Wednesday, May 28, 2008

After more than a year of blogging idleness, Kate's latest meme (via Voracious Reader) has roused me out of my stupor. Well, and the fact that Peculiar is gone for a month might have something to do with it too. I'm more inspired to blog when I don't have to pry someone else off the computer first. . . I think anyone who might remotely read this blog has already seen this, but on the off chance it's new to anyone, feel free to respond.

Anyway, here goes.

The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion*
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick

Ulysses
Madame Bovary ("Emma on French crack" is a pretty good description, but Emma on French crack might at least be funny!)
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984

Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray*

Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid (yes, fellow Johnnies, I somehow didn't finish this one, I know, I know)
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

It is an odd list. Anyone else?

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5 Comments:

Blogger Voracious Reader said...

Hi! How are you all?

7:40 AM  
Blogger jack said...

We're good! I don't know if I still have your email. Is it the Austen-ish one you had a few years ago? Mine's the same as it was.

7:50 AM  
Blogger Katy said...

tbr: to be read. :) Not to be confused with a TGR, which is, courtesy of A Common Reader, a Thumping Good Read!

My dear, I'm appalled by what you haven't read. Jane Eyre?!?!?!?! Please please please please PLEASE read it!!!! Ditto Mrs Dalloway!!!! Persuasion too!!! Wait--really you haven't read Persuasion? I thought we all read it together that summer in the Cochiti house...

7:57 PM  
Blogger jack said...

No, I think the only Austen I've read is Pride & Prejudice and Emma. I don't think I read Persuasion. Just never got around to Austen somehow. Maybe this summer. Just finished O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series so I should feel right at home!

8:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

READ PERSUASION!!! It is habit forming, but a REALLY GOOD habit to have.

I ditto Jane Eyre - my hubbster even likes it (well, he liked the recent BBC/Masterpiece Theatre version - went around the house in his deepest voice bellowing "JANE")! I really don't like Bronte's but...

Jane Eyre > Wuthering Heights

9:50 AM  

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