Monday, May 7, 2007

top 100 books....The ones I have read are in bold

Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. Movies don’t count.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)(in the process)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible (partial, not all the books of the bible)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

I have no idea where this list came from, but I thought I would join in this one. Feel free to copy and paste the list and make you own adjustments

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

My sunshine day cloth


BEACH DAYS SERIES

Sunshine

**Free**

Material: 100% cotton worsted weight yarn
Size 7 US = 4.5 mm needles

Cast on 41 stitches

Rows 1, 3, and 5: (K1, P1) across
Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12: Knit across
Rows 7, 9 and 11: (K1, P1) twice, P33, (P1, K1) twice
Row 13: (K1, P1) twice, P16, K1, P16, (P1, K1) twice
Row 14: K19, P3, K19
Row 15: (K1, P1) twice, P15, K3, P15, (P1, K1) twice
Row 16: K18, P5, K18
Row 17: (K1, P1) twice, P14, K5, P14, (P1, K1) twice
Row 18: K10, P4, K3, P7, K3, P4, K10
Row 19: (K1, P1) twice, P6, K6, P1, K7, P1, K6, P6, (P1, K1) twice
Row 20: K11, P6, K2, P3, K2, P6, K11
Row 21: (K1, P1) twice, P7, K8, P3, K8, P7, (P1, K1) twice
Row 22: K12, P5, K7, P5, K12
Row 23: (K1, P1) twice, P8, K4, P9, K4, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 24: K13, P2, K11, P2, K13
Row 25: (K1, P1) twice, P8, K3, P11, K3, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 26: K11, P3, K13, P3, K11
Row 27: (K1, P1) twice, P5, K5, P13, K5, P5, (P1, K1) twice
Row 28: K7, P7, K13, P7, K7
Row 29: (K1, P1) twice, P2, K8, P13, K8, P2, (P1, K1) twice
Row 30: K7, P7, K13, P7, K7
Row 31: (K1, P1) twice, P5, K5, P13, K5, P5, (P1, K1) twice
Row 32: K11, P3, K13, P3, K11
Row 33: (K1, P1) twice, P8, K3, P11, K3, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 34: K13, P2, K11, P2, K13
Row 35: (K1, P1) twice, P8, K4, P9, K4, P8, (P1, K1) twice
Row 36: K12, P5, K7, P5, K12
Row 37: (K1, P1) twice, P7, K8, P3, K8, P7, (P1, K1) twice
Row 38: K11, P6, K2, P3, K2, P6, K11
Row 39: (K1, P1) twice, P6, K6, P1, K7, P1, K6, P6, (P1, K1) twice
Row 40: K10, P4, K3, P7, K3, P4, K10
Row 41: (K1, P1) twice, P14, K5, P14, (P1, K1) twice
Row 42: K18, P5, K18
Row 43: (K1, P1) twice, P15, K3, P15, (P1, K1) twice
Row 44: K19, P3, K19
Row 45: (K1, P1) twice, P16, K1, P16, (P1, K1) twice
Rows 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 and 58: Knit across
Rows 47, 49, 51 and 53: (K1, P1) twice, P33, (P1, K1) twice
Rows 55 and 57: (K1, P1) across

Bind off.
Weave in ends.

swap time for me!


I love swaps! i love everything about them. The preparing of the package, sending it and ofcourse when mine comes in the mail. Love, Love , love it!