100 books you should read before you die

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here

bold = read

1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - I've read 1/3 but I'm counting it

3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series, JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

6. The Bible (not in its entirety)

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, William 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 Traveler’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 Bernières

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

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 Misérables, Victor Hugo - I read part of this in French so i'm counting it.

21/100 I say that's pretty good. There are about 35 books on this list I plan on reading eventually so we'll see how that goes. I just thought this was interesting.

D.C.O.M

I remember when I would get so excited to watch the premiere of a new Disney Channel Original Movie. My friends would come over and we would have a huge sleep over and watch the movie like 5 times that night, because they kept replaying them. I was just thinking about all of the movies and I wanted to talk about them and remember my childhood.

Some of my favorites included...

• Halloweentown - This may be my absolute favorite Disney movie. I mean just finding out you have magic one day, that would be so awesome.
• Zenon - I just looked it up and this movie is supposed to take place in 2049...if this is how our future will look I am totally living on a space ship, even if I'll be 55 then
• Smart House- Oh my god I wanted a smart house so bad!!
• Up, Up, and Away - This movie was actually kind of lame but for some reason I loved it. Again, one day just having super powers!
• The Color of Friendship - This was such a touching movie, they really should play it more often cause it is timeless
• Rip Girls - I really love this movie, I wanted to take up surfing after seeing it. Clearly I live in the perfect place for this to happen
• Quints - I think I liked this only because they girl who was in Halloweentown was in it
• Luck of the Irish - I wanted to be Irish after watching this movie
• Tru Confessions - This movie was intense. Very much unlike a normal Disney movie but so moving
• The Kim Possible movie - I loved this show and was so sad that it was ending even though I remember this movie not being as good as the show
• Tiger Cruise - Another really moving movie. So sad and really well done
• Buffalo Dreams - I remember being totally in love with the Native American boy in this movie

After these movies I feel like most of the movies went down hill. They aren't really that good or deep as some of the old movies were. It is sad because I feel like most of these movies really taught us things and now they are just a lot of fluff and no meaning.

Which when you think about it, it's sad. Adults say that the younger generations have lower attention spans and do not care about the world around them, but they are feeding this kind of fluff to them. I mean a ten year old is not going to willingly turn on the news, but if you put the news into a venue for them to enjoy, you are not only teaching them but entertaining them.

Well this took a weird turn, but it is interesting. And I feel like this is happening in a lot of different ways not only these movies but TV shows on many channels.

50 book challenge - 1 - 5

So I am a little behind on the my challenge already...but I had finals and stuff so I'll make up for it during the summer. I won't do a plot summary in these just to save time, it will just be my thoughts on the book as a whole. So here it is books 1-5:

1.) Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

I enjoyed this book. I love John Green and Maureen Johnson and I've read a lot of their books. I have only read one of Lauren Myracle's and I don't really remember much except I liked it. At any rate, all three plots were fun and depicted beautifully the thoughts and lives of a bunch of teenagers. The characters were likable and realistic. I was not surprised that I liked this book, it was well-written and fun, all three authors and brilliant.

Rating - 7/10

2.) I am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

This book was pretty good. I usually can't stand books about aliens just because they end up being too Sci-fi for my taste, however I thought this was a good blend of fantasy and sci-fi. The plot was innovative keeping my interested and on edge. My only complaint would be against the characters. I didn't really believe them. They were easy enough to relate to, however I thought that certain people fell flat and almost seemed forced. I recommend this book because it is a fun read.

Rating - 6/10

3.) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

This has been on my list for ages and I always put it off because I knew in AP English we read it. So, my class just finished it and I will say I was not disappointed. I am a huge sucker for dystopian novels, I'm not sure what I find so compelling about them but I will read countless stories about the price of progress. Brave New World was intriguing and slightly scary. This book is interesting because while some aspects as so far fetched that they are hard to imagine others hit really close to home. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially if you love dystopian novels.

Rating - 7/ 10

4.) Mugglenet.com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love And How Will the Adventure Finally End?

I had not touched this book since I read it in Fall '06. It was written by many members of the popular Harry Potter fan site Mugglenet before we knew anything about the final installment of the Harry Potter series. I only picked this up because I was avoiding something else, but going back and reading all the theories fan has before DH came out. My favorite part was reading the stats on who would live and die and how completely wrong some of them were. If you want to relive the blindness the world had before DH came out, I would read this because it fun and definitely well written.

Rating - 6/10

5.) An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

So, I love John Green. I follow his and Hank's Youtube channel I've read all of his books, this being the final one. While I still loved this book, Colin was a normal confused Dumpee, I don't think this is my favorite John Green book. It was well written and funny ( I literally laughed out loud while reading it during my study hall) it was probably my least favorite of his books. That being said, I would recommend this book because it was witty and catchy.

8/10

So, there we go. Only 45 more books to go...that sounds daunting. But I can do it!

Till next time.

Today's Recommendation: Lord of the Rings. Pretty much Lord of the Rings anything. I'm kind of obsessed right now, I've watched the first two movies and I am about a fourth through the first book. They are pretty awesome