Thou shalt not is soon forgotten

Honestly, I'd like to read almost all of these books, and it's hard to differentiate between enjoying a book a lot, and loving it...

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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ, or not, as you see fit.
(Don't forget to remove the comments in brackets)

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 - Anonymous
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 - 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
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
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
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
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 (Also AUGH-worthy.)
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

Whoo! 25/100

Hello all,
I need to bake chile brownies for my lit class (long story) and I can't seem to find any good recipes. Does anyone have one, or know where to find a yummy one?
Thanks so much!

I just got home from mexico, and can finally write about Harry Potter!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( Cut for spoilers )

Anyway, all that put aside, I cried so hard when it was over. I was on the airplane to Mexico, and I seriously didn't stop sobbing (loudly) for an hour after I finished, just because it was over. People on the plane were staring, and this girl kept on asking Betsy if I was ok. I think I was actually a bit of a spectacle because I kept trying to breathe without blowing snot everywhere, and the result was more gasping, and more hiding my face in my book. I still can't believe I'll never read another first word of a Harry Potter book for the first time.
Who else has read it? What did you think?
Also, my trip to Mexico was ( amazing. I cut it too, because this is getting to be really long. )

( Dumbledore )
Lol. Movie Dumbledore is lame.

I just had to do it. So here are my three favorite Harry Potter theories.

( #1 )

( #2 )

( #3- My favorite )

My voice is on the internet! Yay!

Go here, and click on "Nicole" (that's me).

It took forever to record, but there's stuff all over the website. Whoot, my voice is an advertisement. :(

SQUEAL!

I know this will get me about ten million youranerd looks, but I just realized something while re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban.
( HBP spoiler )

Yay for Harry Potter!

Alleluia, the Lord is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Happy Easter everyone!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

"And you, each of you, were with him."

Once apon a time there was a girl who wanted to marry Johnny Depp
So she emailed him asking "Will you marry me?"
He replied and said "Yes. Meet me at the CVS down the street."

So she DID.

There was a man in the shadows. "Hello?" she said
"Hello" said the man in the shadows
IT WAS JOHNNY DEPP

"lets get all kinds of married now!" said the girl
"OK" said Johnny

AND JOHNNY DEPP KILLED HER WITH HIS WONKA CANE.

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IF YOU DO NOT REPOST THIS WITHIN 5 MINUTES ON EVERY ONLINE BLOG YOU OWN, JOHNNY DEPP WILL COME AND KILL YOU.

I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANT TO BE SAVED OR NOT. MEETING JOHNNY DEPP WOULD BE KIND OF COOL.

If you want to find the title to book 7 for yourself on JKR's site, then do not look under this:
( I don't want to spoil it for you... )
YAY! I'm so excited! This has got to be the best Christmas present ever! YAY!!!!
Maybe this means the book will be out soon?! YAY

I am so happy.

Yay! Snow day! I love the snow, and I love Christmas, and I love not having school. So today has been wonderful. I woke up (for the second time, after my dad had told me school was canceled) and thought it was all a dream, so you can imagine my surprise when the clock read 10:00. But I didn't waste a minute after that, and have accomplished many things today. For instance, I looked at my knitting, and decided not to knit, I looked at my bag, and decided not to study, and I consumed many a cup of tea and hot chocolate. I also got very cold, and very wet, and read Harry Potter out loud to my friend Lauren. And I watched a Russel Crowe film, so I am very, very happy.
I'm hoping we don't have school tomorrow either, but I know I have to edit my movie, or it won't get entered into the scholastic festival. But it's snowing, so what do I care for worries? Anyway, we also don't have a car, so we're quite literally snowed in. Yay. This is the absolute best thing ever.

Do a Google image search, and pick your favourite from the first results page only.

( under )

create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

Whoot!

Hello everyone. I just thought I'd say that I'm back from Mexico. The Holy Spirit is the most amazing thing ever. And Happy Birthday Ginny.

( Cut for those of you who are uninterested in weddings and church politics )

Other than weddings, not much is going on. I'm coming back Thursday, so we haven't got much time to do anything. I saw a used book sale at the mall on Sunday, but couldn't stop because we had to get to the second wedding. :( I was really upset, because I saw some really good looking books, and they were all really old.... Oh well. My cousin Andrew got his ribs flipped over, or something, recently. He was born with one side of his ribcage curved inward, and he's just gotten surgery. (!!!) Not sure how any of it happened, but there you are.

Now that you're all caught up on the happenings in the Moser family, I'm going to go do something. Goodbye, and Happy late Independence Day!

Well, as I was kindly reminded today, (thanks, by the way. I'd kind of forgotten...) I haven't updated in...six weeks?

Well, mostly because I've been so busy with summery things, and also because nothing much has happened. I'm in Wisconsin at the moment, visiting my favorite cousin, and her brother and parents and fiance. We're going to see my other cousin's wedding in St. Louis on Saturday (98 degrees Fahrenheit, rain and thunderstorms. Lovely.)

I have a new, turquoise addition to my teeth now. BRACES! Horray! They haven't hurt a bit, except for a few cuts on the insides of my cheeks, and I'm totally used to them now.
My dad got his hip replaced about two weeks ago (wow. Time flies) and he's doing fantastic. I hear from my brothers that he's been walking around in white tights (to help with blood circulation) and black crocs. :)

At the end of July, I'm going to Guadalajara, Mexico on a mission trip with a group from my church. The dioces there has completely fallen apart because of this awful bishop who stole money from them. Anyway, we'll be working with the youth there, and it'll be wonderful!

I just saw a really, really, really fantastic movie about global warming. So everyone should see An Inconvenient Truth. PLEASE see it.

I'm on the fourth HP book now (I didn't think I'd get through them this fast. I reckoned on needing the entire year to finish before #7, but I guess I somehow forgot how good they are.) and loving it...though not as much as I'm looking forward to the fifth one.