Wednesday, May 23, 2007

1,001 books you should read before you die

An interesting list: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845

From this list, I have read:
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
312. The Shining – Stephen King
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (in French and English)
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
970. Candide – Voltaire

There's a bunch that are on my to be read shelves, a bunch more I've seen the movie adaptation, and I'm sure a handful I've read before but forgot. :-)

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

My first RABCK received

Surprise, surprise ... amongst the junk mail, bills and catalogs was Janet Evanovich's High Five from jenvince. It's a dedicated bookcrossing book - well decorated. It included some goodies inside -- a stay-put bookmark (cats won't take off with this one losing my place) and an artist trading card.

I'm getting ready to read the series from the beginning. So I'll do that, read this one and then pass it on in true bookcrossing fashion -- maybe as a RABCK (Random Act of Bookcrossing Kindness) to the next lucky soul.