I've been trying to get my hands on the first book in this seris since it came out. I finall yfound a paperback copy ay Wal-Mart. Yeah, again with the Wal-Mart. I LOVE that store. sometimes they even have E-Drive cds.
Anyway, the books are really good. Not the greatest but still good enough that I read all of them within about a week. Um I also bought all of them. The fourth in hardcover. I HATE hardcover books. Pet Peeve of mine.....
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
hmmm
I should feel guilty I posted on this on my other blog... Nope guilt train already left. I should feel guilty about skipping class. I just feel shamefully good. I'm a bad, bad person. but it's FUN!!! and I'm going to go to Native American Studies sooo...
My boys are A) coming to New York B) less than 15 minutes worth of walking from my front door (If I walk really fast)...
What did I do right in my last life?
Strange normally I'm asking what did I do wrong.
Maybe it's what older sis did right.
But anyway another thanks to my big brother for letting me know about the concert E-drive is doing ( although it isn't on their Myspace page yet but that doesn't mean anything it hasn't been updated in weeks so.)
I'm so far past excited. Dad has already promised me if they do come, I can go. Mom is already planning to milk early on August 31.... Man right now I love my life. Now if we can just keep it from getting cancelled. My guys are coming to New York.. My guys are coming to New York... Yes, I know they're not "my guys" but with the hell this band has put me through I get to call them that. I LOVE their music. Eighth grade Math homework and I Should Be Sleeping, interesting mix... Don't ask ya don't wanna know.
Now I just have to pass Native American Studies....
You know this morning was horrible, I lost my wallet, had a test in psych, my little brother is getting his germs on my cell phone again, yet today is still a good day, my guys are coming to New York and not at a college I'm not going to that I have no way to go to a concert at.
Drat, now I have nothing to complain about, for a couple of days at least.
My boys are A) coming to New York B) less than 15 minutes worth of walking from my front door (If I walk really fast)...
What did I do right in my last life?
Strange normally I'm asking what did I do wrong.
Maybe it's what older sis did right.
But anyway another thanks to my big brother for letting me know about the concert E-drive is doing ( although it isn't on their Myspace page yet but that doesn't mean anything it hasn't been updated in weeks so.)
I'm so far past excited. Dad has already promised me if they do come, I can go. Mom is already planning to milk early on August 31.... Man right now I love my life. Now if we can just keep it from getting cancelled. My guys are coming to New York.. My guys are coming to New York... Yes, I know they're not "my guys" but with the hell this band has put me through I get to call them that. I LOVE their music. Eighth grade Math homework and I Should Be Sleeping, interesting mix... Don't ask ya don't wanna know.
Now I just have to pass Native American Studies....
You know this morning was horrible, I lost my wallet, had a test in psych, my little brother is getting his germs on my cell phone again, yet today is still a good day, my guys are coming to New York and not at a college I'm not going to that I have no way to go to a concert at.
Drat, now I have nothing to complain about, for a couple of days at least.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Perhaps too much Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini wrote The Sea-Hawk since I loved it I went to our local library system website to get Captain Blood, another book he wrote. Only to discover apperently it is part of a series in my attempts to figure out which of the books came first I went to google. Which in turn, led me to Amazon.... Where I got 446 hits off Rafael Sabatini... I'm going to be reading Sabatini 'til Judgement Day... It's agood thing i like his work.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
special note to older brother....
As I found Tuesday's with Morrie last night and can't fit Verne's The Mysterious Island in my purse/book bag, I'll be reading that tomorrow or Friday. Depends on my mood. and if I get any time away from psych homework... Soooo, anybody wanna write my psych paper for me?
Sea Hawk- Raphael Sabatini
All I can say is WOW! Normally, I like pirates and all (who hasn't seen Pirates of the Caribbean and loved Jack Sparrow?) how else could you explain my love for Captain Nemo and his Nautilus? Then there's that one Canadian movie George's Island, the one guy, Jellybee, sooo cool. Yes, Mom, I know you like him too. He's so um, I think maybe idiotic is the word I'm looking for, you can't help but like the guy.
