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#books #literature #book haul

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I have no idea how to bold a reblogged post.

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 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 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 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 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 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 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 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 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 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 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 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 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 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 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 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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

#31 #i call bs on some of this list #like the 5 people you meet in heaven #or the da vinci code

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If you haven't read the Tenant of Wildfell Hall but you're telling me you like Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre, or both, PLEASE read the third Brontë sister's Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

In Wuthering Heights the love story is twisted up around revenge and overall selfishness.

In Jane Eyre the love story has to outlast obstacles put there by past mistakes.

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, BOTH of those things are happening, but the ending and the exposition is much more thorough than either of the other two and the suffering is more realistically applicable to situations that still happen today.

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Update:

Page 152 of Anna Karenina.

Vronsky's still ridiculous. That boy has no clue whatsoever.

#literature #books #classic literature #anna karenina #leon tolstoi

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#mood #books #incorrect good omens quotes #i know what you mean azi

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We already established that I can't draw but I do it anyway, so...

This is Vincent.

He's an android.

He's complicated.

#my drawings #writing #original fiction #original work

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#bookshelf #rearranged #books #international literature translated to portuguese #international literature in other languages #literature from portuguese speaking countries #and children's literature #plus non fiction by subject

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Turns out there is a ‘special place in hell’. But it’s not for the worst: it’s for good souls so utterly convinced they’re hellbound, so they can 'repent’ and accept they are indeed good people.

#writers #writing prompts #this is a good one #might try a short story

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F*** You, Levin. Seriously, F*** You.

SPOILERS FOR ANNA KARENINA

Grown ass "moral" man hears that the much younger girl he intended to marry and who commited the terrible sin of... not being that into him (!!!) is very ill.

How does he feel?

Pleased.

F*** you, Levin.

#anna karenina #literature #classic literature #tolstoy

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#books #mini haul #fathers and sons #ivan turgenev #farenheit 451 #ray bradbury

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You begin giving your monologue about what drove you to become evil, only to learn that the hero already learnt all pertinent information by reading your Wikipedia page.

#writing prompt #this is brilliant #unfortunately i'm not that funny #wouldn't be able to pull this off

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I see. Alright, I get now why a lot of people like Levin - for the simple reason that he's not Vronsky. Holy crap, Vronsky is annoying. Everytime this ridiculous boy opens his mouth I want to punch someone.

Angry reading this book is such a treat! It's really rare for me to be that into a story where there isn't one character I actually care about.

This will end up becoming one of my favorite novels, won't it?

#literature #lit #ana karenina #books #classic literature #anna karenina

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Where is the part of the book community that is neither obsessed with reading a lot nor obsessed with shaming people who do read a lot? Where are the book people who don't care either way what other people are doing? Those are my people.

#reading #books #well said #read because you love #read at your own pace #don't judge others

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Please take good care of them!

#build a frog #that's too cute

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#literature #freedom #hero

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Update on Anna Karenina.

Forget Levin, right now I hate everyone. Not because they're bad people. Actually, so far, everyone's been pretty average/meh. Some are more on the jerk side, but up to this point, no important character has stood out as truly "evil".

And yet, I hate them. I hate every single one of them. I do sympathize with Kitty, Dolly, Anna, and I am absolutely invested in all plots, but actually liking the character? That would be a stretch.

I am not joking. Everything else is very interesting: the politics, the societal norms, the customs. There is nothing in the world of those people that I am not desperate to know more of, except the people themselves.

Because they are boring. Oh my, they are so, so insipid. Which, of course, is bloody genious: it makes those people so, well... people.

We, real people, are actually quite boring on most of our days. Our concerns are, more often than not, quite small if put in perspective. We are basic, we are sometimes petty, and we worry that the dress we had redone didn't turn out the way we expected.

So, yes, kudos Mr. Tolstoy, for writing a very engaging book about characters I can't stand. It feels real.

#lev tolstoj #leo tolstoy #leon tolstoi #anna karenina #ana karenina #reading journal #classic literature #literature #lit #books

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#bookshelf #bookshelves #literature #lit #books