Even though being in grad school is difficult, and requires a lot of underpaid work, I manage to keep myself pretty darn happy by indulging in hobbies like knitting (duh), cooking, and reading. This little meme is nice because I get to show off how literate I am (hah). OK, at least I get to show off that I've figured out how to italicize things on my blog (props to
me). So here goes.
Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
So this list says a few things about me. First, yes, I am a GIRL, and I've never read anything by someone named Austen or Bronte. I'm not quite sure how that happened, actually! I did finally see the movie Emma last month, so perhaps I'm on my way. I'm currently receiving a lot of pressure to read Catch-22, so that's probably next on my list. I just finished Cloud Atlas earlier this week (GREAT read), and I'm currently into Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap. I hardly have any of these books on my bookshelf because I mainly get books from the UW library, and I don't have a lot of space for storing many books at my house. I don't know if it's allowed, but I'd add a few more books to this list if I could:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke someone always has this checked out!
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
And I've seen several other people's responses to this meme, and I can't believe that anyone would designate a book as something they
wouldn't read. Now I never jumped on the Harry Potter bandwagon, but never say never, baby. Except maybe War and Peace in the original Russian. But that's what retirement is for, right?
And sorry, even though I know how to italicize, I can't seem to get this list formatted correctly. We all have our limitations. And inappropriate line breaks.