Anyway, this book is about a man who originally took to piracy to salvage his families holdings in England, but stopped when he fell in love with a girl. Oh yeah, for once I'm not bashing romance you just can't have pirates without it.
Anyway her brother doesn't approve of the match, mostly because of the long feud between the families and the man's father's reputation. Oh, and the fact that the father spent the families entire holdings into massive debt. Oliver (main character later know as the Muslim corsair, Sakr-el-Bahr) promises as his father is dying to look out for his younger brother Lionel, who has his father's same habits.
Anyway, Peter the girl's older brother issues many challenges, which pirate man ignores. Eventually, Peter hits him with a riding crop marking him in public, so Oliver goes to well, you know, hunt him down and slay the evil beast. Yet he decides not to because he promised his girl he wouldn't harm her brother because he was basically the only family she had.
That same night Oliver's brother engaged in a duel with Peter killing him, and ending up with only a slight but bloody wound himself. The wound left a trail of blood to Oliver's front door. Oliver is accused, no one suspects the younger brother yadda yadda yadda. Eventually, when Oliver sets about clearing his name, Lionel (brother) decides that not only will he be hung if Oliver tells the truth, but if he takes Oliver out of the picture, he inherits the wealth Oliver has earned through that piracy sanctioned by the Queen of England. So he has him kidnapped, intending to have the man he hired to do the deed sell him into slavery instead, the man tell good Ol' Oliver that for the same price the brother paid, he'll return him to England and testify that he was paid to remove him. no such luck on the way back they are captured by the Spanish. Who in the midst of the Inquisition force a conversion to Catholicism. Then banish Oliver to work as a galley slave (oarsman on the large Spanish war ships) where he is later rescued by a Muslim corsair. Who takes him in and converts him yet again this time to Islam.
He spends five years working through the ranks, then he hears that his lady friend is set to marry his brother bad plan Lionel, so he kidnaps both his brother and the girl. This is as much as I'm going to tell you, you can read the book, it'll do you good... That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
I give this book two thumbs way, way up. I loved it. It was fast paced and well written, at 366 pages long it took me just over a day and a half to finish. Considering I still haven't finished the maybe 200 pages of Treasure Island, that's pretty good. It is rather bloody but no more so than King Solomon's Mines or 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. The details on pirating are particularly interesting as are the little bits on sailing and the slave trade.
Lovely book, I'm about to go and try to find more Sabatini in the local library system. Fingers crossed, because if I find Captain Blood, I can cross not one but two books off my LXG list. Oh, yes this is one of the many.
Anyway, this book is about a man who originally took to piracy to salvage his families holdings in England, but stopped when he fell in love with a girl. Oh yeah, for once I'm not bashing romance you just can't have pirates without it.
Anyway her brother doesn't approve of the match, mostly because of the long feud between the families and the man's father's reputation. Oh, and the fact that the father spent the families entire holdings into massive debt. Oliver (main character later know as the Muslim corsair, Sakr-el-Bahr) promises as his father is dying to look out for his younger brother Lionel, who has his father's same habits.
Anyway, Peter the girl's older brother issues many challenges, which pirate man ignores. Eventually, Peter hits him with a riding crop marking him in public, so Oliver goes to well, you know, hunt him down and slay the evil beast. Yet he decides not to because he promised his girl he wouldn't harm her brother because he was basically the only family she had.
That same night Oliver's brother engaged in a duel with Peter killing him, and ending up with only a slight but bloody wound himself. The wound left a trail of blood to Oliver's front door. Oliver is accused, no one suspects the younger brother yadda yadda yadda. Eventually, when Oliver sets about clearing his name, Lionel (brother) decides that not only will he be hung if Oliver tells the truth, but if he takes Oliver out of the picture, he inherits the wealth Oliver has earned through that piracy sanctioned by the Queen of England. So he has him kidnapped, intending to have the man he hired to do the deed sell him into slavery instead, the man tell good Ol' Oliver that for the same price the brother paid, he'll return him to England and testify that he was paid to remove him. no such luck on the way back they are captured by the Spanish. Who in the midst of the Inquisition force a conversion to Catholicism. Then banish Oliver to work as a galley slave (oarsman on the large Spanish war ships) where he is later rescued by a Muslim corsair. Who takes him in and converts him yet again this time to Islam.
