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Oh, the horror.

"She smiled, and his chest exploded."

This could be construed in many different ways. If you're a romantic, then you might imagine a man deeply in love with a woman. If you prefer gore, you could see his innards bursting as she grins at the violence. Make of it what you will.

I'm not looking forward to school for the first time in years. It might have a little something to do with that douchebag, seeing as I'm not guaranteed no classes with him. I can simply transfer out of those if I have to, though I'm hoping he's grown up a bit since our last confrontation. -sigh-

Oh, by the way...

you know you think my new layout is sexy.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Then, add the two books you love the most which is not already on the list.
5) Say how many books you have read, and the two books you added.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read and force books upon them. Remember to add the new books the people before you have added, so we can continue to recommend books in a easy and fun way.



01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (so do you bold AND italicize if you are currently reading? we'll go with that.)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not all, but a great many.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (isn't this part of the chronicles of narnia?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (this one took a while to get through, but in the end i enjoyed it.)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (WHERE I GOT ALEXANDRE'S NAME!!! -cough-)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (i read this a while ago, so i hesitate to put loved.)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
101 The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
102 Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coehlo
103 The Solitaire Mystery- Jostein Gaarder
104 The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud
105 On Writing - Stephen King
106 The Black Jewels Trilogy - Anne Bishop (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - this is my all-time favorite book.)
107 Hairstyles of the Damned - Joe Meno

21 out of 107 // a few I need to read.

In relation, I've been writing a lot of reviews for books lately, simply to entertain myself. Perhaps I'll begin to post them.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first few lines from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own.

1. I was running late for work, so I didn't change my shirt. The evening's drinks left a lingering taste in my mouth.
2. You're my sun, you are my earth. (the one i have is a cover, but i'll give it to either. kudos if you guess the cover artist.)
3. She says, "wake up; it's no use pretending." I'll keep stealing, breatihng her.
4. What do I do to ignore them behind me?
5. Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead. Yesterday is promise that you've broken.
6. I've been searching for a man all across Japan, just to find, to find my Samurai.
7. I wish you were here with me tonight to see the northern lights.
8. I am not a baby anymore. (major kudos if you get this.)
9. Stop dragging around. I think that somebody knows. So they can watch me explode.
10. Birds flying high, you know how I feel. (another cover - same rules apply.)
11. It was in the lobby when I first set my sights on you. Should have kissed you in the elevator, but I was too scared to.
12. See through the wreckage into the fire inside my heart. Bullet to the head; soon you'll be sleeping. Pull this trigger to your antidote.
13. These are not words, they're only feelings. There are no sounds that you can hear.
14. Just as you take my hand, just as you write my number down, just as the drinks arrive, just as they play your favorite song.
15. Will the body be abandoned? Will it?
16. This is me for forever, one of the lost ones, the one without a name, without an honest heart as compass.
17. Crashing, covered with debris. Dwelling in my own pity. Cry like I have not. Dig like I had not. I start to claw.
18. Shrouded in proof, you're the mystery. You're the truth that lives within the world we see.
19. Every breath you take, every move you make. Every bond you break, every step you take. I'll be watching you. (especially embarrassing. -_-)
20. Hiding behind the shadows, I'll be waiting in the dark to drive this blade straight through your heart. I'll drag your body to the car as blood races down my arm. I think everyone will wonder where you are. (probably my all time favorite lyrics from a song, though not specifically these lyrics.)
21. She's doesn't deserve to be in a place like this, all alone.
22. You, you got me thinking it'll be all right.
23. This is the last time I'll cry lullabies.
24. I don't mind where you come from as long as you come to me. I don't like illusions; I can't see them clearly.
25. Take a look at my girlfriend - she's the only one I got. Not much of a girlfriend - never seem to get a lot. (another cover - same rules apply.)
26. It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark.
27. Insolent boy, this slave of fashion. Basking in your glory. Ignorant fool, this brave young suitor. Sharing in my triumph! (-_-)
28. I don't mind you telling me what's been on your mind lately. I don't mind you speaking up. I know sometimes I can be all wrapped up and into me. I can be in such a rush.
29. Please, leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman.
30. It's not so easy, loving me. It gets so complicated, all the things you gotta be. Everything's changing - you're the truth.

I would have to choose invisibility. Flying has never appealed to me - though I'm not entirely sure why - and you can go anywhere if you're patient. But the ability to hide and watch people when they don't know you're there? Or get away where no one can possibly find you? Sounds like pure bliss.

In fact, if I could have any power possible, it would be to read minds. It's impossible to know what people are thinking, whether they mean what they say, and that, at times, can be extremely frustrating.

I've considered for a long time writing about someone who could read minds.

I posted a playlist on monster, mostly because I'd been meaning to do it and Erin finally inspired me.
The songs are subject to change.
Go listen to them.