{"id":8,"date":"2008-10-12T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-03-19T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:41:25","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/books-books-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Books Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I intend to post some short reviews of books and movies and the like.<\/p>\n<p>To start that off I nicked this meme from someones blog<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.<\/li>\n<li>2) Italicize those you intend to read.<\/li>\n<li>3) Underline the books you love.<\/li>\n<li>4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.<\/li>\n<li>5) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who\u2019ve only read 6 and force books upon them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the list. With no underlines as it doesn&#8217;s seem to be <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Pride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>2 The Lord of the Rings &#8211; JRR Tolkien<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>3 Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Bronte<\/li>\n<li><del datetime=\"2008-10-12T16:44:37+00:00\">4 The Harry Potter Series &#8211; JK Rowling<\/del><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>5 To Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>6 The Bible<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>7 Wuthering Heights &#8211; Emily Bronte<\/li>\n<li><strong>8 Nineteen Eighty Four &#8211; George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>9 His Dark Materials &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>10 Great Expectations &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>11 Little Women &#8211; Louisa M Alcott<\/li>\n<li>12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n<li>13 Catch 22 &#8211; Joseph Heller<\/li>\n<li>14 Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>15 Rebecca &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>16 The Hobbit &#8211; JRR Tolkien<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>17 Birdsong &#8211; Sebastian Faulks<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 Catcher in the Rye &#8211; JD Salinger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>19 The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife &#8211; Audrey Niffenegger<\/li>\n<li>20 Middlemarch &#8211; George Eliot<\/li>\n<li>21 Gone With The Wind &#8211; Margaret Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>22 The Great Gatsby &#8211; F Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n<li><em>23 Bleak House &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/em><\/li>\n<li>24 War and Peace &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Douglas Adams<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>26 Brideshead Revisited &#8211; Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n<li>27 Crime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/li>\n<li>28 Grapes of Wrath &#8211; John Steinbeck<\/li>\n<li><strong>29 Alice in Wonderland &#8211; Lewis Carroll<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>30 The Wind in the Willows &#8211; Kenneth Grahame<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>31 Anna Karenina &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li><strong>32 David Copperfield &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>33 Chronicles of Narnia &#8211; CS Lewis<\/li>\n<li>34 Emma &#8211; Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>35 Persuasion &#8211; Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe &#8211; CS Lewis<\/li>\n<li>37 The Kite Runner &#8211; Khaled Hosseini<\/li>\n<li>38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin &#8211; Louis De Bernieres<\/li>\n<li><em>39 Memoirs of a Geisha &#8211; Arthur Golden<\/em><\/li>\n<li>40 Winnie the Pooh &#8211; AA Milne<\/li>\n<li><strong>41 Animal Farm &#8211; George Orwell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><del datetime=\"2008-10-12T16:50:38+00:00\">42 The Da Vinci Code &#8211; Dan Brown<\/del><\/li>\n<li>43 One Hundred Years of Solitude &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n<li>44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney &#8211; John Irving<\/li>\n<li>45 The Woman in White &#8211; Wilkie Collins<\/li>\n<li>46 Anne of Green Gables &#8211; LM Montgomery<\/li>\n<li>47 Far From The Madding Crowd &#8211; Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n<li>48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale &#8211; Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>49 Lord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding<\/li>\n<li>50 Atonement &#8211; Ian McEwan<\/li>\n<li>51 Life of Pi &#8211; Yann Martel<\/li>\n<li><em>52 Dune &#8211; Frank Herbert<\/em><\/li>\n<li>53 Cold Comfort Farm &#8211; Stella Gibbons<\/li>\n<li>54 Sense and Sensibility &#8211; Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>55 A Suitable Boy &#8211; Vikram Seth<\/li>\n<li>56 The Shadow of the Wind &#8211; Carlos Ruiz Zafon<\/li>\n<li><strong>57 A Tale Of Two Cities &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>58 Brave New World &#8211; Aldous Huxley<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time &#8211; Mark Haddon<\/li>\n<li>60 Love In The Time Of Cholera &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n<li><strong>61 Of Mice and Men &#8211; John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>62 Lolita &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<li>63 The Secret History &#8211; Donna Tartt<\/li>\n<li>64 The Lovely Bones &#8211; Alice Sebold<\/li>\n<li>65 Count of Monte Cristo &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n<li>66 On The Road &#8211; Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n<li>67 Jude the Obscure &#8211; Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n<li><del datetime=\"2008-10-12T16:50:38+00:00\">68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary &#8211; Helen Fielding<\/del><\/li>\n<li>69 Midnight\u2019s Children &#8211; Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n<li><strong>70 Moby Dick &#8211; Herman Melville<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>71 Oliver Twist &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>72 Dracula &#8211; Bram Stoker<\/em><\/li>\n<li>73 The Secret Garden &#8211; Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/li>\n<li>74 Notes From A Small Island &#8211; Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>75 Ulysses &#8211; James Joyce<\/li>\n<li>76 The Bell Jar &#8211; Sylvia Plath<\/li>\n<li>77 Swallows and Amazons &#8211; Arthur Ransome<\/li>\n<li>78 Germinal &#8211; Emile Zola<\/li>\n<li>79 Vanity Fair &#8211; William Makepeace Thackeray<\/li>\n<li>80 Possession &#8211; AS Byatt<\/li>\n<li><strong>81 A Christmas Carol &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>82 Cloud Atlas &#8211; David Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>83 The Color Purple &#8211; Alice Walker<\/li>\n<li>84 The Remains of the Day &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li>85 Madame Bovary &#8211; Gustave Flaubert<\/li>\n<li>86 A Fine Balance &#8211; Rohinton Mistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>87 Charlotte\u2019s Web &#8211; EB White<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven &#8211; Mitch Albom<\/li>\n<li><strong>89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>90 The Faraway Tree Collection &#8211; Enid Blyton<\/li>\n<li>91 Heart of Darkness &#8211; Joseph Conrad<\/li>\n<li>92 The Little Prince &#8211; Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/li>\n<li><em>93 The Wasp Factory &#8211; Iain Banks<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>94 Watership Down &#8211; Richard Adams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>95 A Confederacy of Dunces &#8211; John Kennedy Toole<\/li>\n<li>96 A Town Like Alice &#8211; Nevil Shute<\/li>\n<li><em>97 The Three Musketeers &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>98 Hamlet &#8211; William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory &#8211; Roald Dahl<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>100 Les Miserables &#8211; Victor Hugo<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intend to post some short reviews of books and movies and the like. To start that off I nicked this meme from someones blog 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}