It's been a while since I did some non-knitting, non-hockey content, hasn't it? Well, it's time, but before I get to it, a word of hockey: tonight's game is not a goalie war. The first period has seen five goals: us, them, them, us, them. Whew! Last one to score may win. Tim Thomas won the Seventh Player Award, for the second consecutive year. He's good, though I voted for Phil Kessel. And not to say nyah, but Kessel has figured in both goals so far. Well, actually, yes, that pretty much is to say nyah. It's just nothing against Thomas. He's been pretty good this year, just no more consistent than the rest of the team, which is to say, not so much. As he said after one of their recent stinkers, it isn't his job to score goals.
Anyway, we shall hold out hope for the rest of tonight's game. If the Bruins lose, they are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, surprising no one. There are five games left in the season; I'm going to the last game, a week from Saturday, please let them win that one, or at least play well. Or let me win the jersey off Patrice Bergeron's back. Or I guess win the Hummer they're giving away, I could sell it, right?
And a word on knitting: I started the hat-from-the-top-down tonight, it was like wrestling a porcupine at first, but it's moving more smoothly now. It may work. Pictures soon. Meanwhile, on with the books! Here's a fun (and long) book meme from here (I've seen it other places, too; it's going around). Look at the list of (100) books below.
- Bold the ones you’ve read.
- Italicize the ones you want to read.
- Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
It's an interestingly mixed list, classics and then Confessions of a Shopaholic. Probably the first one I'd recommend from the list would be The Time Traveller's Wife, which was so impressive, though if we're talking about one I can quote from the most, then hello Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
There really isn't much I haven't read that I want to on this list, is there. Interesting. Of course, there were more than a few that I hadn't heard of. In the Skin of a Lion? Not Wanted on the Voyage? Maybe I would want to read them, but I don't know about them. Right now there are too many books I know I want to read to go looking for more.
About ice cream, I simply have to plug a new Ben & Jerry's flavor, Creme Brulee (I must learn how to do the accents over letters here), which was fabulous! Whew. It's very, very rich, not one of those you could finish off the pint in one sitting on a bad day (ah, Ben & Jerry's, my three-dollar therapy), but so, so good. Three thumbs up. And if you're looking for a healthier snack, and you like the flavor of rye bread, have you tried the new Triscuit, Deli Style Rye? They're quite yummy, and give the illusion of healthiness. (Don't enlighten me, please, I need my illusions! Come on, fiber, right?)
Oh, I'm so good at rationalizing almost any snack as healthy! You could probably sell me on the creme brulee ice cream, too...it's dairy, right? Good for your bones! I've read many on your list and, like you, don't see too many I've not read that I'd like to, although I might if I knew more about them....
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing list of books! Many I have read, and I was surprised to see what you havent read that I thought you surely would have. I do believe I will save this list to add to my already bloated list of future reading possibilities. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLOL on the Triscuit name; at first I misread it as Deli Stale Rye. Wups!
ReplyDeleteInteresting on the book meme, but what gets me is that the options for rating are too limited - as many of them are. They're always either/or. What about books you're read only under protest in school, which might be classics, but left you stone cold? Or books you read for whatever reason and loathed unto permanent hatred? Or books you've read, used to like, but dislike or actively hate now? Ones you thought you'd hate, but fell in love with? I'd be adding commentary like crazy after almost every one of the books I'd read on that list, and quite a few for the ones I hadn't. I always want to know why. ;) Or at least if someone liked/hated it; not just whether they're read it or not.
I don't think I'd better try doing this one. That post would be way too damned long. ;)
You might want to try The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay, if you like fantasy. Well, that should be the entire Fionavar Tapestry series; TST is only #1 of 3. I adored it. I'm pretty sure I listed the series in one of my posts last year, when I was rec'ing some of my best-loved fantasy books...
If you're on a Windows box, I can help you with the é (and other special characters). If you're using XP: Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map. If you're not using XP, then you can go to Start>Help and type in "Character Map" in the search box. It'll tell you how to find it there.
ReplyDeleteOnce you've found the Character Map, you can look for the special character you need under "Times New Roman" at the top, and then select and copy the character into your blog post. Sometimes you can use the keyboard shortcut (for the é it's alt+0233), but that doesn't work with all apps.
Anyway, hth!