Yes, you. Do you think it's easy for your grown children to rely upon you for so much? Do you really think we - and I mean all four of us - don't wish there were another way to do things? From my standpoint, coming in from the outside a decade-ish ago, you set your kids up for this from the beginning. Really, it's the most selfish thing you could have done to them. But at least they'll never leave you, right? They can't, right? They need you too much. They need you to baby sit eight hours a day, five days a week because goodness knows, they couldn't get a job that'd pay enough for the daycare they'd need with their bachelors in psychology and a history minor. They need you to loan them money every now and then because, that's right . . . everyone learns to deal with things like credit cards and mortgages and car loans right out of high school.
One would think you'd want your kids to succeed. I know I would, if I were in your shoes - I want the very best for my children, whether it's next door to me, in another state or in another country. One would think you'd not try to alienate the woman who married your son to the point of considering divorce at least once a year. I love my husband, and I consider myself a strong woman. But really . . . how much am I supposed to take? Did you consider how much it might hurt people you didn't even know yet when you started along this path? Because it's not just your children you're hurting. It's their spouses, and your grandchildren.
Yeah, I could go get a job. I could put my kids in daycare that'd cost nearly as much as I'd make, and I could spend the rest of my meagre paycheck on a work wardrobe - or maybe I could figure out how to make business casual grow on trees.
So yeah, You, thanks for all you've done for us. Thank you for making your grown children into dependents. They love you for it, really.
28 October 2006
27 October 2006
Nngh
My computer is broken. Technically, I'm not supposed to be on this laptop, cos it's the hubby's work machine.
I'm going through withdrawals, but I should have a new computer tomorrow. Yay for that!
I'm going through withdrawals, but I should have a new computer tomorrow. Yay for that!
20 October 2006
Antici . . . . pation
We’re leaving for Mackinac Island first thing tomorrow (for those of you who don’t know, that’s between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, in the straits of Mackinac) – for once, I’m already packed and ready to go. I’ve got cookies baked for snacks on the trip (and to send to Whit with his mix CD), clothes and swimsuits are ready to go, my camera bag’s stocked . . . I feel more organized than I have in a long, long time. I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but still, go me! There’s free wifi at the hotel, so I may upload pictures and what not (the ones from my digicam, at least), though I doubt I’ll be doing much of anything else as far as online stuff goes. Maybe I’ll write while the girls are sleeping or maybe I’ll play solitaire or something – goodness knows, Jerry’s laptop is going with us.
Today, I have to go to Gymboree to find cute pseudo-dressy outfits for the girls in case we go to a fancy dinner. Tomorrow, on the way up north, we’ll stop at Birch Run or West Branch and get something pseudo fancy for me – dress/skirt or pants? I don’t know which. Here’s hoping I fit into a 16, though I doubt I will. I hate shopping for fat-girl clothes; my self esteem is low enough without looking at clothes that aren’t flattering on anyone and aren’t cut properly for where I curve, despite technically being the right size. Because, you know, fat girls don’t want to look cute too . . . and why are my clothes twice as expensive (at least) as the skinny-girl equivalent of the same thing? Grr, all around. I hate clothes shopping for me – it’s far nicer to live vicariously through my children on that front. They can wear the cute clothes that I would if I were thinner.
Geralyn’s miracle diet is a Medical Weight Loss thing – which is fine, good for her because it’s working. But she’s on phen-phen or something like it to help, and I worry about her for the health risks involved not only in losing that much weight that fast, but also in taking diet drugs that could stop her heart. Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t do it in a second to get down to a size 10 or 12 – if I got smaller than that I wouldn’t look healthy. I know it’s a stupid thing to be competitive over, but I really don’t want her to be thinner than I am, and the working out and eating less aren’t working as fast for me as drugs and the near-starvation diet are for her. I’m way more toned than I’ve been in years (since high school, really), but I’m as fat as ever (well, not as fat as I was when I was pregnant with Morgen. That was an all time high) and I weigh just as much. I feel very, very American when I say (think, write) I want results now not next month. That’s instant gratification with a side of impatience for me, please.
When we get back from the Island, come Monday or Tuesday, it’s time to start looking seriously for a house again. We want to be into our new place before Christmas, hopefully by mid-December. Wish us luck!
Today, I have to go to Gymboree to find cute pseudo-dressy outfits for the girls in case we go to a fancy dinner. Tomorrow, on the way up north, we’ll stop at Birch Run or West Branch and get something pseudo fancy for me – dress/skirt or pants? I don’t know which. Here’s hoping I fit into a 16, though I doubt I will. I hate shopping for fat-girl clothes; my self esteem is low enough without looking at clothes that aren’t flattering on anyone and aren’t cut properly for where I curve, despite technically being the right size. Because, you know, fat girls don’t want to look cute too . . . and why are my clothes twice as expensive (at least) as the skinny-girl equivalent of the same thing? Grr, all around. I hate clothes shopping for me – it’s far nicer to live vicariously through my children on that front. They can wear the cute clothes that I would if I were thinner.
Geralyn’s miracle diet is a Medical Weight Loss thing – which is fine, good for her because it’s working. But she’s on phen-phen or something like it to help, and I worry about her for the health risks involved not only in losing that much weight that fast, but also in taking diet drugs that could stop her heart. Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t do it in a second to get down to a size 10 or 12 – if I got smaller than that I wouldn’t look healthy. I know it’s a stupid thing to be competitive over, but I really don’t want her to be thinner than I am, and the working out and eating less aren’t working as fast for me as drugs and the near-starvation diet are for her. I’m way more toned than I’ve been in years (since high school, really), but I’m as fat as ever (well, not as fat as I was when I was pregnant with Morgen. That was an all time high) and I weigh just as much. I feel very, very American when I say (think, write) I want results now not next month. That’s instant gratification with a side of impatience for me, please.
When we get back from the Island, come Monday or Tuesday, it’s time to start looking seriously for a house again. We want to be into our new place before Christmas, hopefully by mid-December. Wish us luck!
16 October 2006
Next Week, Or Maybe Next Month
Someone else rented the house. Disappointed, sad, and not crying very purposely.
15 October 2006
Updates
Okay, so technically, it’s later. Just not later yesterday . . . anyway, the house is adorable. It’s four bedrooms, comes with kitchen appliances and a stackable washer/dryer (we have our own of those, but they’re old and dying). There’s a deck in the fenced in back yard, a two car garage, a full sized, partially finished basement, living room, formal dining room, bath and a half (though the half in the basement needs work), and the owner says we can paint and decorate however we’d like, which is rare in a rental in these parts, and awesome. I’d have a place to hang my pictures, and my art! How awesome is that? And it’s only $75 more a month than we’re paying now, three blocks away from the elementary school my kids would attend. Next fall, I’ll be able to pop Liana into the stroller so we can walk Morgen to school. The president of the PTO lives diagonally across the street and high school kids abound – maybe we’d even find a babysitter so Jerry and I could go out every now and then without depending on his parents, who are undependable and only really good for spoiling the kids and then sending them home; I really don’t know how Geralyn and Dave can stand to have them watching Brandon all the time. I guess it’s just because their salaries together aren’t enough to pay for daycare, and next year they’ll put him in nursery school (which I’ve avoided with Morgen, much to the dismay and criticism of my mother-in-law), which Jeanne and Jerry Sr. will probably pay for. But, the house! I think we’re going to take it. Jerry’s going to call the management company for this house tomorrow and see what we have to do to break the lease and how early we can do so, and I think we’re going to move by Thanksgiving. I’m so excited; I actually jump up and down and clap my hands every now and again.
Today is the Greenfield Village Halloween/trick or treat thing; Morgen’s going to be Dorothy and Liana’s going to be Toto from the Wizard of Oz. They both look really adorable in their costumes, and Liana likes to pretend to be a puppy anyway, so it’s really, specially adorable when she does it in a dog costume. I’ll be sure to get pictures, cos it’s super cute. First, dinner at Fishbones and then on to Henry Ford for fun and stuff, yay! If it weren’t with Jerry’s fam, it would be a really good time. For instance, everyone’s planning on changing into costumes after dinner, and I say what’s the point in that? If we’re going to be wearing costumes as adults, we may as well go all the way with it. It’s like wearing regular clothes to go into town from an SCA event. Why bother? Maybe Jerry and I’ll wear our costumes anyway, though it makes sense to change the girls into theirs after they’ve eaten, what with being 2 and 4 and all.
