AliciaNicole

I used a gift certificate I got for my birthday to buy a book called Live the Life You Love on a whim a month or so ago. I picked it up and started trying to work through it. It’s interesting… I am hitting serious internal resistance, though. I almost think that I would rather fester in the rut I’ve settled in… ugh.

I sort of surprised myself. I figured I’d have, like, 10. I’ve always wanted to be more well-read… this is a great place to start :) I think I have Ulysses in my “to read” pile (books I pick up at yard sales and thrift shops.) I’ll tackle that one next when I finish the ones I’m currently reading. After that, I’ll have to get a library card.

To date I’ve read the following (numbers on the left are mine):

1. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (#3)

2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (#17)
Irritated me.

3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (#18)
The more talented of the sisters, by far. This is one of my all-time favorite books.

4. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (#20)

5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (#22)

6. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (#24)

7. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott (#25)

8. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (#29)

9. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#31)

10. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (#38)

11. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (#40)

12. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (#46)

13. The Trial by Franz Kafka (#49)

14. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (#59)

15. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (#61)

16. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (#63)

17. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (#64)

18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (#66)

19. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (#68)

20. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (#73)

21. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (#76)
Gorgeous.

22. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (#79)
Another one of my favorite books.

23. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (#85)

24. The BFG Roald Dahl (#88)

No cheating, either. IKEA’s too easy. I know what I want. Hell, maybe I’ll have to try to build it…? Yikes. Maybe to learn to build my own furniture would also be a good goal.