So, I really like tumblr, but I think that a service more conducive to long journal entries (be they introspective or fiction) will be better for my sanity. You can find me — and friend me — here if you please.
I might still check my dashboard, mostly because it really does help me figure out what’s going on in the world.
It’s been a while. I guess I took a break from tumblr because a) I wanted to redesign my tumblr and was too lazy/unoriginal to come up with anything and b) I was spending a lot of time on the site (it was getting in the way of my playing The Sims 2).
But now I think I’ll come back for a while, especially since I have a desk job for the summer so, you know, I’ve got that whole plight of the working gal Perez Hilton complex all of a sudden. Okay, part-time job. Okay, paid internship. Whatever. There’s still a desk.
Things:
- Playing Trivial Pursuit last night with roommate, her mom, and her boyfriend was fun. We (me and her mom on a team) were so making a come back when we decided to call it quits.
- Looking at letters from prisoners John reads at his internship… (this sentence doesn’t need finishing)
- Dad wanting to give away all of mom’s old clothes… (neither does this)
- Being too depressed to move, shower, or restrain myself from ordering Chinese from campusfood.com…
- Trying to get myself back on track.
- (In a related story) I need to get in better shape. Just, for my own sanity.
Below is a list of 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing users. They sit on their shelf, perhaps to make their owner feel smart or well-rounded.
The meme comes with these instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. And I’ve added one more level: I’ve **starred the ones I highly recommend.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi : a novel The Name of the Rose Don Quixote Moby Dick Ulysses Madame Bovary The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre The Tale of Two Cities The Brothers Karamazov Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies War and Peace Vanity Fair The Time Traveler’s Wife The Iliad Emma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great Expectations American Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books Memoirs of a Geisha Middlesex Quicksilver Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West The Canterbury Tales The Historian : a novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Love in the Time of Cholera The Fountainhead Foucault’s Pendulum Middlemarch Frankenstein The Count of Monte Cristo Dracula A Clockwork Orange Anansi Boys The Once and Future King The Grapes of Wrath The Poisonwood Bible : a novel 1984 Angels & Demons The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) The Satanic Verses Sense and Sensibility The Picture of Dorian Gray Mansfield Park One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest To the Lighthouse Tess of the D’Urbervilles Oliver Twist Gulliver’s Travels Les Misérables The Corrections The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Dune The Prince The Sound and the Fury Angela’s Ashes : a memoir The God of Small Things A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present Cryptonomicon Neverwhere A Confederacy of Dunces A Short History of Nearly Everything Dubliners The Unbearable Lightness of Being Beloved Slaughterhouse-five The Scarlet Letter Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Mists of Avalon Oryx and Crake : a novel Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed Cloud Atlas The Confusion Lolita Persuasion Northanger Abbey The Catcher in the Rye On the Road The Hunchback of Notre Dame Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values The Aeneid Watership Down Gravity’s Rainbow The Hobbit In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences White Teeth Treasure Island David Copperfield The Three Musketeers
Reflections: Except for Salughterhouse-five, which I bought and am waiting for John to finish reading, I don’t want to read most of these. Well, a couple — but not that many.
