Thursday, March 15, 2007

Book Meme

I got this from #!/usr/bin/mom's site.

You're supposed to bold books you've read, italicize books you'd like to read, and strike out books you will never read.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - I kinda want to read this one but haven't gotten around to it yet.
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - I really tried to read her after her movies were popular but I just couldn't get into them.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - I've read this two or three times.
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) - I've started reading it a time or two but never finished.
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) - I have no desire to read any of these. I watched the first movie and half way through I felt like I had given my life over to it.
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) - Read this series all the way through. I've got them somewhere.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) - One of my favorite series. No one writes a better Scottish accent than she does!
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) - Another favorite series.
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) - All time favorite author. I'm looking right now at the three shelves his book take up in my office!
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) - Another book I've tried to read and just couldn't get into.
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) - Is this the one about the girl who's dead?
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) I just read a description of this book on Amazon, how could you NOT want to read it?!
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - I've always thought this looked really stupid.
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune, (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) - I think I've read this one, I know I've read some of his stuff!
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) - I think I tried to read this one too.
34. 1984 (Orwell) - Did I read this one in school?
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) - Pretty sure I've read this one...I have read this one! I remember now, good book!
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb) - I have read She's Come Undone by him.
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) - I was Ayla for years! (minus all the sex!!)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) - Again, I think I've read this one but not positive.
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) - Eh, it was alright.
45. Bible - (Do I get to bold this even though I haven't read the whole thing?)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) - I loved this book!
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt) - You guessed it, I tried to read this one too!
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb) - Oh, this is on the list!
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) - I'm only bolding half of it because I think I've started it!
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) - I think I read some of this in school but it's Chad's favorite book.
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)I think I tried to read this one too.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding) - and the sequel!
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) - I've seen the movie.
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) - I read this book to my preschool class at naptime.
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer) - I don't think I've read this but Jeffrey Archer has written some good stuff.
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) - I've started this one but never got through it.
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) - I liked the movie too.
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford) - I know I've read some of her stuff too but don't know if this is one of them!
99. The Celestine Prophecy - I don't think I've read this but I can't remember.
100.Ulysses (James Joyce)

**Thank you Lisa!! I figured it out!


1 comment:

Lisa said...

HI! I know Neva. Hope you don't mind that I'm stopping in, but I happen to know how to do a strike-out if you're curious. When you're posting, you go to Edit HTML. Do you know how to use HTML tags for bold & italic? If so, you use them the same way with "strike." I know that's confusing, but if I write it out how you're supposed to write it out, it will just strike out my words when I post this comment, rather than showing you what to do.

By the way, I'm also the "Lisa" who probably made you confused about asking Gibson Steed if he has a daughter named Lisa. Sorry about that! Have you talked to them again? Their daughter-in-law, Angela, is one of my best friends & just moved to the Tampa area (though she may have been worshiping with your congregation the past few weeks, I don't know).

Sorry about this long comment! Feel free to delete it if you want. If my instructions on the strike-out are too confusing, email me at llleichner@yahoo.com & I may be able to write it out in an email.