He spends five years working through the ranks, then he hears that his lady friend is set to marry his brother bad plan Lionel, so he kidnaps both his brother and the girl. This is as much as I'm going to tell you, you can read the book, it'll do you good... That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
I give this book two thumbs way, way up. I loved it. It was fast paced and well written, at 366 pages long it took me just over a day and a half to finish. Considering I still haven't finished the maybe 200 pages of Treasure Island, that's pretty good. It is rather bloody but no more so than King Solomon's Mines or 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. The details on pirating are particularly interesting as are the little bits on sailing and the slave trade.
Lovely book, I'm about to go and try to find more Sabatini in the local library system. Fingers crossed, because if I find Captain Blood, I can cross not one but two books off my LXG list. Oh, yes this is one of the many.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Technically this is a short story but I like it so...
We read this Senior year in high school. For Folk, Fairy, and Fantasy. It's on my book barbecue list simply because, yes I said I liked it, but I think I would get in trouble for burning a teacher even in effigy.
Mr. Treglia was our student teacher. He was the kind of guy who was sweet but stupid. First, I'm a nice person so when he asked for volunteers to read out loud I offered. Okay so it was only because I was sick of people butchering words that apparently only I had ever come into contact with.
Then he asked me to define cobbler, which is a shoe maker. He tried to tell me I was wrong that it was the person who put down cobble stone streets (where did he go to school?). He went from telling me to think about peach cobbler, which by the way confused me, what did a shoe maker have to do with peach cobbler? Then he tells me his definition. I didn't argue with him. Our teacher was looking rather shocked and when I looked at her she just rolled her eyes I think she was as shocked as I was. Plus the entire class of about 30 was laughing at him. I may not have been voted Class Bookworm, but I certainly knew what I was talking about. And the rest of the class knew it, too. For God's sake I was the source they used for books that were quick and easy to read whenever we had been assigned a book report for years. Not that quick for me was necessarily quick for them but..
And I was also the one who routinely looked up words in the dictionary if she didn't understand them. Both in French and in English, depending on the class. The only reason I never looked up words in Spanish was because Spanish is very similar to French and I could pretty well figure things out. Plus all the people in my grade who had taken Spanish before were happy to finally be able to help me with homework rather than having me help them with history. Yeah I was one of those odd kids that seems to know every thing and you hate because she never opened the book but her history grade is a 90.
Any way after class was over, I'm still confused as to how this guy managed to get through college, and one of the girls in my class, that I didn't get along with came up and asked me if I was the one that was right. Of course I was, Mom looked it up later so she could post on it on her blog.
Then when we had the quiz on the darned thing he had the nerve to take off points because I put down a big monkey to answer the question on who was the murderer. Yes I gave it away but come on who didn't have to read that for school at some point.
Then because it took him a month to get through that,in stead of us reading it on our own it all had to be read aloud during class, we didn't get to read the Hobbit. Well we read a chapter in the beginning, middle and the end. We watched an animated movie instead. For god's sake we're Seniors in high school and we can't read The Hobbit? How much easier can a book get? Not that I hadn't already read it, but it would have been nice to get credit for it. Rather than getting tested on a movie, I didn't watch (I reread the Hobbit instead).
Man, did I hate that guy.
Um yeah, book was good but just because it makes me think of that idiot, I'm so going to barbecue it.
The only reason i posted on this was sitting in the lounge yesterday waiting for one of my classes to start some one was reading it and it made me remember Sr. English... Good times. Good times.
