"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."- George Bernard Shaw
While searching Pinterest for Family Management printables(Yes, that is a thing. Yes, they are awesome.), my eye wandered over to my journal. I have had a journal most of my life, and I really enjoy writing in one. Right now I actually have two. One is for myself, and the other is for Samuel. It is my hope that one day I can gift him with a journal(or perhaps journals) full of memories. I hope to do this for all my children.
Both of my journals could use more attention. I have been contemplating what I would like to work on in 2016, and one of the first things that came to my mind is my journaling. So to the search bar I went, and found this really neat list of monthly journal prompts from a blog called Life of Lovely.
They have just put a new list out for January 2016, and since it's only the 3rd I feel that catching up will be manageable. I love writing prompts, so I can't wait to see where this goes.
Here is the list for January created by Life of Lovely.
She also has some great tips for beginning a journal if it is something that you want to do but aren't sure where to start. Printable versions of these calendars are available as well.
Keeping a journal can be very cathartic. It keeps your mind sharp and your soul open.
I do not subscribe to the idea that once you get married that is HAS to go downhill from there. This is so common now that we think it's an actual law of nature or something.
People, this is a CHOICE we make! Every day.
Lately, this has been shoved in my face in various different ways. I've been watching as friends of mine have been struggling in their marriages, as we all do. Oh, how we do.
But there is something else going on here. And our culture has been cultivating it for decades, nay centuries.
We whole-heartedly believe that once we are married, it's normal for things to...settle. We let our everyday lives become worn around the edges, and chalk it up to normal wear-and tear.
We are left stunned, gazing at our wedding photos, mesmerized by those blessedly happy people. Where on Earth did they go?
Every time we hear of another relationship suffering, my husband and I find ourselves turning to each other, our faces masked in fear and determination, saying "this will never happen to us!" And then, in a smaller, meeker voice "right?"
Well, I've decided that it is up to us.
In our four years of marriage, I've began to have an understanding of the word. Because, marriage isn't just about those happy people as they were on that one December day in 2011. It's also about these people who are sitting in their living room together right now in 2015, enjoying the silence of their one year old napping.
Marriage is helping your newly wed husband shower because he just had shoulder surgery.
Marriage is cleaning up after your pregnant wife because she missed the trash can.
And doing these things with love.
It's looking out at each other over a sea of dirty diapers, Teddy Grahams and piles and piles of never ending laundry, and remembering how he looked in his tuxedo, waiting for you at the end of the aisle. And then pushing through it all. Finding ways to make this new life you have created together work for you.
And remembering that is not easy. Not one bit. Not for one minute. If it feels easy, just wait. That other shoe is probably coming for you.
But here's the pinch, you already have everything you need to get through it. You put a ring on their finger, and they are waiting for you.
My husband and I like to talk of our future together often. We like to make plans for our family, our home. We enjoy imagining together how our lives might be in 5, 10, 20 years. And one thing that we always seem to come back to is that, in the end, when the children are raised, and they are off making their own lives, there will be no more Legos on the floor to clean. No more dirty diapers to change(hallelujah). We will look up and only see each other. And it is up to us to decide who we will see looking back at us. We could be strangers by then.
Or we could be so much more.
I have had this post on my heart since this morning. I'm sitting here on my bed, a toy train and an open, unfinished pack of gummy snacks on the mattress to my left, freezing because my one year old is passed out in a ball on the covers at the end of my bed. Our family is exhausted from a very taxing week. On Monday, Jared started an amazing new job, I went back to school for pre-planning, and Sam started at daycare for the first time. This week has really thrown us a curve ball. This morning at drop off, as the daycare worker was prying Sam from my arms as I turned to go, trying to make it easier for everyone, I felt that familiar lump rise in my throat( I'm feeling it now just remembering). I could still hear his cries for me as I made my way out of the front door of the daycare. I looked up at the morning sky as I willed myself not to break down and thought to myself, " It's time now. You have to be a Warrior Mom". It was kind of a silly thought at first. Honestly my brain automatically brought up an image of Xena, Warrior Princess. But as I made the drive to my school I thought about it more and more.