But, we have shopping to do. Must fly!
Today is the Greenfield Village Halloween/trick or treat thing; Morgen’s going to be Dorothy and Liana’s going to be Toto from the Wizard of Oz. They both look really adorable in their costumes, and Liana likes to pretend to be a puppy anyway, so it’s really, specially adorable when she does it in a dog costume. I’ll be sure to get pictures, cos it’s super cute. First, dinner at Fishbones and then on to Henry Ford for fun and stuff, yay! If it weren’t with Jerry’s fam, it would be a really good time. For instance, everyone’s planning on changing into costumes after dinner, and I say what’s the point in that? If we’re going to be wearing costumes as adults, we may as well go all the way with it. It’s like wearing regular clothes to go into town from an SCA event. Why bother? Maybe Jerry and I’ll wear our costumes anyway, though it makes sense to change the girls into theirs after they’ve eaten, what with being 2 and 4 and all.
But, we have shopping to do. Must fly!
14 October 2006
Stuff
We’re going to look at a new house to rent today; I’m kind of excited. Morgen’s really excited, except she says she wants to stay where we are – I know she doesn’t understand about things like being bussed nearly twenty miles away to fill a demographic, or an eighty percent attrition rate between elementary and high school, or considerably lower than the national average standardized test scores, so her primary concern is remaining near friends and family. (In fact, she said something along the lines of, “I want to stay here with my friends Zoe and Mikey and my grandma and grandpa,” and asking her, “What about Grandpa David or Grandma Lee Ann,” only got shrugs and further assertions that she wanted to stay where we are.) She’s four, after all, and to her that’s what matters. Regardless, the new house is in Harper Woods, but it’s the part of Harper Woods that gets Grosse Pointe schools, which is a huge bonus. When we buy a house in a few years, we can buy one either right there, in the same school zone as where Morgen will have started, or we can move to another one of the Pointes (not, mind you, that I want to be a Grosse Pointer. They just have the best public schools in Michigan, and with the brains my kids have, it would be ridiculous trying to put them into some average school somewhere – I tell you, they scare me with their brilliance some times). The open house is from ten to eleven, and I’ve seen pictures of the place – it’s cute, though the interior décor could really use some updating. I wonder if the owners will let us do that? A girl can hope, anyway. Here, I’ll try to put some pictures in.
Cute, hmmm?
Whit and I talked yesterday; it’s always nice when he can get his cunt of a connection to behave properly long enough to be online. We don’t talk about anything, really, just randomness and inanities, but it’s still nice to have someone to talk with and not really worry about what’s being said and how it’ll be taken. We can talk about politics or music or the air speed of African pigeons, and it doesn’t really matter – the people with whom I can converse in such a manner are so few and far between, I have to cherish the ones I find. I think, if he lived closer, we’d enjoy pints at the pub and cake and gin in person as much as I tease him about online. And yes, I know it’s silly, sentimental nonsense.
The trip up to Mackinac came through! Jerry, the girls and I are going up next weekend for three days and two nights. We have a free stay at Mission Point because of work Jerry did some time last year – they’re owned by the same people who used to own the company he works for. I have a feeling the place will be pretty empty, which is pretty awesome. I’m going to bring both my cameras and take lots of pictures; it promises to be gorgeous, at least if the weather up there is anything like it’s been down here. Why is gray and gloomy almost always the best atmosphere for photography? Not that I don’t enjoy sunshine, but if you look at a picture taken on a gloomy day, you can almost feel it. You can smell the chill, taste the fog, etc. It’s a rare sunny-day picture that has the same effect. Anyway, on the way up, we’ll stop at the outlet mall and get winter clothes (mostly coats and mittens) for the girls, maybe some Christmas present, and then up to the ferry and ultimately the island. I think I’ll need some long sleeved t-shirts and so will Jerry. We’re set as far as jeans and the like go, and since we have no baby-sitter for a fancy dinner while we’re up there, I don’t think we need to worry about fancy outfits. Jeans and t-shirts (or sweat suits, in the girls’ cases) should be sufficient.
Yay! All in all, things are going well. CbN is still a source of stress when I think about it, but it’s getting less as time goes by – it’s hard to care with the same immediacy when posts go for two days or more with no reply. Apparently, I only have four characters left in my system. It’s sad, and kind of a blow to the old self esteem, but understandable with rumors and actuality being what they are.
Anyway, I’m off to outline my NaNo. I think I’m going to write about Elizabeth, which is always fun.
Cute, hmmm?
Whit and I talked yesterday; it’s always nice when he can get his cunt of a connection to behave properly long enough to be online. We don’t talk about anything, really, just randomness and inanities, but it’s still nice to have someone to talk with and not really worry about what’s being said and how it’ll be taken. We can talk about politics or music or the air speed of African pigeons, and it doesn’t really matter – the people with whom I can converse in such a manner are so few and far between, I have to cherish the ones I find. I think, if he lived closer, we’d enjoy pints at the pub and cake and gin in person as much as I tease him about online. And yes, I know it’s silly, sentimental nonsense.
The trip up to Mackinac came through! Jerry, the girls and I are going up next weekend for three days and two nights. We have a free stay at Mission Point because of work Jerry did some time last year – they’re owned by the same people who used to own the company he works for. I have a feeling the place will be pretty empty, which is pretty awesome. I’m going to bring both my cameras and take lots of pictures; it promises to be gorgeous, at least if the weather up there is anything like it’s been down here. Why is gray and gloomy almost always the best atmosphere for photography? Not that I don’t enjoy sunshine, but if you look at a picture taken on a gloomy day, you can almost feel it. You can smell the chill, taste the fog, etc. It’s a rare sunny-day picture that has the same effect. Anyway, on the way up, we’ll stop at the outlet mall and get winter clothes (mostly coats and mittens) for the girls, maybe some Christmas present, and then up to the ferry and ultimately the island. I think I’ll need some long sleeved t-shirts and so will Jerry. We’re set as far as jeans and the like go, and since we have no baby-sitter for a fancy dinner while we’re up there, I don’t think we need to worry about fancy outfits. Jeans and t-shirts (or sweat suits, in the girls’ cases) should be sufficient.
Yay! All in all, things are going well. CbN is still a source of stress when I think about it, but it’s getting less as time goes by – it’s hard to care with the same immediacy when posts go for two days or more with no reply. Apparently, I only have four characters left in my system. It’s sad, and kind of a blow to the old self esteem, but understandable with rumors and actuality being what they are.
Anyway, I’m off to outline my NaNo. I think I’m going to write about Elizabeth, which is always fun.
12 October 2006
I Have a Plan, or at Least an Idea
Here’s the thing. A couple years ago, Jerry started building a gaming site, just to say he’d done it. For a year or so, it’s been sitting there unused, but it’s complete with chat and forums (buggy, yes, but everything starts out that way) and DP modules. I hate the look and feel, but that’s fairly easily changed. So, I’ve put out a few feelers to see how people feel about using it (not many, granted, as there are some people I’m giving a break and some people I just don’t like, not that most of them would be turned away if they found the place on their own). It’s a Detroit site, and though that could be changed easily enough, the domain name can’t be, so it’s likely to stay that way. I think? I’m going to work on some rules and stuff, based loosely on stuff I’ve read on other sites, and post it here as it comes to me.
I’ll probably steal a lot from Wanton Wicked, cos that’s an awesome site as far as clarity and such goes. I should see what I can do about contacting their admins.
I’ll probably steal a lot from Wanton Wicked, cos that’s an awesome site as far as clarity and such goes. I should see what I can do about contacting their admins.
10 October 2006
Baking, Stress and Denial
So, again, what I think (and take the time to post) in the ST/Staff forums on CbN gets ignored in favor of someone else’s post full of more vitriol – though, to be honest, it was calm and reasonable coming from Ryan. I agree with all his points and when I read it before he posted, it was even calmer and more reasonable . . . but then he added stuff that he didn’t have me read first. Regardless, everything to do with CbN sucks right now. K’wyn and Kai quit, Whit’s been alienated for months (and still pouring work into the site, I might add, which is awesome on him), Corey’s getting there, Object . . . I don’t really know about him. Ryan’s . . . well, he’s Ryan, and that leave Rck and me, with Rck asking me what we should do, because I’m the remaining staffer with a relatively even head (and temper) and seniority. Everyone else, pretty much, has taken their ball and gone home. I don’t know if we should just let site implode (we have $200 or so in a paypal account from both players and staff) or what. I really don’t want CbN to go away. It’s the only place I really enjoy playing (although goodness knows, there hasn’t been much play lately), and I’ve made a lot of friends there; I hate the idea of losing contact with them like I did with Jaz or Panthera or my other friends from Toronto when that site died. Chicago’s okay and all, but the handful of people there that I made characters to play with are online at different times than I am, or their chars don’t like mine, or . . . yeah. And there’s nowhere else that I’ve found to play Mage in a good, reasonable way.