We read this Senior year in high school. For Folk, Fairy, and Fantasy. It's on my book barbecue list simply because, yes I said I liked it, but I think I would get in trouble for burning a teacher even in effigy.
Mr. Treglia was our student teacher. He was the kind of guy who was sweet but stupid. First, I'm a nice person so when he asked for volunteers to read out loud I offered. Okay so it was only because I was sick of people butchering words that apparently only I had ever come into contact with.
Then he asked me to define cobbler, which is a shoe maker. He tried to tell me I was wrong that it was the person who put down cobble stone streets (where did he go to school?). He went from telling me to think about peach cobbler, which by the way confused me, what did a shoe maker have to do with peach cobbler? Then he tells me his definition. I didn't argue with him. Our teacher was looking rather shocked and when I looked at her she just rolled her eyes I think she was as shocked as I was. Plus the entire class of about 30 was laughing at him. I may not have been voted Class Bookworm, but I certainly knew what I was talking about. And the rest of the class knew it, too. For God's sake I was the source they used for books that were quick and easy to read whenever we had been assigned a book report for years. Not that quick for me was necessarily quick for them but..
And I was also the one who routinely looked up words in the dictionary if she didn't understand them. Both in French and in English, depending on the class. The only reason I never looked up words in Spanish was because Spanish is very similar to French and I could pretty well figure things out. Plus all the people in my grade who had taken Spanish before were happy to finally be able to help me with homework rather than having me help them with history. Yeah I was one of those odd kids that seems to know every thing and you hate because she never opened the book but her history grade is a 90.
Any way after class was over, I'm still confused as to how this guy managed to get through college, and one of the girls in my class, that I didn't get along with came up and asked me if I was the one that was right. Of course I was, Mom looked it up later so she could post on it on her blog.
Then when we had the quiz on the darned thing he had the nerve to take off points because I put down a big monkey to answer the question on who was the murderer. Yes I gave it away but come on who didn't have to read that for school at some point.
Then because it took him a month to get through that,in stead of us reading it on our own it all had to be read aloud during class, we didn't get to read the Hobbit. Well we read a chapter in the beginning, middle and the end. We watched an animated movie instead. For god's sake we're Seniors in high school and we can't read The Hobbit? How much easier can a book get? Not that I hadn't already read it, but it would have been nice to get credit for it. Rather than getting tested on a movie, I didn't watch (I reread the Hobbit instead).
Man, did I hate that guy.
Um yeah, book was good but just because it makes me think of that idiot, I'm so going to barbecue it.
The only reason i posted on this was sitting in the lounge yesterday waiting for one of my classes to start some one was reading it and it made me remember Sr. English... Good times. Good times.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Spring Break
It's kind of sad, normally with a week off from school, I would get plenty of books read... Not this time.
Although, I have got two of the books from the League on inter library loan. One is just from a painting on M's wall, Sabatini's Sea Hawk, which has been in a library storage thing since about 30 years ago, according to the little card in the back, and Verne's sequel to 20000, The Mysterious Island, which I'm not sure I want to finish because according to something I read Nemo dies... I like Nemo.. Why does every character I like die or end up being seriously evil?
Yet, despite having such literary treasures in my possession, last week all I did was work on a cross stitch of a kitten hanging from a tree, and watch my season one DVD of Supernatural, the perfect Spring Break.
Um okay, I was bored out of my mind half the time but still I didn't read much.. This week I'm probably not coming to classes on Tuesday and Thursday so the time I normally spend reading I won't be here for.
And I still haven't finished Treasure Island, so I've got that to read tonight during commercial breaks from my Monday night show Digging for the Truth.. Yes, I am pathetic, I read way too many old books, listen to far too much Emerson Drive music, and watch enough TV to make normal people fearful of my sanity. It's a wonderful existence.
Although, I have got two of the books from the League on inter library loan. One is just from a painting on M's wall, Sabatini's Sea Hawk, which has been in a library storage thing since about 30 years ago, according to the little card in the back, and Verne's sequel to 20000, The Mysterious Island, which I'm not sure I want to finish because according to something I read Nemo dies... I like Nemo.. Why does every character I like die or end up being seriously evil?
Yet, despite having such literary treasures in my possession, last week all I did was work on a cross stitch of a kitten hanging from a tree, and watch my season one DVD of Supernatural, the perfect Spring Break.
Um okay, I was bored out of my mind half the time but still I didn't read much.. This week I'm probably not coming to classes on Tuesday and Thursday so the time I normally spend reading I won't be here for.
And I still haven't finished Treasure Island, so I've got that to read tonight during commercial breaks from my Monday night show Digging for the Truth.. Yes, I am pathetic, I read way too many old books, listen to far too much Emerson Drive music, and watch enough TV to make normal people fearful of my sanity. It's a wonderful existence.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Just something I found interesting on someone else's blog
Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read
*Italicize the ones you want to read*
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
* If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!
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 (Tolkien)
6.The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
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 (Tolkien)
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. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
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 (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (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 Traveller’s Wife (Audrew 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 Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
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)
* Bold the ones you’ve read
*Italicize the ones you want to read*
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
* If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!
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 (Tolkien)
6.The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
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 (Tolkien)
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. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
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 (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (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 Traveller’s Wife (Audrew 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 Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
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)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
King Solomon's Mines- H. Rider Haggard
Yes, Mother, I know I just got it in the mail yesterday. (I LOVE Wal-Mart online;) I've also only read about 30 pages of tiny tiny print. But WOW.
This guy, according to the back of my paperback copy that cost me a total of $4.16, made a a bet with someone that he could write a better adventure story than Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Once I finish this and get Mom to finish with my got-it-in-a-library-sale copy of T.I., I'll be sure to give my opinion on which is better.
I've tried T.I. before and was a little bored by it so the early favorite is Solomon.... Sorry, Robbie.
* I finished KSM in less than twenty-four hours and have just started TI. So, tomorrow I should be done with that.
KSM is very very good. From elephant hunts to psycho tribal witches it's lots of fun.
This guy, according to the back of my paperback copy that cost me a total of $4.16, made a a bet with someone that he could write a better adventure story than Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Once I finish this and get Mom to finish with my got-it-in-a-library-sale copy of T.I., I'll be sure to give my opinion on which is better.
I've tried T.I. before and was a little bored by it so the early favorite is Solomon.... Sorry, Robbie.
* I finished KSM in less than twenty-four hours and have just started TI. So, tomorrow I should be done with that.
KSM is very very good. From elephant hunts to psycho tribal witches it's lots of fun.
Monday, March 05, 2007
The Three Musketeers
Normally, I don't advocate leaving off reading a book and watching the movie instead. This is one that I will agree the movie(s) is/ are better than the book (there have been sooo many). Like so much of Dumas' work this is very dry in keeping with the style of the time.
It's actually part of a series, you remember the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Man in the Iron Mask right? That's part of one of the other books. I must admit I'm still not clear on the order or the spacing of the books, I just remember the fact that I was shocked there was another one.
I also remember my French teacher yelling at me for asking her to translate something from the book. She didn't get that I was actually reading The Three Musketeers for amusement not to kiss up. I didn't need to kiss up. I could have passed French with my eyes closed. It was an easy class. For God's sake the woman gave you the answers to the tests if you called her over to help translate something during one. Anyway, she wasn't real helpful. Don't get me wrong she's a great teacher after all we had one kid ace the Regents and I got a 94, not too shabby considering I never did any homework. Hmm, maybe that's what set it off. I was willing to read one of the most difficult books ever written but not write a single essay for class. Oh well.
Book's not easy, but if you suffer from severe insomnia it'll put anyone to sleep.
It's actually part of a series, you remember the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Man in the Iron Mask right? That's part of one of the other books. I must admit I'm still not clear on the order or the spacing of the books, I just remember the fact that I was shocked there was another one.
I also remember my French teacher yelling at me for asking her to translate something from the book. She didn't get that I was actually reading The Three Musketeers for amusement not to kiss up. I didn't need to kiss up. I could have passed French with my eyes closed. It was an easy class. For God's sake the woman gave you the answers to the tests if you called her over to help translate something during one. Anyway, she wasn't real helpful. Don't get me wrong she's a great teacher after all we had one kid ace the Regents and I got a 94, not too shabby considering I never did any homework. Hmm, maybe that's what set it off. I was willing to read one of the most difficult books ever written but not write a single essay for class. Oh well.
Book's not easy, but if you suffer from severe insomnia it'll put anyone to sleep.
How to Know You Read Waaay Too Much (and people are are starting to notice)
This morning in my psychology class, my professor brought to my attention my addiction to books. She's not the first nor will she be the last. Teachers used to give me fits about reading, first not enough then too much and of the wrong thing.
Today, I was told I should do the book discussion at the campus library later this month. The book is My Sister's Keeper I can't say I feel any great desire to do anything more college related than I'm already doing. But it was still kinda interesting to be asked to and so I wrote down the title. You never know I may read it someday.
Today, I was told I should do the book discussion at the campus library later this month. The book is My Sister's Keeper I can't say I feel any great desire to do anything more college related than I'm already doing. But it was still kinda interesting to be asked to and so I wrote down the title. You never know I may read it someday.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
No, got nothing to do with the LXG. I was getting a little bored, plus I'm almost out of ones that I've read recently.
This book was given to me by my older brother. It's not something I would think to read on my own. You see, I get into ruts with what I read and I like those ruts. It takes a lot to get me to read something out of my comfort zone. In this case I'm very glad I did. The book is amazing. One question why couldn't we have read this in high school? It's very similar to the stuff you do read only shocker- it's far more um perhaps fun is the word I'm looking for but not really. It's I don't know lighter not as depressing.
It 's about an old man who on his birthday, dies saving a little girl.
The five people are people who show you the things you did in life that were good and bad.
Really good book. Much better than I had expected, I'm really getting used to eating crow these days. I'm going back on a lot of things these days. First there was Eragon, best friend recommended it, I laughed. Then Stephen King more crow. Now this guy (whose name escapes me) actually writes books that I like.... I'm going to have to stop bashing books before I get a chance to read them... Wait if I did that I wouldn't be me.
The same guy who wrote this wrote One More Day or something like that. Which was based in the principle that if we got one more day what would we do with it? A man Chick, tries to commit suicide and spends most of the book spending one more day with his mother whom he thinks drove his father away. He finally realizes all that she sacrificed and yeah kinda sappy but I liked it.
Gotta say big brother's got darned good taste in books.
Now we just gotta get him to show a cow.......
This book was given to me by my older brother. It's not something I would think to read on my own. You see, I get into ruts with what I read and I like those ruts. It takes a lot to get me to read something out of my comfort zone. In this case I'm very glad I did. The book is amazing. One question why couldn't we have read this in high school? It's very similar to the stuff you do read only shocker- it's far more um perhaps fun is the word I'm looking for but not really. It's I don't know lighter not as depressing.
It 's about an old man who on his birthday, dies saving a little girl.
The five people are people who show you the things you did in life that were good and bad.
Really good book. Much better than I had expected, I'm really getting used to eating crow these days. I'm going back on a lot of things these days. First there was Eragon, best friend recommended it, I laughed. Then Stephen King more crow. Now this guy (whose name escapes me) actually writes books that I like.... I'm going to have to stop bashing books before I get a chance to read them... Wait if I did that I wouldn't be me.
The same guy who wrote this wrote One More Day or something like that. Which was based in the principle that if we got one more day what would we do with it? A man Chick, tries to commit suicide and spends most of the book spending one more day with his mother whom he thinks drove his father away. He finally realizes all that she sacrificed and yeah kinda sappy but I liked it.
