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Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place
Advanced Wordsmith
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] Seen the movie
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [~] Seen the movies, will most likely not try to read it.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[ ] Seen some of the movies, not interested in reading the books.
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 Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [#] Seen the movie
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 [~] I can't remember if I finished it or not
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
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 [~#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [#] I've only read bad rewrites and seen most of the movies.
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 - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x] One of my favorites
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] Love it, really great.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [#]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
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 Inferno – Dante []
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 Mitchell []
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 [x] Read all three books. They're really really great.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare []
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] not read this book, I love Roald Dahl's books though.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] Seen the movie
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [~] Seen the movies, will most likely not try to read it.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[ ] Seen some of the movies, not interested in reading the books.
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 Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [#] Seen the movie
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 [~] I can't remember if I finished it or not
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
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 [~#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [#] I've only read bad rewrites and seen most of the movies.
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 - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x] One of my favorites
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] Love it, really great.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [#]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
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 Inferno – Dante []
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 Mitchell []
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 [x] Read all three books. They're really really great.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare []
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] not read this book, I love Roald Dahl's books though.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
Advanced Wordsmith
Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's
Advanced Wordsmith
When I had a job, I wrote every day. On every break, when ever I got an idea I had to sneak off to the lil ladies room and write it down. I couldn't stand loosing a thought, having it caught up in the machines and never to come back. One of my story ideas I have yet to write is composed there. I'm already proud of it, but I know I need to practise more on writing before I will actually have the skill to write it good enough for its potential.
I've noticed I have a difficulty reading a book when I got an idea in my head. Every second row is my own story. It's really annoying when I am trying to do my homework. If I put the book aside to write my idea, it's almost gone. But back again between the lines when I pick the book up.
Like many I seem to write best in the morning, after I have struggled with an idea the day before, I go to bed. Wake up. Take my laptop from the desk and just write.
I've noticed I have a difficulty reading a book when I got an idea in my head. Every second row is my own story. It's really annoying when I am trying to do my homework. If I put the book aside to write my idea, it's almost gone. But back again between the lines when I pick the book up.
Like many I seem to write best in the morning, after I have struggled with an idea the day before, I go to bed. Wake up. Take my laptop from the desk and just write.