I found this on Krissa's Blog, le petit hiboux, and I thought it was pretty neat, so I'm posting it here too. While I have deliberately been avoiding books lately (I will stay up until midnight if I have a book I'm engrossed in), I'm looking forward to the time I'll have in the next couple of weeks to relax and maybe catch up on some reading. Maybe I'll even look into some of these...
Look at the list of books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole , put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. *Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. +Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. +Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. +Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. +Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. *Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. *I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. *The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. +The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. *She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. *Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. +Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. *The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. *The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. *Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. *Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. *Ulysses (James Joyce)
OK, now I realize that there are a lot of asterisks. Maybe I'm not as well read as I thought I was. But my tastes tend to run toward the historical romance and mysteries. Most of these that I've read was because I was required to during either high school or college requirements... oh well. Hope you enjoyed!
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I'm Not Dead....
... Just really really busy.
The Doctor has decided that I need to go out early, so my last day of school will be March 2nd. Two weeks earlier than originally expected. Which is nice, but it leaves me a lot of work to get done in a short amount of time. So, until I hit that magic date, I won't be posting much. Just wish me luck I get everything ready for the sub in time...
The Doctor has decided that I need to go out early, so my last day of school will be March 2nd. Two weeks earlier than originally expected. Which is nice, but it leaves me a lot of work to get done in a short amount of time. So, until I hit that magic date, I won't be posting much. Just wish me luck I get everything ready for the sub in time...
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Never a Dull Moment
I think this is the first time in two weeks that I've had time to just sit down and veg. Only six more weeks until the baby comes, and I CAN'T WAIT!
Turns out that while my counts have been lower than target, there have been a few my doctor is worried about. That, and waking up in the middle of the night to do the obligatory bathroom run and being so dizzy that I had to hold on to the wall to get there. That was early Sunday morning, and by the time the alarm went off to get me up on Monday morning, it was still there. Not too bad, but enough that I woke hubby and Little Guy up to drive me to work because I was afraid to get behind the wheel of a car.
So in response, I am now on a medication that will help my pancreas create more insulin on it's own. AND from now until the baby is born I am going into the hospital twice a week for a Non Stress Test, once a week for an Ultrasound, seeing the Dietitian once a week to check on my blood count/sugar count and once a week to the OB for my usual checkups. This is in addition to working with 26 darlings every day, having to prep for them, take the required new teacher classes and the training for my new SmartBoard (all before baby comes!). AND since nobody (but the hospital) sees their patients after 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon, I get ABSOLUTELY no work done at school. **Sigh** Back to grading papers in the evening and on weekends. I had just about eliminated that. Oh, I almost forgot, let's throw in two evening of baptism classes (because although I am there every single stinking Sunday, I still have to do it and be preached to about stuff I already do!). And Little Guy's Birthday at the end of the month. **Sigh** But as long as it means a healthy and happy baby, it's all good.
On a brighter note, hubby, with assistance from Little Guy, got Baby L's room all cleaned out and painted a beautiful shade of pink. Then this past Monday the new carpet came in for the two kids rooms. It is starting to really look like a baby's room. All we need to do is hang the border and then we can move in the baby furniture and I can start going through the boxes and boxes of STUFF we have from Little Guy to see what I can use for Baby L. Start washing and putting away stuff, not to mention to start putting away all the clothes that my mom has bought since she found out we were pregnant again.
Hubby went to the storage shed to get the baby stuff the other day, and it turns out that we have over 10 Xerox boxes of clothes left over from Little Guy, from newborn to about 4T. And since we're having a girl and my sister is having a girl (did I mention she is pregnant too, about ten weeks behind me?) I am not saving it any more. Mom kept on saying to keep it in case I had another boy, and I did, just to humor her. Because even if we were to have another boy, she'd still go out and clothe that child, even with all the clothes we had from Little Guy. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, and I do not have to clothe my child. My mom is super shopper and hits the sales. Any clothes that I buy for Little Guy are because I want to, not because I need to. And it helps that his birthday is just as the Spring and Summer season come upon us, because I don't have to buy him clothes, he gets it for his birthday! Yea!
Anyway, the whole point of that is that I am going to have one stinking big garage sale in late April or early May. I'm getting rid of clothes and toys! We have more toys coming out of our ears than we know what to do with. And he keeps on getting more! Maybe we'll make enough out of the garage sale to finance the gas to San Diego this summer. You never know!
Turns out that while my counts have been lower than target, there have been a few my doctor is worried about. That, and waking up in the middle of the night to do the obligatory bathroom run and being so dizzy that I had to hold on to the wall to get there. That was early Sunday morning, and by the time the alarm went off to get me up on Monday morning, it was still there. Not too bad, but enough that I woke hubby and Little Guy up to drive me to work because I was afraid to get behind the wheel of a car.
So in response, I am now on a medication that will help my pancreas create more insulin on it's own. AND from now until the baby is born I am going into the hospital twice a week for a Non Stress Test, once a week for an Ultrasound, seeing the Dietitian once a week to check on my blood count/sugar count and once a week to the OB for my usual checkups. This is in addition to working with 26 darlings every day, having to prep for them, take the required new teacher classes and the training for my new SmartBoard (all before baby comes!). AND since nobody (but the hospital) sees their patients after 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon, I get ABSOLUTELY no work done at school. **Sigh** Back to grading papers in the evening and on weekends. I had just about eliminated that. Oh, I almost forgot, let's throw in two evening of baptism classes (because although I am there every single stinking Sunday, I still have to do it and be preached to about stuff I already do!). And Little Guy's Birthday at the end of the month. **Sigh** But as long as it means a healthy and happy baby, it's all good.
On a brighter note, hubby, with assistance from Little Guy, got Baby L's room all cleaned out and painted a beautiful shade of pink. Then this past Monday the new carpet came in for the two kids rooms. It is starting to really look like a baby's room. All we need to do is hang the border and then we can move in the baby furniture and I can start going through the boxes and boxes of STUFF we have from Little Guy to see what I can use for Baby L. Start washing and putting away stuff, not to mention to start putting away all the clothes that my mom has bought since she found out we were pregnant again.
Hubby went to the storage shed to get the baby stuff the other day, and it turns out that we have over 10 Xerox boxes of clothes left over from Little Guy, from newborn to about 4T. And since we're having a girl and my sister is having a girl (did I mention she is pregnant too, about ten weeks behind me?) I am not saving it any more. Mom kept on saying to keep it in case I had another boy, and I did, just to humor her. Because even if we were to have another boy, she'd still go out and clothe that child, even with all the clothes we had from Little Guy. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, and I do not have to clothe my child. My mom is super shopper and hits the sales. Any clothes that I buy for Little Guy are because I want to, not because I need to. And it helps that his birthday is just as the Spring and Summer season come upon us, because I don't have to buy him clothes, he gets it for his birthday! Yea!
Anyway, the whole point of that is that I am going to have one stinking big garage sale in late April or early May. I'm getting rid of clothes and toys! We have more toys coming out of our ears than we know what to do with. And he keeps on getting more! Maybe we'll make enough out of the garage sale to finance the gas to San Diego this summer. You never know!
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