Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Woe. For Christmas I will be receiving books I already own from the extended family.
The Books that have an x I most likely own. The ones in black all the way at the end I most definitely do not own.
Better late than never.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible ()
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)
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 ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
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 (x)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
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 ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
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 (x)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
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 (x)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (x)
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 (x)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
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 (x)
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 (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
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 Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
101 Go and Come Back-Joan Abelove ()
102 Bastard Out of Carolina- Dorothy Allison ()
103 In the Time of the Butterflies- Julia Alvarez ()
104 Feed- M.T. Anderson ()
105 Forgotten Fire- Adam Bagdasarian ()
106 Postcards From No Man’s Land- Aidan Chambers ()
107 Caramelo- Sandra Cisneros ()
108 Life is Funny- E.R. Frank ()
109 My Heartbeat- Garret Freymann-Weyr ()
110 How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines- Thomas C. Foster
111 Me and Orson Welles- Robert Kaplow
112 The Bean Trees- Barbara Kingslover
113 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life- Anne Lamott
114 Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter- Adeline Mah
115 Monster- Walter Dean Myers
116 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East- Naomi Shihab Nye
117 Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English- Patricia T. O’Connor
118 A Gracious Plenty- Sheri Reynolds
119 Push- Sapphire
120 Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
121 A Rose that Grew from Concrete- Tupak Shapur
122 Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities- Anna Deavere Smith
123 The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Authors by Lauren Leto.
J.D. Salinger
Kids who don’t fit in (duh).
Stephanie Meyer
People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3>
J.K. Rowling
Smart geeks.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger.
Jonathan Safran Foer
30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.
Jodi Picoult
Your mom when she’s at her time of the month.
Chuck Palahniuk
Boys who can’t read.
Leo Tolstoy
Guys I want to date.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Guys I want to sleep with. (The difference between the two Russian authors lies in the fact that I think the Underground Man is sexier than Pierre Buzukhov).
Ayn Rand
Workaholics seeking validation.
David Foster Wallace
Confirmed 90’s literati.
Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters)
Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a “phase”.
Haruki Murakami
People who like good music.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who can start a fire.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
People who used to sleep so heavy that they would pee their pants.
Charles Dickens
Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
William Shakespeare
People who like bondage.
Mark Twain
Liars.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
People who drink scotch.
Edgar Allan Poe
Men who live in their mother’s basements. Or goth seventh graders.
Michael Crichton
Doctors who went to third-tier medical schools.
John Grisham
Doctors who went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic.
Dan Brown
People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.
Dave Eggers
Guys who are in the third coolest frat of a private college.
Margaret Atwood
Women whose favorite color is hunter green.
William Faulkner
People who are good at crosswords.
Jackie Collins
Your drunk stepmother.
Nicholas Sparks
Women who are usually constipated.
James Patterson
Men who score a 153 on their LSAT exam.
Sylvia Plath
Girls who keep journals (too easy).
George Orwell
Conspiracy theorists (too easy).
Aldous Huxley
People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.
Harper Lee
People who have read only one book in their life and it was To Kill A Mockingbird (and it was their assigned reading in the ninth grade).
Nick Hornby
Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.
Ernest Hemingway
Men who own cottages.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who get ARM mortgages.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men who use words like ‘dubious’ and ‘tenacity’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sommelieres.
Bret Easton Ellis
Foo Fighters’ fans.
Hunter S Thompson
That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.
Cormac McCarthy
Men who don’t eat cream cheese.
Thomas Aquinas
Premature ejaculators.
Pearl S. Buck
Women whose favorite president was Harry S. Truman.
Toni Morrison
Female high-school English professors who only have an undergraduate degree.
Stephen King
11th graders who peed their pants while watching the movie It.
H.P. Lovecraft
People who can quote the Comic Book Guy from Simpsons.
Brothers Grimm
Only children with Oedipal complexes.
Lewis Carroll
People who move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene.
C.S. Lewis
Youth group leaders who picked their nose in the 4th grade.
Hermann Hesse
People who own one straw chair in their house.
Phillippa Gregory
Women who have repressed their desire to go to Renaissance Festivals
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.
Stieg Larsson
Girls who are too frightened to go skydiving.
O. Henry
Men who have names like Earl or Cliff and were really close with their paternal grandfather.
Virginia Woolf
Female high-school French teachers who have their master’s degree.
Joseph Heller
People who love buying drinks for their friends. See also, people who cringe when they see their bar tab.
Dean Koontz
People who would never dream of owning any type of “toy” breed dog.
