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		<title>Books and Lists</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Holland sucks for making me do this]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I said that I liked marking things off of lists, and boy, do I ever.  [It's a compulsion.]  Stolen from Kari and CJ, I&#8217;m blaming Holland for this because, well, I blame all memes on him at this point.  Susan Coleman pointed out that the BBC generated this base list:
Here’s how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth/archives/2008/08/02/books-and-lists-two-things-i-love/#comment-59922">So, I said that I liked marking things off of lists</a>, and boy, do I ever.  [It's a compulsion.]  Stolen <a href="http://rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth/archives/2008/08/02/books-and-lists-two-things-i-love/">from Kari</a> <a href="http://inkstainedlife.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/its-a-thousand-pages-give-or-take-a-few/">and CJ</a>, I&#8217;m blaming Holland for this because, well, I blame all memes on him at this point.  <a href="http://rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth/archives/2008/08/02/books-and-lists-two-things-i-love/#comment-59930">Susan Coleman pointed out that the BBC generated this base list</a>:</p>
<p>Here’s how it works:</p>
<ol>
<li>Look at the list and <strong>bold</strong> those you have read.</li>
<li><em>Italicize</em> those you intend to read.</li>
<li>Mark in red the books you LOVE.  [Ed.: I'll cheat and <strong><em>boldly italicize</em></strong> the ones I love.</li>
<li>Reprint this list in your blog.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen</li>
<li>The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien</li>
<li><strong><em>Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte</em></strong> -- and before you ask, Jeff, no ... I don't like <i>Wuthering Heights</i> either.</li>
<li>Harry Potter series - JK Rowling</li>
<li><em>To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee</em></li>
<li><em>The Bible</em> - I haven’t read all of it, I admit.</li>
<li><strong>Wuthering Heights</strong> - Emily Bronte - Meh.</li>
<li><strong>Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell</strong></li>
<li>His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman</li>
<li><strong>Great Expectations - Charles Dickens</strong></li>
<li>Little Women - Louisa M Alcott</li>
<li>Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy</li>
<li><em>Catch 22 - Joseph Heller</em></li>
<li>Complete Works of Shakespeare</li>
<li>Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier</li>
<li>The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien</li>
<li>Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks</li>
<li><em>Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger</em></li>
<li>The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger</li>
<li>Middlemarch - George Eliot</li>
<li>Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell</li>
<li><em>The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald</em></li>
<li>Bleak House - Charles Dickens</li>
<li>War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li><em>The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams</em> --- oh, I do believe I just lost all my geek cred.</li>
<li>Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh</li>
<li>Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky</li>
<li><em>Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck</em></li>
<li><em>Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll</em> -- I've started but not finished it.</li>
<li>The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame</li>
<li>Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li>David Copperfield - Charles Dickens</li>
<li><em>Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis</em></li>
<li>Emma - Jane Austen</li>
<li>Persuasion - Jane Austen</li>
<li><em>The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis</em> --- I just lost all my hipster Christian cred.</li>
<li>The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini</li>
<li>Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres</li>
<li>Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden</li>
<li><strong>Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne</strong></li>
<li><strong>Animal Farm - George Orwell</strong></li>
<li>The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown</li>
<li>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez</li>
<li>A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving</li>
<li>The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins</li>
<li>Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery</li>
<li>Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy</li>
<li>The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood</li>
<li><strong>Lord of the Flies - William Golding</strong></li>
<li>Atonement - Ian McEwan</li>
<li>Life of Pi - Yann Martel</li>
<li>Dune - Frank Herbert</li>
<li>Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons</li>
<li><em>Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen</em></li>
<li>A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth</li>
<li>The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon</li>
<li><strong>A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens</strong> -- or at least I'm fairly sure that I have.  If I did, I read it at MSMS, and I'm surprised I remember my own name after that.</li>
<li>Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</li>
<li>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon</li>
<li>Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez</li>
<li><em>Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</em></li>
<li>Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li>The Secret History - Donna Tartt</li>
<li>The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold</li>
<li>Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas</li>
<li><em>On The Road - Jack Kerouac</em></li>
<li>Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy</li>
<li>Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding</li>
<li>Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie</li>
<li><em>Moby Dick - Herman Melville</em> --- started it once.</li>
<li><strong>Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens</strong></li>
<li>Dracula - Bram Stoker</li>
<li><strong>The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett</strong> --- but so, so long ago that I might as well not have.</li>
<li>Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson</li>
<li><em>Ulysses - James Joyce</em></li>
<li>The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - I'll skip on advice of my psychiatrist.  <img src='http://gfmorris.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome</li>
<li>Germinal - Emile Zola</li>
<li>Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray</li>
<li><em>Possession - AS Byatt</em> --- I failed to read this when Kari did a virtual book club about it.  I am ashamed.</li>
<li><strong>A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens</strong> --- dammit, I've read more Dickens than I thought.  Must be a Mississippi thing?</li>
<li>Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell</li>
<li>The Color Purple - Alice Walker</li>
<li>The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li>Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert</li>
<li>A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry</li>
<li><strong>Charlotte’s Web - EB White</strong> --- quite some time ago.  Age in the single digits.</li>
<li>The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom --- Seriously?  I love the big-eared dude, but ... really?</li>
<li><em>Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</em></li>
<li>The Faraway Tree Collection</li>
<li><strong>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad</strong></li>
<li>The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery</li>
<li>The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks</li>
<li>Watership Down - Richard Adams</li>
<li>A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole</li>
<li>A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute</li>
<li>The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas</li>
<li><strong>Hamlet - William Shakespeare</strong></li>
<li><strong>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl</strong> --- again, forever and a day ago.</li>
<li>Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</li>
</ol>
<p>Do you have suggestions for what I should read on this list that I haven't indicated that I would?  [Yes, Kari, I hear you yelling for <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>.  All the way over here.  And my window's closed.  <img src='http://gfmorris.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  ]</p>
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