I just need something here so that this irritating block isn't over anything important.

Random floaty text!!! What am I doing here?

EW's New Classics

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

3. Beloved, Toni Morrison

4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr

5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth

6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

7. Maus, Art Spiegelman

8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro

9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

12. Blindness, José Saramago

13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates

15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike

19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith

20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding

21. On Writing, Stephen King

22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz

23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker

24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

26. Neuromancer, William Gibson

27. Possession, A.S. Byatt

28. Naked, David Sedaris

29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett

30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson

31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch

33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore

39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard

43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette

44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene

45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman

47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow

48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

49. Clockers, Richard Price

50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom

52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan

53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware

55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

56. The Night Manager, John le Carré

57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

58. Drop City, TC Boyle

59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat

60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

61. Money, Martin Amis

62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick

63. Pastoralia, George Saunders

64. Underworld, Don DeLillo

65. The Giver, Lois Lowry

66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

69. Secret History, Donna Tartt

70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman

72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger

75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver

76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell

77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney

81. Backlash, Susan Faludi

82. Atonement, Ian McEwan

83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields

84. Holes, Louis Sachar

85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts

87. The Ruins, Scott Smith

88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

89. Close Range, Annie Proulx

90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl

91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman

96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson

98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck

99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman

100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sunday Dithers

Happy post-holiday recovery to my Canadian amigos, pre-holiday preparations to my American ones, and regular Sunday programming to everyone else.  We live in the capital of BC so Canada Day is large and involved here.  My sister and her husband brought Georgie out for the day, and she was hell-bent on sniffing all the things.

That dog.

Raucous dog-wrangling aside, it's been a quiet weekend here in the Done Read.  We move in just over a month so I'm inching towards preparedness.  I inventoried the pantry and braced the Tall Thing for some wack-ass meals in the next few weeks.  Quinoa and cherry pie filling!  Kidney beans and pineapple rounds!  Why do I have two bags of oat bran?

Also, I sorted through my shelves and purged sixty-three books!  My shelves feel so...ok no, they are still very crowded.  But they have less CHAFF!  A higher ratio of Connie Willis to Things That Are Not Connie Willis!

The sunshine is calling and the intertubes are quiet today.  Go out of doors and enjoy your long weekend, ye that have it!
Posted by raych at 8:07 AM

2 comments:

  1. KILLER WHALES HAVE LEGS!! No one is safe!

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  2. Nothing is quiet in Orlando, with the Casey Anthony trial coming to a close. Chaos presides! And I will say that I've seen the light with the Connie Willis thing. I'm in love after finishing Doomsday.

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