THE HALO IS HELD UP BY THE HORNS

BOOKS BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS

2008-07-02T17:46:00Z

"The Big Read” reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
Well let's see.

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) 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 - J.R.R. Tolkien 
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (A good chunk read, still working to get through the rest.)
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. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. 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  (Started but never finished this one)
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. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis  (umm, that's cheating - 36 is 1 of 33's 3)
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 - A.A. 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' 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 SecretGarden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
74. Notes From A SmallIsland - 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 - A.S. 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 - E.B. 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. Hamlet - William Shakespeare  (ummm, again - this is a cheat from #14)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Here I thought I would be one of those people who had read only six of the books on "the list" and yet I read most of these before finishing high school.....

The four of us

2008-06-10T20:26:05Z

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

More Maggie....

2007-08-21T20:58:00Z

My happy little puppy...

Now that she knows that she needs to go outside when she has "business" to do, I no longer sleep as she wakes me hourly.

Next lesson for the little one... HOW TO HOLD IT.

Poor traumatized puppy....

2007-08-09T17:16:04Z

Yesterday with Jeff out of town and me having to work, all day, Maggie was stuck at home alone for nearly 10 hours. This was more than twice as long as she has ever been by herself and she was not pleased about it. (I figure she has a 5 hour alone limit.)

When we are at work Maggie temporarily dwells in our shower. (It’s about 3.5 feet square and helps keep her out of trouble – for now.) When I got home I found that she built a pyramid in the middle the shower with all of her stuff. The toys on top of the empty food dish which was on top of the water dish that was on top of her dog bed which was on top of the towel. When I went to take her out of the "cage" Maggie just looked at me like how "could you"… Then she looked at me all shameful, turned to where she had her first accident and looked back at me with big eyes that said, I just couldn’t hold it for 10 hours. Poor thing! She is very prideful about learning quickly and having been nearly potty trained from the get go, this was a bad day for her.

This morning when I had to leave she cried and cried… I’m sure she’s afraid to be alone for that long again… Man do I feel guilty. I wanted to bring her with me or stay home. :-(

I need to come up with a better plan on the days that we are gone for extended periods.....

This is Maggie....

2007-08-08T19:43:09Z

New Puppy is welcomed to family.

2007-08-06T16:21:06Z

Last night I fell in love, again - this time with a puppy.
So guess who took the puppy home.... That’s right, the girl who didn’t want the responsibility of a dog…I must be out of my mind.

Oh, and the part that I didn’t mention is that I returned a pair of shoes that I really “had to have” to afford the little one. (See I must be ill or something. I, the shoe queen, took back shoes to have a dog…)

I’ve wanted a pit-bull forever and that was the plan however the home owner’s insurance companies will not cover us if we have a pit or a number of other breeds…Since I have to have insurance to stay within the terms of our mortgage I was stuck. Jeff wanted a Bull Dog, which was next on the list... They are a small fortune and it’s hard to find a good one. With our number one and two choices out of reach for the time being we were fine waiting or not having a K-9. That is until yesterday after we drove groundstruck0 and her man to the airport… That is when I saw her….

A little German pup… (sokkmonkey would be proud.)
She is a 4 lb, solid black, miniature schnauzer with an adorable personality and fabulous demeanor…

Currently she is nameless since we already have a Lucy, what Max wanted to name her, amongst the extended family.

The names in the running now are: Raven, Mesha, Maggie, Token, Lady, and Diamond… We are still not set on any and are looking for a good one that fits. Suggestions are welcome. I will post photos soon….

Got a Giggle from these....

2007-05-16T23:38:13Z

http://www.trunkmonkey.com/

If you haven't see this already, I suggest taking a moment to now....

Sokkmonkey, this is something that could have come out of your creative head.

Why are all the states Red...

2007-05-09T16:55:45Z

... I am certain some of those are suppose to be blue? Interesting! :-)

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Moving on...

2007-05-07T16:41:02Z

It is so simple to love someone from the past, when they are not in your present.
Easier to demonized someone from your history book, when you no longer see their eyes.
Either way you slice it, you don’t let go.

Without the daily dose of pain, glorifying it is effortlessness.
Letting the injury fester creates new dominating wounds to focus on and you can forget what was good.
Both allow you to hold on.

The complexity exists in loving who is in your present.
Forgiving the ache they inflicted; while they infest your daily routine.
Walking away seems so easy till you do.

To err may be human; to criticize – it’s accompanying factor.
Love binds, holds your feet in place.
Yet, leaving seems so trouble-free until you do.

What my drawing says about me, "You are not a graphic artist!"

2007-03-23T00:41:36Z

What does your drawing say about YOU?

The results of your analysis say:

You are driven and ambitious and tend to make radical moves to reach your goals.
You are a thoughtful and cautious person. You like to think about your method, seeking to pursue your goal in the most effective way.
You are creative, mentally active and industrious.
You have a sunny, cheerful disposition.

Love is only a commodity in the West...

2007-03-22T23:53:19Z

Love is only a commodity in the West......the rest of the world scoffs at it....

It is true though that love is not only some “grand emotion” here it is also has economic value to one degree or another. Really think about it, there are things that you would likely give or trade or do for love… It is that way with the majority of the west. It consumes us. As do titles and hollow words.

Yesterday, my horoscope – which often entertains me – stated that I would soon become sick of peoples excuses. That I as I always do would know when a person was full of it however now I would finally stop hoping it would change, rather I would simply spit upon those who used words as a masquerade.

Not sure I will literally spit on anyone, although at times I have felt like it. This week I have found myself quite impatient with BS- sick to death with the things that people say and do not mean or do not follow through with. All too often people say that they care, will always care, call one another a best friend or a love one yet one or both parties does not really mean it. Over and over time proves who the truth teller was and who was just creating a smoke screen……

Sent the Unsent

2007-03-02T21:58:48Z

Today I relearned that although some doors are meant to be slammed shut (not my area of expertise) many are meant to be left slightly ajar.

Could be a hoot...

2007-02-07T17:53:44Z

Comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8) In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

Happiness "?"

2007-01-29T17:26:23Z

What is happiness??? How often to we find it??? How long does it last???

Saw, “The Pursuit of Happiness” last month and since then I have been asking these questions.

FYI: Good film where quality and acting are concerned…very depressing with a brief moment of uplift.

Online Games

2007-01-22T19:42:40Z

So, I saw this quiz and had to take it.... Thought the results were funny especially since I''ve always said, if I drank I am sure I'd drink Rum. Oh and its the one type the husband drinks.

You Are Rum

You're the life of the party, and a total flirt
You are also pretty picky about what you drink
Only the finest labels and best mixed cocktails will do
Except if you're dieting - then it's Diet Coke and Bicardi all the way

What Alcoholic Drink Are You?