This thing that we are going through, this transition. It is so commonplace, and at the same time it is incredibly momentous. Sam is learning how to go and be a person without my constant supervision. Which is quite a big task for a one year old. It kills me to see the uncertainty in his eyes when he watches me leave a room.
And I know. I know it will get better. Because that is the way things go. All the veteran moms are smirking at me right now, shaking their heads, but they know deep down, in some form, they were once me. And it stings.
So I see you, Warrior Mom. I see you praying that this day will go just a little bit better for you and your crew. Celebrating the small things. Living completely in the moment because there is just not enough time NOT to.
I see you, Stay At Home Mom, who just swept Cherrios off the floor for the third time today, and it's not even 10am.
I see you, Working Mom, completing your work as fast as you can, and mapping out the evening hours in your head to maximize the family time that you have.
Since I teach, I get to be you both at times. And I know that in some way, on some level, you feel like you are failing. But your reminder of how amazing you are doing is right under your nose. Just take a glance at their sweet-cherub-"I have done no wrong" faces, and smile back.
So straighten your messy bun, throw back some coffee, and don't worry. You've got this. You are Warrior Mom.
I began this draft nearly a year ago, and for some reason, I left it sitting here all this time. I haven't posted on this blog in years, as it says below, and I'm not sure what caused me to abandon this post. But now that I've read it again I think it needs to be shared.
I didn't feel like putting this on Facebook outright because in my past when I have gotten new things, like when I got my new/used(new to me) car, people would talk. I have no clue why really. Most everyone was happy for me. But there were one or two comments along the lines of " She must be doing well" Like they knew anything about me.
Truthfully, my car was a gracious gift from my generous grandparents(how about that alliteration, eh?) And if you knew anything about how my old car ran, you would have understood.
I digress.
Today I received the most exciting thing via FedEx. My husband and I bought new MacBook Pros as well as Apple TV.
First, some back story on my previous laptop. I bought it in the summer of 2008 right before college. A typical computer would still being running pretty good by this time. But I made a little boo boo when I bought it. When I saw the one I wanted, a beautiful pearl white Sony Vaio. The only problem was that the one on display was the only one they had in the store.
Stupid me. The salesperson smoothly offered to knock off around $200 if I went ahead and bought the display. I was delighted. And stupid.
NEVER EVER EVER DO THAT
Promise?
Ok.
The result was a battery that only lasted about an hour unplugged. That's fresh from the store folks. That one hour time limit dwindled to where it is now, about 5 minutes, if you're lucky.
It has other problems as well, the main one being that it is slow and glitchy on a general basis.
And so, it is with pride and joy that type this on my wonderful new MacBook Pro.
Pygmalion is a Greek mythological figure who carved a statue of a woman and fell in love with it.
Clearly he was convinced that he had the ability to create the perfect woman.
Enter Henry Higgins.
Professor Higgins is a master of phonetics, obsessed with Milton and the Universal Alphabet. He is rash, unyielding, exacting, and, at times, tyrannical. Only he wouldn't apply most of those adjectives to himself. And he does this mostly while being a gentleman.
So when he meets Eliza Doolittle, flower girl and the face of cockney accents, he is absolutely certain that he will be able to turn her from a guttersnipe into a lady in no time. And with the help of Colonel Pickering, that is exactly what he does. Their scheme works so well that she is presumed to be a Hungarian Princess at a garden party.
What Higgins cannot calculate is human emotion. With the emotional range of an automaton he cannot understand Eliza's feeling of displacement when his little project is over, and all he has to say is "thank God!".
Eliza comes to realize that she could never abide being Higgins' wife. They are too much alike. So, she marries Freddy, her suitor who is perhaps worth nothing more than his devotion to Eliza, and they open a grocers shop together, and end up quite happy.
Pygmalion spawned the well-loved musical My Fair Lady, which is often regarded as the perfect play. It is loved by many, and the plot is recognizable by most everyone.
Other spin-offs have surfaced, mostly in movie form. One for my generation would be She's All That, where a preppy A-list soccer star turns an anti-social artist into the most popular girl in school for a bet.
Or how about Princess Diaries? That film also smacks of Pygmalion.
