BBC believes most people have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and make those you have read bold.
2) Star (*) the ones you LOVE.
3) Italicize those you plan on reading

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 4

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 4

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma-Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini *

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total: 2

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

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

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan*

Total: 4

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (reading now actually)

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 4

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

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

Total: 5

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno – Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Total: 1

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White *

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 1

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery*

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

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 4

Overall Total: 36

I had a really messed up dream last night...

The first part took place in "Vegas" except we were at a pretty crappy amusement park somewhere. It was really lame; I think the best ride there was a ferris wheel. The only people I remember being there were my parents and some friends whom I've never seen before. While walking through the park/Vegas we bumped into Rihanna there...no idea why. And my Mom, who I know has no clue as to who the hell Rihanna is (mind you I don't listen to any of her songs) was really, excited...like to the point that she was crying she was so happy to bump into this singer. Rihanna comes up to my Mom and gives her a hug and her autograph and they're acting like they're all buddies...meanwhile I'm standing there with the biggest WTF expression on my face. I still don't understand why she was in my dream as I'm not a fan of hers...anyway, as we were leaving the park/Vegas the people that were with me disappeared and it was me and a couple of random people here and there.

At some point two guys joined the group and they were normal-seeming people, and good-looking I guess. But somehow in my dream I just knew without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that these two guys were Freddy Kreuger and Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. And I also knew, without a doubt, that they were there to kill me. Despite this knowledge I was acting all buddy/buddy with them. I think I even asked them at one point to let me eat some final meal or to grant me some wish before they killed me 0_o. After dinner or whatever, I was driving my car...alone and they were following me in two cars and I kept thinking to myself, "shit, shit...this is it...as soon as I get inside my house they're gonna kill me. shit. this is the end. I can't go home or they'll get me. I have to keep moving; I can't stay in one place for too long or they'll kill me. I have to give them a dozen different trails or else it's the end." I get home and I go in the house and that's when I wake up...

I have no idea why I had a dream about people I'm not a "fan" of, but there it is...

I'm sick and tired of these nut jobs talking about how the US is becoming a socialized state. But instead of going on about it, I think this accurately describes how I feel...

End "rant".

My parents were going through a bunch of things in the garage today and found a ton of my stuff in there. One of which was a poem I wrote in elementary school...I'm not sure which grade but it's pretty silly...here it is:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is lumpy
And your head is too

This made me laugh for a good ten minutes. I must have been on something when I wrote that!

Whoa so much has changed, I had for gotten how to post. I suppose that I got busy with school, which has been over for a year now! YIKES! It's funny to read past blogs, well funny in a sad way. So mushy and sappy :o/, I guess that part hasn't changed! But other things occupy my life now, like work work work! I don't quite feel like an adult yet, since I'm still sleeping on the couch and wearing my Vans! I guess my life is not where I thought it'd be. I'm 24 and no where near where I imagined I'd be, but then again as a kid I thought being 20ish was glamourous. Note: I don't feel glamourous. Post college years are making me miss my college years! I had more money and a better wardrobe. Whiney much, oh yes! :o( It's not so bad I suppose. I dont stress over exams, projects, papers... but I have been thinking about graduate school more than I thought I would. It used to seem like a possibility, but now it seems like the best option. Graduation was the easy part, the days and weeks after that were so hard to get through. Now I'm in post college limbo, where do I go? What do I do? for now I will utor part time and work for the census part time, but two part times still don't make a full time. FUN!

Ok something that is not a bummer... tonight I will start reading Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging. Yay for that! and... I am hungry! :o) More blogging to come, I gotta get my writing in top notch if i want to go to graduate school ;o)

It's been awhile since I posted anything. I guess quite a lot has happened but in general my life is pretty boring.

I was accepted into the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Health program which was very exciting. Looks like I'm heading back to CO in the fall for school! I will admit that part of me was a little disappointed that I didn't get a chance anywhere else, but it is a very competitive field and I'm, alas, just not competitive enough. I love Colorado and am definitely looking forward to going back and seeing everyone but I did want to live and go to school elsewhere, but that's not to be. Oh well! I'm young and I can (and hopefully will) move somewhere else after school is over. There are many places I would like to go but we'll just have to wait and see where life ends up taking me! I'll be moving in with Venessa which will be lots of fun but totally different living with someone who isn't either Cara, Keelin or Ari! I can't wait though...although it is very nice not having to pay rent or pretty much anything. I really like not being in school. I miss parts of it but in general I don't miss it. I'm dreading going back to school but I have to. One semester is all the time I gave myself off and I will stick to that. If I take more time off...it'll be so much harder to go back.

In March I finally got a job at Silverline Montessori. I got a call from my parent's friend who works there and she told me that they are hiring and so I went in the next day and got the job on the spot (hallelujah)! I started that day too. First they put upstairs with the after school kids which was, not at all to my liking. The kids were too loud and too many. I wouldn't have minded being a teacher's assistant during regular school hours, but after school...no way. It felt like I was thrown into the lion's den. So I talked to Rene' about it and she told me to tell Sara about it right away cause they could put me elsewhere no problem. I did and now I'm a teacher in the infant room, which is much better, but it does get crazy in there too. Once one baby starts crying, six or seven of them start right after too. It's not easy at all, but I do love those kids. I very much like my job and I'm kind of dreading leaving it, but I have to in August. This has been a very rewarding experience so far and I intend on soaking up as much of it as I can until I have to say goodbye.

Other than that...nothing new is really going on in my life. I'm going to try to start saving money (opening a separate account for travel) so I can go to London next year sometime. I really, really, really, really want to go next May-ish to see London and meet my cousin and her family. I really hope that it comes true and something doesn't prevent me from going. I'll be really disappointed if I don't end up going. Fingers and toes crossed!

That's all the updating I have.

Oh and, blogspot needs some better templates. I'm not really fond of these templates on here and I'm pretty sure that plays a big role in why I don't update that much (yes I'm that strange).

Gonna go see if I can find some snazzier templates now. Ciao!

I started reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The story follows three women around the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. I haven't gotten very far into yet, but I'm liking what I have read so far. Stockett captures the hate, the fear and misunderstanding perfectly between whites and blacks in the deep south.

On another note...it's time for me to clean up house big time. I have to go through everything in my room, all my stuff in the study and in the garage. This is going to take probably a week to go through and I still need a job! I really don't want to do retail but I'm beginning to think this might be my only option. Oh well, I do need the money now.