My brain just shorted out trying to keep all of this straight.<\/p>\n
I got it from Mental Multivitamin<\/a> – and let me echo her title choice. Yeah, me too.<\/p>\n [This was a very amusing exercise, actually – mainly because I own so many books – and yet I appear to have them all catalogued perfectly in my head. I know exactly which ones I have read and owned, and which ones I have read and yet do NOT own. I didn’t even have to it for more than half a second.]<\/p>\n Here’s the meme:<\/p>\n Review the following list of books. Boldface the books you’ve read, italicize those you might read, cross out the ones you won\u0092t, put an asterisk beside the ones on your bookshelves, and place brackets around the ones you\u0092ve never even heard of.<\/p>\n The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)<\/i> My brain just shorted out trying to keep all of this straight. I got it from Mental Multivitamin – and let me echo her title choice. Yeah, me too. [This was a very amusing exercise, actually – mainly because I … Continue reading
\n*The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)<\/b>
\n*The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)<\/b>
\n*The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)<\/b>
\n*To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)<\/b>
\n*The Time Traveler\u0092s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)<\/b>
\nHis Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)<\/strike> – it feels weird to just say flat out I won’t read something, but whatever. I won’t read it.
\n*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling)<\/b>
\n*The Life of Pi (Yann Martel) – haven’t read it yet but I own it – Jean gave it to me for Christmas, and it’s on “the list” – I’m almost ready to start it
\n*Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (George Orwell)<\/b>
\n*Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)<\/b>
\n*The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)<\/b>
\n[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon)]
\n*Lord of the Flies (William Golding)<\/b>
\n* Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)<\/b>
\n*1984 (George Orwell)<\/b>
\n*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling)<\/b>
\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)<\/b>
\nMemoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)<\/i>
\nThe Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)<\/i>
\nThe Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)<\/i>
\n*Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)<\/b>
\nThe Secret History (Donna Tartt)<\/strike> – I have picked it up 1000 times at the book store, and thought: Hmm, should I get it? I read the back cover, flip thru … and I never ever choose it. This tells me that I will never read this book. I’m okay with that.
\n*Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)<\/b>
\n* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)<\/b>
\nMiddlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)<\/i>
\nCloud Atlas (David Mitchell)<\/i>
\n*Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)<\/b>
\n*Atonement (Ian McEwan)<\/b>
\n[The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)]
\n*The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)<\/b>
\n*The Handmaid\u0092s Tale (Margaret Atwood)<\/b>
\n*The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)<\/b>
\nDune (Frank Herbert)<\/b>
\nSula (Toni Morrison)<\/strike> Argh – I like Toni Morrison but I don’t want to read this one
\nCold Mountain (Charles Frazier)<\/i>
\nThe Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)<\/b>
\n White Teeth (Zadie Smith)<\/i>
\n*The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"