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book meme

April 2, 2007

my first meme! stolen off of another blog, but i’d been seeing it around. it’s hard for me not to be excited about books. i love reading and worked in a bookstore during university and as an associate manager after university (7 years total!). i couldn’t just let this one go without commentary… so see the bottom if you want to know what i’m most embarrased about and what i loved the most.

Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read,
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.

1. The DaVinci 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 Philosopher’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. The 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 Traveling 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)

comments:
most embarrassing – Bridget Jones (yuck!)
most embarrassing in completely another way – my namesake – Les Miserables
i’m listening to emma free online here
one of my all time favorites is A Fine Balance – heartbreaking, but brilliant
needs re-reading – The Count of Monte Cristo
better get reading those russian masters!
secret love (not so much to people who know me) – children’s literature

does anyone know where this meme came from and why these particular books are on it? just curious.

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trumping along: what trumps what in your life?

April 2, 2007

if nothing else, those who know me will tell you that i’m a person with opinions. i consistently get asked sarcastically to tell how i really feel by many of my close friends. and really, i like having opinions. i like believing one way or another on a topic… and then after that i can change it as needed.

for instance, one thing i believe in is local and organic food. so, my husband and i try to buy in this order: local organic, organic, local, larger local, and then other. this is our loose guideline – if you can’t do it at some point, you don’t freak out, you deal with whatever you have to. it has been interesting to see people who come to regent college without a holistic vision of christianity be confronted with the idea that christianity has something to do with earth-keeping and food supply. they often freak out because it is too much to think about, too big an issue (what, cause salvation wasn’t?!?). one pastoral student friend sent an email back when he started working at a church that he had convinced them to use real mugs instead of styrofoam (yay!).

anyhow, this all came up because friday night, i went to another ‘integrated project in arts and theology’ and ran across a friend who needed to get some knitting needles from me. i happened to have them on me and passed them on. her husband then said “yay! i get a hat soon!” this particular instance struck me as funny and ironic. see, his grandmother had made him a scarf out of variegated acrylic that he would have never worn. so when i taught his wife how to knit, she hatched a plan to make it into a hat for him that he would wear. although they don’t seem to me like the kind of people that would be super excited about red heart, all thoughts of such things were trumped by the circumstances of the yarn.

this got me thinking about the opinions and guidelines that we live by. in the end, although i seem to have a lot of opinions, it seems to me that rules within life are really no good if they are not applicable (and bendable).  when i’m being good and not just obstinant, i allow this bending to happen under certain circumstances.

so, here are some of the places where i bend:

i believe in wool, but we’re not going to throw away the acrylic blanket that ben’s grandmother crocheted (seen in the picture above with the double knit polyester quilt that his mom made). in this case, the fact that the blanket was made by grandma trumps the fact that it isn’t made out of natural fiber.

i believe in using natural fibers (cotton has issues with pesticides, but you know… bend). i don’t really buy modern polyester/rayon/acrylic etc, but a huge part of my sweater collection is made up of 1970’s acrylic numbers (one of my favorites can be seen partially here.

although we generally prefer organic/free range or wild game meat, ben and i will both eat meat when the occasion trumps our food preferences.

generally against misc plastic made by slave labor, i love mass-produced weird christian stuff (especially catholic). a lot. so much that if i find something particualrily gaudy, i might even buy it new!

i also find that when i’m thrifting, the fact that something’s handmade will often trump what it’s made out of.

i love the little contradictions/bends in life… they crack me up. so what trumps what in your life?

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