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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add an strikeout the books you read but didn't like.

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
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare-- I haven't read the complete works but a fair chunk
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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--I don't know if I can strike this enough
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy--maybe I'll finish it someday....
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
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
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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--I just couldn't finish it
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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' 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 - Arthur Ransome
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 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

Answer all the questions (only 10) with what describes you best, add up all your Points (which are next to the answer that you choose) at the end and look for your results.

Do not cheat by looking at the end of the e-mail before you are done .

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I know some of y'all laugh and shake your heads in disbelief when I say I want to see some snow. You can't imagine why anyone would want more white stuff. This is what was on the ground when I woke up yesterday.



Last week we had twice this much!

Seriously....I want so see some real snow just once this year!

too bad. :-)

My principal sent this to me. It had an excel spreadsheet attached to it. To open the spreadsheet you had to answer the following question correctly. The answer was the password to the spreadsheet.

There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus?


I solved the problem and opened the spreadsheet. My principal's name wasn't on there. If I were her I don't know that I would have passed that along. ;-)

I'll post the answer in a few days. You know....if anyone even tries to answer it.

I complained via email to Kroger (grocery store) a week or so ago because there had been Christmas music playing the last few times I'd been in there. I love Christmas music--but not on November 4th. Anyway, I just got this in my email!

I would like to thank you for contacting us. Your concerns are very important to us. We have turned the volume down on the music a little and any more Christmas music should not play until after Thanksgiving. Thank you for choosing Kroger to do your shopping. If we can help you in any way please let me know.
thank you,
David H. CallManager

I don't really know why they said anything about turning the music down, because I didn't complain about that.

I can't believe that they did anything. We'll see if it's really off when I go in to buy something to take to a friend's house tonight.

ETA:
I'm an idiot.

Apparently I forgot to put the zipcode of the store. There's a store on the same street in Memphis. Sooooo....I may have gotten the Christmas music turned off in christina's Kroger.

My volleyball team just ended our season by winning the tournament! We somehow were undefeated in the regular season which ended last week. I had this fear that the team we played in the first round was going to pull an App State and beat us--they hadn't won a game all season. We held them off though the games were closer than we wanted. We actually had to come from behind in the second one.

We played the team we wanted to play in the Finals. Last year they beat us in the semi-finals and came in second. We wanted a rematch. Also--they're a fun team to play. They don't take it too seriously and are good sports when they win and when they lose.

It was a good night! We ended with going to Chili's to celebrate. We've been going every week after our games. The hostess was sad when we said we wouldn't be back next week. She loved the trophy--we brought it in and set it on the table. :-)

A friend of mine sent this to me. Neither of us actually believe it's a picture from a real student, but it is funny. One of the teachers at my old school called a parent at work once and did get one of the local strip clubs. Talk about awkward.

Ok, I took kirja's dating quiz. Since I LOVE Italy, I totally agree with this one. :-)

You Should Date An Italian!

You love for old fashioned romance, with an old fashioned guy An Italian guy is the perfect candidate to be your prince charming If your head doesn't spin enough, just down another espresso with him Invest in a motorcycle helmet - and some carb blocker for all that pasta!

I'm not so sure about their assessment of where I should live in NYC.

You Belong in the East Village

A little bit arty, a little bit punk - you seem to set trends that many people follow. It's likely that you're an academic of sorts, even if it's just on the weekends.