Another blog list: 110 banned books
List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Bold and italicize the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of).

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier#
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes  ¶ 1:41 PM

  Yesterday Bill and I took Cross country ski lessons. Since I have been going back out this wnter, after a decade long hiatus, I have felt so nervous and wobbly, so Bill suggested I take a lesson and offered to come with me. Since he has quit smoking (three weeks!) he has wanted to get back in shape. And even though he fell down like a million times he was very proud of himself, as he managed to have a whole conversation with our teacher, while skiing up a very long hill!

I only fell twice, once going up a hill and once turning at the very bottom. The teacher really appreciated by "Holy Crap!" technique of screaming and waving my arms as I hit warp speed on a downhill run. My body just doesn't understand that the arm waving does not help my balance.

Then, we came home and ate the left over lasagne masterpiece was made together on Saturday night, and I made a yummy loaf of sourdough. My very first! It amazed me that i could make bread out of water, four and salt. Damn, science, you rule!  ¶ 11:12 AM

  I'm beating myself up from all sides this week. I'm down on my body, I'm down on my skills, and I'm down on my uterus. I want everything too fast. I think a lack of patience is my number one vice. I don't give things a chance to work , and when they don't work at the speed I am hoping for, I give up all together. Then, I see things happen, and get excited again - only to once again give up after, like, ten minutes.

I have been overwhelmingly hateful of my body lately - cursing myself because my pants don't fit and then eating like a pig when one day of exercixe doesn't solve the problem.

Then I decide to stop being a whiny ass and just get over it.

Only to fall apart again the next day.

I need to remember to give things a chance to work. But what the hell am I supposed to do to amuse myself in the meantime, besides obsess and engage my neuroses????  ¶ 10:10 AM

  Every Thursday morning at 6:30am, I do my Television without Pity impersonation for Bill, when I give him a detailed, scene by scene retelling of the previous evenings episode of "Lost." I am really looking forward to next week, when he will actually get to watch it with me. His days as a snowmaker as almost up, a sure sign of spring.  ¶ 11:42 AM

  Last night Bill and I saw "Million Dollar Make me Cry Like a Baby." I can't say much more, but after it was over I felt like a wet dishrag.  ¶ 8:55 AM

  Someone found this bog by googling "slut near Plattsburgh."  ¶ 1:21 PM

  Why does Mr. Neverhadhealthinsuranceandnevergotothedoctor insist I go to the doctor the minute I feel queasy? Is this just one of those unsolvable mysteries of married life that women I swore I would never be like gab over for hours? Also, you all are so lucky I vowed never to post about trying to get pregnant. Otherwise, you would be subjected to my hourly obsessions.  ¶ 1:13 PM

  Let's try this again....

Thanks Elizabeth for allowing me to avoid the Annual Report a little longer.

1) Total amount of music files on your computer: None, I never get around to listening to music at work, even though I think about it a lot.


2) The last CD you bought was: Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose. Once, my Dad and I ate at an awful buffet reataurant in Hurricane Mills or Hills, Tennessee and it was completely decorated in Lorretta Lynn/NASCAR style. Very classy.

3) What is the song you last listened to before reading this message? Like E., this song was in my head: "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani.

4) Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you:

"In Spite of Ourselves" by John Prine, My wedding song.
"Bar Lights" by my ex-imaginary boyfriend Ryan Adams. Makes me so glad not to be single anymore.
"Emperor's New Clothes" by Sinead O'Connor for reminding me of dancing in the kitchen with my Kineton Road girls.

5) Who are you going to pass this stick to and why? Who wants it?  ¶ 1:38 PM

  Had a post...lost my post. Sigh.  ¶ 1:18 PM

  Sooooo....

I decided to consolidate my student loans.
I've been paying, and then paying more, and imagining years and years of this. Turns out my balance for undergrad is less than $5,000 and I pay $500 a month. Do that math and you will know why I am feeling so good right now. Just over nine months.

Then, I called the loan company and found out that I should consolidate anyway and my payments will go from $740 a month to $245 a month for ten years. Which means I may be able to afford having a bebe after all.

I know that like everyone already knows this anyway and I am really slow. But still. It's exciting to me!  ¶ 2:58 PM

  I had my annual lady exam this morning. Bless the nurse for deciding not to move the weight thingie from the 25-50 lb range to the 50-75lb range even though the damn bar would not drop even when the little weight thinge passed 50 and hovered in the unprinted area beyond. Yeah.  ¶ 12:55 PM

  Everyone is freaking out because we might actually get snow for once this winter. That would just add to my confusion this week. I am trying to write our Annual Report to no avail, I missed book club AGAIN this month, and Bill has quit smoking and I am getting his share of patch-induced nightmares.

I have also become obsessed with the workings of my reproductive system and with sex in general because THIS IS IT. We are officially trying to get pregnant. If this snow were forcast for next Monday, I'd be so happy. And that is as much as I will bore you with my tales of ovulation because I vowed months ago not to do that.

My mom is coming this weekend for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. If it does snow, I might just strap her old skis onto her feet and drag her to the flatest trail we can find. (For me, not her.)


  ¶ 3:58 PM

 
Look what I made for my friend V.'s baby to be!   ¶ 10:07 AM

  The husband of the woman who had my job before my predecessor heard Rush Limbaugh quote me on air last week.



  ¶ 10:04 AM

  Bill is going back to work at the mountain tonight. Even though we know he could make more money going offshore one or two more times this winter, we decided it is more important that he maintain his reputation as someone willing to work up there, because next winter, he will not be able to go away, we hope.

Last night, on the way home, I saw a huge herd of deer grazing in one of the fields down along the river. They were there again this morning. 15 to 20 of them, just nibbling and strolling around.

I am way behind on the Book Club Book, To Kill a Mockingbird, but I hope to get a lot read tonight and Saturday evening. Friday night, my friend C. and I are having a slumber party and going to the movies. She needs to have a night away from her family (stepkids in particular) and I need to have my last glasses of wine (and coffee) for a while.
  ¶ 9:15 AM