Yeah. Read the vast majority of the books that were assigned in high school while I was still in elementary school. (Got to tell you that rereading books later on was definitely different in terms of what I understood in some cases! I am looking at you D.H. Lawrence...)
Listening to the 25th anniversary edition of Graceland. I find it hard to order my top ten favorite albums - but this one is absolutely on the list.
Another tri-tone knot ring and a twisted tri-tone toe ring are all that are missing from the outfit - which I wore sometime last month.
And last, another survey:
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ✓
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ✓
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ✓
Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling ✓
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ✓
The Bible - Council of Nicea ✓
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ✓
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ✓
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ✓
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ✓
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ✓
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ✓
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ✓
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ✓
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ✓
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ✓
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ✓
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ✓
Middlemarch - George Eliot ✓
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ✓
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ✓
Bleak House - Charles Dickens ✓
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ✓
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ✓
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ✓
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✓
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ✓
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ✓
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ✓
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ✓
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ✓
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ✓
Emma - Jane Austen ✓
Persuasion - Jane Austen ✓
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ✓
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ✓
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ✓
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ✓
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ✓
Animal Farm - George Orwell ✓
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ✓
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ✓
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ✓
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ✓
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ✓
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ✓
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ✓
Lord of the Flies - William Golding ✓
Atonement - Ian McEwan ✓
Life of Pi - Yann Martel ✓
Dune - Frank Herbert ✓
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ✓
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ✓
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ✓
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ✓
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ✓
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ✓
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ✓
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ✓
The Secret History - Donna Tartt ✓
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ✓
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ✓
On The Road - Jack Kerouac ✓
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ✓
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ✓
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ✓
Moby Dick - Herman Melville ✓
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ✓
Dracula - Bram Stoker ✓
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ✓
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ✓
Ulysses - James Joyce ✓
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ✓
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ✓
Germinal - Emile Zola ✓
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ✓
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ✓
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ✓
The Color Purple - Alice Walker ✓
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ✓
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ✓
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White ✓
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ✓
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ✓
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ✓
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ✓
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ✓
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ✓
Watership Down - Richard Adams ✓
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ✓
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ✓
Hamlet - William Shakespeare ✓
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ✓
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ✓
How many have you read? 94/100
How many did you read willingly? 78/100
What is your favorite? Pick just one? Probably Pride and Prejudice, but it was a hard choice between The Little Prince, Secret Garden, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte's Web, The Handmaid's Tale, The Bell Jar, Anne of Green Gables, and Jane Eyre.
What is your least favorite? Heart of Darkness.
Which one have you read most? Am not sure...probably Charlotte's Web, The Little Prince, or Winnie the Pooh since I have to read them aloud for work a lot. On a personal level I make sure to reread at least ten of those once a year (Pride and Prejudice, Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, Sherlock Holmes, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Bell Jar...)
Which one did you read most recently? Just reread the His Dark Materials series last week.
Which one did you read first? Am not sure - most likely was Winnie the Pooh, but it could have been The Little Prince or Charlotte's Web.
How many do you own? 46/100 Used to own more, but have been doing a lot of book weeding. (As in over the last few months donated over 2,000 books to the library...)
Which one do you think everyone should read? Most of them! If I had to pick one...probably Complete Works of Shakespeare. A lot are "essential" reading to me.
Which book do you think is missing from the list? Just one book? There are a whole lot of books missing! No Mark Twain? I think Peter Pan should be there, the Iliad or the Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Canterbury Tales, Scarlet Letter, Walden, Death of a Salesman, Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse 5, something... anything by Virginia Woolf, Edna Ferber, Ernest Hemingway, and Willa Cather.