I just finished reading The Host! I loved it, and devoured it like Stephanie Meyer's other books. I love how she writes about emotions...I can totally relate to the "I'm somewhat of a social klutz, but its SO FUN to be in love" picture that she portrays in Bella, and I loved the inner conflict--literally--of Wanderer and Melanie. I have been thinking a lot lately,too, about a world where parents don't hurt their children. Anyway, I'm not normally a sci-fi reader (had a hard time with Ender's Game), but her books are always page-turners for me.
And now I can't wait for Breaking Dawn to come out...and the Twilight movie in December...and Todd has already been warned that he WILL be attending with me!
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
I Want to Know How "Cultured" I Am
Here’s how it works:
The Big Read says that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Make the ones you loved obnoxiously large
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read only 6 or less and make them read.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And now….. THE BIG READ TOP 100
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (umm....I got to 2nd Kings, that's pretty far, right?)
7.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9.His Dark Materials--
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 Faulks
18. Catcher in the
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 Hitchhiker’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.
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 - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (I started it, but didn’t finish. Egh.)
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 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 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 (the movie is good enough for me)
69.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The
74. Notes From A
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 - 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.
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
Read: 26
Want to read: 20 (I’ve read a ton of Shakespeare…what consists of the “entire works”?)
Fourth of July--my 100th post!
A trip home wouldn't be complete without these things:
Making faces at the camera with Jess.
Making faces at the camera with Jess.
Playing with fire! Or sparklers, in this case.
Taking a normal picture with Jacob. See below to see what an un-normal picture is :)
Taking a gazillion pictures of the baby! This is his blessing outfit!
Reminiscing about riding around on these carts with family. We obeyed and kept off this one!
Holding the new baby! New babies are floppy. I haven't held a floppy baby in a long time. His poor little head!
Taking family pictures after playing Hand and Foot. Jacob did his typical "silly" face.
Playing frisbee at the house. Todd and I probably play once a year, we are rusty!
Hanging out with mom and dad, who are wonderful hosts, even in the midst of parties, EFY, moving, holidays, baby blessings, etc!
Writing our names in the sand.
Comparing sock tan lines. Todd's is the worst!
Watching Jacob getting eaten by the waves.
Comparing the heights of Todd and Ian. Of course, Todd is partially buried in the sand...
Stopping by Candy Kitchen and Dairy Queen.
A trip to the arcade to play skeeball. Now that I've married a man who loves basketball, our new thing is playing that hoops game. He lets me win sometimes though!
Standing in line for Thrasher's french fries with my brothers, brother-in-law, and sister. Pour that vinegar on! (On a side note, in Utah once I asked for vinegar for my fries. My roommates thought this was weird. Maybe its an East Coast thing?) Can you tell we like to eat on the boardwalk?
Visiting my new baby nephew! He is such a good thing, he makes all these cute noises and faces, but barely cries. I think this was his first trip to the beach!
Digging for sand crabs. Jacob did most of the digging. I did not really it eat, gross!
Wandering past the Kite Loft to see all the kites floating around. Love it!
We had a great time, and it was so much fun to see everyone again, and visit the home ward for the last time ever, maybe! Thanks again Ross family!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
You know what I really like? That hand waving thing that car drivers do...
You know...this:
Okay, not really like this, because usually its the person driving that waves, and usually (JUST usually!) its not Barack Obama. You guys know what I'm talkin about, right? Someone needs to slide in front of you, or something to that effect.
Anyway, this is a courtesy thing I really like. I've only seen this done in a few states I've lived in. I learned to do this in Idaho, and now I use it (often) in Columbus. Even with GPS I never know where I am. Anyway, people didn't do this in Sacramento. Or Utah (ESPECIALLY Utah!) Now, not everyone does this. There are those regular jerks who cut you off, or don't use their turn signals, or whatever. However, it is always nice when someone uses their turn signal, gets over, and gives the wave of appreciation, saying "Hey thanks for letting me in Megan!"
You're welcome!
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