100 Books

My friend Heidi did this on her blog, so I decided to as well.

*** Here is a list put forth by the National Endowment for the Arts in the US. It lists the top 100 books, and asks how many you’ve actually read.The Big Read [which is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture] reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.

Edit**See below for more information regarding this list

I have colored the ones I have read. .. .

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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
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
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
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s 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
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
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Thanks for reading!P.S. The list is random, not in order of importance -

So I have read 33 of them, if I counted right. Not bad, I guess.

Some of the books seem to repeat a bit, like 14 says the complete works of Shakespere (who has read the complete works?), and 98 is Hamlet. Also with the Chronicles of Narnia. But still interesting.

Tell me how many you have read, and also give me a recommendation of some to read that I have not yet read. I am not interested in all these books, but I'm always looking for another good read!

Tag. .. if you wish. . . Do this on your blog and let us all see what you have read.

***EDIT: I found a little more info regarding this list of books: The list I posted is the result of a poll/survey conducted online last year by World Book Day. "The 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their top 10 titles that they could not live without." - wrote The Guardian in an article published on March 1st. And then they take us to the list - in HERE . So this list is just for fun, as far as I'm concerned.

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Twinkle, Twinkle. . .

I think one of the purposes of a blog is to document events and other things that you don't want to forget. I want to appreciate little things, and not forget them. So this is kind of for me. . . . Mia REALLY likes to sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Every morning when I read scriptures, sing a song, and say a prayer with the kids before sending them off to school, she HAS to sing this song. I managed to get her to sing it for me this morning in front of the camera (she loves to dance and sing, but does NOT like to perform. .. she is shy). Not as good as she does with out a camera, but still good enough for me to remember down the road when I forget how she always sang this song, and how cute she is when she does it. . . . .

Saturday

Fall is always a busy time. I know it is the same for most of you as well. Now that we have three kids playing soccer, it makes for interesting Saturday mornings. The day stared off with team pictures for Luke and Kenendy, and then David went to their games. Luckily they were playing at the same location and the same time. So he was able to watch two games at once. Elizabeth then had pictures as well, and then a game. I went to her game and them picked up David, Luke, and Kennedy afterward.

Kennedy was happy to report that her team won their game. She is a pretty good team player. .. but we would like to see her use some of her speed that we saw the last couple years.

Luke had a pretty bad loss. He didn't seem too down about it, though. He is a really smart player, and understands the game well. He just needs to put a little more heart into it at times. He does enjoy playing.

Elizabeth was the star of the day. Granted, it is only cub soccer, and they don't play with goalies, but she scored 5 goals at her game! No that is not the team total, that is Elizabeth's personal total! She is quite the little player. I actually had a man come up to me after the game and ask if she wanted to play on his softball team. I have never had one of my children recruited before! But she sure is entertaining to watch. She is agressive and quick, and coordinated as well. Quite a star.

Then in the afternoon, Elizabeth had her birthday party. We rented out a local gymnastics facility and the kids had a great time. They had an hour of various gymnastics activities and then we had a half hour to use the "party room" for cake and presents. I think all the kids were pretty warn out. They were running, and hopping, and jumping, the whole time. I love that I just had to bring the cake and didn't have to plan a thing. That is my type of party!

In the afternoon was the BYU-UCLA football game. I am sure you all know that BYU won 59-0! David was so overcome with emotion that he actually got teary eyed.

I was able to get a whole bunch of Brigham City peaches from Aunt Sherry and Uncle Jeff. I spent some time pealing and freezing some, and today I made some homemade jam. They are soooo good!

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth is celebrating her 6th birthday today. She was up bright and early to open presents. It was like Christmas morning, but only one got presents. She was actually crying last night because she was so anxious to open her gifts. I hope she wasn't dissapointed. She didn't seem to be. Just happy and excited.I don't know if you can see her expression as she is admiring her gift. Priceless.

I had to throw this picture in. Oh, Mia, it is so hard when there is nothing for you!

School Breakfast

This week at the school is family week. Today's activity was family breakfast. So I headed over to the school with the kids for breakfast. This was the menu: Donut, banana, trix yogurt, and milk. I'm not sure about nutritional value and all, but I guess it could be worse.

Where is Luke, you ask? Well, he didn't sit with us. So much for "family breakfast". He went to go sit with a friend of his.

Picnic in the Canyon

We spent Friday night going up the Hobble Creek Canyon with the Udalls for a picnic. We were in the same ward when we lived in Provo, and we now both live in Springville. All the kids got along so great and we had a great time visting and getting up to date on news and events going on. all the kids eating. cole got stung by a bee. that is why he has his hand in the water jug. everyone was quite concerned with the bees after that.Lilly is quite the photographer. She is getting a shot of Mia here. Heidi and I. I had to steal this one off your blog, Heidi! I only caught Alli looking, and she sure looks good! Kennedy, Elizabeth and Lilly are like BFF now! Seriously though, they can't wait to play again. Mia was hanging out with Will and Barry. Here they are admiring the sunset. It was starting to get cold by this time. We were originally going to go camping, but just went up the canyon instead. Maybe next time on the camping trip!

Kung Fu Panda

Kennedy has been wanting to go see Kung Fu Panda since it came out a few months ago. I am too much of a cheap-0 to take the family to the regular theatre. So she had to wait. It finally made it to the dollar theatre so we met up with the cousins and went today for Labor Day. It was really crowded, in fact sold out, at the theatre. But we all saw the movie plus got popcorn and drinks for 16.00! Who can beat that? Plus the drinks and popcorn were bottomless so we could keep refilling them. We are heading out for a walk to the park to relieve our pop and popcorn fileld bellies. We all enjoyed the movie too. What did you do for Labor Day today?

Elizabeth is off to school