Saturday, June 07, 2008

just for fun.

Found this off a blog. Books I've read/own are in bold, and those in italics are those which I started and never quite finished/halfway. Underlined are those that have been on the want list for a very long time.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I have this lying somewhere, but not read) 
Wuthering Heights 
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A novel
The Name of the Rose (I will borrow it from Ivan, well, sometime soon)
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
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad (I just bought it, not read yet)
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner (This is lying somewhere around)
Mrs. Dalloway
 
Great Expectations
American Gods (I borrowed this from Gaurav, but I've not started on it)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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 (I have this too, not read yet)
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange (I gave up on this book, and gave it away)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
 
1984 (I have this but not read, book is with Tian)
Angels & Demons 
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Tian's copy is with me, not yet read)
To the Lighthouse (I have it, not read)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist 
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 (About to borrow from Ivan)
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
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 (Jess's copy is with me)
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

she procrastinated @ 18:13 |

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I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

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arty jen
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carmentica
charming-linn
chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
cheryliciously glam
clean and cute
cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
fellow ditz-sista/porkSTAR
hail mary!
hell's kitchen
hero on the beach
h-Euge heart
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live n learn, baby
lolita lou
loony loon
mr popular
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m y s t j
phringe
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roger smurf
runaway pigeon
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sibling angst2
spector dan
spunky tian
steffy bunny
sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

"One is wicked, because one see things clearly." - Beaumarchais's Le nozze di Figaro.

And there were phlegmatic souls.