Book List: How Many??

I found this and thought it was great!! How many Have you read???


"There’s a list of books going around, and the spiel is that the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 in it. Maybe I’m not a good representative of the BBC’s “most people,” but I’m betting everyone I know has read more than 6 of these."

Here's the list:

(I put an asterisk after all the ones I have read.)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *
6 The Bible *(Not the entire thing...)
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 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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
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 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen *
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe *
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 - AA 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 Meany - 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’s 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 Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS 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 - EB 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*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *

My total count (I believe) is 34. Not Bad Eh!

How about you? Have you read more than six books from this list?

Yumm!

Coop just loves Hot Dogs and we had A lot of them for lunches this week!

Spring Break!!! AHHHH

I had the most wonderful week just hanging out with my boys!!

Cooper had a little bug so there were ALOT of Poopie diapers, but I sure had fun playing with him all week.

Her is a pic of how I found him sleeping one morning. i have no clue how he got his arm out!



I will do many posts this week instead of one really long one to catch you all up!!!

Help!!

This is what Cooper yells every time the vacuum comes out of the closet and roars to life

What a big helper!

But the next issue is, Can anyone guess how long it takes to vacuum a floor with a 21 month old, who will not drop his Magnadoodle??

Answer: A really long time. What a great Daddy.

Perdiddle

Alright....Raise your hand if you remember what Perdiddle Means........................

I remember spending long car trips with Bonnie and Ashley counting up Perdiddles ( Cars with only One working Headlight)

Well here in the South Nickolas and I have started a new one, it is a mix of Perdiddle and "Slug Bug" (surely you all remember that one!)

We call it PRIUS.

Now I don't know if it is the extraordinarily large population of retired folks or what, but there are and extraordinarily large Number of Prius Hybrids on the road!!
So here is what you do!!

Everytime you see a Prius:
Kiss your hand
and Hit the Ceiling in your car.

Keep track and when you make it to 100 "Prius's" I will mail you a spectacular pot!! (because I can!)
Just let me know and enjoy your Prius Watch!!

In January I had a day off and so I got this treasure at the dollar store for Coop and I to play with that day. I let him color it and stick the stickers wherever he wanted.

Then we took it on its maiden flight!

It was so fun and I loved watching my little man pull back and
let er fly.

Valentines? What??

So we had spaghetti for dinner (Tres glamourous). Then we watched a movie and ate popcorn.............sound romantic huh?The parade of Homes was this weekend, my in-laws always come and it is so fun!! Although this year was a little harder, because Coop didn't understand why he couldn't "Walk" through all the Houses.

He did enjoy the indoor basketball court though!!! And all the candy people hand out in the garages, almost like Halloween:)


It was a good weekend, can't wait till next year!

New Addition!

So......................


Sorry this is not a pregnancy announcement instead I would like you to meet the newest editions in my classroom.







WHEELS




6 of them to be exact and aren't they pretty.

Now here are some gratuitous pics of my students working!!

lil' Blackie

I think she is beautiful.

She is so much bigger than she seems!

I just had a student come ask me why there was a "NICE" car in my spot! HA HA

Poor old greenie, he did not look so hot there at the end!! (but thanks for all the great years!!)