That's good!... No, That's bad!

Pictures - That's me and my baby Grand Niece.
2- Paula (my niece) and baby Emmah
3- Ashley (my daughter) and Emmah
4- Martina and Emmah checking each other out
5- Pasta salad I made for the day (recipe below)
6- New upsidedown finch feeder

The good - My Niece from CT came to visit for the day! This is the second time we have seen Emmah; the first being Christmas. It was nice this time having just the two of them, Ashley and I. We really got to spend time with the baby and talk to Paula. I don't know if Paula really knows just how much we love her and Mat!
The bad - Saying goodbye and not knowing when we will see them again.
The good - We got some really nice pictures, and Paula is really good about sending pictures through email.

The good - I got a new bird feeder. It is an upside down finch feeder. If you have never seen one of these, they are great! The finches (and chick-a-dees and titmice) can hang upside down while the other birds can't! So it nice to have at least one feeder that will keep away the squirrels and bigger birds.
The bad - It took a long time for them to find it. At least a week.
The good - Now that they have found it they are on it all the time. The kids love to watch it.

The good - My parents are coming to visit from TN. Yea! In the middle of May. They will be staying with us for the week and going here and there during the day. I love it when they stay with us because even if they have other people to spend time with they always come back here at night and leave from here in the mornings so we get to see them more often.
The bad - I haven't even started cleaning the room they are staying in. The room was Ashley's bedroom before she went to college then moved out. Right now it has all the stuff she didn't want to take with her or couldn't take. It has also become kind of a storage room. I would like to really clean it out and organize it.
The good - It does give me a time goal to get it done by! Do you think it will work?

The good - I have discovered "Log cabin Knitting". It is like log cabin quilting but with strips of knitting instead of sewing material together.
The bad - I have dropped all other knitting to start yet another new project! I had to give it a try, it looked simple and like so much fun.
The good - It is simple and fun, LOL!

The good - Easter vacation next week! No kids for a whole week.
The bad - I don't get paid for the week.
The good - It is so worth it! I have a lot of plans for this week!

The good - I finally recieved a book from the library that I have wanted. "Tomboy Bride: A woman's personal account of life in the mining camps of the west", by Harriet Fish Backus. I was so excited to start reading it.
The bad - I only give this book a 2 1/2 star rating. It started out good but got "old" real fast. About half way through I was so bored with it I just wanted to be done.
The good- I got a real good knitting book from the library called "Mason Dixon Knitting" by Kay Gardiner and Ann Meador Shayne. This book was excellent! One of the best knitting books I have ever seen. It not only had some great patterns and ideas. It had great stories and little anecdotes all throughout. This is the first Knitting book I have actually read all the way through (not just looking at the pictures).

Reading through the States:
1. California - Echoes, by Erin Grady
2. Florida - In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
3. Iowa - The Learning, by Ruthann Weaver
4. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) - A Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson
5. South Carolina - Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
6. Kentucky - The Believers, by Janice Holt Giles
7. Minnesota - Hit By a Farm, by Catherine Friend
8. North Carolina - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
9. Montana - My Hutterite Life, by Lisa M. Stahl
10. Kansas - Waiting for Summer's Return, by Kim Vogel Sawyer
11. Idaho - Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm
12. New York - The Lives they Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
13. Arizona - Whispers, by Erin Grady
14. Alabama - The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary Sewing Circle, by Lois Battle
15. Alaska - Building from Within: Alaskans Who Build Their Own, by Joan Koponen
16. Colorado - Tomboy Bride, by Harriet Fish Backus

Pasta salad (from "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen", by Trisha Yearwood)

Boil up any kind of pasta (I like to use Tortellini)
Drain and rinse with cold water, set aside.
Cut up - fresh broccoli and tomatoes, add to pasta.
Grate up about 1 cup sharp cheese (or any kind of cheese), add to pasta.
add about 1/2 cups nuts (I used sliced almonds, sunflower seed are good too)
Pour on about 2-4 tablespoons of good olive oil,mix it all together. EAT!

Let me tell you, this is the best pasta salad, and so simple! Click on the picture to get a close up of how good it looks.

