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My blog buddy Dwight did this a while ago and I said I was gonna do it too, but I was in the middle of relaunch and all that good stuff. Then someone commented here and they had done it so I decided I can do it too, like I don’t have A zillion non-meme posts to write.. Anywho - this is what I’m doin..

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read. (I’m including any books I’ve started but haven’t finished.)
3) Reprint this list in your 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 This is one of the books my husband has read and I haven’t so I’m trying to catch up before he has my kid reading them..
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Again same as number 2.
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 I’ve read a few but not the complete works
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
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
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 same as #2
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini more books we have at the house and I started but didn’t finish
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 Meany - 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
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 (en francais)
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
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 have it started it couldn’t get into it..
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (en francais)
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

I was a tad disapointed in the choices in this list - not that they aren’t wonderful works I just would have liked to have seen more stuff on it. No Toni Morrison? Not that I could have bolded a bunch of her titles.. I’ve been trying to read Beloved since the year it came out, but she is a powerful american writer. Would have liked to have seen The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran on that list, the complete collections of Pablo Neruda. Would have liked to have seen Sonja Sanchez on that list, but thats mostly the poet in me.  I’m clearly not as well read as I would like to be although I would like to thank My english teachers Mrs. Baker-Bradford, Mrs. Edwards, and Mrs. Raglin who could put the hurtin on you with a critical analysis paper. THey are the reason I read most of these books I have in bold at all. Although after teh first book, if I like the author I would read their other works on my own. I was booky like that.

Thinking of my english teachers bring back wonderful memories.  I would hate for any of them to break out a red pen on my blog.

just the idea gives me shudders.

So it should be an annual event.
We’ll call it the Spoken Spring release.
oh my GAWD.
When the people come out to party. They. Come. Out. To. Party.
I could tell you about the bad lullaby at the end. How I got cursed out ’cause her picture was on the cake. There was the random fifty people, forty of which I knew at least twenty of whom I hadn’t seen since I had children, and a few who I hadn’t seen since high school and did not expect to see (St. Louis is a small small city.) and the half a dozen or so strangers to me (one of which stole the colonge from my bathroom.. but hey there is always one right?) Or the kick butt mix put down by not one, not two, but three DJ’s who spun at my house HARD CORE til four thirty in the morning. They didn’t even stop then, they just turned the music down…
yeah.
We could talk about the food.. slow cooked peach chipotle bbq sauced pulled pork, turkey meatballs, chicken apple smokies or the dark chocolate fountain. or all the goodies to dip in it.. pineapple, marshmallow, wafers, strawberries - big ones, etc..
need a drink? not at that party you didn’t.
I’m still wrapping my brain around it.
That chick who kept comin on to my husbands friends.
the chick who got LOUDER as she got DRUNKER. There is always one, isn’t there?
And my very cool neighbors who did not call the cops on our over party throwin selves.
we got some nifty images though, I didn’t mention the red light did I?
I got spoken Kermit G4 adidas as her gift.
My friend was really happy and had a really good, good time. And it was worth all the energy it took to pull it off.
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I may comment more at a later time. Its been a full day later and I am still tired.

*this is a bit of a long post.. So long, in fact, I had to trim it into two and this one is still long.. warning you now..

I remember when I found out I was pregnant with Cammy. Jerry and I wern’t trying for a baby, but we wern’t disapointed when we found out she was coming. We knew that statistically given our track record a baby was gonna happen sooner or later and while later would have given us more time to play, sooner has its perks too. 

I was genuinely happy about my pregnancy. I read every parenting book I could get my hands on, I TIVO’d every

I sent for him on a Thursday.After weeks of back and forth, I finally got up the nerve and fill out the form and entered the charge number and hit submit all at the same time. 

“On a scale of one to ten,” he’d said, “I’m looking for a Q.”

It ate at me for those two weeks. Was that a typo? He couldn’t possibly have meant that literally.

But I couldn’t let it go. Me, the serial dating bohemian poet, was gonna meet somebody on the internet? No. Nobody meets someone, their somebody, on the internet.

“I’m looking for a Q.” 

I put the thought away countless times. But it kept coming back, so I did too. I coughed up the