One of the Books-I-Have-Read Memes
· posted 08/29/2008
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Italicize the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read only 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
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
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’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
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
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
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
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
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
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
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
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
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’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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
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
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
So many of the books that I intend to read I have seen the movie (Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Color Purple.)
I’ve also seen movies of many that I have read. (The Lord of the Rings, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Winnie the Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, Oliver Twist, The Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, Charlotte’s Web, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Three Musketeers and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Which is why in my opinion there is much support for the theory that the book is better than the movie- almost always.
I found this meme at Elle’s place on the web.
Please send me a comment/email/note when I can see it on yours.
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I cannot brain today. I have the dumb.
· posted 08/29/2008
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Here I Knit 20080802
· posted 08/03/2008
I’m working on the August Monthly Dishcloth sitting halfway down our stairway.
Dad and Melodie came by and visited the shop and then everyone else went to their motel for a swim while I worked.
Dinner was here at our house – He cooked an exceptional meal as usual.
The house feels so quiet after being filled with 20 of us all evening.
I’ve signed up for the Ravelympics as crazy as that may seem. I brought home some yarn to swatch. I’m pretty sure I’ll be taking on an Aran sweater for the challenge.
I guess I’d better go and do some knitting so I can get some projects done before I start this big one.
Besides, I feel like I’m going to fall!
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My view 20080723
· posted 07/23/2008
And a week full of what felt like stormy weather, too.
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31 single words
· posted 07/12/2008
I was the 4th to comment on Becky’s blog entry, so I guess I’m tagged with this meme.
Rules: You must answer the questions using only one word. Then tag four others.
- 1. Where is your cell phone? Beside
- 2. Your significant other? Sleeping
- 3. Your hair? Short
- 4. Your mother? Lyme’s :(
- 5. Your father? California
- 6. Your favorite thing? Love
- 7. Your dream last night? Forget
- 8 Your favorite drink? Crangrape
- 9. Your dream/goal? Land
- 10. The room you’re in? Huge
- 11. Your hobby? Knitting
- 12. Your fear? intimidating
- 13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Traveling
- 14. What you’re not? Focused
- 15. Muffins? Blueberry
- 16. One of your wish list items? Wooleewinder
- 17. Where you grew up? California
- 18. The last thing you did? Ravelry
- 19. What are you wearing? t-shirt
- 20. Favorite gadget? Blackberry
- 21. Your pets? Allergic :(
- 22. Your computer? laptop
- 23. Your mood? melancholy
- 24. Missing someone? Grammie
- 25. Your car? Paid-off
- 26. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
- 27. Favorite store? YarnAlong
- 28. Like someone? Lots
- 29. Your favorite color? Green
- 30. When is the last time you laughed? Unsure
- 31. Last time you cried? Recently
Now to tag 4 people: the first 4 who read this, please feel free to do this too!
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Tour de Fleece 2008 Week 1 Progress (or not)
· posted 07/11/2008
Here is some of what I’ve spun up thus far. It’s not much, but it’s something.
On the left in the picture is some alpaca that is part of my stash that hid from the original photo of the complete stash.
I should weigh all of this fiber.
The 2 skeins shown are some odd bits of white wool – probably merino or something as soft. It was nice to spin.
On the drop spindle is some of the Finn left over from my trial purchase from Firefly Fields. I had attempted to purchase a couple of fleece from her 2 years ago but it fell through for some reason and she returned my deposit.
I may purchase the same two sheep’s fleece this year, though! I’ve inquired and they are available. Now to just finalize the deal and I’ll have some lovely Finn to spin.
Here is some of my stash fiber dyed up to be spun. The blue/green is the Blue Faced Leister and the pink/red/purple is some unknown (nice) wool, possibly Merino. The purple/blue on the right is the tussah silk. I dyed it all with kool-aid. It’s easier to dye at home in the evenings, so I stick with kool-aid (it’s safer). I have yet to use the acid dyes that I purchased last year to try at the shop.
Now on the spinning wheel (Joy) is the green/white wool/silk blend.
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19 Fleeces shorn today
· posted 07/07/2008
Wow, it’s been since the middle of June since I updated. So sad, because quite a bit has been going on.
My title explanation:
We were FINALLY able to get an appointment with the shearer! We had our 4 ewes shorn and we also picked up 14 other sheep fleece (mostly suffolk, most likely to be used for needle felting) as well as a llama fleece (poor Pedro hadn’t been shorn for 6 or 8 years!).
I’ve joined the Tour de Fleece again after skipping it last year (too busy after just opening the shop ). I plan to spin my stash.
I have some sad news that I guess I should post, if nothing else for future reference. We lost Blondie, my favorite shetland sheep. She lambed twins on Monday June 16th, a day after we discovered she was ‘accidentally’ pregnant. One twin only lived a day or two, and Blondie only lived 4 days post partum. We are now bottle-feeding her other twin here at the house. She is sweet.
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