I swear, the Greg situation is finally rectified, but it is kinda depressing since my whole spat of flirting with him with the intention of getting into some sort of relationship is over. Oh well, doesn’t mean I can’t still flirt! He does.

So we’re just going to be really good friends and everything. Of course he’s probably logically decided he can’t like me since we’re “polar opposites” though I don’t see HOW we’re opposites. He’s an ass at times, sure, but I have a very bitchy side if anyone does anything to bring it up.

I need to be able to trust someone or I’m going to go crazy. Since Shady’s not around as much because of her boyfriend hopefully this will be a good alternative, right?? I certainly hope so… but now I’m not doing anything bad like actually going on a legit date with him my friend Edward can STFU and stop worrying? IDK if he’s worrying but he supposedly had a bad feeling about everything.

Well, I’m more so disappointed because I was looking forward to having something good of that regard happening, but I don’t want to be tied down anyway so I’ll be ok.

He is such a mystery though. So that in itself is kinda cool I guess. I am kind of secretly hoping that maybe something will work out but I’m pretty sure that we are too different. I don’t know if I could ever date someone who relies THAT much on logic. I have relied that much before, but I almost always base my decisions equally on both so I don’t think it’s a good idea. I guess with all of this I’m more flattered than I am struck by something. I’ve been really happy lately because I felt like something would work out, but I guess I should be happy because I’m fun.

I’m very fun! I’m silly and crazy and enjoy my life when I’m not moping around like a pain the ass. I love it.

I just gotta work on myself I guess.

I shouldn’t get so attached to people so easily…it’s kind of a problem.

I’ve realized this kind of recently. In general, I like to help people. I like to see their situation and help them as best I can. I like to set people up for good things to happen to them. Oftentimes this is when I know that I could set my friend up with another friend etc. I think this is a bad sign, but I really feel like I need to protect this kid. Actually now that I think about it…not really support, I just have this gut feeling he needs someone to be there for him. Not like he doesn’t have other friends, but I want to be the rock of support for him. I had it slightly before we were kinda flirting back and forth…Now it is really intense. How does that work? Now that I think about it…I have that feeling for a lot of people. Like sometimes when I meet someone I think “Oh wow” and it’s just kind of a gut feeling and I can tell if they really need people/someone to support/be there for them.

We’ll see what happens I guess. That was my ramble/stream of consciousness for the day.

Not everyone is from xanga!

1. I don’t get to talk to you as often as I would like to, but it’s great when we both have the time to talk. I love having a fellow English-lover to talk to. Speaking of English, we MUST discuss The Painted Veil soon. I think that is by far my favorite contemporary British novel ! You’re totally the teacher that I want to be in 5-6 years. The timeframe on that is probably wrong, but I think you can tell that math is not my strong point. Anyway, thanks for being awesome, don’t forget to be awesome and I think we should swap recipes someday soon. Vegan Brownies for Thai Food or something like that? I think so! I feel like I should have said something else here but I don’t know what else to say!

2. I have a good feeling about all of this. People are worried about me, but I’m not worried. I feel like I actually know you for you and they don’t see what eye see. Maybe that makes me stupid, but whatever. Let’s hang out and see what happens. But for the record I like you a lot I’m just chickening out in actually saying it. I think all the flirting makes up for that, right?? I feel like you’re gonna surprise me one of these days though. Like beyond how you already have surprised me. You seem really sincere and everything so I can’t wait to see what happens!!!! And I cannot wait to dance with you!!! Maybe stuff will work out and we’ll go to prom together or something.——

Wow. Now I don’t even know what to say about all of this with you. First you tell me you want to date me and then you tell me you need space and all this?? I can understand if you’re scared, but mixed signals much?? I like you, but maybe you’re an opportunity for me to have a really good guy friend again. It’s funny because whenever I think about it I realize that it’s a bad idea to get with you. Not because I don’t like you, but because I’m going to college next year and I’ll probably meet lots of nice people there. I don’t know. Next time I talk to you I’ll see what you say about all of this, but I think maybe I should just be able to trust you and open up to you and leave it at that.

3. Gah, whatever would I do without you?? How would we discuss boys and all that silliness? Also, how would I look forward to the future without seeing you as a teacher as well. An English teacher, I hope!!! I need a fellow 2011-er to be a teacher with me . But yeah, beyond that! You are just so down to earth and very chill to talk to . I can’t wait to hear about your colleges because God knows that you need that to happen for you. Oh yeah, thanks for the deep conversations about God and stuff. We gotta have a lot more of those before we go off to college!

