Last week I took a trip out east to visit my Knight, and we had an absolutely beautiful time together. It felt like time slowed down, and we were able to really savor each moment together, something that I feel will be a help in the long months ahead until we see each other again at Christmastime. We had many fun outings, including a trip to the National Shrine of Divine Mercy, located in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains (trust me, this prairie girl was super excited!), a trip to the ocean coast, and seeing "The Dark Knight Rises" in the epic IMAX theater. I have been home for a few days now, and it's hard, but we did have such a wonderful time together, and I know that the time will pass quickly until our next visit.
While I was away, my siblings started up with school again. As I am not in schooling this year, I'll be helping out little bit when I'm not working, and teaching two of the younger ones to play the piano, and doing a format writing class with two of the older ones. I'll continue to teach myself how to play the guitar, and then in my spare time I'm going to read a lot of books.
I've seen it passed around in Facebook notes several times, and I'm sure you have as well. The note that goes:
BBC Book List
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
I've read a fair number of the books already (30 if I counted correctly and didn't miss any), which leaves me with 70 more to go! I'm always looking for new books to read, so I feel that there is a pretty good chance I'll actually do this.
I edited it a little bit (taking out The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, for example... I think that will be a separate reading project), but here is the list. The titles in bold are the books I've read - how about you?
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 (all)
5 To
Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The
Bible
7
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Keasey
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
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
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 Berniere
39
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41
Animal Farm – George Orwell
42
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
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’s 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
This looks very cool! :)
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