On a side note, amusing to me: I programmed K’wyn’s cell number into my phone so that if she calls me, my phone’ll play a tonal version of All the Small things by Blink182. If Kai calls, it’ll play We Will Rock You by Queen. My phone, even though it’s only a land line and a cheapie cordless, is awesome.
I guess, if CbN really is dying, it’ll give me an excuse to find a nWoD site and learn that system better; the problem with that theory is the vast majority of the nWoD sites are Vampire and Mortal only. Which is fine, except . . . Vampire is far from my favorite game. I’m a Mage kind of girl, and that’s what I want to play – a mage, a consor (or whatever nWoD calls them) or something like that. I made a nWoD version of my favorite mage ever to play one on one with my hubby as we learn, but it’s been so long since I played TT, I’m not sure I remember how. I just remember people getting irritated with me when I was being descriptive and wordy, but then I was playing with people that are creative in entirely different ways than the writing one. Although, now that I’ve talked to Whit . . . we have a new idea, and I have a proposal to write.
Today is my day off from baking, although tomorrow I start on cookies. I love baking, I love Autumn, I love holidays. There’s no stress, really! (I’m lying my ass off.)
On a side note, amusing to me: I programmed K’wyn’s cell number into my phone so that if she calls me, my phone’ll play a tonal version of All the Small things by Blink182. If Kai calls, it’ll play We Will Rock You by Queen. My phone, even though it’s only a land line and a cheapie cordless, is awesome.
I guess, if CbN really is dying, it’ll give me an excuse to find a nWoD site and learn that system better; the problem with that theory is the vast majority of the nWoD sites are Vampire and Mortal only. Which is fine, except . . . Vampire is far from my favorite game. I’m a Mage kind of girl, and that’s what I want to play – a mage, a consor (or whatever nWoD calls them) or something like that. I made a nWoD version of my favorite mage ever to play one on one with my hubby as we learn, but it’s been so long since I played TT, I’m not sure I remember how. I just remember people getting irritated with me when I was being descriptive and wordy, but then I was playing with people that are creative in entirely different ways than the writing one. Although, now that I’ve talked to Whit . . . we have a new idea, and I have a proposal to write.
Today is my day off from baking, although tomorrow I start on cookies. I love baking, I love Autumn, I love holidays. There’s no stress, really! (I’m lying my ass off.)
04 October 2006
Good Times With Characters (meme)
1) Alanae Murphy (Orphan, Mage)
2) Sophia Rodgers nee Martinez (Child of Gaia Ragabash, Werewolf)
3) Xan (Alexandria) Richardson nee Cooper (Celestial Chorus, Mage
4) Elizabeth Robinson (Order of Hermes, Mage)
5) Betsy Gowan (Seelie Pooka Childling, Changeling)
6) Enid (something) (Fianna Galliard, Werewolf)
7) Collette Rousseau (Cult of Ecstasy. Mage)
8) Keely Musikar (Toreador, Vampire)
9) Ava Dostyevsky (Bone Gnawer kin, Werewolf)
10) Reagan Carter (Cult of Ecstasy, Mage)
11) Sheehan (something) (Fianna Theurge, Werewolf)
12) Katy Bishop (Bone Gnawer Galliard, Werewolf)
Questions:
1) Who would make a better college professor: 6, or 11?
Probably Enid, though only because Sheehan was shy.
2) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
Yeah, baby. It was mostly in charisma, though, and in being a dancer/performer (think Broadway). When I picked a picture to represent her, it was Daphne Rubin-Vega’s promo picture from playing Mimi in RENT. Awesome.
3) 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
If it’s to conquer the throngs at a concert, hell yeah, baby. Although there’d be the whole mortal enemies problem. Katy would want to claw Keely’s face off or something similar, and then a Vampire vs. Werewolf fight would break out . . . and that’s never pleasant.
4) What is, or would be, 9's favourite book?
Ava was the one and only character I played who wasn’t much of a reader. She was smart enough, but academics weren’t her thing. I think the last thing she read willingly, that wasn’t a parts catalogue, was probably Pat the Bunny. In Russian at least as well as in English.
5) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
The other way around if Garou did that kind of thing. Sophia was higher ranked, and therefore, she wins.
6) For some reason, 5 is looking for a room-mate. Should they share a studio apartment with 9, or 10?
Um . . . well, Reagan doesn’t like kids. And Ava *has* a kid, but she also has (sometimes) a drug problem. So . . . neither? If one has to be chosen, probably Reagan. Mostly because she’d find someone qualified to deal with an eight year old kid and pay lots of money to make that happen . . . though Ava would get to love her in a gruff, Russian kind of way. So, I guess it’s a toss-up.
7) 2, 7, and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Sophia, Collette and Katy . . . Katy’d go anywhere, so long as someone else was buying. Collette would want somewhere high class and rich, and she’d sleep with whoever she had to in order to get there. Sophia isn’t choosy, but she turns her nose up at store bought Mexican when she (or Mami) could make it far better herself. Katy and Sophia would have quite a bit to talk about, from battles fought to similar tastes in music to cute guys to whatever, but Collette, in her insecurity, would be rather standoffish.
8) 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
Reagan says, “Make love, not war!”
Xan says, “Fucking pussy hippie,” so long as none of the youth group kids are around to hear.
9) If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would they get it back?
Keely wouldn’t care – anything she had, she could replace. Alanae was so painfully honest, if Keely dropped a ten dollar bill when Alanae was starving, she’d still return it.
10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
”Diff’rent Strokes”
11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
………………………………………….
Impossible. No way would my better-than-thou Hermetic work with an Orphan. She’d say, “Get out of my way, you idiot. There, taken care of.”
12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
She’d drive me crazy and sleep with my husband. And my brother-in-law. And my father-in-law. And my friend’s husband. And . . . you get the picture. High maintenance drama queen Cultists . . . *mutters*
13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
Um . . . baby-sit my kids?
14) Does anyone on your friends list resemble 11 (either in appearance or personality)?
Shy, Irish gayboi? Nope, can’t say anyone does.
15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Betsy. No way would Sophia side with that holier-than-though caern-raping bitch.
16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
”I’ve got money and political clout, no way in hell I’m dumb enough to go into battle!”
17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
Foreigner – Jukebox Hero
18) 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Katy. She’s a ‘Gnawer . . . ‘nuff said.
19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
Heh, Reagan’d be far more likely to hit on Sophia than the other way around. Sophia doesn’t swing that way.
20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Being out past curfew.
21) What is 6's secret?
Breaking the Litany, baby, law #1. But she was already pregnant when she fucked him, so does it count?
22) If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
Sheehan, totally, what with the ability to turn into a wolf and all. Or Ava, if she were allowed to drive.
23) If you had to walk home through a bad neighbourhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
Neither, if it came to a fight. But either of them could talk us out of anything, given the opportunity and need.
24) 1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4's sinister secret organization. 11 volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that he/she is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12 in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3, who gives them what they need to complete their quest. What title would you give this fic?
”Crossover Headaches and Staff Breakdowns R Us”
2) Sophia Rodgers nee Martinez (Child of Gaia Ragabash, Werewolf)
3) Xan (Alexandria) Richardson nee Cooper (Celestial Chorus, Mage
4) Elizabeth Robinson (Order of Hermes, Mage)
5) Betsy Gowan (Seelie Pooka Childling, Changeling)
6) Enid (something) (Fianna Galliard, Werewolf)
7) Collette Rousseau (Cult of Ecstasy. Mage)
8) Keely Musikar (Toreador, Vampire)
9) Ava Dostyevsky (Bone Gnawer kin, Werewolf)
10) Reagan Carter (Cult of Ecstasy, Mage)
11) Sheehan (something) (Fianna Theurge, Werewolf)
12) Katy Bishop (Bone Gnawer Galliard, Werewolf)
Questions:
1) Who would make a better college professor: 6, or 11?
