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I'm going to Hawaii!

I am in dire need of quick, easy summer reading titles.  I'm leaving for Hawaii and only have The Divine Comedy, Mere Christianity, Pride and Prejudice (in FRENCH!), and several history books.  I've been re-reading all of my series books, but I can't read another Anne of Green Gables book and need something fun and mindless.  So if you know any, ANY good titles, I would be much obliged if you share.  And I would have more posts going on, but my mum hasn't sent me the pictures of when we laid sod in our backyard, and I didn't want to really write about my babysitting and crazy, hectic life for the past two weeks, so sod will have to wait.  BUT PLEASE HELP ME FIND SUITABLE HAWAII READING MATERIAL!

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"Ssssuuuurrrrriiiiiii!  How are you?!" - - from "Peter Sean Preston" at 8:41 am this morning

When I worked at Borders in Boston's Downtown Crossing, I worked with a guy named Peter.  We basically found our job at Seattle's Best Cafe boring and mindless, full of stupid tourists and mean East Coasters.  So, to make our lives and jobs more interesting, we changed our nametags to celebrity babies.  So I became Suri Holmes and he became Sean Preston Federline.  Throughout our months of working there, only one person caught on (and we worked together all the time) and several people asked me how I got my name because it was so beautiful.  We had a lot of fun with our new names

“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (And I only read the first two, not the third one -- boring!)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The 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 – Phillip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (Again, only read half way through and returned - awful!)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I've never read it all the way through but I wrote two book reports on it)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (what Cori said) 
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (strangely enough, I love this book)
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (Cori, the book is good - - but Dickens-y (as in boring, but the miniseries greatness kept me going)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (I can't name a Steinbeck I actually like)
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 (I'm actually reading it right now for the millionth time)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is already number 33!!!)
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
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
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
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 (he is so depressing)
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (currently reading!)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons
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 St. 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 (Again, I agree with Cori)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Books I've read: 53

Books I'm currently reading: 1

Books I don't want to read: 24

Books I own and want to read: 0 (I've already read all the books on this list which I own)

Books I don't own and want to read: 21

Books I'm mostly or all unfamiliar with: 20

My mum and I have spent the last two hours swooning over these guys and looking up Ireland vacations.

Celtic Thunder

I am in such a girly, Jane-Austen-y, romantic mood.  Thus, I dwell on the heroes of my favorite movies (and Gerard Butler).  I need to find something to do, so I don't spend time drooling over two married guys and Richard.  Argh.

I stole this from Cori because my life is simply too boring to really blog about.  Let's see if I can even do this correctly.  Oh, and it reads from left to right, like a book.  Try and figure it out.

The Instructions:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

My Flickr Mosaic

It's amazing how little I can do in my first weeks of summer, before I realize that I really do need to get a job and that I can't sit around and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while the world moves around me.  But I kind of enjoyed it while it lasted (before the revelation hit, that is).  I've read eight books in the past two weeks.  That's not a lot, but eight books!  After I swore that I would empty my head of knowledge and zone out in front of my movies!  No, instead, I've been reading myself into a stupor every day and looking around the house for new material.  I read all five of the Artemis Fowl books, as well as two other historical fiction books that I've decided to Bookins.  Now I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera, which I've never read before, so I'm looking forward to that.  Other than reading, though, I've been trying to figure out this whole SacState MBA thing.  They still haven't officially accepted me (stupid BU with the whole failure to send a transcript with posted degree - - Hello?  I graduated!), so I can't register for my silly classes.  And if you know me, you know I like to be as prepared as possible, and ahead of everybody else.  So the fact that I can't register while everyone else can really, really upsets me!  But I have orientation next week, so hopefully, I'll get some questions answered.  Alrighty, that was the boring update to my blissfully (well, used to be blissfully) boring summer va-cay.  I am officially 22, so let's see if I can begin acting like a responsible adult this summer.  Yeah!  Oh, adults probably wouldn't say that.

Show us the historical figure with whom you'd most like to trade places.

If I could switch places with some historical figure, the person who jumps into mind is Eleanor of Aquitaine.  She married two kings, had ten kids (that is NOT the reason why I would want to be her, by the way) and went on two crusades.  TWO CRUSADES!  She was rumored to be the most beautiful woman in Europe, rebelled against her husband and led quite a pretty interesting life.  Yeah, I think I could totally pull off being Eleanor of Aquitaine.  I'd get to work on my French!

The tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine