Ohh man.

I went to the bookstore again today.
And bought three more books.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
I also found more books that I want to read.

My list is getting very long.

Successful Bookstore Outing

A few hours ago, my dad and I decided to go over to Chapters, just to browse. This is one of my favorite things to do, but it pains me when I have no money, and have to leave empty handed. I always find at least one new book that I want to read.
We were there for about an hour and a half, which is how long it took me to get through the entire Fiction & Literature section. It was unfortunate, but just as I got into the Horror section, it was time to go.
I found three new books to read, on top of the whole list I have, and I did make a purchase. And it was a great, and awesomely cheap, purchase.
See, Chapters has this awesome set of Classics, and they have it so that if you buy 2, you get the third free! I have already bought four of these books, but I felt it was time to get some more!
Here's what I got:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
There are so many others that I wanted, but I did not have the cash to buy them.

I have been enjoying Great Expectations, hence my buying two Dickens novels. I know many people don't like the length and detailed descriptions of Great Expectations, but I love it. I also found that as I got more into the story, I was able to understand what was being said much easier.

And one more quick thing:

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No. Just no.
Why would they do this???

Basic Updates

I haven't bothered writing lately, as I've been reading only books that aren't apart of any challenges I'm in. I've been hooked back into The Princess Diaries series, so that's what I've been reading. I'm now on book 7, so I'm almost done.
I did start reading Great Expectations today though! So far, it's really good. A little confusing at times, do to the old English and whatnot, but I'm doing pretty well none the less.

And currently, I am alphabetizing the Gilmore Girls book list, because I was having a hard time finding the books I was looking for. So this'll make it much easier. Though it's going to take quite a while, seeing how there are so many books.

Slow Updates

I'm such a slow updater...
So, I did finish Animal Farm that night, and Princess Diaries III the next night.
I'm going to skip out on the review of Animal Farm, partly because I have to answer questions on it for class, and partly because I don't really feel much like it right now. I will, however, give my opinion.
It was a great book. Very interesting, though strange (my favorite kind of book). I loved the two levels of it, the fantasy of talking animals running their own farm, as well as the take on politics. The end was a bit... sad is the closest word that comes to mind... but quite true.

Taking it easy tonight

EDIT: Whoop, changed my mind. I guess I'm starting on Animal Farm tonight. And probably finishing it tonight, too.

It's unfortunate, but I haven't been in the mood for reading, or anything else really, in the past few days. Tonight though, I feel the urge to read something quick and easy, so I think I'm going to put Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire and Great Expectations on hold, and just read Princess Diaries III. Then tomorrow, I'm going to have to start reading Animal Farm, then Romeo & Juliet the day after, for English. It's really just a bonus that I'm doing them in class, because I've been wanting to read them anyways.
So for now, I shall say goodnight. I'll be back again within the next couple of days, most likely after finishing Animal Farm.

The Bell Jar

I just finished this novel about 2 hours ago, and I must say, I really enjoyed it. It's a little odd at times, with all of the flashbacks, but it's a great story. I loved the writing style, and the main character is very interesting.

And because I'm lame, that's about all I can think of to say... I definitely recommend this book though, it's a great read.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

I just finished. Mind you, I've read it at least three time before.
So perhaps I'll write a short review? I dunno, let's see where this goes.

Prisoner of Azkaban is one of my favorites out of the series, probably around 4th on my list. I remember the first time I read it, I was quite surprised by most of the plot twists! I don't really have much more to say on it... I really suck at reviewing, especially if I've read the book this many times... But I love the plot, the characters, the writing, everything!

Alright, that's all I can think of. As of now, I am reading The Goblet of Fire and The Bell Jar.

Harry Potter Reading Challenge

Well, I saw this awesome challenge over on Galleysmith and figured I should join in, seeing how I was doing it anyways!