Gotta say big brother's got darned good taste in books.
Now we just gotta get him to show a cow.......
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Okay, first the last time a vampire book scared me, half as much as this one did, was Thirsty in 5th grade.
This is, as far as I know, the first book published dealing directly with blood sucking ex-human parasites. Although I could be wrong feel free to correct me.
As I said in a previous post this book is very dry. If you have a lot of time on your hands, during daylight hours, try it. I don't recommend reading it after dark and certainly not if you want to sleep. I also wouldn't let small children anywhere near it.
The story line is okay, but then again I only read about half of it. Most of the beginning and part of the middle and one chapter at the end. (I still don't know exactly what happened, but normally I like the vampires, I hated Dracula{character as well as the actual book})
It says a lot when I can't finish a book. Of course my copy is about 40 years old and the cover was replaced by a file folder when I was in 10th grade. Needless to say my biology teacher got a kick out of the yellow cover. Bright yellow. Almost the color of the flame that will eat it when I finally barbecue books. Oh yeah this is on that list..
This is, as far as I know, the first book published dealing directly with blood sucking ex-human parasites. Although I could be wrong feel free to correct me.
As I said in a previous post this book is very dry. If you have a lot of time on your hands, during daylight hours, try it. I don't recommend reading it after dark and certainly not if you want to sleep. I also wouldn't let small children anywhere near it.
The story line is okay, but then again I only read about half of it. Most of the beginning and part of the middle and one chapter at the end. (I still don't know exactly what happened, but normally I like the vampires, I hated Dracula{character as well as the actual book})
It says a lot when I can't finish a book. Of course my copy is about 40 years old and the cover was replaced by a file folder when I was in 10th grade. Needless to say my biology teacher got a kick out of the yellow cover. Bright yellow. Almost the color of the flame that will eat it when I finally barbecue books. Oh yeah this is on that list..
Friday, March 02, 2007
Around the World in 80 Days
Yep, another Jules Verne book. What can I say? I like what the man wrote plus I could cross another book off the LXG list.
This has been done as a movie plenty of times, none of which did I bother to watch.
Anyway, parts of it are annoying, but then again something about every book I read annoys me.
You can't help but like Phillius Fogg, wealthy guy with too much time on his hands. He makes a bet with the men in his club after seeing a timetable in the newspaper outlining a trip around the globe in 80 days. He bets half of his forutne on it, planning to use the rest to get around the world.
I'm begining to think Verne was an amateur anthropologist because of how well he portrayed other cultures. The parts in India are particularly good. I was fascinated by the thing in India where the widow was about to be burned so that she could accompany her husband to the after life, apparently they believe that you can't part even after death. Fun, fun, fun. Oh don't worry Fogg and his manservant save her, with their guide. Um I feel kinda bad that I don't remember their names...
All in all the book was very good and if I remember correctly, some woman a few years after it came out, followed the exact same route for a column for her newspaper, she made it in 79 days. (that's from my 11th grade English regents, so I don't know how accurate it is).
This has been done as a movie plenty of times, none of which did I bother to watch.
Anyway, parts of it are annoying, but then again something about every book I read annoys me.
You can't help but like Phillius Fogg, wealthy guy with too much time on his hands. He makes a bet with the men in his club after seeing a timetable in the newspaper outlining a trip around the globe in 80 days. He bets half of his forutne on it, planning to use the rest to get around the world.
I'm begining to think Verne was an amateur anthropologist because of how well he portrayed other cultures. The parts in India are particularly good. I was fascinated by the thing in India where the widow was about to be burned so that she could accompany her husband to the after life, apparently they believe that you can't part even after death. Fun, fun, fun. Oh don't worry Fogg and his manservant save her, with their guide. Um I feel kinda bad that I don't remember their names...
All in all the book was very good and if I remember correctly, some woman a few years after it came out, followed the exact same route for a column for her newspaper, she made it in 79 days. (that's from my 11th grade English regents, so I don't know how accurate it is).
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