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It appears hell might still be full of fire and the pigs might be firmly on the ground.
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I am only doing this to prove to Sarah that even though I am knee deep in a bodice ripping romance phase, I have read literature. I'll just be bolding what I have read, as my bodice ripping phase keeps me from wanting to read any of these I haven't read yet and laziness keeps me from wanting to bold AND underline, DEAR GOD this meme is demanding. And I am totally counting audio books!!!

01. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
02. Italicise those you intend to read
03. Underline the books you LOVE.
04. Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them.



001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
004 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
006 The Bible (surely over my life I've read most of it)
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy--saw the end of this movie, dude! Sad! will never read
013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read many, but not all.)
015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch - George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma - Jane Austen
035 Persuasion - Jane Austen
036 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrob - CS Lewis
037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
041 Animal Farm - George Orwell
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement - Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072 Dracula - Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
075 Ulysses - James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
078 Germinal - Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094 Watership Down - Richard Adams
095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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We're having a blast! Tomorrow we're off to Paris for the day. Oui!
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So, thanks to Sarah I am addicted to a new show. The Tudors. It's not that it's particularly good so much as that it's particularly hot. I would like you all to meet my new boyfriend Henry (see icon). *squee*

In other news, I don't really have other news. I started carpooling to work this morning. I had to change my hours a bit to make it work so I'm coming in about 45 minutes earlier and leaving about 30 minutes earlier. I am really hoping it will work out, though I will miss my alone time and my music. I'm pretty sure my carpool buddy would find my music offensive but hey, I'll give up the music for the extra $120/mo I will be saving. Heck with the way gas prices are, I'm probably saving more than that not to mention the savings on oil changes, etc.

Owen is doing well and has inherited his mother's fangirl, er, boy sensibilities. His love for the The Ramones (or rather the Rebones to him) is boundless. He is constantly watching and reenacting some of their live performances on You Tube. It's adorable, though I fear him singing "Beat on the Brat" at the top of his lungs *might* make me a bad parent. Maybe. Just a little. Scotty has posted a video of him singing "Blitzkrieg Bop" on MySpace, it's pretty hilarious. I need to link it, I suppose, just so you can have proof of my bad parenting.

LESS THAN A MONTH TIL LONDON!!!

ETA: Here is the link http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=27831155
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So, Sarah and I are heading over to London in April (squee!) and I got an email from my credit union that they had suspended all debit card activity in Luxemburg, India and Great Britian until August (BOO!) Apparently there has been some frudulent activity and this is to 'save us all'.
So, I call my CU, as you do, to find out what the frikkin hell I'm supposed to do now and when they transfer me I realize that the person in charge is someone with which I had had some graduate classes. I'm thinking "YAY, if anything can be done she'll do it!" So here's how the convo went

Me: Hey,____! How's it been?
__: Good, how are you?
Me: Not great actually. I got the email today that you guys have suspended debit transactions in Great Britian, Luxemburg and India and see? I'm going to London in April so I'm sort of screwed. What are my options?
__: Oh. Is London in one of those places?

REALLY?!? I mean REALLY?

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Cause this? Ain't me...

What Rachel Means

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.
You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.
A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.


Well, maybe the selfish part is right.

In other news, I'm reading another YA novel. Heaven help me. And I think I'm going to attempt to take a grad course this semester....I've just come to far to quit now.
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Being an adult sucks! I want the day after Christmas off too. *whines*

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! Owen enjoyed his very much, he really got into it this year. At one point this weekend I had told him that Santa was going to bring ME presents but not him because he was misbehaving....at that point he and Scotty hatched a plan that Scotty would distract Santa and Owen would hijack the sleigh. What was I thinking letting those two stay home alone together over these years? I've got to stay home with the next one, should there be a next one.

I have to be in a wedding this weekend so Scotty and I are off to Savannah tomorrow. Should be a lot of fun but I do hope I have a little downtime to walk around the city....it's been a long time since I've been.

I finished "The Thirteenth Tale" last night and while it's no teen vamp love story, it was exceedingly good...you should all read it!!
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