Probably Enid, though only because Sheehan was shy.
2) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
Yeah, baby. It was mostly in charisma, though, and in being a dancer/performer (think Broadway). When I picked a picture to represent her, it was Daphne Rubin-Vega’s promo picture from playing Mimi in RENT. Awesome.
3) 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
If it’s to conquer the throngs at a concert, hell yeah, baby. Although there’d be the whole mortal enemies problem. Katy would want to claw Keely’s face off or something similar, and then a Vampire vs. Werewolf fight would break out . . . and that’s never pleasant.
4) What is, or would be, 9's favourite book?
Ava was the one and only character I played who wasn’t much of a reader. She was smart enough, but academics weren’t her thing. I think the last thing she read willingly, that wasn’t a parts catalogue, was probably Pat the Bunny. In Russian at least as well as in English.
5) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
The other way around if Garou did that kind of thing. Sophia was higher ranked, and therefore, she wins.
6) For some reason, 5 is looking for a room-mate. Should they share a studio apartment with 9, or 10?
Um . . . well, Reagan doesn’t like kids. And Ava *has* a kid, but she also has (sometimes) a drug problem. So . . . neither? If one has to be chosen, probably Reagan. Mostly because she’d find someone qualified to deal with an eight year old kid and pay lots of money to make that happen . . . though Ava would get to love her in a gruff, Russian kind of way. So, I guess it’s a toss-up.
7) 2, 7, and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Sophia, Collette and Katy . . . Katy’d go anywhere, so long as someone else was buying. Collette would want somewhere high class and rich, and she’d sleep with whoever she had to in order to get there. Sophia isn’t choosy, but she turns her nose up at store bought Mexican when she (or Mami) could make it far better herself. Katy and Sophia would have quite a bit to talk about, from battles fought to similar tastes in music to cute guys to whatever, but Collette, in her insecurity, would be rather standoffish.
8) 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
Reagan says, “Make love, not war!”
Xan says, “Fucking pussy hippie,” so long as none of the youth group kids are around to hear.
9) If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would they get it back?
Keely wouldn’t care – anything she had, she could replace. Alanae was so painfully honest, if Keely dropped a ten dollar bill when Alanae was starving, she’d still return it.
10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
”Diff’rent Strokes”
11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
………………………………………….
Impossible. No way would my better-than-thou Hermetic work with an Orphan. She’d say, “Get out of my way, you idiot. There, taken care of.”
12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
She’d drive me crazy and sleep with my husband. And my brother-in-law. And my father-in-law. And my friend’s husband. And . . . you get the picture. High maintenance drama queen Cultists . . . *mutters*
13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
Um . . . baby-sit my kids?
14) Does anyone on your friends list resemble 11 (either in appearance or personality)?
Shy, Irish gayboi? Nope, can’t say anyone does.
15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Betsy. No way would Sophia side with that holier-than-though caern-raping bitch.
16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
”I’ve got money and political clout, no way in hell I’m dumb enough to go into battle!”
17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
Foreigner – Jukebox Hero
18) 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Katy. She’s a ‘Gnawer . . . ‘nuff said.
19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
Heh, Reagan’d be far more likely to hit on Sophia than the other way around. Sophia doesn’t swing that way.
20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Being out past curfew.
21) What is 6's secret?
Breaking the Litany, baby, law #1. But she was already pregnant when she fucked him, so does it count?
22) If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
Sheehan, totally, what with the ability to turn into a wolf and all. Or Ava, if she were allowed to drive.
23) If you had to walk home through a bad neighbourhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
Neither, if it came to a fight. But either of them could talk us out of anything, given the opportunity and need.
24) 1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4's sinister secret organization. 11 volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that he/she is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12 in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3, who gives them what they need to complete their quest. What title would you give this fic?
”Crossover Headaches and Staff Breakdowns R Us”
Another Book Meme
So, I'm really anal and I'm changing this one a bit. The other way was driving me crazy trying to find all the ones I'd read (and I've read a lot), so here goes. And, for those of you who don't want to go all the way to the bottom of the list . . . I've read 205 out of 582.
Instructions:
1. Bold those books you've read.
2. Italicise started-but-never-finished (so not doing this part).
3. Add three of your own (in alphabetical order by author's last name).
4. Post to your livejournal (or where ever).
Adams, Douglas: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)
Adams, Richard: Watership Down
Adamson, Issac: Tokyo Suckerpunch
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Andrews, V.C: Flowers in the Attic
Anonymous: Beowulf
Anonymous: The Way of a Pilgrim
Anthony, Piers: Apprentice Adept – Split Infinity
Anthony, Piers: Xanth: the Quest for Magic (original trilogy)
Archer, Jeffrey: Kane and Abel
Asprin, Robert: M.Y.T.H. Inc (series)
Atkinson, Kate: Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia: Falcondance
Atwood, Margaret: Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake
Auel, Jean M: Earth’s Children (series)
Austen, Jane: Emma
Austen, Jane: Persuasion
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Babbit, Natalie: Tuck Everlasting
Bach, Richard: Illusions
Bach, Richard: Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Baddiel, David: Time for Bed
Banks, Iain: The Wasp Factory
Bantock, Nick: Griffin and Sabine
Barker, Pat: Regeneration
Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Baum, L. Frank: The World of Oz (Series)
Bennett, Cherie & Gotesfeld, Jeff: Anne Frank and Me
Bishop, Anne: The Black Jewels Trilogy
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
Blackmoor, R.D: Lorna Doone
Blume, Judy: Summer Sisters
Blyton, Enid: The Magic Faraway Tree
Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
Boswell, John: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Bradbury, Ray: Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray: Farenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray: The Toynbee Convector
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Bloody Sun
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Mists of Avalon
Brin, David: Startide Rising
Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Brookmyre, Christopher: Quite One Ugly Morning
Brown, Dan: Angels and Demons
Brown, Dan: The DaVinci Code
Brown, Dan: Digital Fortress
Brownrigg, Sylvia: Pages for You
Brust, Steven: Jhereg
Brust, Steven: The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Bryson, Bill: The Mother Tongue
Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Barrayar
Bujold, Lois McMaster: A Civil Campaign
Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Curse of Chalion
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
Burroughs, William S: Naked Lunch
Butcher, Jim: The Dresden Files – Grave Peril
Butler, Octavia: Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood)
Byatt, A.S: Possession
Cabot, Meg: The Princess Diaries
Cahill, Thomas: Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
Carle, Eric: The Hungry Caterpillar
Carr, Caleb: The Alienist
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Case, John: The Genesis Code
Cather, Willa: My Antonia
Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael: Summerland
Chabon, Michael: Wonder Boys
Chalker, Jack L: Spirits of Flux and Anchor
Chandler, Raymond: The Last Goodbye
Charriere, Henri: Papillon
Chbosky, Stephen: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cherryh, C.J: Cyteen
Chevalier, Tracy: The Girl With a Pearl Earring
Chodron, Pema: When Everything Falls Apart
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express
Clarke, Arthur C: Childhood’s End
Clavell, James: Shogun
Clouston, J. Storer: The Lunatic at Large
Coelho, Paulo: The Alchemist
Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl (Series)
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
Colapinto, John: As Nature Made Him
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Cooney, Caroline: Among Friends
Cooper, Susan: The Dark is Rising Sequence (five books)
Cooper, Susan: King of Shadows
Coupland, Douglas: Girlfriend in a Coma
Coupland, Douglas: Microserfs
Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One
Cross, Ian: The Good Boy
Cunningham, Scott: Wicca – A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Cuppy, Will: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Cussler, Clive: Cyclops
Cytowick, Richard E: The Man Who Tasted Shapes
Dahl, Roald: The BFG
Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald: Danny, the Champion of the World
Dahl, Roald: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach
Dahl, Roald: Matilda
Dahl, Roald: The Twits
Dahl, Roald: The Witches
Dahl, Roald: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Danielewski, Mark Z: House of Leaves
Dante: Inferno
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin
De Bernieres, Louis: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
DeLint, Charles: Memory and Dream
DeLint, Charles: Moonheart
Demille, Nelson: The Lion’s Game
