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Working on a series of 100 word stories to try and revalue words. My prose has gotten really dense and over-wordy so I'm trying to relearn minimalist writing. Happily accepting prompts!
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Book meme nicked from youliedanyway

Bold the books you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of, and star ☆ the ones you honestly plan to read. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. According to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average!

Total Completely Read: 17/100

oo1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
oo2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
oo3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
oo4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
oo5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
oo6. The Bible
oo7. ☆ Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
oo8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
oo9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
o1o. ☆ Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
o11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
o12. ☆ Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
o13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS EVER.
o14. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
o15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
o16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
o17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
o18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
o19. ☆ The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
o2o. ☆ Middlemarch - George Eliot
o21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
o22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald LOATHED IT.
o23. ☆ Bleak House - Charles Dickens
o24. ☆ War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
o25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
o26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
o27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
o28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
o29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
o3o. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
o31. ☆ Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
o32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
o33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
o34. Emma - Jane Austen
o35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
o36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
o37. ☆ The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
o38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
o39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
o4o. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
o41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
o42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
o43. ☆ One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
o45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
o46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
o47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
o48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
o49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
o5o. ☆ Atonement - Ian McEwan
o51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
o52. Dune - Frank Herbert
o53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
o54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
o55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
o56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon This is the book I'm reading right now... Creepy...
o57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
o58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
o59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
o6o. ☆ Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
o62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
o63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
o64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
o65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
o66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
o67. ☆ Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
o68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
o69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
o7o. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
o71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
o72. ☆ Dracula - Bram Stoker
o73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
o74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
o75. Ulysses - James Joyce
o76. The Inferno – Dante
o77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
o78. Germinal - Emile Zola
o79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
o8o. ☆ Possession - AS Byatt
o81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
o82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
o83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
o84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
o85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
o86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
o87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
o88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
o89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
o9o. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
o91. ☆ Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
o92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
o93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
o94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
o95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
o96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
o97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
o98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
o99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
1oo. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

In retrospect, I feel pretty great. I do honestly intend to read all those that are starred--my to-read list is rife with 'classics'. And I'm in the process of reading all the italicized. Also, I love some of the things BBC considers great works of literature or whatever; the amount of fantasy/scifi on the list made me smile!
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It is, I feel, a symptom of my sickness that I find the following numbers discouragingly low. I keep asking myself, am I missing something?! Please let me be missing something!

ACTION FIGURE TOTAL: 50 (51 if you count Brego independently! But why would you do that? He came as one contiguous being with Aragorn!)

INCLUDED SUBCATEGORIES: MiniMates, Mighty Muggs, those little Marvel Squad guys, and this one that came in a little plastic ball from the greatest vending machine of all time—mini action figures in plastic balls?! Come on!

GENRE BREAKDOWN
X-MEN: 24 (allowing that Deadpool counts as X-Men)
LORD OF THE RINGS:  7
THE MATRIX: 2
STAR TREK: 1 (but still, I feel, deserving of its own category)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: 9
Miscellaneous: 7


This 5-minute geek break proudly presented by your friendly neighborhood Kaylie.
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So lately I've been a lurker, though not the perverse kind, on good old dA. And probably I'll continue to be one. But in the interest of a 2010 journal entry and staying involved enough in this world to get my ass kicked by NaPoWriMo as usual, I'm going to share with you that fact that the only frakking thing I've been able to write in the last six months is prose, and not good prose either. Furthermore it's all been long and involved prose, like the delicately constructed generic fantasy universe I've been favoring, or the probably-would-be-misconstrued-as-racist yet unfinished stylistic tour de force I haven't touched in a good five months.



Oh, I'm sorry, did you expect me to have a point? No. This is just a public service announcement.

Signing off.
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I need to write a goddamn poem. It's been ages. I've been thinking maybe haikus?

Help me out.
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