Top 5 - Are you a soup eater? What are your top 5 favorite soups?
1. Minestrone
2. Tomato
3. New England Clam Chowder
4. Cream of Broccoli
5. Split pea

Tribute to ER

Dr. Luka Kovac


Nurse/Dr. Abby Lockhart


Dr. John Carter


Dr. Doug Ross


Dr. Mark Greene


Nurse Carol Hathaway


Dr. Peter Benton


Dr. Jeanie Boulet


This is the Original cast of ER.



This is the cast of "the middle years"



This is the final cast


One of my alltime favorite TV shows is coming to an end this week! This is going to be a very sad Thursday! I really can't even believe it is not going to be on anymore. What will I watch, I have been doing the same thing Thurs. at 10:00 for 15 years, LOL. I have watched ER for 15 yrs, ever since the very first show!

I thought it would be fun to add a little ER trivia.
1. ER was the second longest running drama (after Law & Order).
2. After the show premiered on September 19, 1994, it has aired on Thursday nights at 10:00 for its entire run.
3. This is the most Emmy-nominated show in television history at 123 nominations.(winning 22 of them).
4. The basketball hoop found outside the ambulance bay of the ER was actually George Clooney's idea. (Clooney played one of the Doctors)
5. Dr. Carter's date of birth is 4 June 1970. Noah Wyle's (his real name)birthday is 4 June 1971.
6. Noah Wyle was the last member of the original cast to leave, at the end of the 2004-2005 season.
7. Noah Wyle was the only cast member to be on the show every year for the series first eleven seasons. Others left and came back.
8. The helicopter used for ER actually belongs to the University of Chicago Hospital.
9. Goran Visnjic named his own character after the writers were unable to develop an appropriately Croatian name. The character is named for Visnjic's nephew (Luka) and his best friend (Kovac).
10. More performers (30, as of 2008) received Emmy nominations as lead, supporting or guest actors/actresses on this show than did for any other series.
11. In 2007, this show tied with "Cheers" (1982) for being the most Emmy-nominated show ever with 117 nominations.
12. The longest running relationship on the show was between Luka and Abby.
13. Abby is the only character to have been both a nurse and a doctor.
14. Dr. Chen is the only character to call Carter by his first name.

Now for my favorites -
All time favorite male Character - Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle)
All time favorite female - Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney).
Saddest show - When Dr. Greg Pratt dies (I cried through 1/2 the show).
Most Dramatic (a tie) - When Dr. Romano's arm was chopped off by a hellicopter! AND
When Dr. Carter and Dr. Knight were attacked, Lucy Knight dies and John Carter was stabbed in the back.
Most romantic - Luka and Abby's wedding!

Have you ever watched the show?
Who are your favorites?
Remembered episodes.
I would love your comments.
We will be back next week with our regularly scheduled blog post.

We interupt this spring to bring you... winter!

Yes, winter, at least it feels like it right now. At least I got to wear the scarf I finished. I just wanted to finish is so I could wear it at least once before the warm weather. This morning at 7:00 it was only 18! By 9:00 it was all the way up to 23, OOOO! Way to go Spring! Come on, if you are going to beat this Winter you will have to tougher than that. Now lets see some Spring!

Tues. March 18th, Lance Mackey won the 2009 Iditarod for the third year in a row! Yea!!! Go Lance! Mackey now joins the legendary Susan Butcher and Montana musher Doug Swingley as having accomplished three consecutive Iditarod Championships.

Books: "The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary Sewing Circle" by Lois Battle. I liked this book. Real good development of Characters. It was about a middle aged woman , Bonnie, who just divorced her husband for keeping his bankruptcy a secret from her. She gets a job (her first in years) at a college as a counselor for misplaced homemakers. Being one herself, she thought it was the blind leading the blind. The people she ends up helping is a group of women who worked at a lingerie' factory. The factory shut down to move to Mexico, firing all its employees. Many of the women end up going back to school to start their lives over. Very good "heartfelt" story.
I also read an Alaska book by mistake! I was getting a new book from the library. I knew it was coming in on Mon. So I didn't want to start a long book. I looked through my shelves and picked a very thin book, thinking I would be able to finish it quickly. I pulled it out and It was titled "Building From Within: Arkansans who build their own" (or so I thought) I needed a book from Ark. so I thought good! then as I started reading it, I went "Wait a min.! this isn't about Arkansas! It's about Alaska!" I wouldn't have chosen that book because I have so many other real good books about AK I would have chosen for my challenge. Sooo, I thought, "Oh well I will just read it anyway but just not count it" Well now I am done and the book was too good not to count! LOL So for my AK book I read "Building From Within: Alaskans Who build their own" It was about people who live in Alaska that have land out in the middle of nowhere and built their homes. Each chapter is about a different person. Some houses are real nice and others are very tiny. It tells how, why, and when they built and how much it cost and how long it took and what it means to them. It really was a great little book!

