Taking a Break

It was a slow afternoon, so I've been listening to The Deathly Harrows in the house, as opposed to in the car, as usual, and it's hard to break away. I have about three hours of it left, so I don't know if I'll finish it tonight. There's a bit too much of the old-time radio experience here, in that I don't know where to put my eyes! Really, back in the radio days, what did they look at while they were listening to all their shows? I've straightened up my desk, eaten dinner, and that's about it. It's not something I'm good at, but you know, I make my sacrifices for Harry.

I didn't write yesterday because somehow I forgot, although I had a meme done, which I'll put down below. I watched Martian Child last night, which I liked, but not as much as the book.

I did have a real strange experience this morning. I had gone to Ikea for a simple wine rack and wine glasses rack, which were cheap, and I got them. Came home, and I could not put them up. Now, I am the one in this house who has always installed and assembled everything, and I have to say, that's all in my past. And not in a good way. I don't mean, whew, don't have to do that anymore. I mean, here's something I was always good at and now I'm not. I had to install these things underneath a kitchen cabinet, and although I could drill the holes because I had the rack there as a kind of template, once I took the rack away, I could not see the holes. I can't look up and see anything close because the part of my glasses that sees close is the bottom of the lens. I would have had to drape myself over the microwave on my back and look up, and I still wouldn't have been close enough. It was a real "Oh, I'm old now" moment. Anyway, the Hubs, who takes his glasses off to see close, says he'll look at it. Well, that would be nice. And a first, him putting up a shelf or a rack that doesn't hold his personal books or videos or something. (But I'm not bitter. Although I sound bitter, so maybe I am. And I'll believe it when I see it. Although he did really really trim the trees along the side of the driveway that threaten to pull the antenna right off my car when I drive in or out, so that was nice of him.)

Okay, enough bitching. Here's my meme, and then back to Harry and the Battle of Hogwarts.

A book meme, stolen from quirkybook. I may have done this before, somewhere in the dim mists of time, but I don't think all the titles are the same. Although, as I believe I observed last time, I've read a lot of Dickens for someone who detests Dickens with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns.

What we have here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you read for school, underline the ones you started but didn't finish (or are on the shelf waiting for a free week).


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment read the first hundred pages three times
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote recently downloaded the ebook
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov it took me all summer to read it.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway wha ...?
Great Expectations gah, I hate Dickens
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
Inferno
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 Misérables
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 made no sense to me whatsoever
Angela’s Ashes
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 listened to half the audiobook on a long car trip
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road found this very annoying to try to read
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 and I read it in Latin, back in the day
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

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