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Book List Meme

2009-11-03T18:20:27Z

Two posts today? Apparently.

Anyway, one of those book memes. Bold for read, underlined for loved, italic for intending to read.

As you can see, my to-do read list is kind of lengthy, my read list....not so much. I'm trying to work through the classics, though, slowly but surely. I was very pleased to see that The Wasp Factory made an appearance, though; it was quite unexpected. Great Expectations is actually soon to be ticked off, due to school, but we'll see if I ever get my way through it, hm?

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R 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 (Most of them)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler'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
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 Hosseini
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 - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
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 Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - 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' 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Writer's Block: Last supper

2009-11-03T17:03:15Z

If you had one night left to live, what would you do? Would you prefer to spend your final night with a loved one or alone? What would you choose for your last meal?

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I don't usually even read these writer's block things, but this one was too good for me to pass up! I seem to always be talking about what would happen as a result of knowing when we were going to die. But if I were going to die the next day? That's a toughie, that is.

I think I would buy a plane ticket - and travel to Iraq. It seems like an odd definition, but being half Iraqi, I've always felt a bit lost in British culture. I mean, I definitely belong in Britain, but there is always this part of me wondering what it is to live in such a country. I would want it to be during summer so I could see what my birth father used to describe to me; steam rising from the pavement. I'd go to a less traumatised part of Baghdad, meet the family I've never met, but whom my mother has told me all about.

For my last meal, some huge Arabic banquet with desert and lots of Arab tea! Plenty of sugar and mint!

~~that, or lots of nekkid love on a beach somewhere in the Tropics.~~

Seeing into the Future

2009-10-29T20:45:44Z

So, finally, after my introduction post, I’m updating – shockhorror!

It’s funny. Before I opened a journal, I had so much to say, but as soon as I agreed with sockmonk I’d begin to use this one, I seemed to dry up.

So you have FlashForward to thank for this entry.

I’ve been meaning to watch it for the longest time, since it premiered here on the 28^th September (we, in Britain, get it on the Monday after Americans and Canadians do), but I didn’t really have time to sit down and watch them; instead, I had them recorded on my TV, ready for me to watch it during the week. Of course, as always with such plans, I never did get around to it – until today. Instead of going out and getting our hair cut as my mother and I had planned, we sat in front of the TV with bacon sandwiches and cups of tea and decided to watch all of the five episodes I had.

Oh, I’m glad I didn’t watch them as they aired – some of the endings would have killed me to wait for the next episode! Brilliant, pure brilliance! I have all kinds of theories on some of the events, but I’m not even going to go there in case I embarrass myself with being totally and unforgivably wrong (and you know how much it grates when people think they are oh-so-right about fandom predictions). I’ll wait, and then say I told you so, I think, aha. That’s just the kind of girl I am!

So it got me thinking; what if I could see my future? What if, more importantly, I had a choice? If someone gave me the opportunity, would I take it? Would I want to take it?

Let’s take John Cho’s character, Demetri, who, by the way, I find so hard to look at without thinking “Sulu wears a suit?”. He knows he’s going to die. Think about future events that are coming up, things you know about and wish weren’t happening. For example, last year, I had exams I didn’t want to do, though I love exams, and I knew they were just around the corner. It felt as if I was moving towards a brick wall, and it was getting closer and closer and closer…but there was nothing I could do about it. I felt out of control somewhat, which is a big fear of mine. It was odd, the panic, like something I’ve never felt before.

Now imagine that event is your death. That brick wall is you being murdered. Can you imagine living knowing how and when you would die, when you can do absolutely nothing about it? What would the point of living be, when all you wanted to do was slam those breaks so that brick wall would never hit you? Or, rather, you’d never hit that brick wall.

I, personally, have never been afraid of death, but the idea of knowing how and when I was going to die doesn’t seem very pleasant to me.

So what if the whole world knew how they were going to die? From birth? What a strange world we would live in. For once, no one would fear death. Or maybe they would, but it would be an irrational fear. It is an irrational fear, but even more so if we all knew how we were going to die. I suppose, really, the fear is of what is on the other side of death, but I digress.

