Book Meme... I don't read enough
- Bold the ones you've read
- Underline the ones you read for classes (at least once)
- Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish
- *star it* if it's actually on your bookcase and you haven't read it
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
*Anansi Boys*
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
*The Prince*
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes: a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
*Cryptonomicon*
*Neverwhere*
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
lolsecretz
Just how it sounds: Postsecret + LOLcats = lolsecretz
A merging of memes. Priceless.
Googlewhack!
Also: "fire rescue elvis" is a Googlewhack!
... well, at least until this post is indexed...
Surprise surprise
| What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Gamer/Computer Nerd You enjoy the visual stimulants of a video game, chatting on AIM, or reading online comics. Most of these types of nerds are considered dirty who lack hygeine, of course they always end up being the ones who make a crapload of money. And don't worry, that's just a stereotype; I'm not calling you dirty. ^_~ | |
| Musician | |
| Science/Math Nerd | |
| Drama Nerd | |
| Literature Nerd | |
| Social Nerd | |
| Artistic Nerd | |
| Anime Nerd | |
| What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace | |
Crush?
This is way too much fun to not do. :)
Crush this person!
Get your own ThisCrush.com CrushTag!
Tagged!
Adam tagged me, so here you go. For your reading enjoyment:
Five things you (probably) don't know about me:
1. I had never written a line of code in my life before I decided to be a Computer Science major. My intuition on that was remarkably good.
2. I have a varsity letter... in Math. This means I was on the Math Team. Yeah, I know.
3. When I was little, my dad would put my "blankie" in the dryer so it was warm for me when he tucked me in. To this day, hot laundry is one of my favorite things in the world. Jamie puts towels in the dryer for me when I'm in the shower and wraps me up in them when I get out. Blissful.
4. The texture of wet wood makes my skin crawl.
5. I really like peanut M&Ms, but this has very little to do with the way they taste and everything to do with the process of eating them. I put one into my mouth, bite down just enough to liberate it from its candy shell, push the nut aside and eat the shell, then retrieve the nut and carefully split it apart. On one side of the split nut, there is a seed. It's small and kind of sticks out the top a little - you've all seen what they look like. The seed is way crunchier than the rest of the peanut. Once I've liberated it (which is successful maybe 60% of the time), I usually keep it behind my lip while I chew and swallow the nut, then I savor the tiny crunchiness.
Yes, I'm aware of how OCD that is.
I'm supposed to tag people to do this, now. That said, I think most everyone already has done it. So I'll tag Matt Mower andJoeP and anyone on my LJ friends list who hasn't already done this.
Things people said to James before we got married?
What do you want to marry Bethlet for, anyhow?
I'm a hipster!
Bette Davis Eyes!
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Bette Davis You scored 33% grit, 28% wit, 19% flair, and 38% class! |
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You're one smart cookie, and you know it. You also know how to let everyone else in on the deal. You've worked hard to get where you are, and sometimes you might not have played fair. You are ruthless but charming, and the light of intelligence sparkles in your eyes. When cornered, you can and will act, but you'd rather have things go your way and live a life of ease and comfort. It's not a great idea to cross you; you will run the competition down like a rabbit, and leave them wondering what hit them. Your leading men include Errol Flynn and Paul Henreid, men who like a feisty gal with a touch of class.
Find out what kind of classic leading man you'd make by taking the Classic Leading Man Test. |
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| Link: The Classic Dames Test written by gidgetgoes on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Memeage
While I wait for my dad to make a couple phone calls (yes, still in Chicago - go home today), I will post memes.
| Your Taste in Music: |
 90's Pop: High Influence Classic Rock: High Influence 90's Rock: Medium Influence Adult Alternative: Medium Influence |
| You Are 40% Left Brained, 60% Right Brained |
 Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports. |
The shower was on Friday (huge success) and the reunion last night (surprisingly fun). I found a dress in the end and it is truly. Fabulous. Truly truly truly.
Today, I had White Castle. Mmmmm White Castle.
I fly back tonight. Wish me luck. :)
