Much time between posts, Les Miserables, personalities, book list, (finaly) a craft progect, and National Novel Writing Month

Sorry for the delay between posts. I'll try to get more posts on. =}

Apparently, the BBC thinks that most people will have only read 6 out of the 100 books listed here...

Check it out and see how many you have read!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible- X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -X

Total: 6

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 -X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -

Total: 3

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- X

Total: 6

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens- X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma-Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
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 - X

Total: 6

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -X
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- X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X

Total: 5

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 Marquez -

Total: 2

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-X
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 -X

Total:2

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-
80 Possession - AS Byatt –

Total: 4

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
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 - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton-

Total: 3

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
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 -
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo-X

Total: Six

I read:
Pride and Prejudice, LOTR, Jane Eyre, HP, The Bible, Wuthering Hights, 1984, Great Expecations, Little Women, Complete Works of Shackspear, The Hobbit, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Grapes of Wrath, Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, David Copperfeild, CoN, Emma, Persuation, Winnie the Pooh, AoGG, LofF,Sense and Sensablity, A Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist, Dracula, The Secrate Garden, The Inferno, A Christmas Carol, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Watership Down, The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, LM

I got 37, and Mom got 33.

SPOILERS BELOW. WARNING. WARNING.

I read Les Miserables. The un-abridged version. It was great. Victor Hugo waxes on for pages and pages about the Bishiop of D--, and he's only in for about eight pages with Valjean (main character). Ditto for Fantine, but she's at least a secondary character, while the Bishiop of D--is a third character. Grantire (always drunk revolutinary) has a few questionable scenes, but then again, he's always drunk....Engolras is an amazing character, and somehow when Grantire tries to get him drunk, never gets drunk. Not so the case with Marius, who (in the words of an Urik-hi (sp?) in Two Towers) "Can't take his drought!", but Marius is a good character non-the-less; and is in love, so if he didn't spend as much time climbing over fences to get at Cosette, day dreaming about Cosette, etc, he'd be great. Cosette is a pretty good character, extreamly ignorent at times, but can be smart sometimes and is in love with Marius. Eponine is a street-girl, who happens to be in love with Marius--Don't let the musical fool you about her being love sick and wimpy! In the book, she's a street girl who'll do anything to stay alive and keep her freinds alive (hence the reson she dies of a bullet wound in her hand saving Marius at the barricades). Gavroche is the second best secondary character in LM (Engolras is the best secondary character), he's Eponine's brother, and he dies--bravly mixed with ignorence that bullets can kill, but he dies! (I always cry during that part.) Javert is very leagilsist, and continualy drives me up the wall, so--ahem--I was kinda glad that he died. Ahem. Just a little. Almost everybody dies. In order of death: Bishiop of D--, Fantine, Alzma (Eponine's sister, mentioned four times then dies), Madam. Thenariar, some of the Paris gaurd, Eponine, Engolras, Grantire, the other revoultionaries, half of Paris, half of the Paris gaurd, Gavroche (who didn't seem very sad about 'Ponine dying, for some reason....), Javert, Valjean.

Grantire-- ? He's always drunk. :)
Engolras-- Saunguine Meloncoly
Marius-- ISTP
Cosette--INFS
Fantine--ENFS
Javert-- ? He's very leagilistic.
Valjean-- IFPJ
Thenardiar-- Extrovert Idiot Heap of Frog Droppings (I don't know of a personality type for that)

Couroumbrafrace (or something like that)-- ENFJ
Gavroche-- ENTP
Bishiop of D-- INSJ

I've forgotten a lot of people, but those are the people who show up the most. I tried very hard not to pass Thenardiar off as too bad. He does have a good streak once in a while....If you want to know what those abriviations mean, just leave a comment!

My freind (Alyosha, A. K. A, Aly) did a post about Les Miserables here http://friendoftheabc.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-which-i-unmask-conspiracy.html http://friendoftheabc.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-day-more.html I want to warn you, that in the preview clip in the second post, there's part of a song in it that has a lot of bad words. Ye be warned! She's a great blogger, so here's her blog adress. www.freindoftheabc.blogspot.com

National Novel Writing Month (www.ywp.nanowrimo.org if you're under 18, and www.nanowrimo.org if you're over 18) is only 90 days away! I can't wait until it's time to start writing! What you do is write a 50,000 word novel if you're on the adult site, or write a novel for however many words you set your word count at on the young writer's site. Why write a novel in a month? This is what the FAQ says about NaNo: "There are three reasons.

1) If you don't do it now, you probably never will. Here's the truth: 99% of us, if left to our own devices, would never make the time to write a novel. The structure of NaNoWriMo forces you to put away all those worries and START. Once you have the first five chapters under your belt, the rest will come easily. Or painfully. But it will come. And you'll have friends to help you see it through to meet your word-count goal.

2) Aiming low is the best way to succeed. Once you start evaluating your story in terms of quantity instead of quality, you take that pressure off yourself. And you'll start surprising yourself with a great bit of dialogue here and an genius plot twist there. Characters will start doing things you never expected, taking the story places you'd never imagined. There will be horrible writing, yes. But along with the bad writing, there will be beauty. A lot of it.

3) Making art for fun does wonderful things to you. It makes you laugh. It makes you cry. It makes you want to take naps and go places wearing funny pants. Doing something just for the heck of it is wonderful medicine."

So go sign up! Miss Stewart and Miss Dudly always like writers to sign up for NaNo.

Finaly a craft. (Sorry it took so long.) It's a collage thingy. What you do is:

1. Find a lot of old magizines and get pictures of whatever you want from the internet.

2. Get some scrapbook paper and/or stickers (I didn't use stickers, just markers) and some markers and pens in different colors.

3. Cut out the pictures and glue them onto the scrap book paper however you want.

4. Decorate the page if you want.

5. Write a caption of what the page is of using the stickers or markers.

It's really easy to make one.