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
Dickins, Charles: Bleak House
Dickins, Charles: A Christmas Carol
Dickins, Charles: David Copperfield
Dickins, Charles: Great Expectations
Dickins, Charles: Oliver Twist
Dickins, Charles: The Pickwick Papers
Dickins, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Peter: Shadow of a Hero
Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
Doctorow, E.L: Ragtime
Donaldson, Stephen: Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever
Donoghue, Emma: Hood
Dorris, Michael: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (series)
Duane, Diane: So You Want to Be a Wizard
DuBois, W.P: The Twenty-One Balloons
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Muskateers
Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Dunn, Mark: Ella Minnow Pea
Dunning, John: The Bookman’s Promise
Dunning, John: The Bookman’s Wake
Eco, Umberto: Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Eliot, George: Silas Marner
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho
Ende, Michael: The Neverending Story
Englehart, Kim: Joona Trilogy
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola: Women Who Run With the Wolves
Evans, Nicholas: The Horse Whisperer
Farmer, Paul: Infections and Inequalities
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
Feilding, Helen: Brigit Jones Diary
Feist, Raymond E: Magician
Fenton, Edward: The Refugee Summer
Fforde, Jasper: Tuesday Next Series
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
Follett, Ken: Pillars of the Earth
Forster, E.M: A Passage to India
Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal
Foucault, Michael: The History of Sexuality
Fowles, John: The Magus
Frank, Anne (Translated by someone else): The Diary of Anne Frank
Friedland, Joyce: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Gaarder, Jostein: Sophie’s World
Gabaldon, Diana: Cross Stitch
Gabaldon, Diana: Outlander
Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere
Gaiman, Neil: A Season of Mists
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga
Garcia, Cristina: Dreaming in Cuban
Gann, Earnest K: The High and the Mighty
Garland, Alex: The Beach
Garner, Alan: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Gerold, Devid: Chess With a Dragon
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic: Sunset Song
Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm
Gibson, William: The Miracle Worker
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Glass, Suzanne: The Interpreter
Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Goodkind, Terry: Wizard’s First Rule
Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
Grimm Brothers: Grimm’s Grimmest Fairy Tales
Gross-mith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody
Guest, Lady Charlotte E (translator): The Mabigion (Ancient Welsh Tales)
Guest, Judith: Ordinary People
Gunther, John: Death Be Not Proud
Hallowell, Janice: The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn
Hamilton, Laurel K: Guilty Pleasures
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Maddening Crowd
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Heinlein, Robert: Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
Helprin, Mark: Winter’s Tale
Hemingway, Earnest: A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Earnest: The Old Man and the Sea
Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague
Herbert, Frank: Dune (series)
Hill, Beebe: Hanta Yo
Homer: The Odyssey
Hooper, Mary: At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Hornby, Nick: High Fidelity
Horowitz, Anthony: Point Blanc
Horowitz, Anthony: Skeleton Key
Horowitz, Anthony: Stormbreaker
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous: A Brave New World
Hyde, Lewis: Trickster Makes This World
Ibsen, Henrick: A Doll’s House
Ibsen, Henrick: Hedda Gabler
Irving, John: The Cider House Rules
Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John: The World According to Garp
Jansson, Tove: Finn Family Moomintroll
Jerome, Jerome K: Three Men in a Boat
Jones, Diana Wynne: Howl’s Moving Castle
Jordan, Sherryl: A Raging Quiet
Jordan, Robert: Wheel of Time (series)
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz: The Trial
Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana
Kay, Susan: Phantom
Kaye, M.M: The Far Pavilions
Keene, Carolyn: Nancy Drew (series)
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ketchum, Jack: The Girl Next Door
Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
Kidder, Tracy: The Soul of a New Machine
King, Laurie R: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
King, Stephen: Different Seasons
King, Stephen: It
King, Stephen: The Green Mile
King, Stephen: The Gunslinger
King, Stephen: Misery
King, Stephen: The Stand
King, Thomas: Green Grass, Running Water
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Kikhler-Zimmerman, Lenah: My Hundred Children
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
Kipling, Rudyard: The Light That Failed
Klingler, Erin: Love Beyond Tomorrow
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Konigsburg, E.L: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg, E.L: The View From Saturday
Koontz, Dean R: The Oddkins
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kurtz, Katheryn: Camber of Culdi
Lackey, Mercedes: Bedlam Bard (series)
Lackey, Mercedes: The Last Herald Mage Trilogy
Lamott, Anne: Traveling Mercies
Landis, J.D: The Band Never Dances
Lawrence, D.H: Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Lawrence, D.H: Sons and Lovers
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lefebvre, Georges: The Coming of the French Revolution
LeGuin, Ursula: The Earthsea Saga (series)
LeGuin, Ursula: The Telling
L’Engle, Madeline: An Acceptable Time
L’Engle, Madeline: And Both Were Young
L’Engle, Madeline: The Arm of the Starfish
L’Engle, Madeline: Camilla
L’Engle, Madeline: Certain Women
L’Engle, Madeline: A Circle of Quiet
L’Engle, Madeline: Dance in the Desert
L’Engle, Madeline: Dragons in the Waters
L’Engle, Madeline: A House Like a Lotus
L’Engle, Madeline: Many Waters
L’Engle, Madeline: Meet the Austins
L’Engle, Madeline: The Moon by Night
L’Engle, Madeline: A Ring of Endless Light
L’Engle, Madeline: A Severed Wasp
L’Engle, Madeline: The Small Rain
L’Engle, Madeline: Summer of the Great Grandmother
L’Engle, Madeline: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
L’Engle, Madeline: Troubling a Star
L’Engle, Madeline: The Twenty Four Days Before Christmas
L’Engle, Madeline: A Wind in the Door
L’Engle, Madeline: A Winter’s Love
L’Engle, Madeline: A Wrinkle in Time
L’Engle, Madeline: The Young Unicorns
Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera
Levitt, Steven D: Freakonomics
Lewis, C.S: The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Lewis, C.S: Mere Christianity
Lewis, C.S: The Screwtape Letters
Lewis, C.S: Till We Have Faces
Love, Brenda: The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
Lowry, Lois: The Giver
Lowry, Lois: Number the Stars
Ludlum, Robert: The Bourne Identity
MacDonald, George: Lilith
Magorian, Michelle: Goodnight Mister Tom
Maguire, Gregory: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Maguire, Gregory: Lost
Maguire, Gregory: Mirror, Mirror
Maguire, Gregory: Son of a Witch
Maguire, Gregory: Wicked
Mahy, Margaret: The Changeover
Marillier, Juliet: The Sevenwaters Trilogy
Maro, Publius Vergilius: The Aeneid
Maro, Publius Vergilius: The Illiad
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martell, Yann: Life of Pi
Massie, Robert K: Dreadnaught
Maughm, Somerset: Of Human Bondage
McCaffrey, Ann: Dragonsong
McCollough, Colleen: The Thorn Birds
McEwan, Ian: Atonement
McFarlane Jr., Bud: Conceived Without Sin
McFarlane Jr., Bud: Pierced by a Sword
McKillip, Patricia: Riddle-Master Trilogy
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Mieville, China: Perdido Street Station
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Miller Jr., Walter M: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Milne, A.A: Winnie the Pooh (series)
Milosz, Czeslaw: Road-Side Dog
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
Moliere: Tartuffe
Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea
Montgomery, L.M: Anne of Green Gables (series)
Moorcock, Michael: Elric of Melnibone
Moore, Christopher: Lamb – The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Morganstern, S: The Princess Bride
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Nabakov, Vladimir: Lolita
Nabakov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
Nash, Ogden: The Old Dog Barks Backwards
Nelson, O.T: The Girl Who Owned a City
Newman, Kim: Anno Dracula
Niven, Larry: Ringworld
Norris, Kathleen: The Cloister Walk
O’Brian, Patrick: Master and Commander
O’Brien, Kate: The Land of Spices
O’Brien, Robert C: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
O’Dell, Scott: Zia
O’Connor, Flannery: The Complete Stories of
O’Neill, Jaime: At Swim, Two Boys
Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
Ono, Yoko: Grapefruit
Orlev, Uri: The Island on Bird Street
Orwell, George: 1984
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Packard, Edward: The Cave of Time – a Choose Your Own Adventure Book
Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club
Palahniuk, Chuck: Invisible Monsters
Palahniuk, Chuck: Lullaby
Paolini, Christopher: Eldest
Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
Parker, Robert: Double Play
Parkhurst, Carolyn: The Dogs of Babel
Parsons, Tony: Man and Boy
Paterson, Katherine: The Bridge to Terebithia
Paterson, Katherine: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast
Penman, Sharon Kay: Here Be Dragons
Pierce, Tamora: Sandry’s Book
Pierce, Tamora: Song of the Lioness
Pike, Christopher: Sati
Pilcher, Rosamunde: The Shell Seekers
Pinkwater, Daniel: 5 Novels
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Plato: The Apology
Potok, Chaim: My Name is Asher Lev
Pratchett, Terry: The Colour of Magic
Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant
Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens
Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards!
