible:

The Prince looked down at the motionless form of Sleeping Beauty, wondering how her supple lips would feel against his own and contemplating whether or not an Altoid was strong enough to stand up against the kind of morning breath only a hundred year’s nap could create.

This-or-That!

1. Newspapers or magazines?
Magazines.

2. Books-on-tape or regular books?
Normal books.

3. Paperback or hardcover?
Usually paperback

4. Fiction or non-fiction?
Both. At present, though, mostly fiction.

5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy or romance novels?
Sci-Fi/Fantasy o

6. Borrow from library or buy books (either new or used)?
Buy, both new and used.

7. Subscribe to magazines or buy on newsstand?
Buy.

8. Current best-sellers or classic literature?
Both.

9. Read books once, or re-read favorites every so often?
I re-read books many, many, many times.

10. Here in the U.S., we have two hot best-sellers…former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s memoirs, and the new Harry Potter book (coming out June 21). If you had to read one, which one…Hillary or Harry? Why?Harry. Why? Well, why not?