4. Uy. I don’t even know where to start with you. You’re 18 years old. Please please PLEASE start making some intelligent decisions soon before something really bad happens. I know you think I’m your mom’s sidekick or whatever, but it’s not even about that. I worry about you and that’s the only way that I find out what happened. Especially seeing as you’ll lie about it if I mention it or try to weasel info. You’re always lying and I don’t even know what to believe anymore. I would hate to not take you seriously and it be serious and something bad happen. I keep you in my prayers, but I never know what to say. I hope God has something magnificent palnned for you. And I feel really really really really bad about you not getting into your top choice, but maybe if you worked hard like I did you wouldn’t be so disappointed. We both know I screwed around freshman/sophomore year, but I got my act together and KEPT it together. At least you got into 2 safeties, right? Hopefully this will be a lesson to you when you’re in college to get your act together.

5. To be honest, it’s incredibly AWKWARD when I see people. Vagueness is great, no? Anyway, it really sucks that you can’t forgive me. I would make it up to you, but apparently you’re ungrateful that for too. It’s ok!

To be honest, it’s incredibly AWKWARD when I see your family around. It makes me wish things were better between the two of us. How could you not tell me that your brother broke his leg somehow? You know I saw him at the mall the other day with your dad. It freaked me out as it always does. I don’t even know why it freaks me out though. And I’ll admit, fucking around on your facebook was WRONG. I would freely admit it to anyone who asked, but it’s not like you were saintly either. We both made mistakes, but I wish you would forgive me for all of this bullshit. It’s the right thing to do. I guess that your parents didn’t teach you that either. It’s a shame. You have a great mind and you waste it having such a crappy personality. Anyway, I have other people to write messages to and you know I could write a book about you :S.

6. Make it out of basic for me, ok?? I can’t wait to see you succeed and go on to do what you want to do!!! I’ll write on your wall and try to leave you fun things to look forward to. It’s great to have you around and whatnot so yeah. Keep your chin up and remember you’re not alone!! I’m always here for you if you need me. I know you’ll make it through to everything that you want to do, so don’t sweat it! Do make sure you tell me all about basic when you get back and whatnot !

Well I’m lazy so that’s life. Be happy I did 6!

I used to be a pretty hardcore atheist. I didn’t exactly preach this, but I watched a lot of videos and enjoyed discussing the pro/con for an existence of a God. Yet, I was kind of unsatisfied with a lot of the things that Atheism was for me. It in itself was fine, but it left so many questions for me. There were a few things that I did not really agree with/that I thought about a lot.

1. The Big Bang Theory-
Don’t get me wrong, if scientists can eventually prove this I might believe it, but it just seems ridiculous to me. Is that all they can really come up with??

2. The idea that everything about human personality and feelings ties down to our brain-
I don’t think I will ever go for this idea. I believe in human souls. I believed in them even when I considered myself Atheist. I don’t think that everything we think and feel has to do with chemical reactions in the brain. While I believe in evolution it just seems so outrageous to me that an animal such as a chimpanzee with such similar brain chemistry would not be able to talk. In my mind, there has to be something else to it.

3. Many atheists claim that believers are “delusional”
I’ve never believed in this. NEVER. When I was atheist I believed that God was some sort of people’s subconscious. Check out this post for more info. I’m not sure what I believe God is at this point, but I think it’s either that idea of universal subconscious/consciousness (whatever it’s called) or something else. I don’t know. Anyway, moving on!

So, because I’m a naturally curious person #3 led me to kind of say “Hm, maybe I should give the God thing another shot” or at least explore both sides thoroughly so that I know I’m making an informed decision. This led to me trying to have a prayer journal and forgetting about it.

Then, in June, I got a job….literally out of the blue.

I went to Texas with my dad for a wedding. Then I was planning on going back to Delaware and doing fun stuff with my dad, but in the middle of the Texas trip this random person texts me and asks me if I want a job at Robeks (a smoothie chain place). I was THRILLED to hear that, and one thing led to another. I came back and not soon after had an interview. Thus started my 4 month spat there and my doubting of my complete atheism.

It is IMPOSSIBLE that my getting that job was a coincidence. HUNDREDS, literally hundreds, of people apply for a job there, and I get one almost a year later after putting my application in? No. FUCKING. Way. There’s just NO way I could go for that being a coincidence. Anyone else could have gotten that job, but I did. God must’ve been looking out for me because even though that boss was a psycho and everything… I made enough money to cover my driver’s ed that my mom made me pay for, and then a little bit more. I also learned about my rights as a worker to have breaks etc etc. I learned a lot and gained moneys. So it wasn’t a bad thing. It actually worked out in my favor, I guess.

