BBC Top Books

The BBC apparently says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Apparently I'm not as big of a book worm as I originally thought I've only finished 26/100. That's a solid F. I guess I know what one of my new years resolutions is....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte LOVED IT! Read it many times
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee YES
6 The Bible SOME OF IT--ONE DAY
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell HATED IT
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES
11 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott- LOVED IT!
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare SOME OF THEM
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier LOVED IT!
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger DOES THE MOVIE COUNT?
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell DIDN'T FINISH
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 STARTED IT
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck SAW THE MOVIE
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol SAW THE MOVIE
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame YES
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens LOVED IT!
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen OF COURSE
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen BEST JANE AUSTEN EVER!!!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES
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 OF COURSE
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown YES
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 DEFINITELY
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood O
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan SAW THE MOVIE
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen OF COURSE!
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 THE GIANT REMINDED ME OF MY FAMILY W/ PETS
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas STARTED IT SAW THE MOVIE
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 SO SO MANY TIMES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath LOVED IT!
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 STARTED IT
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 CLASSIC!
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 LOVED IT!!!
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery IN FRENCH
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 LOVED IT!
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ODDLY, NO
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo STARTED IT

Christmas Celebrations

Its been a really l o n g time since my last post. Since I'm taking a huge leap and taking more than one day off of work, I finally have some times to get to the creative side of life. We had a fun little evening the other night when my family discovered what the application "Photo Booth" on my mac does.







We had a little chuckle on this one..... something about resembling those little house elves from Harry Potter.


I told them


to look

gangster....


hmmm

the

"DeWitt Gang"













Merry Christmas from the deWitts!

PS. We got to talk to Nicki yesterday. Not that we are counting down but she comes home on February 22nd. She sounded so happy and told us we were being to trunky, she has a lot of work she wants to do. Which makes sense since we was just called to be a trainer for the 3rd time, and is now learning sign language for her last transfer!