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		<title>I must be a book geek :)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the BBC, the average person has only read about 6 of these books.
Let&#8217;s see how I compare.
Bold = read completely.
Italic = read partially.
Underline = future read.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series &#8211; J.K. Rowling 
5. To [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the BBC, the average person has only read about 6 of these books.<br />
Let&#8217;s see how I compare.</p>
<p>Bold = read completely.<br />
Italic = read partially.<br />
Underline = future read.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen</strong><br />
2. The Lord of the Rings &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien<br />
3. <em>Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Bronte</em><br />
4. <strong>Harry Potter series &#8211; J.K. Rowling </strong><br />
5. <strong>To Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee </strong><br />
6. <em>The Bible </em><br />
7. <em>Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte</em><br />
8. Nineteen Eighty Four &#8211; George Orwell<br />
9. His Dark Materials &#8211; Philip Pullman<br />
10. <em>Great Expectations &#8211; Charles Dickens</em><br />
11. <strong>Little Women &#8211; Louisa M Alcott</strong><br />
12. <em>Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy</em><br />
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<br />
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare<br />
15. Rebecca &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier<br />
16. <em>The Hobbit &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien</em><br />
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk<br />
18. <strong>Catcher in the Rye &#8211; JD Salinger </strong><br />
19.
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The Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger</ul>
<p>20. Middlemarch &#8211; GeorgeEliot<br />
21. <em>Gone With The Wind &#8211; Margaret Mitchell</em><br />
22.<strong> The Great Gatsby &#8211; F Scott Fitzgerald</strong><br />
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens<br />
24. <em>War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy</em><br />
25. The Hitch Hiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Douglas Adams<br />
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh<br />
27. <strong>Crime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoyevsky</strong><br />
28. <strong>Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck</strong><br />
29.<em> Alice in Wonderland &#8211; Lewis Carroll</em><br />
30. The Wind in the Willows &#8211; Kenneth Grahame<br />
31. <em>Anna Karenina &#8211; Leo Tolstoy</em><br />
32. <strong>David Copperfield – Charles Dickens</strong><br />
33. <strong>Chronicles of Narnia &#8211; CS Lewis </strong><br />
34. Emma &#8211; Jane Austen<br />
35. <em>Persuasion &#8211; Jane Austen</em><br />
36. <strong>The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe &#8211; CS Lewis</strong><br />
37. <strong>The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini</strong><br />
38. Captain Corelli&#8217;s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres<br />
39.<em> Memoirs of a Geisha &#8211; Arthur Golden</em><br />
40. Winnie the Pooh &#8211; A.A.Milne<br />
41.<em> Animal Farm &#8211; George Orwell</em><br />
42. <strong>The Da Vinci Code &#8211; Dan Brown</strong><br />
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving<br />
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins<br />
46. <em>Anne of Green Gables &#8211; L.M.Montgomery</em><br />
47. Far From The Madding Crowd &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br />
48. <strong>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale – Margaret Atwood</strong><br />
49. <strong>Lord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding</strong><br />
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan<br />
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel<br />
52. Dune &#8211; Frank Herbert<br />
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons<br />
54.<em> Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen</em><br />
55. A Suitable Boy &#8211; Vikram Seth<br />
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />
57. <em>A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens</em><br />
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley<br />
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon<br />
60.<em> Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez</em><br />
61.<strong> Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck</strong><br />
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov<br />
63. The Secret History &#8211; DonnaTartt<br />
64.<strong> The Lovely Bones &#8211; Alice Sebold</strong><br />
65.<strong> Count of Monte Cristo &#8211; Alexandre Dumas</strong><br />
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac<br />
67. Jude the Obscure &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br />
68. <em>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary &#8211; Helen Fielding</em><br />
69.<em> Midnight&#8217;s Children – Salman Rushdie</em><br />
