Stolen things memes

Yes, I swiped these from Father Erik who stole them himself from others. It's rare that I venture west to his great blog, but he's out of town and I had a minute and thought to myself that I haven't done a meme in awhile.

First the "book readin' meme." I don't think I'm all that well-read, so here goes nothin'

Basically, the idea is to bold the books you've read and highlight the books you'd like to read.

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I own them and will read them to my children some day
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible – part of it anyway
7. Wuthering Heights - Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott - own it and will read to my kids
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - not hardly, some anyhoo
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - will read to my kids
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell, never saw the movie in its entirety either
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - own it and will read some day before I die
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - I fear Karen will kill me if I don't read this
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - parts
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - own it and will read to kids
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - saw the movie, so need to read the book
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - most books of the series
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - saw the movie which was enough for me
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - own it and will read to my kids
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan - saw the movie
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert - parts
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac - I knew a bookseller who had a passion for Kerouac so am interested in what all the fuss is, he appears to be a nut IMHO
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding - the movie was enough
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - own it and will read to my kids
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
100.The Outsiders


Who-What-Where Meme

1. President Kennedy's Assassination - 22 November 1963 - Not born yet, parents not even married for another six months

2. England's World Cup Semi Final v Germany - 4 July 1990 - I vaguely remember this because we had just returned from a trip to Australia where soccer was on TV 24/7. I remember Germany being in it, but England? Hmph.

3. Margaret Thatcher's resignation - 22 November 1990 - Being a Reagan baby, I liked her. Can't remember her resigning though. Gosh.

4. Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997 - I was painting the hall closet in our house in Seattle. Thought her passing was kind of surreal.

5. Attack on the twin towers - 11 September 2001 - I was at work and on the phone with some British ex-pats in Hong Kong trying to figure out some equipment specs for a huge proposal. Pretty soon, the office had a TV on and everyone was in the conference room watching the coverage.

6. The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy - 19 April 2005 - I was pregnant with my daughter, at home with my husband watching the coverage and was so certain they would pick ANYONE besides Cardinal Ratzinger. I would've bet my life savings it wasn't going to be him. When he was selected I started clapping and cheering. Viva la Papa!!!!