Then recently I had a conversation with my friend’s sister about God. It was a deep conversation about various issues with God. Honestly, since it was a couple of weeks ago now I don’t remember the logistics of it completely. But, one thing led to another and she lent me her book, The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

I promised her that I would read it, and I did.

The book explores the proof for the bible and Christ. To shorten it down to a nutshell Strobel interviewed various experts in the field. These experts stated that the bible is 95.5% pure from errors, that there are multiple historical sources that back up most of the bible, and that there is evidence to back up witness testimonies. There is tons of evidence when one reads this book, but despite that I was still skeptical at the end. So, I took Strobel’s advice and prayed about it. At the end of the book Strobel says that it does not hurt to pray about it to ask God to show himself to you etc.

So I did. I prayed and told God that this time I really wanted to try to have a relationship if he’s real. I told him that I saw all of the evidence there in The Case for Christ, but that I needed more. I said that he knew what I needed to hear to prove he’s real.

Not even 5 hours later I was at church with this same friend and her sister.

What was the sermon about, of all things? My friend’s pastor talked about science and how it hasn’t proved everything and how there are still so many things from the ancient world that we do not understand. It talked about how scientists think that the greatest discovery would be finding aliens/extraterrestrial life, but it really is that Jesus died for our sins. It was everything I needed to hear…though it really freaked me out.

Now after everything I’ll finally get to the point.

I believe in God. I believe that he answers prayers and that everything happens for a reason and will work out. I want to believe in the bible since it has so much evidence to it, but that needs some further investigation on my part. Probably when the new year starts I’ll try to read through the bible in a year or so. I do think that God shows himself to people in different ways, but I don’t know the jist of that, obviously.

The reason it’s a secret is because I’m ashamed to tell my friend. I was a stubborn atheist for awhile and everything. I never bashed Christianity per say, but I feel like I’m giving into her being right and giving up on something I was so adamant about. :S Also, I don’t want to disappoint her if I decide to change my mind later. It feels weird every time it comes up in conversations since most of my friends knew I was atheist. It just feels weird and at the same time good to kind of have that secret. I don’t really want to tell people. I almost want to keep it to myself since I know how it was for me as an atheist.

Is it stupid that I’m keeping it a secret?? Maybe, but I feel like it’s the best thing for me at this point…I’m AWFUL at keeping it quietish, but maybe it’s good practice?? I don’t know, but now as my days go by I’m getting less stubborn/ashamed and more “This is pretty cool”! We’ll see what happens, but I think even if I tell my friend I’ll still be pretty quiet about it to other people unless they ask me. I know I hated it when people asked me about stuff and pestered me when they found out. So it’s only fair.

Anyway, it’s 2 am so I’m going to skedaddle.

NIGHT!

I’m really excited for this weekend.

Painted Veil, and studying profusely for a math test on Tuesday I’m getting a makeover tomorrow. My friend wants me to stop dressing so frumpily (is that even a word?), so she’s going to help me go shopping for some…not frumpish and actually nice clothes.

Pictures will follow soon!

I’m looking forward to this immensely despite the fact that I know it will also be amounts of immense pain and suffering :S. I have to want to look pretty on my terms. God help me on Monday when I wear these clothes to school :S

Oh dear. And apparently, depending on when I get back from Mall Makeover Time I might also be going over Greg’s. I’m not sure what to think of this. It’s most definitely a date of sorts :O. But I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it is definitely a thing. Note this means 0 about the kid. I still refuse to do diddly squat with him, even if this actually is a romance type thing. I’ve seen enough with what happened to Jenn (Note: 5 month old baby) to know that I am too focused to let ANYTHING happen to me. I know what I need to do, and nothing is going to stop me.

We’ll see what happens. I’ll keep stuff posted though.

The other day I had a conversation with someone about God. Lately I’ve been having a lot of conversations about God with them. The conversation that I had with them the other day really stuck with me.

We were talking about how people get closer to God.

My friend thinks that everyone gets closer to God in their own unique way. Her argument is that since everyone is different everyone has a different way of communicating with God. I’m assuming she still believes that people pray and that is one way everyone is the same, but she believes that there are ways beyond that.

It’s an intriguing idea, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.

I’ve been praying, and I guess I’ve been having decent results with that (I think that’s a post for later/another day)…but I want more. I guess I believe God’s been answering me, but I wonder if I should be doing something else. Is it weird that prayer isn’t really comforting to me? It is, but at the same time it isn’t. I guess what would be comforting would be if I could have a really deep relationship with God like I see some of my friends have. I just don’t know how. I know I try to forgive and whatnot like they do. I try to be a good person, but I know doing the right thing isn’t going to bring me the closeness I want.

How does someone get closer to God, anyway?

Here’s the situation.

There’s this guy, Greg, that was in my math class this year.

We were pretty chill friends before he had to leave school in early November to get insane hip surgery. Now he’s gone until February.

I thought that was the last of him until then.

The beginning of last week this guy Greg texts me and we start talking. We always have really deep conversations about stuff, and I enjoy talking to him. Suddenly in the middle of our conservation he invites me over to his house (because he can’t go anywhere because of his hip) and says he likes me romantically. Of course, while he says this he also says somethings to the effect of “You’re pretty, have nice curves, and I want to get naked with you”. Not word for word, but basically exactly like that. He also said some other things to that effect that I can’t remember.

I initially said yes to hanging out with him. (Then I cancelled because Edward/Sam said we’d all hang out instead which we did)

Then I mentioned it to my brotherly friend Edward.

He tells me that it’s creepy that Greg said stuff about wanting to see me naked or whatever. Edward and my other friend Sam think I’m oblivious to the fact that Greg is hitting on me. No, I’m not oblivious. I just don’t care.

So apparently it’s a problem because he’ll keep hitting on me.

It really isn’t a problem because I’ll keep rejecting him.

Greg is my friend. Greg is a very good friend,but he is a friend nonetheless. It may seem stupid to keep him around, but I need support. My best friend is around, but she’s pretty preoccupied with her boyfriend a lot so I’m just kinda like…ehh that’s cool. I still talk to her and feel close to her, but since she’s always around him and with him I’m just like…ok I’ll be on my own and stuff. I need someone to be around. I need someone to talk to.

Greg may be “bad” because of the stuff I mentioned, but I feel like I can actually trust him. That’s a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE deal. After everything I’ve been through this year (breaking up with my asshole ex, forgiving my friend for talking shit about me when I actually thought I could trust her [I don't trust her anymore and while I forgave her I will never feel the same about her. I looked up to her and she was spreading stuff about me that was wrong and untrue based on bs she thought of me], breaking up with Victor who I was actually giving the benefit of the doubt and trusting…of course then he goes and lets me down and everything.) All of these things have just shattered my faith in people and my ability to trust them. Sure, I’m open, but I’m not going to trust people easily.

I repeat: I feel like I can trust Greg easily.

Anyway, fast forward to today.

I talked to him again. Again we had a good conversation.

I mentioned it to Edward again and he tells me
“think about it from the perspective
That he’s been being a good friend
With the intention
Of getting in your pants
It’s not that hard to imagine.”

I mean, I guess he would know since he’s a guy,but still.

Is it bad that I would rather him be lying to me as a friend because he wants to get into my pants than me not talk to him at all? Probably, but I guess I’m just that desperate for human connection. It’s quite depressing when I think about it. I have good friends, but I don’t trust them. Then I have supposed “bad people” friends and I do trust them. I trust them a lot more than I trust my good friends. Maybe because I think that my good friends are too good for someone like me. If they really knew me and if I really let them in…would they still like me?

What do you guys think?

I saw this on CNN yesterday. It looks pretty cool. Even though you’re supposed to do a video of it….I’m not going to since I’m icky and have wet hair right now!

“
Let’s start off with two simple prompts. Record your responses on video:

1. 2010: How do you pronounce it?
“Twenty-ten. Sometimes I say Two Thousand Ten but usually Twenty-ten.”

2. Make a facial expression that shows how you feel about the year.
Jan:
Feb: :S
March:
Apr: :s?
May:
June: /:S
July-Aug:
Sept-Nov: :S/:D/:)
Dec: ! !

Now, let’s raise the bar a little. Say the full phrases below and fill in the blanks on video.

3. The best thing I bought was _________ .
“I don’t know. I’ve found A TON of things at my local swap shop and that was for free. I guess the best thing I actually bought this year was my ipod touch. I bought that gadget of amazingness in March.”

