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[13 Oct 2008|03:54pm] |
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - read 2 of em
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - just the first one so far
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 - why is Hamlet separate from the complete works of Shakespeare? Anyway, I'm just gonna bold this because I've read enough Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 - CS Lewis
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 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 - I read maybe the first hundred pages before deciding this book was way too fucking long!
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 - actya
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 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
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
Yeah, I'm so well-read, blah blah.
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| psha |
[13 Oct 2008|12:28pm] |
i'm soooooo over mr australia. what a douchebag.
i have a new crush.
this is shocking.
(who knows when i'll see him again, though. but man, he kinda looks like matt good, but is infinitely cooler and kinder and anti-oppressive.)
(oh, i'll see him when he hosts a free store. i forgot about that.)
(it's just nice to have crushes again!)
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| Fat Talk Free Week |
[13 Oct 2008|12:35pm] |
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| I need some help. |
[12 Oct 2008|10:14pm] |
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I hate having to make these decisions.
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[12 Oct 2008|10:09pm] |
OH MY GOD I FUCKING LEAVE TOMORROW...
LOOSING MY FUCKING SHIT YOU GUYS
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[12 Oct 2008|03:11pm] |
I give up.
Warning: Photo contains pathetic racial slurs on someone's t-shirt, and driving a motorbike without a helmet.
But racism is over! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahaha....
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[12 Oct 2008|11:15am] |
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Last night I went to go see Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist with Robyn, it was SO GOOD. I loved it so much, and Michael Ceras cute boy charm in the movies never gets old. The soundtrack for that CD is going to be so amazing too. Then in the previews they played one of the twlighit teaser trailers, I freaked out. It was all silent and I heard the music and I screamed "OMG!" and then started freaking out. Bahah I am so weird.
The night before I went to see Quarantine with my brother.. don't go see that movie it is so stupid and awful and not even that scary. The only time I got scared was when one of the characters threw up which was so disguting I hate when they put that stuff on the tv, its so gross.
Last night I also went to the Strat with Karen and Shannyn and some guy they know from Edmonton Katimavik. It was super super fun, and I didn't get sick from the strat Vodka, thank goodness. Karen and Shannyn are like super bffs and I'm scared that I will eventually get completely outed, Karen and I suck at getting together, mostly because I am lame and never have time for anything.
Yesterday my mom and I went to go take a look at this amazing basement suite, it is SO awesome and beautiful (and pretty much perfect for us). I really hope we get it, if we do were moving in on November 1st. I mean well her and by brother are and well I think I am moving in with them for a little while, my dad is so weird I have no idea what he is doing or if he is keeping this house or what. I am kind of just stuck in the middle and its really irritating. I wish he would make up his mind.
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| Good News/Bad News |
[12 Oct 2008|12:20pm] |
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Good News: When I talked to my thesis advisor, she was amazing. Lots of encouragement, lots of discussing how I can limit my scope to make my essay more effective, and omg... the encouragement. Just constantly referring to the contribution my thesis is going to make to the research, about where my thesis will be in the literature, about how important this research will be in the future... just... wow. I've never felt so thrilled and afraid, ever.
Bad News: OMG FORMAL THESIS PROPOSAL NEEDS TO BE IN ON WEDNESDAY I AM GOING TO DIE.
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| Brain Break! |
[12 Oct 2008|12:33am] |
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Not Ponies!!!
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[11 Oct 2008|12:27pm] |
666 Views
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| Update on Letters |
[11 Oct 2008|10:21am] |
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It's been about five days since I wrote an open letter to the organizers of the All Candidate's Forum at Dal.
I haven't heard back officially about the letter I wrote the Megan Leslie Campaign, just a verbal acknowledgement that they had read it from the Campaign Organizer.
The first person to email me back was Mark, the VP (Education) of Dal's SU, and the main organizer behind the event.