Pratchett, Terry: Hogfather
Pratchett, Terry: Men at Arms
Pratchett, Terry: Mort
Pratchett, Terry: Night Watch
Pratchett, Terry: Reaper Man
Pratchett, Terry: Small Gods
Pratchett, Terry: Soul Music
Pratchett, Terry: Thief of Time
Pratchett, Terry: The Truth
Pratchett, Terry: Witches Abroad
Pratchett, Terry: Wyrd Sisters
Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln: The Relic
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
Pullman, Phillip: His Darker Materials (trilogy)
Putney, Mary Jo: Thunder and Roses
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
Rampling, Ann: Belinda
Rampling, Ann: Exit to Eden
Rand, Ayn: Anthem
Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons
Raskin, Ellen: The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel
Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game
Rawls, Wilson: Where the Red Fern Grows
Read, Piers Paul: ALIVE!
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Renault, Mary: The King Must Die
Renault, Mary: The Mask of Apollo
Rennison, Louise: Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
Rice, Anne: Blackwood Farm
Rice, Anne: Blood Canticle
Rice, Anne: Blood and Gold
Rice, Anne: Cry to Heaven
Rice, Anne: The Feast of All Saints
Rice, Anne: Interview With a Vampire
Rice, Anne: Lahser
Rice, Anne: Memnoch the Devil
Rice, Anne: Merrick
Rice, Anne: The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Rice, Anne: Pandora
Rice, Anne: Queen of the Damned
Rice, Anne: Servant of the Bones
Rice, Anne: The Tale of the Body Thief
Rice, Anne: Taltos
Rice, Anne: The Vampire Armand
Rice, Anne: The Vampire Lestat
Rice, Anne: Violin
Rice, Anne: Vittorio
Rice, Anne: The Witching Hour
Rilke, Renier Maria: Letters to a Young Poet
Roquelaure, A.N: Beauty’s Punishment
Roquelaure, A.N: Beauty’s Release
Roquelaure, A.N: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Rowling, J.K: Harry Potter (series)
Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
Ruff, Matt: Sewer, Gas and Electric
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
Rushdie, Salman: The Moor’s Last Sigh
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
Russell, Maria Doria: The Sparrow
Sachar, Louis: Holes
Sagan, Nick: Idlewild
Salinger, J.D: The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe
Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones
Sedaris, David: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky: The Epistomology of the Closet
Seraillier, Ian: The Silver Sword
Service, Pamela: The Winter of Magic’s Return
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
Seton, Anya: Katherine
Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty
Shaffner, Peter: Equus
Shakespeare, William: Henry V
Shakespeare, William: Julius Ceasar
Shakespeare, William: Othello
Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Shute, Neville: On the Beach
Shute, Neville: A Town Like Alice
Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree
Simic, Charles: The World Doesn’t End
Simmons, Paullina: Tully
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Shosha
Sleator, William: Singularity
Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
Smith, Robert Kimmel: Chocolate Fever
Smith, Wilbur: River God
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley: Below the Root
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
Sorkin, Aaron: A Few Good Men
Spyri, Johanna: Heidi
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John: Travels With Charly
Steingarten, Jeffrey: The Man Who Ate Everything
Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Stewart, George R: Earth Abides
St, George, Judith: Haunted
Stine, R.L: Goosebumps (series)
Stirling, S.M: Island in the Sea of Time
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Stover, Marjorie Filley: Midnight in the Dollhouse
Stover, Marjorie Filley: When the Dolls Woke
Strong, June: Song of Eve
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Susskind, Patrick: Perfume
Tan, Amy: The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy: The Kitchen God’s Wife
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
Taylor, Theodore: The Cay
Thackary, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Thomas, Dylan: The Collected Poems of
Tolkein, JRR: The Hobbit
Tolkein, JRR: The Lord of the Rings (series)
Tolkein, JRR: The Silmarillion
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
Townsend, Sue: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2
Tressell, Robert: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun
Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Various Authors: The American Heritage Dictionary
Various Authors: Dear America (series)
Various Authors: The Holy Bible
Venables, Terry & Williams, Gordon: They Used to Play on Grass
Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
Vinge, Joan D: Catspaw
Voltaire: Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse 5
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest
Waller, Robert James: The Bridges of Madison County
Waters, Sara: Tipping the Velvet
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
Weber, David: Path of the Fury
Weber, David: On Basilisk Station
Wells, H.G: The War of the Worlds
Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
White, E.B: Charlotte’s Web
White, Edmund: The Married Man
White, T.H: The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House on the Prarie (series)
Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
Williams, Tad: Otherland
Willis, Connie: Passage
Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Wilson, E.O: Consilience – the Unity of Knowledge
Wilson, Jacqueline: Bad Girls
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Dare Game
Wilson, Jacqueline: Double Act
Wilson, Jacqueline: Dustbin Baby
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls in Love
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls in Tears
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls out Late
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Illustrated Mum
Wilson, Jacqueline: Lola Rose
Wilson, Jacqueline: Secrets
Wilson, Jacqueline: Sleepovers
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Suitcase Kid
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Story of Tracy Beaker
Wilson, Jacqueline: Vicky Angel
Woodward, Bob & Bernstein, Carl: All the President’s Men
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Wouk, Herman: War and Remembrance
Wrede, Patricia: Dealing With Dragons
Wyman, David: The Abandonment of the Jews
Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids
Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Poems of
Yolen, Jane: The Devil’s Arithmetic
Zelazny, Roger: The Chronicles of Amber (series)
Zelazny, Roger: Lord of Light
Zukav, Gary: The Dancing Wu Li Masters (205/582)
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1. Bold those books you've read.
