The List

This is a list of books I have read (***) or hope to read.

Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Alcott, Louisa
Little Women

Boyle, TC
The Tortilla Curtain

Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451***

Brown, Dan
The Da Vinci Code***

Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange

Cain, James
The Postman Always Rings Twice

Camus, Albert
The Stranger***
The Plague

Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood

Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland***

Cervantes
Don Quixote

Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay***
Wonder Boys
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower***

Clevenger, Craig
The Contortionist's Handbook***

Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist
Verokia Decides to Die

Dahl, Roald
All the Short Stories

Darwin, Charles
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Descent of Man
The Origin of Species

Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Note from Underground

Douglass, Frederick
Frederick Douglass

Euginides, Jeffrey
Middlesex***
The Virgin Suicides***

Frank, Anne
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl***

Flynn, Nick
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City***

Fuhrman, Chris
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys***

Gaiman
American Gods

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha***

Golding, William
Lord of the Flies***

Grimm Brothers
Grimms Fairy Tales

Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables

Hedayat, Sadegh
Blind Owl

Heller, Joseph
Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Old Man and the Sea***
Across the River and Into the Trees
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Men Without Women
The Sun Also Rises
The Torrents of Spring

Hempel, Amy
Reasons to Live***
The Dog of the Marriage***
Tumble Home***

Hickman, Homer
October Sky

Hornby, Nick
High Fidelity***
A Long Way Down***

Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner by

Hurston, Zora
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World***

Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go***

Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis***
Judgement***
The Trial
The Castle
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared
The Complete Stories

Kerouac, Jack
On the Road

Kesey, Ken
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest***

Keyes, Daniel
Flowers for Algernon***

Kidd, Sue
The Secret Lives of Bees***

King, Stephen
The Green Mile***
Different Seasons***
The Stand***

Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Lahari, Jhumpa
Interpreter of Maladies

Lamb, Wally
I Know This Much Is True***
She's Come Undone***

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird***

L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time***
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

Lowry, Lois
The Giver***

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera

Martel, Yann
Life of Pi***

Martin, Steve
The Pleasure of My Company

Melville, Herman
Moby Dick

Miller, Sue
While I Was Gone***

Murakami, Haruki
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore***
Norwegian Wood
After the Quake
South of the Border
Hard Boiled Wonderland...
Dance Dance Dance
The Elephant Vanishes
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Underground
Birthday Stories***

Murakami, Ryu
Almost Transparent Blue***
Coin Locker Babies***
In the Miso Soup***
69

Orwell, George
1984***
Animal Farm***

Palahniuk, Chuck
Invisible Monsters***
Diary***
Fight Club***
Lullabye***
Haunted***
Survivor ***
Choke***
Strnager than Fiction***
Fugitives and Refugees

Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar***

Remarque, Erich
All Quiet on the Western Front

Robbins, Tom
Skinny Legs and All
Jitterbug Perfume
Still Life with Woodpecker

Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things

Russo, Richard
Empire Falls

Safran Foer, Jonathan
Everything Is Illuminated***
Exetremely Loud and Incredibly Close***

Salinger, JD
Franny and Zooey***
The Catcher in the Rye***
Nine Stories***
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction***
For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein

Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men***
East of Eden
Cannery Row

Stevenson, Robert
Treasure Island
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Thompson, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas***
The Rum Diary
Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Twain, Mark
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer

Updike, John
Brazil
Rabbit at Rest
Marry Me

Verne, Jules
A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Vonnegut, Kurt
Breakfast of Champions***
Slaughterhouse-Five***
Mother Night
Hocus Pocus
Galapagos
Cat's Cradle
Welcome to the Monkey House***


Wells, HG
The Time Machine***
The War of the Worlds
Invisible Man


Wiesel, Elie
Night

Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wright, Ronald
A Short History of Progress***

Wurtzel, Elizabeth
Prozac Nation***

Yoshimoto, Banana
Kitchen

Zinn, Howard
People's History of the United States

Jens Bday

Jen's Birthday Karaoke Madness

Good Movies

Cheney's Got a Gun

IQ Test

Your IQ Is 135

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

I Love Earthquakes

Some people love thunderstorms, I love earthquakes.

Before anyone gets up in a tizzy, let me say that I dont like the damage done or that people are injured or killed. So if you separate the earthquake and the damage, I love them.

I love the sensation of the earth moving, or the building swaying. My earthquake radar is quite acute now, I notice even the smallest ones. We had 2 fairly large ones this week, so I was just giddy. The first one I was standing over my stove and suddenly just felt a jolt from underneath, and then I looked around and things were moving, it lasted about 40 seconds. The second one was yesterday at work during lunch, I was chillin' eating my sandwich and yakitori when I felt it, it wasnt as strong, but I saw my water moving so I know it was real.

I really like the big ones. One time at my school a really big one hit, the door was swinging on its hinges, things were rattling, I could the feel the earth rolling beneath me. I was so scared/excited that I grabbed my water bottle (I have no idea why) and ran for the door. I wanted out of that building (we are the 1st floor of 12), I thought it was about to come tumbbling down on me, but when I got to the lobby, all the Japanese teachers and moms were just standing there. I felt so stupid. Even so, it is always a big adrenaline rush when it happens, your body just reacts- Fight or Flight, I guess. As soon as it hits, your body and mind stop what they are doing, maybe to decide an escape plan, but its exciting, I love that feeling.

Personality Test

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have medium conscientiousness. You're generally good at balancing work and play. When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done. But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it. Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You're generally a friendly and trusting person. But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair. Neuroticism: You have low neuroticism. You are very emotionally stable and mentally together. Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly. Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits. A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

The Five Factor Personality Test

YUMMMM Cupcakes

The List

The List is a list of things I want to do/see/go to before I die. They are in no particular order.

1. Visit all 7 continents (well maybe 6, do I really need to go to Antarctica??)
2. Scuba Dive
3. Ski Dive
4. Taj Mahal
5. Pyramids/Sphinx in Egypt
6. Live in NYC
7. Hot Air Balloon
8. Louvre Museum
9. London
10. Summer Roadtrip of America
11. Great Wall of China

Thats all for now, but this will be updated as I think of them.