Book Dare: The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings

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 Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (I mean to)

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (saw the movie…)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame… kinda

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (most of em.. they’re shit you see)

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 (I presume I have…)

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

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 Night - 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 (some of it)

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 (want to)

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (some.. it counts)

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 (started it…)

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

 

HAPPY 18TH LAURA.. WOOHOO
YOU ARE LEGAL!

Cant be bothered writing about it now. May touch this up later... but until then... I didnt cry, although I came close.. oh Ms L'estrange
Got our Yearbooks signed. Very nice. The teachers speeches were lovely. Bad though going to an all girls school -  one girl crys the rest cry too.
Went to Tess afterwards... swam, got a burrito, walked through a cemetary, watched knocked up.
Pretty decent.

I have great friends and feel this day was ultimately successfull...

Kinda weird.. like I know we go back to school for assembly or exams but its not lessons and hanging with friends.
I'm glad its over but at the same time I had some really good times... I just love my friends.

Got to park in the morning. On tess' advice I went as courtney love/garth/other shit... It worked overall.. I guess
We walked to Taylor Square and then did the traditional walk to school - dancing, cheering and singing.
Some pretty good costumes.. max from wild things and the fat suit were personal favourites.
Ran around the lawn.. then went to form

Ancient - we dressed in togas. Tess came in with an air horn and toilet paper - the look on gallaghers face... hilarious. Fuck, he's taught me for 3 years! I dunno, that just seems like a long time to me.
Prep - hung about, put some history quotes outside the history dept.. but more negative to the ones they have, eg. "History... its just one fuckin thing after another" - 'The History Boys'
Made a bra chain and skipped with it.

English - watched True Blood.. lovely. We had to make food inspired by the syllabus.. I tried making wolf biscuits but they expanded.. no one really went for them lol.. fair enough
Lunch - Iron Man challenge - I didnt plan on going on it, but then I did, and it was very fun.. I wanted my $12 worth. Laid in the sun.. very nice. Realised I'd never really done that at school yet..
Drama - watched Skins. pretty nice.

Had a bit of a 10 Things I Hate About You themed day - had Bogey Lowenstein posters going round but at the end of the day a girl sang 'Cant take my eyes of you' over the loud speaker like Heath does.
We then joined in and there was more screaming and dancing and photos.

A successful day I feel. Got the breakfast and final assembly tomorrow morning, then the dinner on Friday.
I hope I don't cry tomorrow. I probably will, but shall try to hold it back... maybe if I have a cry tonight lol, it'll be all gone... nah, cant be bothered.

In a weird way I'm gunna miss the school. Maybe its more its looks though - I like the way it looks lol. But I'll miss being able to see my friends each day. I can bitch and moan all I want but I do have great friends and the past 6 years are worth it b/c of them.. that makes me very happy.

MY BIRTHDAY IN 8 DAYS

decent day - end of it nearly killed me though
only 2 days left of school..

georgia came to my form this morning, we shared bad driving stories. very enjoyable
drama - coffee run and watched across the universe. payed it out with tess, it was a good time

english - meh.. highlighted some sheets and joked about. had a weird armwrestle with mattie, distracted the class... always fun

prep - typequick with georgia. the crazy animals.. hilarious. im so fucking quick.
walkabout lunch with georgia and t ridge

eng ext - teacher thinks we're going to class on friday arvo.. FUCK OFF! we'll just be watching some shitty movie (sylvia).. not fucking worth it. talked about ancient on wed - our pin up girls. mine's a lovely one falling over a bucket. wearing togas too.. very enjoyable

(speaking of ancient - i didnt mention the other day when gallagher knocked over my highlighters with glee.. baastard! got his come-uppence though.. dropped his papers... haha!)

figuring out with georgia what to wear as 'rebels without a cause' muck up day
also for english party on wed - we have to have food that relates to the syllabus... i am making wolf biscuits.. like ginny/whos afraid of WOOLF (wolf... whatever, it works)
I found it quite a humorous idea

watched flashforward tonight. kinda reminds me of lost. looks pretty good, will probably keep watching... some good characters some shitty.. we'll see

had a bring it on quote off with my love tonight. fuck im weird. but lol, it made me so happy... he likes that movie! = beautiful!
ancient tomorrow morning... blah.. but i get a lift i guess
nigghhhttt


 

 

TWO WEEKS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!

 
Bad night last night and baadddd day today.
Went to tess' party - my friends got drunk and hung out w their friends/boyfriends.
Guy I liked - think he has a girlfriend.. made me depressed, typical and sad I know, but I was really looking forward to seeing him and now I couldnt talk to him so I wanted to go home straight away.
Talked w a few people but left at 10.30

Also found out 2 girls in my year got shortlisted for 'Onstage' (the showcase of the best IP and GDP performances from NSW or Syd schools).
One of them was good, she did the other part of my piece, but the other girl was terrible... she just got on stage and yelled. Made me kinda disappointed cuz I wouldve liked to have been in Onstage or been shortlisted. A few girls at the party were saying I shouldve gotten it which made me kinda happy. I'm not saying my performance was the best and I shouldve been picked... I just felt really proud about it and it would be a good experience and good to tell at like NIDA or something.. I'm kinda over it, but I was just affected by it last night b/c the night was going shit.