I really enjoyed reading this play. There were aspects of Higgins that I found reprehensible, and others that I sort of agreed with.
Once, one of my English professors called me a classicist because I made a face when she said that she thought the way that English as a language was evolving was a good thing. My bad. But I suppose that somewhere deep inside me is a little Henry Higgins. He's probably the one who cringes when reading the various misspellings and incorrect grammar on Facebook. :)
My favorite quotes are from the preface.
"It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and it's subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that great art can never be anything else"
"An honest slum dialect is more tolerable than the attempts of phonetically untaught persons to imitate the plutocracy"
Those two made me chuckle.
Check out Julie Andrews version of Eliza singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" ( If I had chosen the Hepburn version, I could have given you a video. But I'm and Andrews girl myself. So enjoy the slide show. :)
And now it is on to The Grapes of Wrath. But I will have to start that one tomorrow due to the fact that I have a headache paired with the lonely hell known as the hiccups.
Who can forget Rory Gilmore and all her books? Not me! Rory was such an identifiable character for me growing up, and I love how she's always reading! While perusing on Pinterest I stumbled upon a list of all the books that Rory mentions/reads/quotes/alludes to on the show. ( The source I got this from is here and they got it from here) It's 250 books long, maybe more because I don't feel like counting them! That my friends is a long list of books!There was more than one snooty comment on the website that I got this from saying that the list wasn't what Rory actually read, but this list as far as I can tell is all-encompassing to anything she mentioned at all on the show. If you don't agree, just know I didn't make this list, and I'm not taking it upon myself to change it!
There are quite a few that I have read ( those will be in purple ) and a lot of my Classic Summer list are on there as well. I'll be keeping this list in mind as go along my reading journey, and I'll try to update what I have read.
Here it is!
1984 by George Orwell The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – read – July 2010 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy The Awakening by Kate Chopin Babe by Dick King-Smith Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – read – June 2010 Beloved by Toni Morrison Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney The Bhagava Gita The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brick Lane by Monica Ali Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner Candide by Voltaire – read – June 2010 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer( in Middle English too!) Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – read Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman Christine by Stephen King A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Complete Novels by Dawn Powell The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished The Crucible by Arthur Miller Cujo by Stephen King The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Deenie by Judy Blume The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx The Divine Comedy by Dante The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Don Quijote by Cervantes Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Eloise by Kay Thompson Emily the Strange by Roger Reger Emma by Jane Austen Empire Falls by Richard Russo Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethics by Spinoza Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Extravagance by Gary Krist Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce Fletch by Gregory McDonald Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Gender Trouble by Judith Butler George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg Gidget by Fredrick Kohner Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – Classic Summer The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford The Gospel According to Judy Bloom The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Classic Summer The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Group by Mary McCarthy Hamlet by William Shakespeare Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (TBR) Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland Howl by Allen Gingsburg The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Iliad by Homer I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Inferno by Dante Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken Life of Pi by Yann Martel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Love Story by Erich Segal Macbeth by William Shakespeare Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert- Classic Summer The Manticore by Robertson Davies Marathon Man by William Goldman The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Night by Elie Wiesel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Old School by Tobias Wolff On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan Oracle Night by Paul Auster Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Othello by Shakespeare – read Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Out of Africa by Isac Dineson The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton A Passage to India by E.M. Forster The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- & it's on Classic Summer Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby – read The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Property by Valerie Martin Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw- Classic Summer (and currently reading!) Quattrocento by James Mckean A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers – read The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien- Lord of the Rings is Classic Summer R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton Rita Hayworth by Stephen King Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Sanctuary by William Faulkner Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A Separate Peace by John Knowles Several Biographies of Winston Churchill Sexus by Henry Miller The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Shane by Jack Shaefer The Shining by Stephen King Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut Small Island by Andrea Levy Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker Songbook by Nick Hornby The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sophie’s Choice by William Styron The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Story of My Life by Helen Keller A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stuart Little by E. B. White Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry Time and Again by Jack Finney The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Trial by Franz Kafka The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom – read Ulysses by James Joyce The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe – started and not finished Unless by Carol Shields Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – read Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee – read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
If I counted right I have read 62! Comment and tell me how many you have read!
