100 Books to Read

My "cousin" Megan posted this on her blog and I've been looking for a good list of books to tackle so I figured I'd look at where I was at on this list
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

1) Bold: I have read.
2) Italics: Those I intend to read.
3) ?: don't know enough about it to judge

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nine-Teen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
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 – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife ?
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ?
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-tried and failed
28 Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck -tried and failed
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ?
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 Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milner
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 Meany-?
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
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel?
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons--seen movie :)
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon?
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez---started...never finished
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath?
77 Swallows and Amazons?
78 Germinal - Emile Zola?
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray?
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?
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad?
92 The Little Prince – Antoine de St. 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

birthdaypics

so, I promised to upload some pics from my birthday dinner...so here they are a bit late



my surprise "birthday pie"




enjoying my pie :)






My friends that joined me...

happybirthdayto me

so today is my 24th birthday!!! Can't believe it :) My mom took me out to lunch today and we went shopping. She bought me some really cute shoes and my makeup. Tonight I'm going out to eat with a bunch of my friends. should be fun. I'm excited. I'll try and take some pics to post later. till then...

In memory...

So, I just found out yesterday that my friend Amy Lantz passed away after fighting cancer all her life. All the years I had known Amy her cancer had been in remission and I had barely heard that it had come back. I've barely talked to her in years, but I did email her about a month ago to see how she was doing and got a reply. I wish I would have tried harder...It was great to get to go to her service yesterday and to see the amazing woman she became since we graduated from high school. Here are a few pictures of us...

answer after all this time...

Well, there maybe a reason for all my health problems over the years or maybe just something new...I just found out today I have something called Graves Disease. Which sounds awful. Its actually an auto-immune disease that attacks the thyroid making it larger and many of my health problems can be explained by this diagnosis. Not too thrilled though. No real answers yet, but nice to know. I'm going to an endocrinologist once the referral goes through.

On a different note. I got a new phone yesterday due to my stupidity of leaving my old one in airport bathroom. I had to pay an exorberant (my bad spelling of alot)amount of money since I'm not due for a new one for a year. but it is a great phone. It is the new Palm Centro. I love it. Although I'm just getting used to it.

Well I really need to get ready for work. later

I think I should stop visiting Utah...

Ugh... everytime I come to Utah I seem to get sick. It is so lame. I have some stupid stomach bug. But Chris had it yesterday and is already over it so I'm hopeful...But it's pretty lame to be sick right when I get here.

So far I've read a book, done a little shopping and talking with my sister alot. It's been fun to spend time with the kids. Dane keeps calling me "grandma" although I can get him to say my name now. Joelle is still being my shadow and being incredibly stubborn...Liam has been riding his bike pretty much the whole time I've been here. Max talks nonstop about everything and nothing all at the same time and it is adorable. and Lucus is pretty darn cute crawling all over.

That's about it. I'm tired and weak. but I'm sure I'll be good soon.

so over work...

I think I've worked too much the last few days. UGH, I'm so over it! I got cancelled and then got called back in so I was not too happy. OH well. I need the hours anyways. So, now I'm on my way to Utah. YEAH!! I'm tired and don't feel like getting in an airplane but then it will be great. I'll write more later.