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minervasoloThe Independent's Top Book's for women readers, gacked from Del, since I felt like bolding stuff.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez -... well, bought, but I read another of his books and that didn't encourage me to actually attempt this one.
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - I thought it was good until I read P&P, which is so much better it's indescribable.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - bought it, haven't read it yet.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - adsolutely amazing, read it now now now
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson - didn't they do a TV version of this? I'll look out for this now.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Villette, Charlotte Brontë
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett - saw the film, which was terrible, so not exactly encouraged
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - Good, but there's a John Wyndham book on almost exactly the same premise (but with psychic children, because hey, it's John Wyndha) that I found far harder to put down.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - You want Cathy to die. She whines. You want her and all the other Cathy's to die. The great joy of the book is that they do and you are satisified, except all that's left are the less irritating whiney people. Gah!
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Trumpet, Jackie Kay
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - Loved all these books, planning to reread at some point.
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf - Uh, saw 'The Hours', if that's any good.
Guess what? They cancelled my driving test. Two and a half hours before. Everyone's been all 'oh, that must be so irritating after you got yourself all psyched up for it'. Actually, I was watching WK episodes on my laptop. Being calm. There is absolutely no psyching going on at all. Anyway, it's rescheduled for next Sunday, which is good because I needed a few more weeks practise. I was meant to call my driving teacher and tell her when they changed it to, but I forgot. I'll ring tomorrow. Guh, back to work tomorrow. I need to check when they want me in. Oh, 1. That's nice!
I did very little today. Wrote random WK fic while watching a Sex Pistold documentary last night, and today finished a chapter of C&S that I ought to be uploading now. Oh well. And watching Day of the Dead, though got distracted towards the end with spider solitaire.
Must must must finish the Pit. And come up with a better name. Can't keep calling it "London eats people" either. Gives teh plot away, just a bit! ^_^
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez -... well, bought, but I read another of his books and that didn't encourage me to actually attempt this one.
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - I thought it was good until I read P&P, which is so much better it's indescribable.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - bought it, haven't read it yet.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - adsolutely amazing, read it now now now
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson - didn't they do a TV version of this? I'll look out for this now.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Villette, Charlotte Brontë
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett - saw the film, which was terrible, so not exactly encouraged
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - Good, but there's a John Wyndham book on almost exactly the same premise (but with psychic children, because hey, it's John Wyndha) that I found far harder to put down.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - You want Cathy to die. She whines. You want her and all the other Cathy's to die. The great joy of the book is that they do and you are satisified, except all that's left are the less irritating whiney people. Gah!
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Trumpet, Jackie Kay
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - Loved all these books, planning to reread at some point.
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf - Uh, saw 'The Hours', if that's any good.
Guess what? They cancelled my driving test. Two and a half hours before. Everyone's been all 'oh, that must be so irritating after you got yourself all psyched up for it'. Actually, I was watching WK episodes on my laptop. Being calm. There is absolutely no psyching going on at all. Anyway, it's rescheduled for next Sunday, which is good because I needed a few more weeks practise. I was meant to call my driving teacher and tell her when they changed it to, but I forgot. I'll ring tomorrow. Guh, back to work tomorrow. I need to check when they want me in. Oh, 1. That's nice!
I did very little today. Wrote random WK fic while watching a Sex Pistold documentary last night, and today finished a chapter of C&S that I ought to be uploading now. Oh well. And watching Day of the Dead, though got distracted towards the end with spider solitaire.
Must must must finish the Pit. And come up with a better name. Can't keep calling it "London eats people" either. Gives teh plot away, just a bit! ^_^
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Date: 15/9/04 01:49 am (UTC)I'd have thought your accomodation would come through fairly soon though - by the end of September, surely, otherwise they really are leaving it a bit late.
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Date: 15/9/04 05:32 am (UTC)Definitely recommend doing so. Very good~
And yay, Hitchhiker's at the top...