4. For me, 2010 was ______ ______ ______ . [Answer with three words]
“Emotional,
Liberating,
Independent”

5. I totally cringed this year when _______ .
“I totally cringed this year when I realized how much work applying to college is and how it would take forever for my schools to get back to me”

6. The best thing on the Internet by far was ________.
“The best thing on the Internet by far was the ability to check the status of my Eastern application whenever I wanted. This of course led to my finding out 2 days earlier rather than waiting for the letter.”

7. I’m pretty sure I overshared on Facebook this year when I ________ .
“I’m pretty sure I overshared on Facebook this year when I posted my inner emotional turmoil.”

8. The best day of the year was ________.
“The best day of the year IS a decent sized list for me. 1. December 7th, 2010 -Getting into Eastern ! 2. Sept 25, 2010 My 17th Birthday! I saw The Virginity Hit with my best friend. We were the only 2 people in the theatre so it was pretty cool. Plus I donated blood for the first time which was also pretty awesome. 3. June 30th, 2010 The day I got my job at Robeks. While the job didn’t work out because my exboss was a psycho bitch and whatnot (which I will definitely post about later, but not for awhile) I made enough money to cover the driver’s ed that my mom made me pay for. I actually think that’s it for top days. I’ve had a lot of good days though….don’t get me wrong!”

9. The best place I visited was ________, which is ________ miles/kilometers from where I live.
“The best place I visited was Hammonasset State Park. I don’t know how far it is in miles/kilometers, but it is 2-3 hours away from me. I thought it was really cool though because I got to see a snake eat a mouse live at their nature center. I kinda love nature stuff.”

10. Next year, I’m planning to _______.
“Next year, I’m planning to graduate from high school, have a kick ass summer, go to college (Can you tell I’m excited? LOL), turn 18, and enjoy college….I’m probably going to do other things too, but that’s what I PLAN on doing !”

That’s it! You can make a single video or break your answers up over multiple videos. Just send them by December 16.

YOU SHOULD DO ONE TOO

I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with all of this yet.

I still want to have another account or two. I was thinking of having one account to be my personal day to day journal/diary where I can also explore ideas. I also have another type of journal I’m keeping and I might do a separate account for that too. I’m not sure I might just start with one extra account and see how it goes. I still want to keep this account and whatnot.

I just need to get on doing actual day to day posts….hmm.

Tomorrow’s gonna be pretty busy, but I’ll do my best to get through Precalc studying and English reading/note taking to get to an awesome post.

OOOOO!!

I just saw this on CNN.com and I might actually try this later….

http://ireport.cnn.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=527439&hpt=C2

This week started off crappily. I was stressing and sad because everyone else found out about college before me.

I was actually even in the process of writing a rant blog here about it….This was on Tuesday,mind you. I’ve been crazy and haven’t posted it yet.

But that blog is what possessed me to check my application status at my top choice. You see, I wrote on their Facebook wall on Monday asking when my application would be complete and an admissions guy COMMENTED ON my post saying I’d hear back “sometime in the near future”. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to indulge in my daily usually more than once obsessive check to see my application status….

So I log onto my account and instead of just seeing “Check Application Status” I see “Student Services”, “Financial Aid”, and “Admissions”…..I figure it’s a good sign, so I click to check my application status.

Instead of saying that my application status was “Incomplete items outstanding” or “Complete ready for review” it said “Decision made” and then right below it said “Decision: Institutional Acceptance”.

I don’t think I’ve ever screamed or cried so much in one moment. That was out of happiness and relief and everything, of course !

And I don’t think that my week has ever improved so significantly in such a small amount of time.

I’m just in total shock. I’m happy, but it’s crazy. I didn’t think I would get in….well I thought I had a good chance but you never know how things are sometimes. Even thought I got my physical letter yesterday…I still can’t believe it. I think it’ll only be real to me when I step foot on the campus as a student and move in.

I’ve waited my whole life for this, and now it’s here.

Thank God.

I don’t think I’ve ever had this much school pride for a school I’ve gone to before .

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (will be finishing this soon) X
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 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 – read some, but not others…
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger XX (LOVE THIS BOOK!)
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

Total—–6

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
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 Carroll
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 X
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

Total ——1

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
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 X
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 X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total-4
So far-11

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck X (I read this in 8th grade and in my freshman year. I really dislike Steinbeck.)
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold X (I LOVE this book, and the movie was amazing.)
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 X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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 X
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 XXX (Mitch Albom is one of my FAVORITE authors!! I’ve read almost all of his books.)
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 X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Total—-17/100

Wow, I need to add some of these books to my list of “To read” books!! How many have you read?