Basically, I suck. Of a list of 100 most popular books (must be of Canadians for all the Canadian authors in the list), I've read 18 of them. Amber on the other hand has read 32 of them.
There are a couple reasons I suck: I read really really really really slowly and the other reason is that I do mindnumbing stuff like playing "The Never-Ending Movie Quiz" and iPod Cubis.
Amber on the other hand can power through a novel in about 2 days and that's when she practices restraint. She actually stops herself from reading novels because she would run out in a couple weeks and then have nothing to read for months. Punk.
Popular books we've read:
Just Amber:
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)Just Zaak:
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
1984 (Orwell)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)Both of us have read:
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)There is no consolation. Not even people telling me they've only read fortune cookies in the last ten years.
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Bible
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
(Amber's dominatrix outfit is in the wash so we had to do a headlock pose instead)
4 comments:
I read so much at work that the last thing I want to do is read an actual book. But, apparently, reading blogs all evening is OK :-)
Since you like books and all...you should check out Novembrance
My checks beside the books listed would be fairly few and far between. I know that's no consolation but I thought I would mention. I have only recently remembered that I like to read. (I think college ruined that for me.) So I'm catching up. But have read some really great stuff. So I'm excited to continue.
And I hear those domnatrix outfits should be dry cleaned only.
I hear you guys, reading high volume at work or school does wreck the rest of the passtime.
Just as working in a gardening is soothing to the soul, I think reading is a magnificent exercise for the mind, so keep reading!!
Here's the original list from my.local.girl's Blog.
I like the dominatrix outfit tight though and the drycleaners don't shrink it.
Well, since it won't console you to tell you I have read less than you, I will tell you, "Yay Amber". You really should step up the pace in your reading, she is becoming much more cultured than you;-).
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