Heather’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2010)

Heather’s comments from the Dementia - Reading Challenges group.

So, I've decided to re-read this series in January to prep for the new book in February. I think it'll be fun. I really have to re-read Ch. 32 (book 2). ;) I told a guy friend about the fact that Frost sells t-shirts that just say CH. 32. His response was that he should make one that said "I can do everything in Ch. 32." It'd be pretty funny.
I also like the "Lucifer's bouncing balls, kitten. Not again," sayings.

Good luck.

"HadEidolon been anywhere but the hospital, he would have killed the guy pleading for his life before him."

There are a few of these that I have no interest in, or just couldn't finish. I probably won't read all 100, but maybe I'll aim for somewhere between 60-75 of the titles.

Read 27 of 100

Read:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
76 The Inferno - Dante
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare


Haven't Read/Finished:
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I was half way through before my dog ate it and I lost my place.)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (Tried, but couldn't do it. Maybe now that I'm older? I'll give it one more chance.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Stoped in the middle.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read most, but I'm missing a lot of the histories.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Lost my place, but about 3/4 the way done.)
29 Alice In Wonderland- Lewis Caroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
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
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. 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
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Really Not Interested In

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (made the mistake of watching the movie first)

The BBC predicts that the average person has read 6 of the books below. For this challenge you can decide to read all 100, or just pick an amount that works for you. (Some of these may overlap with other challenges, but that's okay.)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
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 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
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 Caroll
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 - A.A. 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 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 - E.B. 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

I'm working on Sabriel right now. It's interesting, but I wish Nix would create another word for the magic they use. All I'm seeing is "charter magic," "charter magic," "charter magic." Outside of the redundancy issue I'm curious.

2012
January - Evil Twin
February - Heather
March - Heather
April - Evil Twin
May - Heather
June - Heather
July - Amy
August - Katrine
September - Evil Twin
October - Evil Twin
November - Heather
December -Evil Twin

2013
January - Evil Twin
February - Heather
March - Evil Twin
April -
May - Barbara
June -
July -
August - Barbara
September -
October -
November -
December -

If you're interested in creating a challenge for a month, let me know. You can also let me know what month you're interested in. You should come up with an option that allows for 6 or more books to be read. That way if people want to read a lot they can, but if they want to read less, they can pick which criteria they'll use. 3 books read is the minimum for completing a challenge.
I'll try and remind you as your month comes up. We'll try and post about 2 weeks early so that people can plan their books.

I know. Vlad is the best. She says Ian isn't ready for a girl yet. He needs to grow up a bit. So, it'll be a little before he gets a book.

Okay, it was extended to 9. Also, I think I heard something about a 3-5 book series for one of the characters. I'm thinking I heard Vlad, but I don't have time to research to confirm that. Gtg to work.

At least 7. Hopefully the contract gets extended.

I had that same problem. I accidentally read a spoiler.

I think I played everything but the piano. I can play the melody, but I can't read two lines of music at once. I would learn an instrument, move up to 1st chair and then get bored and pick a new one so I went from flute to clarinet to sax to trumpet to oboe to...I just kept going.

I take it you play an instrument? Good luck. School always seems that way, but when you're out it seems like life was easier. Stress out because it's normal, but don't stress so much you'll drive yourself crazy.

Anyone else feel the need for a vacation?

"The Wheel of TIme turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend."

Guys, don't forget to help me out with this list as you read!

"They said she killed herself."

Oh ya...This is on the top 100 fantasy challenge so if you're participating in it, this one will help you clear another book off the list. So are books 2 and 3 from this series.

So, I think I'm going to reread this book this month. Somewhere between pages 20-40 the book has you grabbed. It's one of my favorite scenes ever. I was shocked since I just wasn't expecting things to go the way they did. Also, Bones is one of the sexiest male characters I've ever read about. If you like Fantasy/PNR, it's a must read.