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

ON HOLD: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge Progress

Info Here

Books Read: 9/20

Category 1: Modern Classics
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsburg
3.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Category 2: Classics
1. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
On hold: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Category 3: Children's/Young Adult
1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Man, I'm doing pretty well! I just finished Princess Diaries II, so now I shall start on my next book. This one counts for both the random reading challenge, as well as the Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge, because the next one I will be reading is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

1 Down!

Ok, so I finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. All in one night. I was determined.
So, now it looks like I'm starting on The Princess Diaries II: Princess in the Spotlight for the random reading challenge. I'm not going to only read teen books this year, it's just that that's pretty much all that I have at the moment. We're going up to my dad's place today though, so I'll see if I can pick up a couple of books from the Gilmore Girls Challenge while I'm there.

Rory Gilmore Books Project: List and Tracker

I joined this group, seeing how I was planning to read all these books anyways!

Here's the list of all the books seen or mentioned throughout the show. I alphabetized them so it would be easier to find the books.
Bold means I've read it, italics means I'm reading it, and blue text means I own it.

* 1984 by George Orwell

A
* A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
* A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
* A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
* Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
* A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
* A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
* As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
* A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* Atonement by Ian McEwan

B
* Babe by Dick King- Smith
* Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
* Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
* Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
* Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

C
* Candide by Voltaire
* Carrie by Stephen King
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
* Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
* Christine by Stephen King
* Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
* Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
* Cujo by Stephen King

D
* Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
* David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
* Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
* Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
* Deenie by Judy Blume
* Don Quixote by Cervantes
* Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
* Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

E
* Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
* Eloise by Kay Thompson
* Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
* Emma by Jane Austen
* Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective byDonald J. Sobol
* Ethics by Spinoza
* Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
* Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
* Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

F
* Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
* Fear and Loathing: On the Campain Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
* Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
* Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
* Fletch by Gregory McDonald
* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
* Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
* Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

G
* Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
* George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
* Gidget by Frederick Kohner
* Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
* Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

H
* Hamlet by Shakespeare
* Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
* Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
* Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
* Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
* Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
* Henry V by William Shakespeare
* High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
* House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
* Howl by Allen Ginsburg
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

I
* I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
* In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
* Inferno by Dante
* Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
* Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
* It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton

J
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
* Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

K
* Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

L
* Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
* Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
* Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
* Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
* Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
* Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
* Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
* Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
* Love Story by Erich Segal

M
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* Marathon Man by William Goldman
* Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
* Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
* Mencken's Chresthonomy by H.R. Mencken
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
* Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
* Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
* Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
* Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
* My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
* My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
* Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

N
* Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
* Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
* Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
* Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powel

O
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac
* Othello by William Shakespeare
* Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
* Out of Africa by Isac Denison

P
* Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
* Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
* Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
* Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (ON HOLD)
* Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

Q

R
* Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
* Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
* Richard III by William Shakespeare
* R is for Ricochet, S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
* Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
* Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
* Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

S
* Sanctuary by William Faulkner
* Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
* Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
* Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
* Selected Hotels of Europe
* Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
* Sexus by Henry Miller
* Shane by Jack Shaefer
* Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
* Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
* Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
* Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Sophie's Choice by William Styron
* Stuart Little by E. B. White
* Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
* Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

T
* Tears of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
* Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* The Art of Fiction by Henry James
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* The Bhagava Gita
* The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
* The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
* The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
* The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
* The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
* The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
* The Crucible by Arthur Miller
* The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
* The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
* The Divine Comedy by Dante
* The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
* The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
* The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
* The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
* The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
* The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
* The Graduate by Charles Webb
* The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
* The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
* The Group by Mary McCarthy
* The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
* The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
* The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* The Iliad by Homer
* The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
* The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
* The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
* The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
* The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
* The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
* The Manticore by Robertson Davies
* The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
* The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
* The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
* The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
* The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
* The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
* The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
* The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch
* The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
* The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
* The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
* The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
* The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
* The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
* The Return of the King by J.R.R.Tolkien
* The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
* The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
* The Shining by Stephen King
* The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
* The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
* The Trial by Franz Kafka
* The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
* The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers
* The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
* The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
* To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Album

U
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

V
* Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline
* Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

W
* Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
* Walden by Henry David Thoreau
* Walt Disney's Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
* We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
* What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
* What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
* Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

X

Y

Z