I Heart Books!

I found this list online a while ago and thought I would take a crack at it.  Plus, I love having an excuse to read.  

I only counted books I have read in their entirety in my tally, so I guess I shouldn't feel that bad. 


 My number is 25 books--I have started a couple of these already and now I guess I must go back and finish.

100 books to read before you die.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
3. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
4. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
 The Bible
 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
5. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
 Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
6. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
7. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
9. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
10. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
11. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
12. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
13. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
14. Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
15. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
 Dune – Frank Herbert
 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
16. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
19. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
20.  Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
 Ulysses – James Joyce
21. The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
 Germinal – Emile Zola
 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
 Possession – AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
22. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
23. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom –
 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
24. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
25. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Seven months in a (rather lenghthy) nutshell.

So, too much has happened these last seven months to not post so here goes...

March- Derby draft attempt  #1

yeah yeah it turns out I was soooooooo not ready

     April- blah work work work work Easter was nice...

 Then there was Prom...

 

















 I also received a free makeover, thanks to one of my students and her nomination!!!


  









Before

After

  

The hair was awesome...the make up on the other hand.....

 

May- Crazy crazy crazy busy... Birthday, derby, Alice's birthday, derby, tattoo, end of the school year...derby

 

 

 My tattoo 

  

2nd Annual Creative Writing Coffeehouse

and more derby...




















and my birthday

 They made me a Zombie Wacker

                                                                         Alice turned 3...

 

 

 

 

June- If I thought May was bad, June was the most exhausting month of my entire existence.

 June 2nd- In honor and memory of  Derek, I donated 10 inches of my hair.

June 10th- Draft attempt #2  I make it.



 As of 6/10 I am officially a Treasure Valley Rollergirl. I claim my name and number and am now able to play derby with some of the MOST amazing women on the planet.
This is also the day I drive up to Moscow, Idaho for a month of classes to get me closer to my Master's degree.















June 16th.
      I was playing roller derby up in Moscow and they allowed my to participate in their Freshmeat Scrimmage, as I was jamming and trying to get through the pack I somehow fell and some other girl(s) landed on my ankle and it went all Rice Crispines on me.

I fractured both sides of my left ankle.

 

 

 I now have 7 screws, a metal plate and 2 pins in my ankle. I was on bed rest for 10 days. No skating for 3 months no full contact for 6. My heart was most definitely broken. But I promised this was not the end for Smack Skellington. :)

     I finished up my course worked, earned one A and one B and went back home.

 A week back home and my Davey kitty had to be put down. He had a disease called fatty liver.

August 6th- Brian and I celebrate 7 years of marriage.

 

                                                                                                                                                            September 6th (not even a full 3 months after the break)

                    I am back on skates.

I am slower,
            weaker,
                 and in no way my best,
                                  but I will get there.



 

This has not been my summer. Last summer was NOT my summer....Maybe next summer??

                             But there is always hope....and things to look forward to...right?

Days Eighteen - Twenty-Three

March 18th - Day Eighteen
Derby Day!!! So once again derby hair. This morning it was snowing though so I wore a beanie. :)


March 19th - Day Nineteen





March 18th- Day Eighteen

The rest of the hair....(this got away from me)

       Day 21(simple pigtails)

                        

Day 22 wet/left to dry

 Day 23 I tried to poof the back of my pigtails

 Day 24- The poof with head band (slightly wavy)

 Day 25- Derby braids

Day 26---messy bun  

Day 27---up bangs

Day 28- I tired a new curl booster...not so much with the boosting

 Day 29-30 (I was super sick so I did minimal effort---sorry)

 

Day 31!!!! Half up/half down, with tousled back

 

I can't believe I did it!!!