Well, isn't this is a nice little joint?
Been a member for a long time but don't frequent the place much. Hello to all.
A double espresso would go down a treat, and give me a bit of a jolt to do some writing tonight. Kinda wasted the weekend, but I'm on vacation so it's all fine.
Lovely to be here.
One thousand two hundred and sixty-seven.
Thanks for this, Alan. I think I will enter; I'm quite a philosophical kind of guy.
I have tried (and failed) on three separate occasions to finish Heart of Darkness but it's like there's just this mental block. I can't put my finger on what it is but I always get to the point that I just cannot pick it up again.
That said, each time I've tried I've gotten a little further through it. Maybe if I keep going I'll eventually finish. I don't know if it's worth it though...
Curiously, an English teacher at my high school had a poem about a frog published...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte []
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens []
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott []
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [#]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
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 [x]
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 [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
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 [x]
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 []
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 []
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 [x]
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 [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
Canada. Should've gone when I had the chance.
Apple Pie or Apple Crumble?
Like many here, I have wandered over from another site. Thought it would an interesting change of pace once in a while.