Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place, not like before. He chose to ignore it for he already knew the reason for it was time warped. So, instead he joined the circus. There, he became an amazing acrobat who created a entertaining show for the elderly folk who ate watermelons and spit seeds into the offending crowd of onlookers.
Covered in seeds, the acrobat then promptly took his large knives and sliced a huge potato in dodecahedrons — took great care with each 12-sided
Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place, not like before. He chose to ignore it for he already knew the reason for it was time warped. So, instead he joined the circus. There, he became an amazing acrobat who created a entertaining show for the elderly folk who ate watermelons and spit seeds into the offending crowd of onlookers.
Once upon a clear dark night an elderly man with a wicked cat who ate all of his freshly caught shrimp in a most peculiar, yet satisfyingly white china bowl.
There were sounds outside his window as the wind turbine that spins came crashing down scattering the crows. The sounds of wings, furious and flapping came through the darkness.
And with that become clear that the old man's home was not a good place, not like before. He chose to ignore it for he already knew the reason for it was time warped. So, instead he joined the circus.
What excellent news about the new-old Dr. Seuss stories being published!
winter!
seaside cottage or mountain cabin?
Whiskey.
Cow's milk or soy milk?
Which books have you read or plan to read?
- Put an (x) after those you have read.
- Put (#) those you plan on reading. I failed to complete this part of the assignment. My plans change often.
- 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 [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
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 [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [ ]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [ ]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x]
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 [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [ ]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
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 [x]
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 [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
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 [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x] Ugh. Only because I had to!
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 [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
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 [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [ ]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [~]
To answer my own questions...
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss...
- Book? One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- Character? The little cats from The Cat in the Hat. I don't want to play favorites among them, so I'll leave it at that.
- Quote? "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." - From One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Do you still read Dr. Seuss as an adult? Yes, indeed I do!