Reading through the States:
1. California - Echoes, by Erin Grady
2. Florida - In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
3. Iowa - The Learning, by Ruthann Weaver
4. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) - A Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson
5. South Carolina - Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
6. Kentucky - The Believers, by Janice Holt Giles
7. Minnesota - Hit By a Farm, by Catherine Friend
8. North Carolina - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
9. Montana - My Hutterite Life, by Lisa M. Stahl
10. Kansas - Waiting for Summer's Return, by Kim Vogel Sawyer
11. Idaho - Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm
12. New York - The Lives they Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
13. Arizona - Whispers, by Erin Grady
14. Alabama - The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary Sewing Circle, by Lois Battle
15. Alaska - Building from Within: Alaskans Who Build Their Own, by Joan Koponen

Saw the new Kevin Costner movie "Swing Vote" this weekend. The man is HOT! Anyone who knows me knows I am "not-so-secretly" in love with Kevin Costner. But its ok because even my husband knows. He knows that I would never really cheat on him, and even if Kevin was available to me I wouldn't just up and... hmmm... LOL! Kevin Costner to me is the "Strong silent type" I seem to like those kind of men. The movie was really good, funny. I really liked the ending.

My top 5 favorite animals - what are yours?
1. cats
2. song birds
3. birds of Prey
4. foxes
5. penguins

Spring?? Could it really be you?

Pictures: The first two are Daffodils that are starting to come up.
That last picture is to show how my sweet kitty, Martina just loves to chew! I think she was a puppy in a previous life.

Well, we have had one nice week. It has been in the high 50's and low 60's for about a week now. It still gets real cold over night. We wake up to temps in the 20's, but it warms up pretty quick. I looked at the weather for the next 10 days and we are suppose go down to the mid 30's on Fri. Lord, you just have to throw that one in there to remind us that you are still in control, don't ya? I do see temps in the 50's and 60's though so I am happy!

The children: I was so proud of myself. I managed to find snack for the children that was all green! Green grapes, green frosted cookies, and green fruit punch. They will love it! All of my children were dressed in green this morning. Even green ribbons in the girl's hair!
During reading time, we also study spelling words. Surprisingly, the kids all love this! They each want a turn. I am not sure if they really care about the spelling or just each want my attention, but either way they are all getting 100's on their tests! It makes me so proud when they come on Fri. and tell me they got 100. I always say "See, good thing we study."

Music: This week I picked Alan Jackson's new song "Sissy's Song". I have always loved Alan but this time I think he outdid himself! I absolutely love this song! It is beautiful! Let me know what you think.

Knitting: Remember that bright shawl/blanket I started last summer? Well I had put it aside to work on Christmas stuff. I am finally getting around to finishing it! I have also been working on the "Chill chaser". Both are coming along great. I have to someday go through all my knitting and look through all my "unfinished projects" and decide if I want to finish them or not. I have quite a few bags of things I started, I just love to start things! It is exciting, I just wish I was as good about finishing them.

Books: Well Erin, you did it again! I just finished "Whispers" by my friend Erin Grady. It was Great! I give it 5 stars. I liked it even better that "Echoes". Again she mixed scenes from the 1800's with scenes from today, and did it expertly. When we went back in time we met a girl named Ella who had just lost her family and joined a band of women ("Saloon Girls") it was very sad at times and I did cry. Then in the present I was on the edge of my seat with a wonderful ghost story! During the book you started to figure out what the past had to do with the present, and who the ghost really was. There were some surprises that I hadn't figured out. Good job, Erin!