What if we knew what would happen in the future, is my point? And no matter what we did, no matter what happened, nothing could change that future? We’d be trapped in our own fate, unable to move, shuffling along knowing that it didn’t matter what we did; the future would come true. We can’t change it, because changing the past to change the future is a bit of a paradox; if you went back and killed your grandfather, you’d never exist to be able to kill your grandfather, if that makes sense?

Tricky thing, the future. Is it defined already? Are we all hurtling along towards our own deaths, our own futures? No matter what we do, will we be carried to this place without any say? I, personally, find it a terrifying thought. I’ve never liked the idea of fate, purely from the fact I am a bit of a control freak, and feeling that I’m not in control of my future strikes fear into my heart, really it does.

But what if, like Bryce in FlashForward, we saw something happy? Something that told us our life would be good and fruitful, and filled with happiness? What then? Would we want to know what happened then?

I guess the most obvious answer is yes, because it would make living much easier, to know we would end up happy. But at the same time, it’s putting all your happiness on this one event is an unhealthy thing to do.

So, the short answer, after that essay-type answer, is no. I would never want to see my future, although it would be the hardest and most tempting decision I would ever make. I would feel trapped in my fate if I were to ever discover what the future held for me.

What about you? Would you agree to see the future if you were given a choice? Do you believe in fate, and think the future is made already? I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this!

Introduction

2009-10-14T22:07:50Z

Welcome to Bockmist, my personal journal for everything and anything. First, I think an introduction is probably in order - this will constantly be edited and updated as my fandom love grows!

My name is Lulu, I am seventeen years old, living in London, England. In origin, I am half Iraqi, quarter Welsh, and quarter English. I, ashamedly, only speak English, although I am trying to learn German.

I am at sixth form college student (to anyone in the US or other countries other than Malaysia etc. who use our system, that is the Junior and Senior year of High School for you), where I study Government & Politics, Psychology and Geography. I am also looking to take up English Literature, but it is all as my timetable allows (watch this space!).

I am an active member of the Liberal Democrats, which is the third most popular political party in the United Kingdom, and take a keen interest in politics, especially British and American. I have a bit of a political crush on Mr. Nick Clegg (although, I assure you, it isn’t the reason I’m part of the Lib Dems, aha).

I don’t watch much modern British television except for Peep Show, and then all those wonderful panel shows (Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You?, QI, Argumental etc.). I do, however, watch a hell of a lot of classic comedies, Blackadder being my favourite, along with Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Only Fools & Horses etc.

As for American shows, I enjoy my bit of The Mentalist, House, FlashForward, Bones (despite the sometimes dodgy dialogue) and Scrubs. I am a huge fan of Harry Potter - like, stupidly so. I know far too much, and talk about it way too much about it. Just wonderful!

For ‘ships, I stand quite strongly in my views. I ship House/Wilson, and cannot stand Huddy. In The Mentalist, I’m a strong supporter of Rigsby/Van Pelt (you’re not human if you don’t, aha), and totally against Jane/Lisbon. Of course, I’m a Angela/Hodgins and Brennan/Booth shipper. The best! For Harry Potter, I have many. My favourite are canon; Arthur/Molly, Remus/Tonks, Lucius/Narcissa, Grindelwald/Dumbledore and Andromeda/Ted. My favourite ship of all time, though, is Lily/Severus, only if it is unrequited (although a huge shipper, I'll admit Lily will never love him back). And for a nice slash crack!ship, Dean/Seamus. For the record, I’m very firm in my hate for Harry/Hermione. Harmony that ship is not!

I’m a little bit anti-real person ‘shipping, but I admit to loving Pinto (Quinto/Pine), and, for my more bizarre ‘ship, Stalin/Roosevelt. Look at the body language at Yalta, and tell me you don’t see it XD

Anyway. I think this is my interests summed up in a nice little (long?) post. This doesn’t really tell you much about “me” me, but hopefully, if I keep this journal updated, you might learn a bit more!

<3 Lulu

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