The Book List.

According to the Big Read, adults are only supposed to have read 6 out of these 100 books that they say need to be read.

bold= i've read
**=hated it
different color= loved it
italics= i want to read this

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell**
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens (only cause GA was in the movie--wasn't she?)
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (BEST BOOK EVER!)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding**
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (i own this. still haven't read it)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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 (only cause every XF episode was a metaphor for this book)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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
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
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Give me a scotch. I'm starving.

My newest creation.

Tony Stark + Coldplay = WIN.

Things that make me happy.

- I saw Iron Man for the fifth time last night and finally stayed after the credits to see the bonus scene with Nick Fury. Totally worth the wait.

-I have a nice tan from going out on my best friend's boat this weekend.

-I got a season pass to Six Flags (a really awesome amusement park) because I've become a roller coaster junkie.

-I had last night off from rehearsal!! Which means I went to bed before eleven for once.

-I'm thisclose to being done with my play. But the ending is always the hardest.

-I went all fangirl this afternoon and found a special edition Iron Man shirt from Comic Con on eBay that I'm totally bidding on. And I want a Stark Industries shirt. And a mug. Although I'm considering just printing the logo out and putting in one of those thermoses that they sell at Starbucks that you can put your own picture in.

-I went all nerdy as well and watched the entire "When We Left Earth" miniseries that I tivoed off of the Discovery Channel.

-I bought a superbly cute dress from Urban Outfitters with a drop waist and a bunch of little stars.

Even more meaningless quotes from a movie you've never heard of.

Except Ais. We've talked at length about this movie.

Well, I talked AT her.

Oh well. Back to the status quo...

...All quotes are from "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan. I missed some funny ones.

Harry: This is every SHADE of wrong. (My new favorite phrase)

Perry: This isn't good cop, bad cop. This is fag and New Yorker.

Perry: Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on a corpse?

Perry: My $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? Do you think they'll find my pistol? (I swear, the delivery of that entire section is brilliance) Jesus. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry: A picture of me?
Perry: No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!

Harry: And that's how she got to the same party as me. Oh shit. I skipped something. Damn it. This whole robot bit. I made a big deal, then I like totally forgot. Fuck, this is bad narrating. Like my dad telling a joke. "Oh, wait back up. I forgot to tell you the cowboy rode a blue horse." Fuck. Anyway, I don't know if you want to see it now, but here's the fucking robot stuff for your viewing pleasure. Can I say "fuck" more?

Perry: Go. Sleep badly. Any questions, hesitate to call.
Harry: Bad.
Perry: Excuse me?
Harry:Sleep bad. Otherwise it makes it seem like the mechanism that allows you to sleep...
Perry: What, fuckhead? Who taught you grammar? Badly's an adverb. Get out. Vanish.

Harry: Doesn't that suck? I just hit you for no reason.

A somewhat momentous occasion.

I did my first somewhat daring thing today. And once you hear it, you're going to think "Oh, come on. That's the opposite of daring.". But it was daring for me. As I tend to get shy sometimes.

So I had Singing in the Rain rehearsal tonight, and it ended SUPER early (8:45) and I just happened to remark "Wow. I really love not having a drivers license" in front of this guy in the show. A pretty good looking guy. And he says, "Hey, I can take you home if you want.". So I say, "Oh, I live on the other side of town", (because I do live on the other side of town) and he says, "I don't feel like going home.". And I really have no argument to that fact, so I called my mom and told her I found a ride. After the FREAKING SPANISH INQUISITION (Is it a boy? Who is he? Do I know him? You be careful!) from my mother, I left with The Guy. It was a fun car ride, too. We sang Red Hot Chili Peppers and talked about the improv competiton our schools had the year before. The coolest thing was that he had a POLICE RADAR that told him if there were any police around him. So he could speed. :)

So. Your blogger has been daring and rode home with a BOY.

I find that fairly awesome.

Meaningless Movie Quotes of the Day

All quotes from The Producers, starring Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, and Uma Thurman.

Leo: We might have a position for you.
Max: As a matter of fact, we might have several positions for you.

Leo: I'm not going to the toilet... I'm going into SHOWBUSINESS!

Carmen: May I take your hat, your coat, and your swastikas?

Leo: I'm very sorry I caught you feeling up the old lady.
Max: "Feeling up the old lady." Thank you, Mr. Tact.

Franz: I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders. I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on. We lived in the back, right across from Switzerland. All we heard was yodeling...

Ulla: Why Bloom go so far camera right?

Leo: Let's assume for a moment that you are a dishonest man.
Max: Assume away.

Meaningless Movie Quotes of the Day

All quotes from "Iron Man" (I have to get this out of my system) starring Robert Downey Jr., Terence Howard, Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Tony Stark: Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?

Tony: Why are you trying to hustle me out of here?
Pepper: Your flight was scheduled to leave an hour and a half ago.
Tony: That's funny. I thought with it being my plane and all, that it would just wait for me to get there. I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?

Pepper: [after Tony's one night stand with Christine] I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
Christine: You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
Pepper: Indeed I am.
Christine: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
Pepper: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?

Tony: Day 11, test 37, configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety. [to the robot] If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college.

Meaningless Movie Quotes of the Day

All quotes from "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" starring Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan.

"Newsflash, Perry, your client Ames, that's the little sister, repeat, the little sister. That's where Harmony's two grand went, it's in your bank, you overpriced bastard, her kid sister hired you! Your case and my case are the same fucking case!"- Harry Lockhart

"It's like someone lifted America by the east coast and shook it and all of the normal girls managed to hang on!"- Harry

Perry: Picture a bullet in your head.
Guard: Fuck you. Anyway, that's ambiguous.
Perry: Excuse me, how is that ambiguous?
Harry: I think he means that when you say 'picture a bullet in your head', okay, is that 'a bullet will be in your head' or is it 'picture it in your head'.

Harmony: You're new here. Look around. There's younger and better.
Harry: I don't want younger and better. I want you.

EDIT. And more quotes...

Perry: Merry Christmas. Sorry I fucked you over.
Harry: Don't quit your gay job.

Harry: So, again for the cheap seats: don't think, walk the fuck away. Or else we're going to have to go outside. It's past my bedtime. Make a choice.
[cut to Harry getting the CRAP kicked out of him. :) ]

Perry: [to the audience] Thanks for coming, please stay for the end credits, if you're wondering who the best boy is, it's somebody's nephew, um, don't forget to validate your parking, and to all you good people in the Midwest, sorry we said fuck so much.

Girl: What do you do for a living?
Harry: Oh, I'm retired. I invented dice as a kid.

I'm back. But my brain is still in Iron Man Land.

Your favorite blogger has returned from her long hiatus to bring you-- *gasp* all new weekly 'segments', more X-Files reviews, and tales of her intriguing daily life.

That last part was kind of a stretch, I know. But I'm trying to sound interesting. I really am. :)