John Irving
People whose parents are divorced.
Salman Rushdie
People who google image search Padma Lakshmi late at night.
Albert Camus
People who went to art school after “trying it out” at a public university.
Kurt Vonnegut
People who played Creep by Radiohead while having sex or smoking pot.
James Joyce
People who do not like John Cusack movies.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Meh Day
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Some guy's twitter
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
YesYesYes!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Maybe I should actually try and do this.
There is a serious lack of moral ethics in our society. There are few role models that we can look up to that promote an honest lifestyle as a successful one. Many people think only of themselves and use others in order to make themselves more accomplished.
As an individual, I propose smiling. Mother Theresa said, “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” Mother Theresa herself was a beautiful person, and I think that if more people took her words to heart, then the world would be a better place. Simple, starting with a smile. I wholly believe that everyone looks better when they smile. A simple facial expression can change lives. A smile is warm and inviting; friendly. If I smile at someone, maybe even a stranger, then there’s a chance that they may smile back. If they do, then I’ve changed their life, even if in the smallest of ways.
A smile may then lead to a conversation. Conversation is like breathing life into a friendship. Maybe my fellow smiler has had something weighing them down for awhile, maybe I can help them. In fact, I know that I can help them. Sometimes people are just looking for a willing ear. The art of listening is something that is being forgotten. People need to remember to simply listen to others, take in what they’re saying. It doesn’t matter if I can’t form an appropriate answer or I can’t sympathize with them, just listening is enough. In another case, if they don’t have anything on their shoulder, I can talk to them. Get it out, whatever it is that I’m keeping bottled up inside of me will be better out in the open, free, and breathing, not inside my soul, suffocating my heart. If neither of us have anything bothering us, or simply don’t feel like spilling, then share a story! Everyone loves a story, I know I do. I’ll tell my new friend about my favorite restaurant, the best book I’ve ever read, or my first kiss! They’ll be enraptured. In return, I must listen to their stories, although that’s not a very hard task to perform. Talking and listening, it’s like the inhaling and exhaling of friendship. Both completely necessary for changing the world, one smile at a time. At the end of our elaborate and friendly conversation, I’ll invite them to a party or dinner! There, they will smile and converse with my other friends and acquaintances, expanding their circle of love, all because of my simple smile.
Hopefully, these people will learn from my smile. Perhaps they will smile to a stranger on a street, start conversations, share stories, and make new friends. In this way I hope to extend kindness to different circles of love. It will extend to people’s friends, families, businesses, institutions. In this way we will all be connected in one way or another. They love that feeling of inclusiveness and will hopefully wish to spread it to the people that they pass, but never really see. We will be connected through our beliefs, and our friends. Our belief that a smile can change someone’s life by snowballing into friendships and fun memories! We will not want to hurt one another, because we know that being kind and listening is more rewarding than hurting. So I propose smiling, because I believe a simple smile can change the world into something beautiful.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
2. I want to read, but I have too much homework (being on facebook doesn't count as procrastinating in my head "I'll only be on for a second.")
3. I am clueless about my future occupation.
4. Yet, I've come to the conclusion that I am destined to have ink-stained, calloused, and cramped fingertips.
5. My grandma was my favorite person in the world.
6. I dislike dumb, immature, annoying people.
7. I love huge sunglasses.
8. My little brother is awesome. <3
9. Chocolate should be a food group. haha
10. My parents are some of the smartest people I know, no matter how many times I call them stupid.
11. I wish I was a better writer.
12. I have awesome grammar and spelling.
13. I've played the piano since I was five.
14. My best friend's name is Melanie Katrina Scherr.
15. Reading is the one thing that I could do for hours, days, weeks, on end.
16. If you're going to lie, make sure you don't get caught, otherwise, you're just stupid.
17. I don't have many friends, but I am completely fine with that.
18. I have three more years of being youth deacon.
19. I think that you can believe in whatever you want to, as long as you do it passionately.
20. I secretly smell the pages of books, and love it.
21. Tadd didn't get the "fact" part about this 25 FACTS thing.
22. I'm over high school, one year was enough.
23. Kind people are the wisest.
24. I need to learn humility.
25. I'm going to be a LT at Camp Johnsonburg this summer. :)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Self-Portrait
Monday, September 21, 2009
Nightmare
Dream
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Oh God, Oh man, Oh no, Another triangle sess, and you know what that means, Pokémon.
Finally he get's on the back of Hockalugi. That took a while. Idiot. Stupid. Retard.