In 2011, 100 notable writers voted on the 100 greatest novels of all time. I was curious to see how many I had read, and let me say... I'm a little surprised of how many I've never even heard of...

Finished Reading

Started but didn't finish

Never read

The List

1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

2) 1984 by George Orwell

3) Hamlet by William Shakespeare

4) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

6) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

8) The Odyssey by Homer

9) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

10) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

11) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

12) The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway

13) The Brother Karamazov by Fryodor Dostoyevsky

14) The Stranger by Albert Camus

15) King Lear by William Shakespeare

16) Don Quioxote by Miguel de Cerventes Saavaedra

17) The Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

18) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

19) The Iliad by Homer

20) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Caucer

21) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

22) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

23) Madame Boavary by gustave Flaubert

24) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

25) Othello by William Shakespeare

26) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf

27) The Trial by Franz Kafka

28) Ulysses by James Joyce

29) Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

30) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

31) The Collected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

32) The Arabian Nights by Anonymous

33) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

34) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

35) Blindness #1 by Jose Saramago

36) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

37) Invisible Man by Ralph Eillison

38) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

39) The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

40) Beloved by Toni Morrison

41) The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

42) The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka

43) Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

44) A Doll's House by Henrik Insem

45) Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

46) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

47) Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac

48) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf

49) Medea by Euripides

50) Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov

51) Hunger by Knut Hamsun

52) The Aeneid by Virgil

53) Faust: First Part by Joahann Wolfgang van Goethe

54) Leaves of Grass by Walt Witman

55) The Decameron by Giovanni Boccoccio

56) Dead Souls by Nikilai Gogol

57) Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust

58) The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

59) Ficciones by Jorge Lius Borgas

60) The Red and the Black by Stendhal

61) Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

62) Metamorphoses by Ovid

63) Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourenar

64) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

65) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

66) Mahabharata by Annoynmous

67) The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne

68) Ramayana by William Buck

69) The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

70) Demons by Fydor Dostoyevsky

71) The Tin Drums by Gunter Grass

72) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

73) Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

74) Njal's Saga by Anonymous

75) Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

76)  Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy by Samuel Beckett

77) The Castle by Franz Kafka

78)  مثنوی معنوی by Rumi

79) Gargantua an Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

80) Independent People by Halldor Laxness

81) Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

82) The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

83) أولاد حارتنا by نجيب محفوظ

84) The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

85) Jacques the fatalist by Denis Diderot

86) Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

87) Romancero Gitano by Fredrico Garcia Lorca

88) The Book of Job by Anonmyous

89) The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

90) Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun

91) Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

92) Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin

93) Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan

94) The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabatoa

95) History by Elsa Morante

96) Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

97) The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa

98) Grande Sertao: Veredas by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

99) The Poems of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi

100) The Orchard: The Bostan of Saadi of Shiraz by Saadi

 

How many have you read?

 

 

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with the longest.
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.
Day 04 - A picture of a habit you wish you didn't have..........
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory.
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.
Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.
Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
Day 12 - A picture of something you love.
Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.
Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.
Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.
Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.
Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.
Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.
Day 25 - A picture of your day.
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss.

Dallas, Texas

Dallas was founded in 1841 and was formally incorporated as a city in February 1856. The city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, healthcare and medical research, transportation and logistics. The city is home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas and a major city in the American South, Dallas is the main core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea.

The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines. With the advent of the interstate highway system in the 1950s and 1960s, Dallas became an east/west and north/south focal point of the interstate system with the convergence of four major interstate highways in the city, along with a fifth interstate loop around the city. Dallas developed a strong industrial and financial sector, and a major inland port, due largely to the presence of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the largest and busiest airports in the world.

In the latest rankings, Dallas was rated as an Alpha world city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network and is the only city in the South Central region to achieve that status. Dallas is also ranked 14th in world rankings of GDP by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Dallas has a humid subtropical climate, though it is located in a region that also tends to receive warm, dry winds from the north and west in the summer, bringing temperatures well over 100 °F at times and heat-humidity indexes soaring to as high as 117 °F. When only temperature itself is accounted for, the north central Texas region where Dallas is located is one of the hottest in the United States during the summer months, usually trailing only the Mojave Desert basin of Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California.

