10 posts tagged “meme”
Instructions:
Copy this and paste into a new entry. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other "Book Nerds."
I went with the standards of the person who posted this before me: I am a purist, so if I hadn't read the whole book it didn't count.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (You must have read them ALL!) (only 2)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
Total: 7
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 5
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 x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
Total: 3
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Total: 2
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
Total: 6
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquezx
Total: 3
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
Total: 7
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante x
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Total: 4
80 Possession - AS Byatt x
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell x
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
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 x
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
Total: 5
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 6
=48... almost half!
Since I haven't had the gumption to do try to assimilate last year, I'll let a meme do it for me....
1. what did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? went to sweden, denmark, berlin, prague. worked at an ad agency for a day. had an ultrasound.
2. did you keep your new year's resolutions and will you make more for next year? um, I doubt it. but, yes I have made some goals/ plans for 2009 and beyond!
3. did anyone close to you give birth? mary expelled one ollie.
4. did anyone close to you die? no, although the woman in the office next door killed herself.
5. what countries did you visit? denmark, sweden, germany, czech republic, UK, canada
6. what would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? regular exercise, excess cash
7. what dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? feb 15 - my last day at my former job. and july 15.
8. what was your biggest achievement of the year? got a good job in a relatively short amount of time
9. what was your biggest failure? the diet and exercise thing. NaNoWriMo was pretty much a joke, too.
10. did you suffer illness or injury? I had some mysterious back spasms, that was about as bad as it got
11. what was the best thing you bought? a projector & screen
12. whose behaviour merited celebration? hmm. Barack Obama merited some celebration.
13. whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? Sarah Palin, among many many other Republicans
14. where did most of your money go? I have no fucking idea. I sent a lot to credit cards...
15. what did you get really, really really excited about? travels
16. what song will always remind you of 2008? Midnight Man - Nick Cave
17. compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier
b)
thinner or fatter? fatter!
c) richer or poorer? poorer
18. what do you wish you'd done more of? exercise, making art, looking at art, reading, writing, relaxing, cleaning, yoga
19. what do you wish you'd done less of? interwebbing, eating poorly, stressing & clinching, arguing
20. how did you spend christmas? dinner at aunt rosie's in auburn
21. did you fall in love in 2008? I was on a different trajectory.
22. what was your favourite tv programme? mad men
23. do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I'm no hater
24. what was the best book you read? ooh, tough one. I read a ton of good novels, including: Oracle Night (Paul Auster), House of Meetings (Martin Amis), After Dark (Haruki Murakami), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen), Veronica (Mary Gaitskill)....
25. what was your greatest musical discovery? hmm. mostly some good ambient stuff, like Stars of the Lid...
26. what did you want and get? a new job; a haircut
27. what did you want and not get? healthy savings account + no debt + extra cash; a condo; inner peace; a publishing deal
28. what was your favourite film of this year? Man on Wire was good, as was No Country for Old Men
29. what did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 37 and had a party at my apartment which was attended by many people I love and some I barely know. On the day itself I ate pizza and had chocolate cake with chocolate martinis for dessert
30. what would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? finishing writing my memoir
31. how would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? I don't even know what a "fashion concept" is, but if I have one it is probably Very Comfortable Pants.
32. what kept you sane? my therapist; laughter; being able to connect with folks online
33. which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Barack Obama.
34. what political issue stirred you the most? the whole US presidential election.
35. who did you miss? my dad.
36. who was the best new person you met? everyone at my new job.
37. tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008. often what seems to be misfortune is really change for the better
38. quote a song lyric that sums up your year. where is my mind?
thanks, rogue
Your result for The Personality Defect Test...
Robot
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact,
this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless
machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem
human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of
your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are
also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that
these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a
human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie
robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and
likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel
killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than
all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and
doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a
winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts,
silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not
gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an
ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of
a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie
was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly
maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are
boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years,
my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my
brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you
don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying,
super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of
course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure
are delicious.
1) What was I doing 10 years ago?
1998. I worked as the Accounts Payable manager at Lunde Marine Electronics in Ballard (Seattle, WA). My desk was in a depressing basement with no windows, a "swamp cooler" that smelled like wet dog in the summer, and heaps of paperwork. Their accounting software was a DOS based version of MAS 90. There was a bottle of Aquavit in the freezer at all times. If nothing else, that job got me in touch with my inner Norwegian. I have no outer Norwegian, but the Norwegians I worked with were some of the best folks I've ever known. That same year my mom was diagnosed with Leukemia and was given a very grim prognosis. This helped me remember how short life truly is and decide to quit the banal, soul-destroying day job. I was proposed to in a rainforest on the Oregon Coast, and I said 'yes' despite some trepidation. I learned to enjoy watching bicycle racing on TV.