70. <strong>Moby Dick – Herman Melville</strong><br />
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens<br />
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker<br />
73. <strong>The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett</strong><br />
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson<br />
75. Ulysses – James Joyce<br />
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath<br />
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome<br />
78. Germinal – Emile Zola<br />
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray<br />
80. Possession &#8211; A.S. Byatt<br />
81. <strong>A Christmas Carol &#8211; Charles Dickens</strong><br />
82. Cloud Atlas &#8211; David Mitchell<br />
83. The Color Purple &#8211; Alice Walker<br />
84. The Remains of the Day &#8211; KazuoIshiguro<br />
85. <em>Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert</em><br />
86. A Fine Balance &#8211; Rohinton Mistry<br />
87. <strong>Charlotte&#8217;s Web &#8211; EB White</strong><br />
88. <strong>The Five People You Meet In Heaven &#8211; Mitch Albom</strong><br />
89. <em>Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</em><br />
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton<br />
91. Heart of Darkness &#8211; Joseph Conrad<br />
92. <strong>The Little Prince &#8211; Antoine De Saint-Exupery</strong><br />
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks<br />
94. Watership Down &#8211; Richard Adams<br />
95. A Confederacy of Dunces &#8211; John Kennedy Toole<br />
96. A Town Like Alice &#8211; Nevil Shute<br />
97. <strong>The Three Musketeers &#8211; Alexandre Dumas</strong><br />
98. <em>Hamlet &#8211; William Shakespeare</em><br />
99. <strong>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory &#8211; Roald Dahl</strong><br />
100.<strong> Les Miserables – Victor Hugo</strong></p>
<p>My chart:<br />
27 completely read<br />
20 partially read<br />
0 future reads</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) What book are you reading right now?
To Kill a Mockingbird, again.   
2) What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book?
Before bedtime, I was in Jem&#8217;s room trying to borrow a book, when Atticus knocked and entered.
3) What is one book that changed your life?
How to Win Friends and Influence [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1) What book are you reading right now?<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird, again. <img src='http://www.halfgeekamy.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>2) What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book?<br />
Before bedtime, I was in Jem&#8217;s room trying to borrow a book, when Atticus knocked and entered.</p>
<p>3) What is one book that changed your life?<br />
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Made me a think twice before saying/doing something. <img src='http://www.halfgeekamy.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>4) What is one book that you read again and again?<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.</p>
<p>5) What three books would you want on a desert island?<br />
a) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee<br />
b) The complete Harry Potter Series, by J. K Rowling<br />
c) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen</p>
<p>6) What is the funniest book you&#8217;ve ever read?<br />
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes</p>
<p>7) What book made you cry the most?<br />
Hmmmm, A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.halfgeekamy.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> What book do you wish had been written?<br />
Angela&#8217;s Ashes by Frank McCourt.</p>
<p>9) What would be the title of your autobiography?<br />
Try Being Me</p>
<p>10) What book do you keep meaning to read?<br />
Midnight&#8217;s Children by Salman Rushdie and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller</p>
<p>11) What five books should everyone be required to read?<br />
1) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee<br />
2) Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck<br />
3) How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie<br />
4) The Street Lawyer, John Grisham<br />
5) The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho</p>
<p>12) What book was the biggest waste of your time?<br />
I can&#8217;t remember the book title and author. It&#8217;s about this agent who saved the Prince Charles and Princess D&#8217;s lives. Arrrghhh.. Can&#8217;t even remember the entire plot.</p>
<p>(I think it was authored by either Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum)</p>
<p>13) What was your favorite book as a child?<br />
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl. I loved it so much, in fact, that I pocketed my cousin&#8217;s copy, and I still have it.</p>
<p>14) What book have you read the most?<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee</p>
<p>15) Is there any book&#8217;s ending that you would like to rewrite? What would you change about the original ending?<br />
Harry Potter should not have married Ginny Weasley. For me, she&#8217;s just and always be a swooning Harry Potter fan. </p>
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