Winters in Dallas are generally mild to warm, with normal daytime highs ranging from 55 °F to 70 °F and normal nighttime lows falling in between 30 °F  and 45 °F. A day with clear, sunny skies, a high of 63 °F, and a low of 36 °F would thus be a very typical one during the winter. However, strong cold fronts known as "Blue Northers" sometimes pass through the Dallas region, plummeting nightly lows below 25 °F for up to a few days at a time and keeping daytime highs in a struggle to surpass 40 °F. Snow accumulation is usually seen in the city at least once every winter, and snowfall generally occurs 1–2 days out of the year for an annual average of 1.8 inches. Some areas in the region, however, receive more than that, while other areas receive negligible snowfall or none at all.

Dallas is home to teams in all four major sports: the Dallas Cowboys (National Football League), Dallas Mavericks (National Basketball Association),Texas Rangers (Major League Baseball), and Dallas Stars (National Hockey League).

In 2011, Dallas became the first city to host the Super Bowl, the World Series, and the NBA Finals, all within the same 12-month period. Both the Texas Rangers and Dallas Mavericks won successive playoff games to reach the championship in their respective sports, whereas the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington was chosen in advance to host the Super Bowl.

Nearby Arlington, Texas is the new home to the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Since joining the league as an expansion team in 1960, the Cowboys have enjoyed substantial success, advancing to eight Super Bowls and winning five; according to profootballreference.com, as of the end of the 2009 season they were the winningest active NFL franchise. Known widely as "America's Team", the Dallas Cowboys are financially the most valuable sports 'franchise' in the United States, worth approximately 1.5 billion dollars. They are also the second most valuable sports organization in the world. The Cowboys are only out-valued by Manchester United, who are valued at 1.8 billion dollars. In 2009, the Cowboys relocated to their new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, which was the site of Super Bowl XLV. The college Cotton Bowl Classic football game was played at the Cotton Bowl through its 2009 game, but has moved to Cowboys Stadium.

Dallas is my home. I no longer live there. Soon I'll graduate college, and go to law school - not in Dallas, but Dallas will be my home. It's where I learned everything. That will always mean everything to me.

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with the longest.
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.
Day 04 - A picture of a habit you wish you didn't have..........
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory.
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.
Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.
Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
Day 12 - A picture of something you love.
Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.
Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.
Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.
Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.
Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.
Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.
Day 25 - A picture of your day.
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss.

May 21, 2013

I'm sitting in an interior hallway, under a Tornado Warning. In DFW, tornadoes are no big deal. We don't take them seriously, but we all know what happened yesterday in Moore, and that's got everyone on edge. After all, my house is only two and a half hours from downtown OKC. I've been in several tornadoes, and quite honestly, I like to watch them. Usually, I sit out on the back porch until the someone yells at me to get inside, or until I start to get freaked out.

At 11AM today, a Newscast interrupted regular programming and insisted that everyone in my county get inside and stay away from West facing windows. A little less than an hour ago, my phone beeped with a FB alert: "Get indoors and take cover immediately." During tornadoes, my sister likes to hide out in a hall closet - but I don't think that's the best place to take cover. I always sit inside a doorframe in a downstairs interior hallway. So that's where I am, and that's where my sister is. Sitting here, strumming an acoustic guitar, writing on a battery charged laptop, listening to a battery charged weather broadcast, wood, plaster, and some insulation the only thing separating 115lbs of Addy from Meteorological warfare, all I really want is for the walls to stop growling at me.

 

Please! I've just been given a job by an undisclosed production company to write a teen drama. Kind of The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The Silver Linings Playbook meets Little Miss Sunshine kind of a thing. I'd love all my readers to vote on their top one girl name and top two boy name from this list:

Arden, Ashling, Brynna, Fallon, Fiona, Freya, Hadley, Jaqualine, Livvy, Margy, Paige, Raiden, Remy, Rhys, Valerie, Zoey

Andy, Blaine, Brett, Chandler, Clinton, Dustin, Eamon, Hollister, Jakey, Joshy, Oliver, Thomas, Wolf, Zacky, Zander

And please rec guys. I'd love to have more votes, and you may just see your favorite name on the big screen soon!