There has been a medium-sized elephant shuffling through the Spy house for several weeks. The elephant does not belong to me, so I don�t feel right about writing about it here, but it is large enough that we have adapted our lives to work around it. We aren�t pretending it�s not there. We talk to it sometimes, give it what it needs. The affects have been both positive and negative. In the end, I think the net results will be good. I think the elephant was invisible for a long time. We�ve been bumping into it without knowing what it was or why we couldn�t get through the door. And now that we�re learning about its care and feeding, things have become remarkably intimate and solid at the same time. He is a well-behaved elephant, and while we would have more room to move if the elephant were elsewhere, we�ve grown to like the household we�ve become. I am cautiously optimistic, and also a little nervous about leaving the elephant behind this weekend. I�ve been having curious anxiety dreams taking place at conferences, none of which have anything to do with the reading of papers, which no longer seems to make me very nervous. And from cryptology to bibliophilia: this meme is courtesy of sidewaysrain. Bold = books you've read
Strike = books you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole or wish you hadn't
* = never heard of it
+ = on my shelf And I�m adding one more:
#=want to read but haven�t All unmarked books are those that you�ve heard of but haven�t read through no particular omission. I�m always a sucker for a book list, but I have to say that this particular collection is a little puzzling. I�m curious as to how this particular group of 100 books came to live together. 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. + Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. + To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. + Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. * Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. + A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. + Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. + A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. + Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. + Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone (Rowling)
17. * Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. + The Stand (Stephen King)[in case anyone�s checking up on my librarything list, this is part of an anthology]
19. + Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. + Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) [three different copies thereof]
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. + Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. + The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. + The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. + The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. + Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34.+ 1984 (Orwell)
35. + The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. * The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. # I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. * The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. + The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)?
45.+ Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. + Angela�s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. # She�s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. + The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. + A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. * Ender�s Game (Orson Scott Card)?
54. + Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. + The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. * The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. + Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. + The Handmaid�s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. # The Time Traveller�s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. + Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. + War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. + Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. + Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. + One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. + Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)[We also have a book by Heller�s son Ted, which features a character loosely based on Mr. Spy]
69. + Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. + The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones� Diary (Fielding)
72. + Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. + The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. + The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. * The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. + A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. + The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. * The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. + Charlotte�s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. + Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. + Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. * Wizard�s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. + Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. + Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)[I own a first edition of this book in its original dust jacket; it�s one of my prized possessions]
88. + The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. + Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. * Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. + Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. + The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. + The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. # White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. + Ulysses (James Joyce) [I've read this one a few times, but I'm still not sure I've ever really read it.] And if you�re still reading, please click over to AJ�s Club and give us your thoughts on children�s lit. The latest entry explains all.
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