tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55876742189301437702024-02-20T12:53:14.251-08:00My Bucket ListRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03011662038311983039noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587674218930143770.post-21785990744289602492013-03-14T06:53:00.000-07:002013-03-14T07:01:46.561-07:0020 books to read in your 20sSo I was looking on Pinterest, like I always spend my spare time..... and I came across a post about the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/20-books-you-should-read-in-your-20_s/nicolebreanne">20 books you should read in your 20s</a>. So I figure why not add this to my Rory Gilmore list? At least I have 9 years to complete this one! :) Plus some of them are doubles- winning!<br />
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In the Hand of Dante-- Nick Tosches<br />
The Electric Kool-Aid Test- Tom Wolfe<br />
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand<br />
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates- Tom Robbins<br />
Howel- Allen Ginsberg<br />
On the Road- Jack Kerouac<br />
Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts<br />
House of Leaves- Mark Z. Danielewski<br />
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle- Haruk Murakam<br />
The Psychopath Test- John Ronson<br />
She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb<br />
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath<br />
Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes<br />
Withering Heights- emily Bronte<br />
Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris<br />
The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks<br />
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams<br />
Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gands- Hunter S. Thompson<br />
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger<br />
The Kite runner- Khaled Hosseini<br />
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<span class="oNode" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03011662038311983039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587674218930143770.post-60817744963565465732013-03-12T21:13:00.000-07:002013-03-12T21:13:54.248-07:00Rory Gilmore's Book ListAnyone who has ever watched Gilmore Girl's knows that Rory Gilmore probably has read more books then are in my small town library! I found a list of her books that are referenced in the show from <a href="http://bookreviews.me.uk/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge/">It's Time to Read blog</a>, and within 5 years (cause I am still in school and time is precious for studying) I want to read half of them :) I will try and keep updating this post as I read the books :)<br />
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<br /><br />1984 by George Orwell<br />The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<br />Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<br />The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon<br />An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser<br />Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt<br />Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy<br /><b>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - Read </b><br />Archidamian War by Donald Kagan<br />The Art of Fiction by Henry James<br />The Art of War by Sun Tzu<br />As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner<br />Atonement by Ian McEwan<br />Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy<br />The Awakening by Kate Chopin<br />Babe by Dick King-Smith<br />Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi<br />Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie<br />Bel Canto by Ann Patchett<br />The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath<br />Beloved by Toni Morrison<br />Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney<br />The Bhagava Gita<br />The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy<br />Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel<br />A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy<br />Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<br />Brick Lane by Monica Ali<br />Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner<br />Candide by Voltaire – read – June 2010<br />The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer<br />Carrie by Stephen King<br />Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<br />The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger<br /><b>Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White- Read</b><br />The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman<br />Christine by Stephen King<br />A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<br />A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<br />The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse<br />The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty<br />The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty<br />A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare<br />Complete Novels by Dawn Powell<br />The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton<br />Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker<br />A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole<br />The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père<br />Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac<br />Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished<br />The Crucible by Arthur Miller<br />Cujo by Stephen King<br />The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon<br />Daisy Miller by Henry James<br />Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende<br />David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D<br />David Copperfield by Charles Dickens<br />The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown<br />Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol<br />Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller<br />Deenie by Judy Blume<br />The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson<br />The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx<br />The Divine Comedy by Dante<br />The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells<br />Don Quijote by Cervantes<br />Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv<br />Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe<br />Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook<br />The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe<br />Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn<br />Eloise by Kay Thompson<br />Emily the Strange by Roger Reger<br />Emma by Jane Austen<br />Empire Falls by Richard Russo<br />Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol<br />Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton<br />Ethics by Spinoza<br />Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves<br />Eva Luna by Isabel Allende<br />Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer<br />Extravagance by Gary Krist<br />Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<br />Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore<br />The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan<br />Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser<br />Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson<br />The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)<br />Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein<br />The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom<br />Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce<br />Fletch by Gregory McDonald<br />Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes<br />The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem<br />The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand<br />Frankenstein by Mary Shelley<br />Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger<br />Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers<br />Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut<br />Gender Trouble by Judith Butler<br />George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg<br />Gidget by Fredrick Kohner<br />Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen<br />The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels<br />The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo<br />The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy<br />Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky<br />Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<br />The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford<br />The Gospel According to Judy Bloom<br />The Graduate by Charles Webb<br />The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<br />The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<br />The Group by Mary McCarthy<br />Hamlet by William Shakespeare<br />Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling<br />Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling<br />A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers<br />Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (TBR)<br />Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (TBR)<br />Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare<br />Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare<br />Henry V by William Shakespeare<br />High Fidelity by Nick Hornby<br />The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon<br />Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris<br />The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton<br />House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)<br />The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende<br />How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer<br />How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss<br />How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland<br />Howl by Allen Gingsburg<br />The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo<br />The Iliad by Homer<br />I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres<br />In Cold Blood by Truman Capote<br />Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee<br />Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy<br />It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton<br />Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë –<br />The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan<br />Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare<br />The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain<br />The Jungle by Upton Sinclair<br />Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito<br />The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander<br />The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini <br />Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence<br />The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal<br />Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman<br />The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield<br />Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis<br />Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke<br />Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken<br />Life of Pi by Yann Martel<br /><b>The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - Read</b><br />Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens<br />The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway<br />The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen<br />Little Women by Louisa May Alcott<br />Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton<br /><b>Lord of the Flies by William Golding- Read</b><br />The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson<br />The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold<br />The Love Story by Erich Segal<br />Macbeth by William Shakespeare<br />Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<br />The Manticore by Robertson Davies<br />Marathon Man by William Goldman<br />The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov<br />Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir<br />Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman<br />Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris<br />The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer<br />Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken<br />The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare<br />The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka<br />Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides<br />The Miracle Worker by William Gibson<br />Moby Dick by Herman Melville<br />The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin<br />Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor<br />A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman<br />Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret<br />A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars<br />A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway<br />Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf<br />Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall<br />My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh<br />My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken<br />My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest<br />My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult<br />The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer<br />The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<br />The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri<br />The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin<br />Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen<br />New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson<br />The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay<br />Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich<br />Night by Elie Wiesel<br />Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen<br />The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan<br />Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell<br />Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski<br />Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<br />Old School by Tobias Wolff<br />Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens<br />On the Road by Jack Kerouac<br />One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn<br />One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey<br />One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan<br />Oracle Night by Paul Auster<br />Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood<br /><b>Othello by Shakespeare – read</b><br />Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens<br />The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan<br />Out of Africa by Isac Dineson<br /><b>The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton- Read</b><br />A Passage to India by E.M. Forster<br />The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan<br /><b>The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky- Read</b><br />Peyton Place by Grace Metalious<br />The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde<br />Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington<br />Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi<br />Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain<br />The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby – read<br />The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker<br />The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche<br />The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind<br />Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen<br />Property by Valerie Martin<br />Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon<br />Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw<br />Quattrocento by James Mckean<br />A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall<br />Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers<br /><b>The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Read</b><br />The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham<br />Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi<br />Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier<br /><b>Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin- Rea</b>d<br />The Red Tent by Anita Diamant<br />Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman<br />The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)<br />R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton<br />Rita Hayworth by Stephen King<br />Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert<br />Roman Fever by Edith Wharton<br />Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare<br />A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf<br />A Room with a View by E. M. Forster<br />Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin<br />Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi<br />Sanctuary by William Faulkner<br />Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford<br />The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum<br />The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand<br />The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir<br />The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd<br />Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman<br />Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell<br />Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen –<br />A Separate Peace by John Knowles<br />Several Biographies of Winston Churchill<br />Sexus by Henry Miller<br />The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />Shane by Jack Shaefer<br />The Shining by Stephen King<br />Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse<br />S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton<br />Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut<br />Small Island by Andrea Levy –<br />Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway<br />Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers<br />Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore<br />The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht<br />Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos<br />The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker<br />Songbook by Nick Hornby<br />The Sonnets by William Shakespeare<br />Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br />Sophie’s Choice by William Styron<br />The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner<br />Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov<br />Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach<br /><b>The Story of My Life by Helen Keller- Read</b><br />A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams<br /><b>Stuart Little by E. B. White- Read</b><br />Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway<br />Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust<br />Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett<br />Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber<br />A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens<br />Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry<br />Time and Again by Jack Finney<br />The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br />To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway<br /><b>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – read</b><br />The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare<br />A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith<br />The Trial by Franz Kafka<br />The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson<br />Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett<br />Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom<br />Ulysses by James Joyce<br />The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath<br />Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe<br />Unless by Carol Shields<br />Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann<br />The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers<br />Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray –<br />Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard<br />The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides<br />Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett<br />Walden by Henry David Thoreau<br />Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten<br />War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy<br />We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker<br />What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles<br />What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell<br />When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka<br />Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson<br />Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee –<br />Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire<br />The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum<br />Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë<br />The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings<br />The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion<br />A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole<div>
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I have completely suprised myself that I have already read 10 of these books! Off to a great start! But considering there are 150-something on this list, I think a 5 year time frame is excellent ;)</div>
Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03011662038311983039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587674218930143770.post-1624338516599400922013-03-12T20:56:00.000-07:002013-03-12T20:56:10.072-07:00The point of the story is........So I started thinking about all these different things that I want to accomplish in my lifetime. And I feel like if I publicized them, I would feel more pressure to complete them! So this is the point of this blog, to get my butt in motion for the things I want to get done before I "Kick the Bucket".<div>
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So if your reading this and think I should try something, please comment! I am definitely open for suggestions. As well, don't be afraid to help me get my butt in gear to get them done! :)</div>
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