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Book Meme *sheepish grin*
Jun 27th, 2008 by Babs

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) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.
4) Cross out the ones you started but didn’t finish
5) Add a * to the ones you’ve only seen the movie of
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them

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
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
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
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 [repeat]
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
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’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 – 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 [repeat]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo*

In my defense, I do read a good deal (in fact I’m currently reading The Annotated Brother’s Grimm) it’s just that I’ve never been a big fan of READING fiction outside of manga and fanfiction.

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Meme swiped from dbmyrrha
Mar 11th, 2008 by Babs

No One Under the Age of 21 May Play

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Swiped from herbmcsidhe
Feb 25th, 2008 by Babs

Bold (or check) the ones that apply:

[ ] I’ve been to a drive-in movie theater.
[ ] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.
[ ] I voted for (or could have) Ronald Reagan.
[ ] I was in a Christmas pageant in public school.
[ ] I remember what I was doing when John Kennedy died.
[ ] I used to watch Star Trek during its original run.
[ ] I know what 45 and 33-1/3 describes.
[ ] I’ve ridden in cars that didn’t have seat belts.
[ ] I used to watch Romper Room.
[ ] I belonged to Future Homemakers of America.
[ ] I’ve gone to an Elvis Presley concert.
[ ] I own/used to own an 8-track player.
[ ] I used to wear a hat, doilie, or handkerchief on my head in church.
[ ] I’ve bought a McDonald’s cheeseburger for 18 cents.
[ ] would go to sleep while or just after watching Johnny Carson.
[ ] I have watched a black and white television.
[ ] I have/used to have a leisure suit.
[ ] I’ve been to a tent revival.
[ ] I attended Woodstock.
[ ] I’ve been to a state fair and looked at the animal barns.
[ ] I can spin a hula-hoop around my middle. (I used to be able to, at least)
[ ] I’ve been spanked at school by a teacher/principal.
[ ] I’ve been to a Cher concert.
[ ] I watched The Sonny and Cher Show during its original run.
[ ] I looked forward to hearing Guy Lombardo play “Auld Lang Syne.”
[ ] I called adults “Sir” or “Ma’am.”
[ ] I’ve had a smallpox vaccination. (I was one of the first NOT to get it in my neck of the woods)
[ ] I used to watch Dick Clark on American Bandstand (and LOVE Barry Manilow’s rewrite of the opening theme)
[ ] I’ve been to a rodeo.
[ ] I’ve competed in a rodeo.
[ ] I scheduled my evenings around Dynasty.
[ ] I’ve sold Girl Scout cookies. (*sobs* I was a pathetic Campfire girl)
[ ] I am/was in a fraternity/sorority.
[ ] I’ve eaten breakfast at a Sambo’s Restaurant.
[ ] I had a poster of Farrah Fawcett on my wall/door.
[ ] I had a crush on Ricky Nelson.
[ ] I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
[ ] I had an aluminum Christmas tree and a color-wheel lamp. (My friends had one… and a hot pink flocked tree some years later)
[ ] I have/had a fondue pot and use/used it.
[ ] I’ve used a rotary phone.
[ ] I remember when African-Americans were called “colored people” in polite company.
[ ] I’ve been to West Berlin before German reunification.
[ ] I had a paper credit card.
[ ] I played with a Water Wiggle.
[ ] I danced all night to Donna Summer and Whitney Houston. (Donna, yes. Whitney, never.)
[ ] I’ve driven/ridden in a Pacer.
[ ] I’ve stayed up all night playing Risk. (But I remember it was in regular rotation in my parents’ game night)
[ ] I saw the original Star Wars movie in a theater. (At a drive in, even!)
[ ] I’ve taken group showers with members of my junior/senior high school class.
[ ] I remember when HIV was called HTLV-IV.
[ ] I watched The Simpsons when it was a short on The Tracy Ulman Show.
[ ] I had to install MS-DOS on my computer before I installed Windows.
[ ] I have/had a Sony Walkman.
[ ] I modeled my hair and clothes on people in Beverly Hills 90210.
[ ] I’ve played PacMan. (And remember where Mario got his start)
[ ] I put on a suit and tie/dress to go shop at the downtown department store.
[ ] I saw Top Gun in the theater more than six times.
[ ] I’ve read Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.
[ ] I’ve used a Jane Fonda workout video.
[ ] I remember when Michael Jackson was black.
[ ] I know who shot J.R.
[ ] I owned a pet rock. (Oh, hush, you!)
[ ] I have/had a Betamax VCR.
[ ] I had “all the way” sex before I was married and had to keep it secret.
[ ] I burned a bra and/or draft card.
[ ] I’ve ridden in a double-decker bus.
[ ] I’ve ridden in the back window of my parents’ car.
[ ] I’ve edged the grass in a yard with hand clippers.
[ ] I had a television aerial outside my house.

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“Gackted” from ginalin: Happiness Meme
Jan 23rd, 2008 by Babs

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag some people and suggest that they post this meme on their LJs/IJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.

1. Getting back on my exercise routine.

2. Actually losing weight again!

3. I found my own copy of “The Whole Pet Diet”.

4. My girls are getting healthier due to afforementioned book.

5. Cute guys and my vivid imagination.

6. I have my computer back!

7.The MLN now allows you to pay your fines online. Now I don’t have to wait until I can get to the library before I can request more books!

8. Ben and his flipping the bird to the 1812 Overture.

9. Friends are already asking me if I’m going to have my Summer Solstice cookout this year.

10. Rhapsody just keeps adding more and more good stuff to their “music store”.

I’m not tagging anyone, either. Do or do not. Whatever.

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Who the frick is Dennis Kucinich?
Jan 6th, 2008 by Babs

81% Dennis Kucinich
78% Mike Gravel
76% John Edwards
71% Hillary Clinton
70% Barack Obama
68% Joe Biden
68% Chris Dodd
66% Bill Richardson
32% Rudy Giuliani
29% Mitt Romney
26% John McCain
24% Tom Tancredo
22% Fred Thompson
21% Mike Huckabee
21% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

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