book meme and yarn quiz

Book meme:

I've changed this a bit, but the rules I used are as follows:
Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you've been meaning to read, cross out the ones you probably won't read, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of. Books in plain text are things I haven't read and feel neutral toward.

To answer Mim's question: There are books I would only read if I were stranded someplace and didn't have much choice of reading material, and there are books I probably still wouldn't read (like horror stories) until I'd been stranded for a month. I figured I should make some sort of distinction among the books I have yet to read. Of course, I should also note that I might not have gotten around to reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I really liked, had I not been staying with friends for a month with only about three books of my own (one of which I finished on the train on the way there).

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
(The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
(The Secret History - Donna Tartt)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
(The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

Yarn quiz in the extended entry.

You are Mohair.
You are a warm and fuzzy type who works well with

others, doing your share without being too

weighty. You can be stubborn and absolutely

refuse to change your position once it is

set, but that's okay since you are good at

covering up your mistakes.


What kind of yarn are you?
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Comments

[juno]

You can only read Catcher in the Rye without irritation if you are 13 or 14. Older than that and you just want to smack Holden Caufield.
And the Time Traveler's Wife is a terrific book, well worth the time. One of my favorite things I've read in recent years.

[Kirsten]

You might really like The Shadow of the Wind -- I read it when it first came out, and I thought it was marvelous. It's this sort of twisty, exciting novel about a book and how it serves as the catalyst for everything that happens in the protagonist's life. It was one where I kept having to restrain myself from flipping ahead just to make sure everything turned out ok. :)

[Anne]

I listened to half of Zen and the Art of MM on CD in the car and got so annoyed with it I turned it off! (Maybe it was the author's introduction that ruined it for me?) I adored Time Traveler's Wife. I didn't set out to read Kite Runner, but a friend bought it & read it in one day, and she kept telling me how amazing it was, so I picked it up as bedtime reading... and finished it 3 hours later as the sun came up. It's so emotionally powerful that I forgave him for a couple of infelicities that I would have made him take out; it was hard to say if the book was great, because the emotional power was so overwhelming.

[Coral]

Have you read any Ian McEwan books? I see Atonement on your list - I just picked that one up from the library. I've read other books by McEwan and they are very raw. He has this way of peering into the dark parts of our souls and revealing them in his characters. Disturbing yet exciting, if you like that sort of thing.

[krista]

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is really good. It's about a small, exclusive clique of classics students at a New England university who harbor a nasty little secret, and in order to keep things hidden, they decide to eliminate one of their own. It's mostly about the clique member's excessive, wasteful, Gatsby-esque lives and the fall-out from their murderous decision. I quite enjoyed it. :)

[guile]

the lovely bones.. i love that book :)..