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From gfeather - apparently the average adult has only read six of those? Eep!


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

( 100 Books )

... and tell me your thoughts about this sentence regarding readability:

Those who had cars or trucks would see the ones who had not
walking beside the roads or at rest stations and in diners on
the way, and, recognizing them for what they were, would
offer them rides.
~ American Gods by Neil Gaiman, p. 487 US paperback edition


Do you stumble over something in this sentence? Because I had to read it like three times very carefully until I got it with a *headdesk* :/

A book meme stolen from shiny_crystal:

1. List the first line(s) of 10 books you really like.
2. And then you all can guess.
3. Post your opinion of the book when someone guessed it.

#3 I won't do since I really like all of these.

( ten quotes )

So! What do you think these are?

A list, just because.

- spring has finally arrived! o_O YAY! IT IS WARM. THE SUN IS SHINING. THERE IS NO CLOUD VISIBLE IN THE SKY.
- the cold is almost defeated. MORE YAY!
- with this victory, my muse has returned full-force. I was assaulted by three different plotbunnies for the Dark Side of Snupin challenge that's coming in May when before I had a very vague one. I've even finished the erotic_elves fic. EVEN MORE YAY.
- I was shopping after work today. Or rather, I was looking at clothes. And shoes. And stuff. I even found some things I liked (a dress! I haven't had an actual summer dress in years!), though I need to see how much money my mother needs from me before I decide whether I can actually buy anything. BOO FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, BOO.
- I need to clean the flat. I actually want to clean the flat. Er. *knocks at self's head* Jules, is that you in there? Have you been temporarily taken over by... someone else? Anyone else?
- have begun reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods. The end of chapter 1, which I read last night, made me go vey, very o_O er wtf huh? Heh. I was very amused by my own reaction. And of course by that scene, too.

In conclusion:

YAY SPRING!

books in 2007

1. Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke (German)
2. Star Wars: Das Erbe der Jedi-Ritter 19 - Vereint durch die Macht by James Luceno (German)
3. Kalinka, Kalinka by Oksana Robski (German)
4. Tintenblut by Cornelia Funke (German)
5. Virginia Woolf by Werner Waldmann (German)
6. (R) Emma by Jane Austen (English)
7. Die Verzauberung der Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt (German)
8. Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (German)
9. Tintentod by Cornelia Funke (German)
10. Der Fürst by Niccolò Machiavelli (German)
11. Star Wars: Dunkles Nest 1 - Die Königsdrohne by Troy Denning (German)
12. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (English)
13. Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein by Paul Watzlawick (German)
14. Equus by Paul Shaffer (English)
15. Star Wars: Treueschwur by Timothy Zahn (German)
16. Kein Engel an meiner Seite by Elizabeth Glaser (German)
17. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (English)
18. Der Scherz by Milan Kundera (German)
19. Star Wars: Dunkles Nest 2 - Die verborgene Königin by Troy Denning (German)
20. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (English)
21. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (English)
22. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (English)
23. Säulen der Ewigkeit by Tanja Kinkel (German)
24. Star Wars: Dunkles Nest 3 - Der Schwarmkrieg by Troy Denning (German)
25. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (English)
26. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (English)
27. (R) Krabat by Otfried Preußler (German)
28. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (English)
29. Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind (German)
30. (R) Ramses 1 - Der Sohn des Lichts by Christian Jacq (German)
31. (R) Ramses 2 - Der Tempel der Ewigkeit by Christian Jacq (German)
32. (R) Ramses 3 - Die Schlacht von Kadesch by Christian Jacq (German)
33. (R) Ramses 4 - Die Herrin von Abu Simbel by Christian Jacq (German)
34. (R) Ramses 5 - Im Schatten der Akazie by Christian Jacq (German)
35. Utopia by Thomas More (English)
36. (R) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (English)
37. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (English)
38. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (English)
39. Give a Boy a Gun by Morton Rhue (English)
40. His Dark Materials 1 - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (English)
41. His Dark Materials 2 - The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (English)
42. Ange und die Pferde by Lise Gast (German)
43. His Dark Materials 3 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (English)

ENGLISH: 18
GERMAN: 25
re-reads: 8

books in 2009

When I'm looking at a 7yo boy dressed up as a female clown in a circus show and thinking "o.o shiny, kinky stuff," there must be something wrong with me.

( some sex-related anecdotes from RL )

Also, I've been reading amazing fic in three fandoms (HP, SPN, dS) in my attempt to get my schedule cleared for December (OMG only six days!!!). And SPN RPS is made of luuuurve. Ack. Watch me become poly-fannish *sigh*

Which reminds me: the next SPN ep will air on December 13, y/y? And the one after that, 3.09, on my birthday, January 3??? God. That sucks. (Except for the birthday thing. That certainly doesn't! But, y'know, it only being 2 eps in a month and a half.)

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Joanne K. Rowling (English)
2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (English)
3. Mit dem Mut des Herzens by Cordelia Woods (German)
4. Star Wars: Klonkriege 4 - Yoda - Pfad der Dunkelheit by Sean Stewart (German)
5. Der kleine Prinz by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (German)
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (English)
7. (R) Der Graf von Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas (German)
8. (R) Dune - Der Wüstenplanet by Frank Herbert (German)
9. (R) Bridget Jones - Schokolade zum Frühstück by Helen Fielding (German)
10. (R) Bridget Jones - Am Rande des Wahnsinns by Helen Fielding (German)
11. Close Range - Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx (English)
12. Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights 1 - Die Hüter der Macht by Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta (German)
13. Star Wars: Das Erbe der Jedi-Ritter 16 - Der verschollene Planet by Sean Williams & Shane Dix (German)
14. (R) Der Medicus by Noah Gordon (German)
15. Star Wars: Das Erbe der Jedi-Ritter 17 - Wider alle Hoffnung by Sean Williams & Shane Dix (German)
16. (R) Venuswurf by Tanja Kinkel (German)
17. Die Selbstmord-Schwestern by Jeffrey Eugenides (German)
18. Die hässliche Herzogin by Lion Feuchtwanger (German)
19. (R) Die Medici by James Cleugh (German)
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Joanne K. Rowling (English)
21. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Joanne K. Rowling (English)
22. Quidditch Through the Ages by Joanne K. Rowling (English)
23. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (English)
24. Star Wars: Die Verschollenen by Timothy Zahn (German)
25. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (English)
26. Die Geisha by Arthur Golden (German)
27. Star Wars: Das Erbe der Jedi-Ritter 18 - Die letzte Prophezeiung by Greg Keyes (German)
28. Seilschaft by Jo Perridge and Cliff Morten (German)
29. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Joanne K. Rowling (English)
30. The Chronicles of Robin Hood by Rosemary Sutcliff (English)
31. Denkanstöße für Glückssucher by various (German)
32. Der große Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (German)
33. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (English)
34. The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe (English)

ENGLISH: 13
GERMAN: 21
re-reads: 7

books in 2008