2. Italicise started-but-never-finished (so not doing this part).
3. Add three of your own (in alphabetical order by author's last name).
4. Post to your livejournal (or where ever).
Adams, Douglas: Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)
Adams, Richard: Watership Down
Adamson, Issac: Tokyo Suckerpunch
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Andrews, V.C: Flowers in the Attic
Anonymous: Beowulf
Anonymous: The Way of a Pilgrim
Anthony, Piers: Apprentice Adept – Split Infinity
Anthony, Piers: Xanth: the Quest for Magic (original trilogy)
Archer, Jeffrey: Kane and Abel
Asprin, Robert: M.Y.T.H. Inc (series)
Atkinson, Kate: Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia: Falcondance
Atwood, Margaret: Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake
Auel, Jean M: Earth’s Children (series)
Austen, Jane: Emma
Austen, Jane: Persuasion
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Babbit, Natalie: Tuck Everlasting
Bach, Richard: Illusions
Bach, Richard: Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Baddiel, David: Time for Bed
Banks, Iain: The Wasp Factory
Bantock, Nick: Griffin and Sabine
Barker, Pat: Regeneration
Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Baum, L. Frank: The World of Oz (Series)
Bennett, Cherie & Gotesfeld, Jeff: Anne Frank and Me
Bishop, Anne: The Black Jewels Trilogy
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts and Crosses
Blackmoor, R.D: Lorna Doone
Blume, Judy: Summer Sisters
Blyton, Enid: The Magic Faraway Tree
Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
Boswell, John: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Bradbury, Ray: Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray: Farenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray: The Toynbee Convector
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Bloody Sun
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Mists of Avalon
Brin, David: Startide Rising
Bronte, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Brookmyre, Christopher: Quite One Ugly Morning
Brown, Dan: Angels and Demons
Brown, Dan: The DaVinci Code
Brown, Dan: Digital Fortress
Brownrigg, Sylvia: Pages for You
Brust, Steven: Jhereg
Brust, Steven: The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Bryson, Bill: The Mother Tongue
Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Barrayar
Bujold, Lois McMaster: A Civil Campaign
Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Curse of Chalion
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
Burroughs, William S: Naked Lunch
Butcher, Jim: The Dresden Files – Grave Peril
Butler, Octavia: Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood)
Byatt, A.S: Possession
Cabot, Meg: The Princess Diaries
Cahill, Thomas: Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
Carle, Eric: The Hungry Caterpillar
Carr, Caleb: The Alienist
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Case, John: The Genesis Code
Cather, Willa: My Antonia
Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael: Summerland
Chabon, Michael: Wonder Boys
Chalker, Jack L: Spirits of Flux and Anchor
Chandler, Raymond: The Last Goodbye
Charriere, Henri: Papillon
Chbosky, Stephen: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cherryh, C.J: Cyteen
Chevalier, Tracy: The Girl With a Pearl Earring
Chodron, Pema: When Everything Falls Apart
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express
Clarke, Arthur C: Childhood’s End
Clavell, James: Shogun
Clouston, J. Storer: The Lunatic at Large
Coelho, Paulo: The Alchemist
Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl (Series)
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White
Colapinto, John: As Nature Made Him
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Cooney, Caroline: Among Friends
Cooper, Susan: The Dark is Rising Sequence (five books)
Cooper, Susan: King of Shadows
Coupland, Douglas: Girlfriend in a Coma
Coupland, Douglas: Microserfs
Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One
Cross, Ian: The Good Boy
Cunningham, Scott: Wicca – A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Cuppy, Will: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Cussler, Clive: Cyclops
Cytowick, Richard E: The Man Who Tasted Shapes
Dahl, Roald: The BFG
Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald: Danny, the Champion of the World
Dahl, Roald: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach
Dahl, Roald: Matilda
Dahl, Roald: The Twits
Dahl, Roald: The Witches
Dahl, Roald: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Danielewski, Mark Z: House of Leaves
Dante: Inferno
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin
De Bernieres, Louis: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
DeLint, Charles: Memory and Dream
DeLint, Charles: Moonheart
Demille, Nelson: The Lion’s Game
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
Dickins, Charles: Bleak House
Dickins, Charles: A Christmas Carol
Dickins, Charles: David Copperfield
Dickins, Charles: Great Expectations
Dickins, Charles: Oliver Twist
Dickins, Charles: The Pickwick Papers
Dickins, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Peter: Shadow of a Hero
Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
Doctorow, E.L: Ragtime
Donaldson, Stephen: Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever
Donoghue, Emma: Hood
Dorris, Michael: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (series)
Duane, Diane: So You Want to Be a Wizard
DuBois, W.P: The Twenty-One Balloons
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Muskateers
Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Dunn, Mark: Ella Minnow Pea
Dunning, John: The Bookman’s Promise
Dunning, John: The Bookman’s Wake
Eco, Umberto: Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Eliot, George: Silas Marner
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho
Ende, Michael: The Neverending Story
Englehart, Kim: Joona Trilogy
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola: Women Who Run With the Wolves
Evans, Nicholas: The Horse Whisperer
Farmer, Paul: Infections and Inequalities
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
Feilding, Helen: Brigit Jones Diary
Feist, Raymond E: Magician
Fenton, Edward: The Refugee Summer
Fforde, Jasper: Tuesday Next Series
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
Follett, Ken: Pillars of the Earth
Forster, E.M: A Passage to India
Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal
Foucault, Michael: The History of Sexuality
Fowles, John: The Magus
Frank, Anne (Translated by someone else): The Diary of Anne Frank
Friedland, Joyce: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Gaarder, Jostein: Sophie’s World
Gabaldon, Diana: Cross Stitch
Gabaldon, Diana: Outlander
Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere
Gaiman, Neil: A Season of Mists
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga
Garcia, Cristina: Dreaming in Cuban
Gann, Earnest K: The High and the Mighty
Garland, Alex: The Beach
Garner, Alan: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Gerold, Devid: Chess With a Dragon
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic: Sunset Song
Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm
Gibson, William: The Miracle Worker
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Glass, Suzanne: The Interpreter
Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Goodkind, Terry: Wizard’s First Rule
Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
Grimm Brothers: Grimm’s Grimmest Fairy Tales
Gross-mith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody
Guest, Lady Charlotte E (translator): The Mabigion (Ancient Welsh Tales)
Guest, Judith: Ordinary People
Gunther, John: Death Be Not Proud
Hallowell, Janice: The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn
Hamilton, Laurel K: Guilty Pleasures
Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Maddening Crowd
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Heinlein, Robert: Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
Helprin, Mark: Winter’s Tale
Hemingway, Earnest: A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Earnest: The Old Man and the Sea
Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague
Herbert, Frank: Dune (series)
Hill, Beebe: Hanta Yo
Homer: The Odyssey
Hooper, Mary: At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Hornby, Nick: High Fidelity
Horowitz, Anthony: Point Blanc
Horowitz, Anthony: Skeleton Key
Horowitz, Anthony: Stormbreaker
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous: A Brave New World
Hyde, Lewis: Trickster Makes This World
Ibsen, Henrick: A Doll’s House
Ibsen, Henrick: Hedda Gabler
Irving, John: The Cider House Rules
Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John: The World According to Garp
Jansson, Tove: Finn Family Moomintroll
Jerome, Jerome K: Three Men in a Boat
Jones, Diana Wynne: Howl’s Moving Castle
Jordan, Sherryl: A Raging Quiet
Jordan, Robert: Wheel of Time (series)
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz: The Trial
Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana
Kay, Susan: Phantom
Kaye, M.M: The Far Pavilions
Keene, Carolyn: Nancy Drew (series)
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ketchum, Jack: The Girl Next Door
Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
Kidder, Tracy: The Soul of a New Machine
King, Laurie R: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
King, Stephen: Different Seasons
King, Stephen: It
King, Stephen: The Green Mile
King, Stephen: The Gunslinger
King, Stephen: Misery
King, Stephen: The Stand
King, Thomas: Green Grass, Running Water
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Kikhler-Zimmerman, Lenah: My Hundred Children
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
Kipling, Rudyard: The Light That Failed
Klingler, Erin: Love Beyond Tomorrow
Knowles, John: A Separate Peace
Konigsburg, E.L: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg, E.L: The View From Saturday
Koontz, Dean R: The Oddkins
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kurtz, Katheryn: Camber of Culdi
Lackey, Mercedes: Bedlam Bard (series)
Lackey, Mercedes: The Last Herald Mage Trilogy
Lamott, Anne: Traveling Mercies
Landis, J.D: The Band Never Dances
Lawrence, D.H: Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Lawrence, D.H: Sons and Lovers
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lefebvre, Georges: The Coming of the French Revolution
LeGuin, Ursula: The Earthsea Saga (series)
LeGuin, Ursula: The Telling
L’Engle, Madeline: An Acceptable Time
L’Engle, Madeline: And Both Were Young
L’Engle, Madeline: The Arm of the Starfish
L’Engle, Madeline: Camilla
L’Engle, Madeline: Certain Women
L’Engle, Madeline: A Circle of Quiet
L’Engle, Madeline: Dance in the Desert
L’Engle, Madeline: Dragons in the Waters
L’Engle, Madeline: A House Like a Lotus
L’Engle, Madeline: Many Waters
L’Engle, Madeline: Meet the Austins
L’Engle, Madeline: The Moon by Night
L’Engle, Madeline: A Ring of Endless Light
L’Engle, Madeline: A Severed Wasp
L’Engle, Madeline: The Small Rain
L’Engle, Madeline: Summer of the Great Grandmother
L’Engle, Madeline: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
L’Engle, Madeline: Troubling a Star
L’Engle, Madeline: The Twenty Four Days Before Christmas
L’Engle, Madeline: A Wind in the Door
L’Engle, Madeline: A Winter’s Love
L’Engle, Madeline: A Wrinkle in Time
L’Engle, Madeline: The Young Unicorns
Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera
Levitt, Steven D: Freakonomics
Lewis, C.S: The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Lewis, C.S: Mere Christianity
Lewis, C.S: The Screwtape Letters
Lewis, C.S: Till We Have Faces
Love, Brenda: The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
Lowry, Lois: The Giver
Lowry, Lois: Number the Stars
Ludlum, Robert: The Bourne Identity
MacDonald, George: Lilith
Magorian, Michelle: Goodnight Mister Tom
Maguire, Gregory: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Maguire, Gregory: Lost
Maguire, Gregory: Mirror, Mirror
Maguire, Gregory: Son of a Witch
Maguire, Gregory: Wicked
Mahy, Margaret: The Changeover
Marillier, Juliet: The Sevenwaters Trilogy
Maro, Publius Vergilius: The Aeneid
Maro, Publius Vergilius: The Illiad
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Martell, Yann: Life of Pi
Massie, Robert K: Dreadnaught
Maughm, Somerset: Of Human Bondage
McCaffrey, Ann: Dragonsong
McCollough, Colleen: The Thorn Birds
McEwan, Ian: Atonement
McFarlane Jr., Bud: Conceived Without Sin
McFarlane Jr., Bud: Pierced by a Sword
McKillip, Patricia: Riddle-Master Trilogy
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Mieville, China: Perdido Street Station
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Miller Jr., Walter M: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Milne, A.A: Winnie the Pooh (series)
Milosz, Czeslaw: Road-Side Dog
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
Moliere: Tartuffe
Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea
Montgomery, L.M: Anne of Green Gables (series)
Moorcock, Michael: Elric of Melnibone
Moore, Christopher: Lamb – The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Morganstern, S: The Princess Bride
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Nabakov, Vladimir: Lolita
Nabakov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
Nash, Ogden: The Old Dog Barks Backwards
Nelson, O.T: The Girl Who Owned a City
Newman, Kim: Anno Dracula
Niven, Larry: Ringworld
Norris, Kathleen: The Cloister Walk
O’Brian, Patrick: Master and Commander
O’Brien, Kate: The Land of Spices
O’Brien, Robert C: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
O’Dell, Scott: Zia
O’Connor, Flannery: The Complete Stories of
O’Neill, Jaime: At Swim, Two Boys
Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
Ono, Yoko: Grapefruit
Orlev, Uri: The Island on Bird Street
Orwell, George: 1984
Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Packard, Edward: The Cave of Time – a Choose Your Own Adventure Book
Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club
Palahniuk, Chuck: Invisible Monsters
Palahniuk, Chuck: Lullaby
Paolini, Christopher: Eldest
Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
Parker, Robert: Double Play
Parkhurst, Carolyn: The Dogs of Babel
Parsons, Tony: Man and Boy
Paterson, Katherine: The Bridge to Terebithia
Paterson, Katherine: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast
Penman, Sharon Kay: Here Be Dragons
Pierce, Tamora: Sandry’s Book
Pierce, Tamora: Song of the Lioness
Pike, Christopher: Sati
Pilcher, Rosamunde: The Shell Seekers
Pinkwater, Daniel: 5 Novels
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Plato: The Apology
Potok, Chaim: My Name is Asher Lev
Pratchett, Terry: The Colour of Magic
Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant
Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens
Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards!