2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?
I have just installed a nifty todo-list program on my Mac called "Things." I shall consult it....
- Water plants
- Package up pendant from Prague for mom
- Wash dishes
- Package promo CDs to send out for The Wedding Present
- Pay BOA
3) Snacks I enjoy:
Cheese 'n' Apples, Kettle chips, smoked salmon, guacamole (& chips), dark chocolate
4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Pay
off debts. Quit working for other people. Buy my mom a house and a personal caretaker. Travel a lot. Buy a condo in the city and a house in the country. Get a graduate degree in something that interests me. Spend a lot of time writing. Become a philanthropist.
5) Places I have lived:
Coeur d'Alene, ID & Seattle, WA
6) Jobs I have had:
Video store clerk, Kinko's copy clerk, circulation manager/ royalties calculatrice/ subcription maven @ Fantagraphics Books, AP manager @ Lunde Marine Electronics, temp (incl Marketing Coordinator @ Starbucks), Agency Coordinator @ LiveWire Interactive, Self-Employed small business services, Production Manager @ VM Creative
Soo Doh Nim, bodhibound, electric firefly, djchall, Cammie, homebody, incoherent intoxicity and anyone else who cares to!
I've been "tagged" by Barry so here goes
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 different people.
"A few days after my chance discovery in the library, I surfed the Internet and came across an interview with U.G. Brahma, president of the All Bodo Students Union, who complained that under the pressure of aggressive Sanskritization, several Bodo subgroups have forsaken the Bodo language and culture. This poses a serious threat to the survival of our Bodo culture as a separate entity.
As I knew from living in Quebec - and as I had witnessed on a tiny scale on the Isle of Man - nationalist movements often draw their most potent energy from fears of language loss and cultural erasure."
That's from:
I'm not going to tag, because everyone has pretty much done this already, but if you haven't, don't let me hold you back! Grab thee your nearest book!
A distracting meme, courtesy of brownamazon.
The Idea is to do an image search on your answer to each and post a representative image.
1. Age at next birthday
2. A place you'd like to travel
3. Your favorite place
4. Your favorite object
5. Your favorite food
6. Your favorite animals
7. Your favorite color
8. Town where you were born
9. Town where you live
10. Name of a past pet
11. First name of a past love
12. Best friend's nickname
13. Your screen name/nickname
14. Your first name
15. Your middle name
16. Your last name
17. Bad habit of yours
18. Your first job
19. Your grandmothers' first names
20. Your college major
courtesy of GinBaby
 | You scored as Materialist, Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.
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What is Your World View?
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Totally.
Which Peanuts Character are You?
I done been tagged by squarecow.
The rules of the game are ...
Once you read this you gotta post your own blog with 10 weird, cool, or funny facts about yourself. Then tag 10 people to do the same and don't forget to leave them a comment!!
First, I'd like to say that it's really interesting what people think are the interesting things about themselves. I'm not sure if or why these pieces of trivia are interesting to anyone, but here they are anyway....
- I am, at this very moment, eating a large bowl of home-made guacamole... for dinner.
- I currently live with a 7-month-old Meyer's Parrot named Beatrice.
- I once spent the weekend in the village of Alfriston, Sussex, UK at the home of David Gedge of The Wedding Present.
- For 10 years I had a pet green iguana. He was called Fritz.
- I can bend my thumbs in many unusual ways.
- I used to go on road trips with the Ford V-8 club as a child.
- My bicycle is called Jaja after Laurent Jalabert.
- In 1992 I had bright fuschia hair and a nose-ring.
- My middle name is Green.
- I did not drive or own a car until I was 32 years old.
OK, then. You're pardoned if you have already done this or you just don't want to. Tag, you're it: Barry, Bill, CompassRose, ed-infinitum, info_babe, Waterbaby, Tchatchke, P-Blog, Stacy, Redzilla
Thanks to Vanna for another way to avoid the spring cleaning effort.
Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you have read a bit from but never finished, italicize the ones you might want to read in the future, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10-foot pole, and do not do anything to the ones you’ve never heard of.
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride And Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)4. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: (Tolkien)8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Brontë)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (E. Brontë)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
42.The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
