Well, last night was my first night home for the summer, and it was an exciting one. Okay. So maybe for me it was. I don't expect anyone else to have the same nerdy standards. Anyway, I sat at home, ate Chinese, watched movies with Seth (I don't count this towards our brother/sister date.), and started to compile my book list. This is what I have so far:
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
To The Lighthouse - Virgina Woolfe
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Ulysses - James Joyce
Sister Carrie - Evelyn Waugh
The Wapshot Chronicles - John Cheever
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House - Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
Mother Night - Vonnegut
Jailbird - Vonnegut
Player Piano - Vonnegut
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
*Added*
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audery Niffenegger
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Middlesex: A Novel - Jeffrey Eugenides
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
1984 - George Orwell
The Illiad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aneid - Virgil
The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Herland - Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath - Paul Alexander
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (I've started it about 3 times now)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (Another one I've started but never finished)
Harry Potter (all of them!)
Utopia - Thomas More
It's a lot shorter than I wanted it to be, so any suggestions are appreciated!
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THE MISSION: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. THE CRITERIA: Tasks must be specific with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined.
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1. learn to crochet 2. knit an article of clothing for someone else 3. start a knitting club 4. participate in a swap on craftster 5. participate in World Wide KIP Day 6. make a scrapbook of my college memories 7. participate in a craft show 8. design & make a dress for myself 9. subscribe to a knitting magazine 10. screen print a shirt for someone 11. knit a pair of socks 12. knit mittens 13. teach someone else how to knit 14. get a poem published 15. read all of the books that I own but haven't read yet (2/?) 16. finish a paper 3 days before it is actually due 17. read at least 40 books from my book list (13/40) 18. read the bible cover-to-cover 19. participate in Banned Books Week 20. discover 3 more favorite poets 21. buy at least 15 cds (2/15) 22. get a better record player 23. buy 10 records 24. go to the movies (6/15) 25. go to the movies by myself 26. see a movie premier at midnight 27. learn how to play the guitar 28. learn how to swing dance 29. learn to drive a standard 30. learn how to make Belgian pie all on my own 31. learn how to play Euchre 32. visit a national park 33. travel outside of the US 34. go to New York City 35. go on a spontaneous roadtrip (1 day+) 36. fly in an airplane 37. get a passport 38. travel to at least 5 chapters of KKPsi that I've never been to before (1/5) 39. travel to National Headquarters in Stillwater 40. get drunk 41. see Ben Kweller live 42. see The Phantom of the Opera 43. go to Bonnaroo 44. sing karaoke 45. finish an entire coloring book 46. go to the playground 47. throw a surprise party 48. grow flowers from seeds 49. go ice skating 50. go to the drive-in 51. go to Phipps Conservatory 52. see Rocky Horror live 53. go to a DCI show 54. go out in my paddle boat 5 times 55. win something 56. fly a kite 57. take my niece & nephew sled-ridding 58. floss my teeth once a day every day for a month 59. get at least 8 hours of sleep for one week 60. go to the rec center twice a week for a month 61. bike the Grand Canyon of Penn 62. go on a walk every day for 2 weeks 63. buy a Richard Simmons work-out tape 64. use said video 3 times a week for a month! 65. do the "big chop" 66. try out polyphasic sleep 67. get a new car 68. graduate 69. find a teaching job 70. save $1001 71. vote 72. balance my checkbook for a month 73. get my own phone plan 74. donate all my old clothing 75. write a letter to my mother telling that I love her 76. arrange for a family picture 77. go out on a brother/sister date with Seth 78. make at least 15 new friends 79. go camping with Dad 80. go to a Nailer's game with Dad 81. make dinner for my family including dessert 82. make an iMovie for my mom & dad 83. spend at least 2 weekends with Megan at Cal U 84. go a week without the internet 85. send a secret to PostSecret 86. complete 26 things 87. donate blood 3 times 88. make a half-batch of gullets and give them away 89. make someone a present randomly 90. contact Frau Schaller 91. get my picture taken with someone famous 92. fall in love 93. buy a chocolate fountain 94. keep my room clean for a month 95. solve a rubik's cube 96. get a Little Brother 97. wake up for 1 month without hitting the snooze button 98. grow my hair out below my shoulders 99. make this blog pretty 100. donate $1 for every task not completed 101. write a new list
3 comments:
I have On the Road, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Animal Farm, Wide Sargasso Sean, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Sirens of Titan, The Time Traveler's Wife, Middlesex, 1984, Anna Karenina, Everything is Illuminated, Franney and Zooey, and Life of Pi...
if you want to borrow any...
and, if you give me some time, I can probably come up with a few more to add to the list...
thank you and you're welcome!
Great list. I wont't bug you with unasked for opinion, but I would recommend adding Margaret Atwood to your list. All of her books are fabulous but my favorites include The Robber Bride and Oryx and Crake. Although her most famous is probably The Handmaid's Tale.
Also, Sister Carrie is a great book, but it is by Theodore Dreiser not Waugh.
Have fun.
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