Reading through the States:
1. California - Echoes, by Erin Grady
2. Florida - In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
3. Iowa - The Learning, by Ruthann Weaver
4. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) - A Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson
5. South Carolina - Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
6. Kentucky - The Believers, by Janice Holt Giles
7. Minnesota - Hit By a Farm, by Catherine Friend
8. North Carolina - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
9. Montana - My Hutterite Life, by Lisa M. Stahl
10. Kansas - Waiting for Summer's Return, by Kim Vogel Sawyer
11. Idaho - Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm
12. New York - The Lives they Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny
13. Arizona - Whispers, by Erin Grady

Top 5: Unfinished projects. What are yours?

1. knitting! So much knitting so little time.
2. Cleaning out my pantry, I have been wanting to do this for so long! Maybe Easter vacation.
3. Redoing Ashley's old room now that she has moved out. I do not want it to turn into a junk room. I have been doing little things with it now and then but I just need to spend some real time and just finish it. Maybe Easter vacation.
4. Sorting through all my craft stuff, I have started this so many times. Maybe Easter vacation.
5. Finish painting the front porch. We started this two (maybe three) years ago and it is still not finished. Maybe Easter... No, summer vacation!

Blog award! Yea me!

I have been knitting alot! Yea! The scarf in the picture is one that I started before I broke my wrist. I had just gotten it started and was so upset that I couldn't finish it for winter. Well it will be done for next year. I really like the pattern, it is simple but interesting enough, and I think it is real pretty! It is made using the yarn I won from Toni.
The next picture Is called "Heather Chill Chaser" the yarn is one of the Schaefer yarns that I bought and the pattern was designed by a good friend of mine, Chris. she is an excellent knitter, you should see the stuff she has made. The yarn is reall nice to work with. I would love to buy some more when I get rich.



I won an award! It was given to me from http://bookshipper.blogspot.com/ she has a great book review blog.
So I am passing this award along to a few others that I love for different reasons.
I tried to pick different blogs from the ones I picked last time.
1. My daughter Ashley has a photography blog that has some really great pictures on it. (her computer is down so she hasn't updated it in a while) http://throughmyeyes-ashley.blogspot.com/
2. My friend Shelley has a great birding blog, with some absolutely great pictures! http://birdinginmichigan.blogspot.com/
3. Lastly, Toni (same one I won the yarn from) also has a book blog - http://acircleofbooks.blogspot.com/
If you were picked, please try to share the wealth and pass along the award.

Quote of the week - "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having the good sense to be lazy!"

We had a very busy weekend. Sat. we went out for breakfast (as usual) then went to Ithaca to do some shopping. While walking down the isles of "Micheal's" my back started hurting and got continuously worse! I love shopping but all I wanted to do was go home. When we got home I sat with my cherry pit pillow on my back. Glen went to help our friends with a concession stand. My back got better but then it went into my neck! That too got better, "Thank you God!" that night we went out to dinner with the friends that Glen had helped. We went to Little Venice in Trumansburg and had a great time with them. On Sunday, one of Ashley's friends from high school(Alicia) came to visit her for the day. They came over and went to church with Glen and I.
Later that afternoon we went to some other friends of our and saw pictures of their mission trip to Honduras! WOW! what a poverty stricken country! They were down there for a week helping with a medical facility and pouring concrete floors for families that only had dirt floors in their house. Then ironically enough after seeing these poor people that don't even have electricity we played with their Wii (bowling, bull riding, tennis, etc.). It was fun with them but I still have no interest in getting one myself.

GREAT giveaway over at: http://www.bookroomreviews.com/

Books - "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic" by - by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny. This book actually takes place about 10 min. down the road from me! It is about some of the patients who were committed to the Willard State Mental Hospital. This is a real sad book. I am sure there are some people who did belong there but it seems to me that many of the patients should have never been committed! Most of these people were committed in the last 1800's and early 1900's. It seems like it didn't take much to get a person committed back then. I'm glad I wasn't there then, LOL. Alot of people just didn't have anywhere else to go, and women were there because they were beaten by their husbands and were afraid and depressed about it, well who wouldn't be? People were committed because they heard voices. Today "Hearing voices" is not a symptom of mental illness in itself. 3% of the total population hears voices. Some people were there for over 40 year, and upon their death, it was said they should have never been committed for that long! Boy, Psychiatry has come a long way since then, thank God!
I just started another book by my friend Erin Grady - "Whispers", very good so far!

