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Movies and Books

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Michelle tagged me so…

1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
No idea… they’re all Jon’s for the most part.

2) The last film I bought:
I don’t remember — it’s been a really long time.

3) The last film I watched:
Robin Hood: Men In Tights (I think)

4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
The Third Miracle
The Birdcage
Forrest Gump
Les Mis (a version we watched in my French class)
any of the Austin Powers ones

Ten Things I have NOT done:
001. Shoplift
002. Backpack through Europe
003. Kill a man
004. Visit Asia
005. Visit Australia
006. Serve as a missionary
007. Learn Spanish
008. Read the whole Bible in a year
009. Eat blue paint
010. Streak through a crowd.

Tag: Drina, Kristen, and Richard.

OK… Rick tagged me for this one:

1. Total number of books I own:
A LOT.

2. Last book I bought:
Ummmm… I think some Calvin and Hobbes ones???

3. Last book I read:
“Eragon” by Christopher Paolini (well… still reading it)

4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
“What’s So Amazing About Grace” by Philip Yancey
“The Jesus I Never Knew” by Philip Yancey
The Bible
“Christy” by Catherine Marshall
“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis

5. Two major books when I was a kid:
“The Diary of Anne Frank”
“To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

6. People I want to tag: (copy/paste the questions and answer them on your blog…)
Ummm… whoever wants to do this?

Narnia, Health, and Other Things

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Thanks to those who have commented or emailed or IM’ed me about my health. I’m recovering well and the cranberry juice that my wonderful and devoted husband got me made a huge difference — I was actually able to go for a walk on Friday morning without too much of a problem. My father-in-law was also here so I’ve been well-taken care of in my time of illness. 🙂

My appetite is also starting to return and the nausea is subsiding. I think my body is adjusting to the Lexapro. I’ll probably be seeing my P.A. in a few weeks to talk about continuing it or scrapping it depending on how I feel then.

Narnia
I just finished re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia. I first read them 3 years ago on my way home from Summer Greek and they captivated me then. After all my theology classes, I’m still just starting to understand all the allegory in them. It was good “sickbed” reading and I am still amused that Narnia was sung into being. That is just such a beautiful way of creating a world.

Other Things
To Dick Cheney: Grow up! There are better words to use than “f*ck” to tell someone to go away, especially a high-up member of your rival party. You look like an idiot.

Book Meme

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*bold those you’ve read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*add three of your own
*post to your livejournal

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

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Book Meme

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From Chris:

“We have a special visitor today,” he said in a booming voice as he reached a young family in the back of the church.
—A Can of Peas by Traci DePree

1. Grab the nearest book,
2. open it to page 23,
3. find the 5th sentence,
4. post its text along with these instructions,
5. point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.

College Board Survey Meme

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From a friend’s livejournal:

College Board’s 101 Greatest Works of Literature – bold those you have read, underline those you want to read. (I’m italicizing them because I’m too lazy to code the underlined ones.)

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Agee, James – A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert – The Stranger (in both English and French)
Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays
Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Homer – The Iliad
Homer – The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
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Books

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Ideajoy has created a new thing for b4G peeps called Who Reads What. Basically, it compiles the links to books in the blogs of b4G people. Since I’m a little overdue in blogging about such things, I thought I’d submit a list of some interesting titles. 🙂

What I’ve Read This Year And Would Recommend
+Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
+The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
+Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
+Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (in progress)
+Libra: The Cat Who Saved Silicon Valley by Lincoln and Lee Taiz
+The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun
+The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun
+ assorted other Lilian Jackson Braun titles
+The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
+The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting and Crocheting Illustrated by Barbara Breiter and Gail Diven
+A Can of Peas by Traci Depree

The Best Books I’ve Read on Faith
+Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
+St. Augustine’s Confessions
+The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell
+The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
+Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
+The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
+What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Phillip Yancey (if you read nothing else, read this one)
+The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancey
+Soul Survivor by Phillip Yancey
+How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
+Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill
+A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
+The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prayer by Mark Galli and James Bell

What I’m Wanting to Read
+Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner
+Rumors of Another World by Phillip Yancey
+Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder/Boxed Set by T.L. Tedrow
+Cubed Foot Gardening by Christopher O. Bird
+Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren F. Winner