22 posts tagged “books”
I have a question so be sure to leave comments galore! I want to know what your favorite children's book is? What did you read as child? What are you children reading now? Lemme know.
Books discussed in this Video:
13 Reasons Why-Jay Asher
Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
To Beguile a Beast-Elizabeth Hoyt
Shiver-Maggie Stiefvater
Lover Avenged-J.R. Ward
Smoke Jumper-Nicholas Evans
I stole this from maura_ea who stole it from Jen.
Apparently the BBC reckons that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Copy and paste - put an X next to the ones you have read.
I've
read 31 of these books but with my reading the classics challenge this will help fill in the list.
1. (x) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. () The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. (x) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. () Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. (x) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. (x) The Bible
7. (x) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. ( ) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. () His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. ( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. (x) 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 Faulk
18. (x) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. (x) 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. (x) 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. (x) Emma - Jane Austen
35. (x) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. () The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. (x) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. (x) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. (x) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. (x) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. (x) 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. (x) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. (x) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. () Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. ( ) Dune - Frank Herbert
53. ( ) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. (x) 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. (x) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. (x) 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. (x) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. ( ) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. ( ) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. ( ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. (x) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. (x) 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. (x) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. ( ) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. (x) 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. (x) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. (x) 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. (x) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint
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. (x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. (x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.( ) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Most everyone's heard about the Stephen King interview where he told his opinion on several authors including Stephenie Meyer.
I have to laugh at this because it's coming from Stephen King whom I've never liked. When everyone was jumping on his bandwagon years ago I tried to read one of his books, which was a major fail. I gave it a few years and tried another one. No one around me could believe I despised his books & I still do today.
However this statement of his, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that JK Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good." " I both agree with and disagree with. Is JK an terrific author, nope. Can Stephenie write worth a darn? Nope.
I'm a HUGE SM fan we all know that however do I think her writing is phenomenal? No. Try listening to Twilight on tape, the woman reading the book can't pronunciate 'especially' correctly so you realize how many times SM uses it in the book. In the end it's the story I love and I think she's an amazing person.
This interview didn't really earn Stephen any brownie points with me. I think it's unprofessional to attack anyone which is essentially what he does to several authors. I understand that you have a column in a paper that you give your reviews on however it's done via constructive criticism not the way you state it in the interview. I'm all for stating your opinion but do so in a respectful manner.
This is the third book in the Sign of Seven trilogy & it was good. The ending wasn't near as dramatic and I had assumed it would be but that's probably because there's some action going on throughout the book. I really wish she'd write one another seven years later just to see how the town is doing! Go forth and read it. Love it! Share it!
Ciao.
P.S. I hope everyone has a fun & safe New Year's Eve. Good bye 2008, Hello 2009!
At work we're having a reading challenge and I need some help. We're
reading as many Young Adult & Juvenile fiction books as we can by
March 1st. I've decided to read the following:
- The Charlie Bone Series
- Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series
- The Chronicle's of Narnia books
- The adoration of Jenna Fox
- Re-read the Twilight Series
- Hunger Games again.
Thank you and ciao!
Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place.
As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again….
I wasn't sure I'd like this book. I've read one other book in a letter format & I just wasn't sure if enough of the plot would come through via the letters. I was wrong. Luanne Rice has been a favorite author of mine for a long time and she didn't fail to deliver this time either.
Sam & Hadley's journey from across the globe is not only inspiring but will bring you to tears. They've lost their son & in dealing with his death have lost themselves. Sam needs to visit the site of Paul's death & Hadley runs as far from it as she can get. Both of their journey's eventually bring them together in a way you never see coming. I loved the letter format of the book. It just seemed more personal. It almost seemed like you were taking a peek into someone's mail illegally. I loved this book!
Ciao!
Twenty- four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.
Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
I could NOT put this book down. It was well wrote, the plot was amazing and I absolutely loved Katniss's character. She steps up to the plate for her family not only when her father dies but also when her 12 year old sister is nominated for the games. This is one of those books that you won't want to quit reading until you reach the end then you want more. I was a little irritated that at the end it says "End of book one" ugh I hate to be continued books. I'll anxiously be awaiting the release of the next one that's for sure.
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