{"id":10456,"date":"2007-01-10T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/10\/booky-meme-redux.html"},"modified":"2007-01-10T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:47:13","slug":"booky_meme_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/booky_meme_redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Booky Meme Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The same as the Booky Meme<\/a>, but with a list from Kate <\/a>(via Doyce<\/a>): <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Bold <\/strong>the ones you\u2019ve read, strike-out<\/s> the ones you hated, italicize <\/em>those you started but never finished and put an asterisk (*) beside the ones you loved.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

1. Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman * <\/strong>[All his screen trade books are fun.]
\n2. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie<\/strong> [Not my favorite, but a gripping yarn.]
\n3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
\n4. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery *
\n5. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
\n6. Charlotte\u2019s Web, E.B. White *
\n<\/strong>7. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
\n8. Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
\n9. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas [No, but I’ve watched a good dozen adaptations to film.]
\n10. Dracula, Bram Stoker
\n11. The Eight, Katherine Neville
\n12. Emma, Jane Austen
\n13. The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King
\n
\n14. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
\n15. Fatherland, Robert Harris
\n16. The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay
\n17. The Forever King, Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
\n18. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
\n19. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
\n20. Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
\n21. The Good Master, Kate Seredy
\n22. Good Omens, Nel Gaiman & Terry Pratchett *
\n<\/strong>23. The Gypsy, Megan Lindholm & Steven Brust [Just didn’t look interesting.]
\n24. The Hero and The Crown, Robin McKinley
\n25. In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
\n26. Intimations of Immortality, Piers Anthony<\/strike><\/strong> [Just never warmed to Anthony.]
\n27. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O\u2019Dell *<\/strong> [Many years ago …]
\n28. James and The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl<\/strong>
\n
\n29. King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry
\n30. Kissing in Manhattan, David Schickler
\n31. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott [No, but I played Laurie in a stage adaptation of it in high school … “Is Beth … very<\/em> … ill?”]
\n32. The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
\n33. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
\n34. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck [I barely survived Grapes of Wrath.]
\n35. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
\n<\/strong>36. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
\n37. The Princess Bride, William Goldman *<\/strong> [Better than the movie, which is itself faboo.]
\n38. The Quality of Mercy, Faye Kellerman
\n39. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
\n40. The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff<\/strong>
\n
\n41. The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
\n42. Time And Again, Jack Finney
\n43. Tomorrow, When the War Began, James Marsden
\n44. Sabriel, Garth Nix
\n
\n45. Sandman, Neil Gaiman *<\/strong>
\n
\n46. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
\n47. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
\n48. Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers
\n49. Winter\u2019s Tale, Mark Helprin
\n50. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
\n51. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L\u2019Engle * <\/strong>[I like nearly all of her “juveniles.”] <\/p>\n

I suppose this means I need to find some time (some time) to come up with my<\/em> “Nifty Fifty.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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