Mark's email has all the right noises in it - we're sorry this happened, it was an accessible site, we did schedule an interpreter but the person who requested it ended up sick and the interpreters didn't want to send someone if there was no guarantee. They also got a lot of complaints about the format of the forum and are planning on having written questions next time. He's very sorry if he offended the disabled community. (I've included the whole text of the email at the bottom of this post, behind a cut, incase you want to read it.)
( a bit of reaction from me about Mark's email )
The next email I got, later that night (after 10 p.m., which tells me that Darryl is going home from whatever, then checking and answering his email - dude, when does he sleep? Maybe less than I do!) was from the Green Party Candidate, Darryl Whetter.
Darryl's response was the shortest one I got, and I have to admit, it felt like the most honest, the least run-through-someone-first. That's probably not fair as well. Darryl's response, though, is *personal* - he talks about his father's chronic illness. He also says he'll talk to the Dal SU about future events being accessible. (This will, of course, be a more important thing if he gets elected. But it's a nice thought, you know?)
I think the response from Megan's campaign (NDP) came in yesterday, or maybe the day before (the days are all running a bit together in the Anna-verse), and was sent from someone else's email address. This isn't really the End Of The World - I used to work for a guy who wrote all the letters you would get from the MLA he worked for, and it's very common. It was just.. jarring, because I didn't know why I was getting an email about the topic from someone I'd never met until I saw it was "signed" Megan.
It's short, sweet, to the point, brings up the interpreter issue and expresses satisfaction that Mark emailed me back with my concerns. Pretty standard, which isn't a complaint so much as an observation. I'm frustrated that there's been nothing about my earlier complaints about someone telling Don to basically play disabled for a camera. I have no idea what's going on with that at all. I don't want to be angry because it's a really busy election campaign, but if not now, then when? It's certainly not the first time I've brought up issues with how the NDP treats people with disabilities. I'd like it to be the last, and not because I just got disgusted with them and gave up.
Catherine's email (Liberal) came in this morning. It's also short (other than Mark's, they all were). I'm kinda embarrassed to admit that I like this one the most. Catherine basically says "I noticed this to, there were a lot of problems with that forum, and I promise that I won't be participating in any more forums, either as a candidate or as a sitting MP, that aren't fully accessible". She also talks about equity of access, as opposed to equal access.
I really felt Catherine got it, you know? That this isn't just about placating the crazy-lady who's been thrown out of a rally this week (um... yeah, I got thrown out of a rally this week because "Make Poverty History" isn't "on message" for a "Rally Around The Leader". Since every leader has been in Halifax this week, that'll leave things suitably vague). I just really felt that Catherine understood what I was going for, which isn't just a pat on the head but a real change for the better.
Who knows.
Your interpretation of these emails may be different than mine, and I've included them here. I'd like any thoughts you have on the subject in general or the emails in particular.
I feel this fight is going to get harder before it gets easier. It really shocked me how completely inaccessible the microphone was for this forum. I don't know how things were for the Social Justice Forum on Thursday, since I fell asleep so hard Don couldn't wake me before it (and then when I woke up for work it took me 20 minutes to find the energy to talk, so yes, sleeping = win), but I hope it was better.
( emails behind the cut, in order described above )
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| Moar mustard!! |
[10 Oct 2008|05:01pm] |
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Compared to the European imports shop in Calgary, the local one around here totally sucks except that this one has more fresh German-style sausages.
It doesn't have as much Finnish stuff, but it does cost a bit less. Uh, the mustard does, at least. I don't remember the prices for the other stuff in Calgary off-hand. They didn't have any Finnish coffee, or chocolate :(
But at least now I know where to get my mustard when I need more of it :)
Here are some notes:
* Turun sinappia (125g): $3.69
* Tyrkisk peber (180g): $5.09
* Salmiakki (Halva brand, 250g): $5.39
Of course they have Panda liquorice and Finn Crisp and Fazer crispbread but aside from the Fazer crispbread the other two are readily available at other shops. (Note: The Fazer company that makes crispbread is different from the Fazer company that makes chocolates and candy.)
