book thing

So...I'm at work. And I am more than a little bored. If you'll notice, I've busily (ha) spent my day adding new blogs to my blogroll. Check em out. Tell them how awesome I am, so maybe they'll link back to me. Or something. Anyway, in the midst of doing this, I found this fun little piece of mindless stuff to do on Erica's blog. As a big book nerd, it caught my attention. I am helpless to resist doing this rightthissecond:

Here are the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you've read, color what you own. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved! (I also colored [but not bolded] what I own but have not read..Michael and I go to a lot of booksales and I have some catching up to do.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484) **
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (29,939)**
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (28,728)**
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling (27,926) **
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling (27,643) **
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (27,641) **
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (23,266)*
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (21,325) **
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling (20,485) **
1984 by George Orwell (19,735) *
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (19,583)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (19,082)*********** (my favoritest book ever)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (17,586)*
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (16,210)*
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (15,483)**
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)**
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (13,946)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (13,272)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (13,091)*
Angels & demons by Dan Brown (13,089) *
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (13,005)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (12,777)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (12,276) **
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (12,147)**
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976)**
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,512)**
The Odyssey by Homer (11,483)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (11,392)
Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,082)**
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10,979) **
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (10,823)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (10,603)**
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (10,537) **
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (10,435)
The Lovely Bones : a novel by Alice Sebold (10,125)
Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (10,092)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (9,827)**
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (9,745)Dune by Frank Herbert (9,671)
Emma by Jane Austen (9,610)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (9,593)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (9,433)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (9,413)
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (9,336)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (9,246)
The Iliad by Homer (9,153)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (9,084)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (9,080)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (9,027)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (8,960)**
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (8,904) **
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (8,813)
The Little Prince by saintexupryantoinede - 75k - (8,764)*
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (8,421)*
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (8,417)**
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (8,368)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (8,255)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8,214)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (8,191)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8,129)
The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (8,096)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (7,843)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (7,834)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (7,808)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (7,807)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (7,793)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (7,710)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)*
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (7,598) *
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk (7,569)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (7,534)**
Atonement by Ian McEwan (7,530)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436)*
Dracula by Bram Stoker (7,238)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (7,153)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (7,055)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (7,043)**
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (6,933)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (6,901)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (6,899)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (6,890)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (6,862)
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (6,841)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794)
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (6,715)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (6,708)
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)


hmmm..I have some reading to do, most definitely. Ok..back to 'work'.

blarg!

Yes, I am pretty far behind here. But I have a good excuse. This past weekend was my birthday. Technically, my birthday was on Tuesday. However, I was obligated to celebrate all three days of labor day weekend in order to make up for the fact that I had to WORK on my birthday, and the next day, so I couldn't party it up that specific day. I ate a lot of food, and took pictures of most of it. I even made seitan sausages for my parents when they came here on Monday and they fell in love with them. OR, my mom told my dad to be nice and pretend to like whatever I made, no matter how gross he thought it was. But seriously, they were so good that he couldn't have been faking that level of enthusiasm. Right? Right? Anyway... I also have a rockin recipe for stuffed butternut squash that I made up all on my own that actually worked right the first time, and some pictures from a very veg friendly, sort of communist restaurant in Athens, OH (Casa Nueva). I know you just can't wait to see it all. But you kind of have to. It's been a terribly busy week and it's not getting any better because Michael's sister is getting married on Saturday and tonight we'll be busy packing and tomorrow we're leaving to go up there and won't be back until Sunday. My goal is to post one HUGE megapost Sunday once we get back. Honestly, I have so much to write about that I can't possibly do it right now. Oh, and I'm kind of engrossed in these books that have been distracting me when I haven't been whipping up awesome shit in the kitchen. Um.. I'm sort of embarassed to say that... I've been reading....

The Twilight Saga. I never meant to start this, I swear! Oh, man, I can't believe I just admitted on the internet that I'm reading these books. But they're like heroin to me right now, and I can't stop until they're all finished. Kind of like Harry Potter, but with more sexy monsterism involved. I'm a dork. Anyway, this woman I work with started reading them (I don't even dare to try to understand her motives here) and said I could borrow them as she went through them. So I reluctantly started reading the first one... and, well, there was no going back. Luckily, it only takes me about a day and a half to read one, so it doesn't take up TOO much of my time. However, it's practically all I do in that time span so it's become a sad obsession in my life.

Oh well. I'm on the 3rd book (almost done with it, in fact I tore myself away to post this because I felt guilty for neglecting my blog). As soon as B is done with the 4th one, I'll read it, and hopefully this will all be over. However, she actually has like, a life, so she reads them much slower than I do (what with having a teenage daugther and a fiance and a real job that keeps her busy while I tap my fingernails all day on my empty desk). I'll be done with the one I'm reading by Sunday though, no worries, so I will be posting that night.

Thanks for not judging me!