8 posts tagged “books”
I know, I know, you're surprised that such things exist. But I haven't read every book out there. Maybe some day I'll get around to this.
Grabbed from Kelly McCullough over at Wyrdsmiths.
A list of the books most often listed as "unread" on librarything. The original instructions say italicize books started but not finished, bold books read, and bold and underline books read for school.
Jonathan Strange & Mr 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
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’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 : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (four times)
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 : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
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 : a memoir
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 : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
*I borrowed this one from my aunt ages ago and pick it up every so often. I fully intend to finish it.
Huh. Didn't have a lot of required reading in high school, it appears.
http://capwiz.com/rif/issues/alert/?alertid=11150206
Visit this link to send a letter to your congressman/woman, senator, and state representatives about continuing funding for Reading Is Fundamental, a program that, among other things, provides free books for low-income children.
From Jonathan Lyon's journal:
George Bush's $3.1 trillion budget proposal for 2009 eliminates the funding for the Reading is Fundamental book distribution program. This program, which would cost 26 million dollars next year, has provided more than 300 million books to over 30 million underprivileged children since its founding in 1966.
Instead, Bush has proposed to raise military-spending to levels not seen since World War II. He proposes $515 billion for Pentagon's day to day operations, higher than the total combined military spending of every other country in the world (and this doesn't include supplemental requests).
We're spending enough to make the Pentagon the 10th richest country in the world, but we can't spend what amounts to 0.005% of this on a program that distributed books to nearly 4.5 million children last year?
Come on, people. Read a book. Broaden your horizons. It will do you good.
Midwestern women read more, according to this article. Yahoo, for once I'm in a good group.
If you take a look at my LJ,
you might find a meme where I take a stab at how many books I've read
in the last ten years. Works out to about 120 a year...or 1200 in the
last ten. I'm just a little above average, eh?
A week ago yesterday I checked out three books from the library. Two of them had nearly 700 pages. I'm done with those
This story has magic, music, mystery, romance, alchemy, and in spades. Kvothe (pronounced 'quothe') is a fine protagonist, very human even though he has amazing capabilities. He can be brought low by pride, just like the rest of us. It's easy to imagine him, red-haired flying, playing his lute, tackling the trials at a magical university, pursuing a girl, building a name for himself that is founded on lies but mostly true...
Beware: this book has an ending that will leave you desperate for more. Me, at least, and I didn't expect it. But I very much look forward to reading more in the Kingkiller Chronicle. Well done, Patrick.
(Bought on a thursday night, finished on saturday night, and that's only because my roommate and I went shopping fri night. It would have been finished much earlier if not for that. Found out about it from author John Scalzi's blog, and saw it had a review by Robin Hobb, one of my favorite authors, so I knew it had to be good.)
When is the last time you stayed up all night?
I'm not sure, actually. I bet I could pin it down to a night/day my senior year of college, if I wanted to, five years ago. Which, I think is the proper answer. The times I've stayed up after that usually don't constitute all-nighters...just that I'd been up for a long time. There were a few parties when I went home with the dawn, a few papers to write that meant I was up until 4 am...a couple (okay, more than a couple) midnight movie premieres.
I love seeing the sunrise. I *don't* like seeing it because I've been up all night working on something not so fun. I love being awake in the mornings, because it's a bit of a novelty to find the whole day ahead of you. But I seem to work better in the hours of the evening.
Just added a bootful of books to my library here at Vox. One day I am going to get a CueCat and scan in all these hundreds of book barcodes so i can truly have a library that isn't dependent on me typing in the right numbers ;)
I'd recommend this. I was a little put out to see it's actually copyrighted to Judith Tarr...who is not a bad author by any stretch, I like her quite a bit, really...but I thought it might be a new author. Eh. It's very obviously the first in a series. It moves along at quite a clip...there's not so much action, per se, but a good amount of tension and some mystery.
Oddly enough, now I'm onto another Tarr book, King's Blood. It's one of a series of historical fantasies that I didn't expect I'd like, but ended up liking very much. I'll let you know, perhaps, if I like this one.
I know, I know, not another blog, when I don't update the three I already have. But this looks like an interesting network, and I like to try new things, so there. Say hi, why don't you?
<-- reading right now, when I should be studying biochem. books will be the death of me, I swear.