Reading through the states -
1. California - Echoes, by Erin Grady
2. Florida - In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
3. Iowa - The Learning, by Ruthann Weaver
4. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) - A Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson
5. South Carolina - Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
6. Kentucky - The Believers, by Janice Holt Giles
7. Minnesota - Hit By a Farm, by Catherine Friend
8. North Carolina - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
9. Montana - My Hutterite Life, by Lisa M. Stahl
10. Kansas - Waiting for Summer's Return, by Kim Vogel Sawyer
11. Idaho - Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm
12. New York - The Lives they Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny

Top 5 reasons you can't wait till spring (if you live in the south this may not apply to you! LOL)
1. Flowers!!!!! I love flowers.
2. Not having to dress all up in winter clothing.
3. Being able to sit on the porch and drink my coffee.
4. Taking my kids outside to play.
5. Just that much closer to summer vacation!

In like a lion out like a lamb

I woke up to 8° this morning! It was so cold that after only a minute outside my face was burning. I try to bundle up the children as good as I can, with what I have to work with. Only 2 out of 7 brought scarves and one didn't even have a hat (he used his hood). Yesterday one child didn't have gloves! It is not spring yet!!!! Wishful thinking will not bring it here any faster.

Here’s where you get to laugh at my stupidity –
I was talking to Ashley on the phone the other day. I took a sip of my coffee.
Then I said “UUMMM” and the coffee went splat on the counter,
Because I forgot to swallow first!

The Iditarod starts on Sat. the 7th!!!!! Yeah! Can’t wait. Here is the link to the Official Iditarod site - http://www.iditarod.com/race/
It is a great site. You can get a list of mushers, follow the race on a map, and get day to day coverage. Here is the link for the Nome webcam at the finish line! - http://www.nomealaska.org/vc/cam-page.htm (right now it is set towards the visitor’s center but into the race they turn it towards the finish line). In the past years I have actually caught people crossing the finish line!! It is really cool!

There are lots of great contests and giveaways this week! -
Lots of books over at Jenn’s blog - http://jennsbookshelf.blogspot.com/
And with Dar at http://peekingbetweenthepages.blogspot.com/
Two - $20.00 Amazon certificate giveaway! - http://crazycommamomma.wordpress.com/ and -http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/amazon-giveaway/
Another book at - http://thebookkitten.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-giveaway-carnival-story-of-edgar.html
And lots more! You can find a whole list of contests at - http://www.bookroomreviews.com/

I finished a book that Shelley sent me "Indian Creek Chronicles" by Pete Fromm.
I really liked the book, but parts of it made me mad. It is a true account of a college student that takes a job living in a tent through winter in Idaho babysitting salmon eggs. What made me mad was how little they prepared him for this! Wouldn't you think that they would have a mandatory survival seminar and a list of supplies needed and i would also thought that they should have given him most of the supplies! But NO! He really knew nothing of what he was getting into. He had to buy almost all of his own supplies. They supplied the tent, a truck, a chainsaw and a very old small wood stove. It was like they said "sink or swim". They dropped him off and said goodluck.

Reading through the states -
1. California - Echoes, by Erin Grady
2. Florida - In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
3. Iowa - The Learning, by Ruthann Weaver
4. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) - A Year by the Sea, by Joan Anderson
5. South Carolina - Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
6. Kentucky - The Believers, by Janice Holt Giles
7. Minnesota - Hit By a Farm, by Catherine Friend
8. North Carolina - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
9. Montana - My Hutterite Life, by Lisa M. Stahl
10. Kansas - Waiting for Summer's Return, by Kim Vogel Sawyer
11. Idaho - Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm

Here is a list of 100 books that "they" say you should read (not sure who "they" is). The BBC thinks that most people will only read about 6 out of the 100. I have put an * next to the ones that I have read. Instead of a top 5 this week - Go down through the list and count the books you have read (be honest!) and let me know in a comment how many (or few). Watching the movie DOES NOT COUNT!


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *
6 The Bible *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon *
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker *
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White *
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery *
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have read 21 of these books. How many have you read?