I may or may not have mentioned back in April that I came across a second-hand book store that had a couple of old Finnish books lying around. One was a book about some sort of Finnish history and the other was a book with scenic photos. The latter book has text in Finnish, Swedish, German, and English, so although I couldn't bring myself to buy it in April, I felt like I could now, and maybe learn something (linguistically) from the texts :)
It's pretty old, © 1977. It appears to have been a gift from a Finnish family visit: on the inside, it says, "Family Ross W. Wein / with many thanks for the beatiful[sic] memories / Merry Christmas 1983 / Kimmo + family".
In other news, the Nobel Peace Prize went to a Finn this year :)
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| Queer Folks: Totally Allowed To Marry! |
[10 Oct 2008|01:56pm] |
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GO CONNECTICUT!
Connecticut Supreme Court Overturns Ban On Gay Marriage!!!!
The court ruled 4-3 Friday that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut's civil unions law does not provide those couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples.
*dives back into writing paper*
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| The New CD Collection Post |
[09 Oct 2008|03:22pm] |
I need to restart this list because the old list was too cluttered with all of the mp3 stuff. This list will only list my legit discs. I'll put a * next to the discs I have with me at the dorm. Since I'm not compiling this at home, the part of the list containing discs I don't have here will be incomplete.
*Last edited 2008/10/09*
( Watch out! )
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| Kevin Smith |
[09 Oct 2008|02:25pm] |
So we had an Evening with Kevin Smith last night. If you ever seen the dvd's, it's basically a couple hour Q&A session with the man himself. Very fun. The questions themselves were pretty standard, and any lesser teller of tales would have taken only a minute or so answering even the most "difficult" of them. Example: "Would you consider doing a superhero movie?" Or "Have you ever been mad enough to fight someone?"
Even though he'd usually answer the question with a yes or no, the elaboration and backstory he'd give for each answer would go on for a good twenty minutes. And that's why we all came. It wasn't for the answers to strange, banal, or even cool questions. It was for the opportunity to see a master story-teller come up with material on the spot. Stories ranged from talking about his movies and actors (as one would expect) to gay sex to smoking weed with Seth Rogen to straight sex to family life to wheelchair sex to being so fat he broke a toilet to dog sex. In other words, a colorful variety to say the least.
Even so, my favorite answers were the shortest of the evening...When asked what advice he'd give to a novice filmmaker with no connections or ideas on how to break into film, he said simply, "Make Clerks." And when a budding comic writer asked what advice he'd give to break into comic books, Kevin shrugged and said, "I dunno, create Spiderman for the first time." Honestly, what else could he say? He created something worthwhile and got lucky. That's about all any of us can hope for...
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| Writer's Block: The Beatles |
[09 Oct 2008|03:30pm] |
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No. I have to say that it's a moot point to even think of an answer because of all the other bubble-gum pop stuff that came after The Beatles, none of them ever had the kind of staying power and meaning as The Beatles. They were the first and the only to go from crafting simple bubble-gum pop sentiments like "I wanna hold your hand" to the perfect love song "Something" We still listen to their music because it resonates and it is universal.
We are still discussing who is the better song writer: Lennon or McCartney. We're still wondering at the closed complexity that produced Harrison's songs and how he was bold enough to bring in Clapton to play the guitar parts on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" We're still mourning the loss of Lennon and his potential and we still give McCartney props.
I don't see anyone giving Britney Spears props other than being able to writhe around in skimpy outfits lipsyncing to a crappy pre-recorded tracks. Or how Madonna has an uncanny ability to sniff out trends and market the shit out of them for profit.
So yeah, call me a music snob, but the ones that are and always will be the center of pop music are The Beatles because above everything, they had heart and emotion and they didn't manufacture the emotions that went into their music.
So yeah.
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