Pratchett, Terry: Hogfather
Pratchett, Terry: Men at Arms
Pratchett, Terry: Mort
Pratchett, Terry: Night Watch
Pratchett, Terry: Reaper Man
Pratchett, Terry: Small Gods
Pratchett, Terry: Soul Music
Pratchett, Terry: Thief of Time
Pratchett, Terry: The Truth
Pratchett, Terry: Witches Abroad
Pratchett, Terry: Wyrd Sisters
Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln: The Relic
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
Pullman, Phillip: His Darker Materials (trilogy)
Putney, Mary Jo: Thunder and Roses
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
Rampling, Ann: Belinda
Rampling, Ann: Exit to Eden
Rand, Ayn: Anthem
Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons
Raskin, Ellen: The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel
Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game
Rawls, Wilson: Where the Red Fern Grows
Read, Piers Paul: ALIVE!
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
Renault, Mary: The King Must Die
Renault, Mary: The Mask of Apollo
Rennison, Louise: Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
Rice, Anne: Blackwood Farm
Rice, Anne: Blood Canticle
Rice, Anne: Blood and Gold
Rice, Anne: Cry to Heaven
Rice, Anne: The Feast of All Saints
Rice, Anne: Interview With a Vampire
Rice, Anne: Lahser
Rice, Anne: Memnoch the Devil
Rice, Anne: Merrick
Rice, Anne: The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Rice, Anne: Pandora
Rice, Anne: Queen of the Damned
Rice, Anne: Servant of the Bones
Rice, Anne: The Tale of the Body Thief
Rice, Anne: Taltos
Rice, Anne: The Vampire Armand
Rice, Anne: The Vampire Lestat
Rice, Anne: Violin
Rice, Anne: Vittorio
Rice, Anne: The Witching Hour
Rilke, Renier Maria: Letters to a Young Poet
Roquelaure, A.N: Beauty’s Punishment
Roquelaure, A.N: Beauty’s Release
Roquelaure, A.N: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Rowling, J.K: Harry Potter (series)
Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
Ruff, Matt: Sewer, Gas and Electric
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
Rushdie, Salman: The Moor’s Last Sigh
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
Russell, Maria Doria: The Sparrow
Sachar, Louis: Holes
Sagan, Nick: Idlewild
Salinger, J.D: The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe
Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones
Sedaris, David: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedgewick, Eve Kosofsky: The Epistomology of the Closet
Seraillier, Ian: The Silver Sword
Service, Pamela: The Winter of Magic’s Return
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
Seton, Anya: Katherine
Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty
Shaffner, Peter: Equus
Shakespeare, William: Henry V
Shakespeare, William: Julius Ceasar
Shakespeare, William: Othello
Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Shute, Neville: On the Beach
Shute, Neville: A Town Like Alice
Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree
Simic, Charles: The World Doesn’t End
Simmons, Paullina: Tully
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Shosha
Sleator, William: Singularity
Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
Smith, Robert Kimmel: Chocolate Fever
Smith, Wilbur: River God
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley: Below the Root
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
Sorkin, Aaron: A Few Good Men
Spyri, Johanna: Heidi
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John: Travels With Charly
Steingarten, Jeffrey: The Man Who Ate Everything
Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Stewart, George R: Earth Abides
St, George, Judith: Haunted
Stine, R.L: Goosebumps (series)
Stirling, S.M: Island in the Sea of Time
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Stover, Marjorie Filley: Midnight in the Dollhouse
Stover, Marjorie Filley: When the Dolls Woke
Strong, June: Song of Eve
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Susskind, Patrick: Perfume
Tan, Amy: The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy: The Kitchen God’s Wife
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
Taylor, Theodore: The Cay
Thackary, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Thomas, Dylan: The Collected Poems of
Tolkein, JRR: The Hobbit
Tolkein, JRR: The Lord of the Rings (series)
Tolkein, JRR: The Silmarillion
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
Townsend, Sue: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2
Tressell, Robert: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun
Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Various Authors: The American Heritage Dictionary
Various Authors: Dear America (series)
Various Authors: The Holy Bible
Venables, Terry & Williams, Gordon: They Used to Play on Grass
Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days
Vinge, Joan D: Catspaw
Voltaire: Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse 5
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest
Waller, Robert James: The Bridges of Madison County
Waters, Sara: Tipping the Velvet
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
Weber, David: Path of the Fury
Weber, David: On Basilisk Station
Wells, H.G: The War of the Worlds
Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
White, E.B: Charlotte’s Web
White, Edmund: The Married Man
White, T.H: The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House on the Prarie (series)
Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
Williams, Tad: Otherland
Willis, Connie: Passage
Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Wilson, E.O: Consilience – the Unity of Knowledge
Wilson, Jacqueline: Bad Girls
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Dare Game
Wilson, Jacqueline: Double Act
Wilson, Jacqueline: Dustbin Baby
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls in Love
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls in Tears
Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls out Late
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Illustrated Mum
Wilson, Jacqueline: Lola Rose
Wilson, Jacqueline: Secrets
Wilson, Jacqueline: Sleepovers
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Suitcase Kid
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Story of Tracy Beaker
Wilson, Jacqueline: Vicky Angel
Woodward, Bob & Bernstein, Carl: All the President’s Men
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Wouk, Herman: War and Remembrance
Wrede, Patricia: Dealing With Dragons
Wyman, David: The Abandonment of the Jews
Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids
Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Poems of
Yolen, Jane: The Devil’s Arithmetic
Zelazny, Roger: The Chronicles of Amber (series)
Zelazny, Roger: Lord of Light
Zukav, Gary: The Dancing Wu Li Masters (205/582)
03 October 2006
Banned Books Are Better Reads (meme from Kai)
Banned Book Week (the meme)
In light of last week, here's another fun web game. If you've read the book, bold it. How many of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books have you read?
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
In light of last week, here's another fun web game. If you've read the book, bold it. How many of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books have you read?
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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