I'm a reader first and foremost. I spend half my day daydreaming so I end up with many ideas floating around in my head that I should pen them down and turn them into stories.
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The Finkler Question- Howard Jocabson.
In 2007, 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their top 10 titles that they could not live without. The result is a compilation of the top 100 books. Agree or Disagree, Which books have you read or plan to read?1. Put an (x) after those you have read.2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason. 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 Expectation - 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 Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveler’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 []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 Meaney - 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 I did not enjoy this book.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 - 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 []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 Inferno – Dante 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 Albom 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
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Revolution- Tracey Chapman
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I once found myself straddling the line between reality and fantasy. Where I walked the world in a half-dream state. Neither feeling alive nor departed. I was defunct, deadened, despondent. Days dragged on, nights were too short. I slept to remove myself from the world. Too many sounds too bright I longed for the sun to set. Where nights become my saviour for solitude I craved...
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