Bookworm Me.
Monday, September 21, 2009Got this from a note in facebook. Nice.
I’ve put remarks pampasaya. Hehe.
The BBC believes that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
(X) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
() The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
() Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(X) To Kill a Mockingbird [an excellent political read]
(X) The Bible [haven’t finished a single book]
(X) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [a long read. tsk.]
() Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [read the first few parts but never finished]
() His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
() Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total - 4
() Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
() Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
() Complete Works of Shakespeare
() Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
() The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(X) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [one of the bests]
() The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [i’ll read this SOON.]
() Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total - 1
() Middlemarch - George Eliot
() Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(X) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [read it just for two days. a really good one.]
() Bleak House - Charles Dickens
() War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
() The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
() Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
() Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
() Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Total - 1
() The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
() Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
() David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
() Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(X) Emma - Jane Austen [so so..]
() Persuasion - Jane Austen
() The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
() The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
() Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [good good. better than the movie.]
Total - 2
() Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(X) Animal Farm - George Orwell [i was amazed by how well this was written.]
(X) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [very creative. i was required to read this though.]
() One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
() A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
() The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
() Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
() The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(X) Lord of the Flies - William Golding [omg. i was speechless after reading this. very well-written. very psychological.]
Total - 3
() Atonement - Ian McEwan
() Life of Pi - Yann Martel [i’ve bought the book from this year’s NBS sale. i’m so excited to read this.]
() Dune - Frank Herbert
() Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
() Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
() A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
() A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
() Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon [parang hindi fiction. very graphic in a good way.]
Total - 1
(X) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [long read. i liked the movie better. hehe]
() Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
() Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
() The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(X) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [bought it because she died on my birthday]
() Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
() On The Road - Jack Kerouac
() Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
() Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
() Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Total - 2
() Moby Dick - Herman Melville
() Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
() Dracula - Bram Stoker
() The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
() Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() Ulysses - James Joyce
() The Inferno - Dante
() Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
() Germinal - Emile Zola
() Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Total - 0 [awww..]
() Possession - AS Byatt
() A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
() Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
() A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
() Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(X) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [i love for one more day more. hehe]
(X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [i love everything with sherlock holmes in it]
Total - 2
() The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
() Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(X) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [read it in high school because every geek was reading it then. hehe]
() The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
() Watership Down - Richard Adams
() A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
() A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
() The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
() Hamlet - William Shakespeare
() Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Total- 1
Overall total: 17
Yeah, admittedly, I’m a bookworm, a geek, and a lover of literature. Naks. Hehe.
Me and My Blahs
Sunday, September 20, 2009I’ve been wanting to write but I couldn’t just find anything to write about. I’ve been really busy lately and my whole September had become a whirlwind of emotions, playing in between extremes. I had my worst day and none of the best. I am underpaid and overworked. I wish I could get more out of my life right now. I want to volunteer to some organization with a cause I totally believe in. I want to travel the world. I want to explore my limits. I want to be someone. Hay…
