Journal to a Muse

A Bookish Meme!!

Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around (or strike through) the ones you've never even heard of.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This is a great read, in spite of the hype.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger If I have a copy, it is packed away.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald-- I just couldn't ever get into this.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger I sold it when I was through.
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman I enjoyed the whole series and can't wait for the movie.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel. I bought this because BOTH my children said is was one of their favorites.
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch -22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden. Gave this one to a friend.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. This was a slow starter, but haunting. Gave it to a friend.
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A bookclub I'm in read this... I missed the discussion.
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway. I don't "get" Hemmingway.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. Even though this book is over 20 years old, it has just been banned in Texas because her warnings about the problems of a theocratic government are coming true and, um, the theocratic parents in the school district don't get the joke.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

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