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misamille
21 February 2009 @ 01:28 am
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '$' to the ones you "saw the movie".
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

How many have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x $
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x $
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x $
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X $
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X $
6 The Bible X $ (yes there is a movie and it's really really long but it's sooooo good!!)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x $
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x $ (all versions..the one with june alison is the best!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x $
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x $ (majority)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x $ ( I love this one sooo much!)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x $
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x $
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x $
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x $ (and the tv show and the radio show!)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x $ (SOOO Good!!)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x $
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x $
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X $
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x $
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x $ (the dan radcliffe one is good)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x $
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X $ (technically this goes with the chronicles of narnia so someone screwed up this list..)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres $
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden $
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X $
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x $
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 x $
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy *
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Goldingn x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x (awful book in my opinion)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert x $ (AWESOME!!)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x $
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
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 x $
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x $
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x $
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 x $
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x $
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x $ (AMAZING!!!!!!!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x $
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x
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 x $
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker $ *
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x $
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x $
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x $
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
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 x $
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x $ (this would technically go under the complete works of wiliam shakespeare)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dah x $
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x $ (and the musical!)

I've read/seen/heard/planning on reading 59 read..not gonna count the others too many!
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misamille
21 February 2009 @ 01:23 am
Let others know a little more about yourself, re-post this as your name followed by "-ology"

***********FOOD-OLOGY***************

What is your salad dressing of choice? ranch

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? chili's (eggrolls) and lotus inn! (eggrolls lol!)

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? ramen...kinda doing that right now...lol

What are your pizza toppings of choice? onions, mushrooms, bannana peppers, diced tomatos, mozzerella, and basil leaves!

What do you like to put on your toast? butter

Chocolate or Vanilla? hmm...both of them mixed!!!

***********TECHNOLOGY***************

How many televisions are in your house? 3

What color cell phone do you have? silver

Do you have a laptop? Yep, but it needs fixed!

***************BIOLOGY******************

Are you right-handed or left-handed? left! makes me smart!

Have you ever had anything removed from your body? not that i know of

What is the last heavy item you lifted? dining room table

Have you ever been knocked unconscious? not that i remember

************DUMBOLOGY******************

How many pairs of flip flops do you own? I used to own a lot, but then they ran away..

Last time you had a run-in with the cops? i ran into a cop at school once...i'm very uncoordinated

Last person you talked to on the phone? grandpap

Last person you hugged? mommy!

**************FAVORITE-OLOGY****************

Season? late fall/mid winter

Holiday? does my birthday count? and if not...HALLOWEEN!!! ^^

Day of the week? any day really

Month? the ones that are freezing cold!
***********CURRENT-OLOGY*****************

Missing someone? yep...

Mood? good right now cause i'm talking to fifi!!! love you girl!!

What are you listening to? see below

Watching? nothing but listening to shaun white do something amazing...

Worrying about? today

***************RANDOM-OLOGY****************

First place you went this morning? my kitchen...well it was afternoon when i woke up...

What's the last movie you saw? My Fair Lady

Do you smile often? yeah...a little too much some times

Do you always answer your phone? majority of the time

Its four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? no one..don't have texting

If you could change your eye color what would it be? it would be cool to see what i'd look like with blue eyes with my brown hair...

What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? cherry!!!

Do you own a digital camera? my phone has a pretty good camera on it

Have you ever had a pet fish? who hasn't?

Favorite Christmas song(s)? all of them!

What's on your wish list for your birthday? my comp fixed, a sony reader, and an itouch

Can you do push ups? yup

Can you do a chin up? yup

Does the future make you more nervous or excited? both and then it just depresses me

Do you have any saved texts? don't have texting

Ever been in a car wreck? yup

Do you have an accent? not really, but i can when i get excited or pissed

What is the last song to make you cry? when you look me in the eyes and a little bit longer

Plans tonight? sulking and twittering

Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? still there..been there for awhile now

Name 3 things you bought yesterday? hmm...nothing, nothing, and nothing

Have you ever been given roses? yup

Current hate right now? me and my endless stream of homework

Met someone who changed your life? yes

How did you bring in the New Year? talking to chels online and missing the countdown for my time zone

What song represents you? I am what I am by the jonas brothers....yes it's true but if you listen to the song it's sooo me

Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? yes but only a little bit

Have you ever dated someone longer than a year? *sighs* yup

Do you have any tattoos/piercings? nope

What songs do you sing in the shower? whatever comes to my head

Ever had someone sing to you? yup

Do you like to cuddle? duh! who doesn't?!

Have you held hands with anyone today? Nope

Who was the last person you took a picture of? myself

What kind of music did you listen to in elementary school? what was popular in the 90s? i listened to it ALL

Do you believe in staying close with your ex's? not really but i ended up being close with all but 2

Are most of the friends in your life new or old? more new than old, but the old keep coming back...

Do you like pulpy orange juice? not too pulpy where it tastes like i'm drinking from the orange

What is something your friends make fun of you for? being an obsessive fangirl...i don't mind..i embrace it!

Have you ever ridden an elephant? yup

Do you like to play Scrabble? yup! love it!

What are you saving your money up for right now? conventions and a road trip!

When is the last time you ate peanut butter and jelly? a year ago

What were you doing at 12 AM last night? watching conan

What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? what time is it?
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misamille
20 February 2009 @ 10:58 pm
1. List one book you think everyone should read this year.

Alan "fallofautumndistro" Lastufka's You Tube book and the next enstallment of the Sookie Stackhouse series

2. What is your favorite thing about your hometown?

great local resturants

3. Incorrectly complete these Fall Out Boy lyrics: "This ain't a scene, it's a(n)'a very serious dance/rave party'"

4. What would you title your autobiography and how many pages would it be?

I'm Here! Now what? 234 pages

5. What was the best Christmas gift you've received? (ages 15 and under, adult Christmas gifts don't count)

A Molly the Clown Doll, she was from my fave PBS TV show the Big Comfy couch

6. What's one new thing you learned this week? (they say you learn something new every day, so you should have a few things to choose from)

I learned that I am becoming more popular on Twitter.

7. Open Skype/G-Chat/AIM and type "how's my favorite friend who I haven't chatted with today?" to someone you haven't chatted with at all today. This item isn't a question, just a polite demand to let someone know you were thinking of them.

8. Tell me one really proud moment from your life. (be specific)

When my Dad thought I did something really great, but it was short lived.

9. Tell me one really embarrassing moment from your life. (be specific)

hmmm...too many to count and not one comes to mind...

10. Have you owned something for way too long... something you know you should get rid of or replace, but can't? If so, what and why?

yes..I've owned this one t-shirt that I've had since Kindergarten and it still fits and is in good condition.

11. Fill in the blank: Other than this one, _____ is the last blog I commented on.

I think it was Alan's LiveJournal...

12. Do you have any scars? Tell me about one of them.

I have two on my chin that are tiny from busting open my chin. Once with a water bottle and the other falling down and breaking that fall with my chin.

13. I say "this is not tom", you say:
A. Who the eff is Tom?
B. Thank god, Tom sucks!
C. Oh, I love staring at page source code all day and solving riddles!! <3
D. And this is not me, not clicking the back button and not not reading the rest of this stupid meme.

B

14. What do you get complimented on the most? (your looks, your creativity, your impressive collection of black santa figurines)

Oh it's soo my Black Santa colection...lol..no I think it's a tie between my intellegence and my smile...

15. Paste a link here to your favorite picture online:

This is the current fave:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/postsecret/LoveOrWar/post-secret.jpg?o=334
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