I’m tired and I’ve got a lot of work to get done today. Perfect time for a couple of MEMES! The ultimate in procrastination!
From Carole:
Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (It’s a principle thing with me now. Greedy bastards with the hardcovers if you ask me. And yes. I know about libraries. I don’t think I have privleges anymore though.)
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (At least two copies on my shelf – one G’s, one mine.)The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (I’m shocked, but I can’t find this in the house.)
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials – Philip PullmanHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. RowlingLife of Pi – Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story – George Orwell
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (I’ve read half of it. Hence the bold and the italics.)
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
1984 – George OrwellHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner – Khaled HosseiniThe Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Atonement – Ian McEwan
(The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Dune – Frank Herbert
You want to do this? CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED.
Hi Cara 🙂 From Cara
I see you’ve italicized The Kite Runner and A Secret History. These are both very good. Secret History is long but worth it. Kite Runner is short and intense. I would recommend both.
I second The Secret History. Tartt’s other novel, The Little Friend, is also worth a go.
Not a fan of Secret History and most of the others you have striked through. I did read Harry Potter but can’t get myself to read the last one.
I think Da Vinci is out in mass market now. If you try to forget the hype, you might well enjoy it–I read it before it came out and liked it a lot, though now I might be disappointed after seeing that it sold 12 million copies…
Go get Shadow of the Wind. You won’t regret it. An easy and engrossing read. A witty mystery-ish type story. Any Borders or Barnes and Noble will have it. And it’s in softcover.
Shadow of the Wind was a wonderful book – I really liked it. Life of Pi was good too, but you already striked through it – not even giving it a chance! 🙁