MY FIRST BLOG POST

Hello

My first blog post ever... thats why I chose red

I have been to two IWEAD's so I have two stickers in my book!

I saw Comfort Farm on the list from Susie which I read not long ago and I really enjoyed that book " I saw something nasty in the coal shed..." very funny.

I think that we are proposing that the next book be " Handful of dust " by Evelyn Waugh who(m) wrote Brideshead Revisted it is another orange penguin classic - and I like the collection of orange books on the bookshelf...

It is a little book so if anyone has a hankering for another book then go ahead and suggest away.

Cafe Muse was very good - Mauritius duo and all - and gets my vote for the next dinner too.

6 weeks from the last will be 8th May... already some cannot make it - maybe we have to accept this as part of the pattern of how this IWEAD will be - it will be like a jellyfish that will blog blog around big and small, drifting around, shedding tantacles here and there, a little bit scary, a little bit fascinating, a bit squishy but very relaxed and gooey. What an image.

I think thats all... have a good week and see you all at the fARE

Classic Book List

Last night at dinner (which was delicious) I talked about this list I'd seen online and said I'd post it on the blog. I think this list comes originally from the BBC. There are quite a few I haven't read like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. Has anyone seen any other good lists?
Leichhardt Library have this page on their site too with recent prize winners:
http://www.lmc.nsw.gov.au/Novels-to-Read.html

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 Faulk
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 Hossein
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
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 Zifon
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 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 Factoy - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Book Club Tomorrow - FRIDAY 27th

Apologies for the late notice!

Tomorrow night IS book club night. YAY!The meeting place is MUSE Cafe in Summer Hill. I have reserved the small room at the back for us so we don't scare off the other patrons with our powerful intellectual insights into My Family and Other Animals.

Feel free to drop by at any time - for a coffee or a glass of wine, or a full three course tea. The table is booked from half seven.

See you all there!

Hop
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Hi All, Just getting my head around this blogging so I may have missed something, but are we on this Friday night 27th March? I really enjoyed the book. Look forward to catching up and discussing. Lisa

My Family and Other Animals

I have just finished reading the text for the next meeting - and I really hope you are all enjoying it as much as I am. If anyone needs a copy, I'm happy to lend them mine.
Nina will surely be making an appearance on this blog, once I have had more time to explore the deeper recesses of the blogger.
Are there any ideas yet for the next book?
I'll advise the venue for the next meeting - but numbers would certainly help. If you could confirm the day before would help
Love
HOP