Today has gone so slowly.
Walked to Chatswood and bought The Twilight Zone: The Movie... loves it. Then went for another walk.
Watched School of Rock, The Twilight Zone, now watching 10 Things...
Mum gave me a talking to tonight about smoking, saying she could smell it on me last night and though I was smoking on my walk today. I denied it b/c she was looking intense and scary, so then she was like 'Whats more disapointing is that you're lying to me' and walked off. I'll own up to it someday, but not now.. I'm too tired.

Also, she doesnt want to buy me a long dress for the formal b/c it'll cost too much - fuck.. its my formal lady! Please - you buy yourself clothes all the time, I dont want to wear a short party dress, this is the time when you wear a long dress... ahh!

Did my UAC Application tonight - UNSW Arts 1st, then Macquarie Business and Arts, then Syd Arts.
Mum went off at me again saying I wasnt taking this seriously enough and if I dont get into any of these courses I'd be going to Willoughby Girls High School to redo Yr12... Got me upset.. It made me really nervous that I'm not going to do well. I know I'm not great but she doesnt know how these things score and I will get into something. It was just mean and made me sad. I felt even worse about myself.

Nothing is going right for me now.
I'm not going well at school
My mum has no faith in me
I havent lost any weight/still look shit
The guy I like has a girlfriend/doesnt like me/is too good for me
I'm still not particularly good at anything

Nothing has improved and there's more pressure than ever to be improving.  Makes me so disappointed and ashamed. I feel so hopeless and that I'm letting everyone down... me, my mum and grandma.
I just wanna do well and prove everyone wrong but I'm too upset too and mum doesnt believe/doesnt want to believe I'm still depressed.
God this is angsty and I hate myself for saying it but I feel so alone..
That was terrible, but its true. Its how I feel. I just wanna fade away or something..

 

Been a while I see. I shall just ramble a bit..

Not great amounts of work being done - I feel terrible but I cant do it, oh well, ill pay for it I guess.
My 18th in 19 days! Thats soon...!!
Had Mattie and Annalieses 18th... met some guy at Annos.. I'm now in love. Ohhh, I love him meow meow meow... ohh Laura - it slightly sickens me, but I find him so beautiful for some reason

Anyway...
Had some more good ancient lessons... funny stuff brough up... I cant remember
Totally lost in Modern. Feel bad for not doing practice essay... but.... effort. Had a racism revision today.. JESSE OWENS!  Georgia and I talk though, its cool. We get dirty looks from dipshit in front of us, snobby bitch.. we laugh at your hair! ha ha ha!!
English - have a meeting w my teacher soon. Oh Laura you do no good at this subject
I think I need to make aplan for work this weekend, cuz I really do want to, I just need to get motivated somehow
Eng Ext - fuck... I'm one of the 6 people who turn up to like every lesson and the one day (yesterday) I dont go afterschool b/c I felt sick, the teacher says 'Lauras always sick in my class'... bitch. I wanna fucking slap her.. Im tempted to call her the c-word but I dont like it so I shant
Drama - theory is horrible, but we have a fun class. 
Business - shoot me. But marketing is kinda fun. We're getting McDonalds tomorrow - yumm

Got Tess' 18th tomorrow night - going grunge. all I really have/can pull off. I think my new love is going to be there too. I said that creepyly... im not weird. I got a preetty dress though

Gotta go watch Greatest American Dog now. I love it.
Think Ive forgotten something but oh well
Until next time..

 Well trials finished. Got some results back..
English AOS - 40% 
English Modules - 40%
Modern - 60%
Business - 68%

So as we can see, Im not doing too well. And Ancient teacher didnt have nice things to say. Neither did drama teacher really.
But, also got back last GDP Drama monitoring - got 20/20, so thats a plus..

Did the 40hr famine. That was alrigh, except I got stomach pains from just drinking coffee.
Went to the 'oral surgeon' (sorry, i find it to be a wanky title), whose name is dr mouser lol, we had some great jokes - if only his name was mickey, going to the mouse house... you know, the usual
anyway... Im getting my wisdom teeth out in Jan - great, I get to go under anesthetic. Im way too paranoid for that shit - its like Pompeii, Id really like to go but Im sure the time I go Vesuvius will go off again

Had a good Modern lesson lol
'Doctor Squirrel' 'Hospital Rat'....?
We'll always have Cuba
Syphillis is driving me crazy!

Also been doing my dancing. Actually getting better, well sorta, but yeah. and made a friend. Think I may do another term.

Had our drama showcase and I did quite well... If only that was the HSC.. I wouldve done so well.
Got many laughs which made me get into it more. Was very fun
And people afterwards said I was very good.
People on Friday and friday night (Matties party) were talking about it.
It just makes me feel really happy, especially with all these Trial marks coming back where I failed or passed but got under avergae.
I just feel proud that I can be good at something. and that people really like it... I dunno, Its just made me kinda proud and happy.. yeah

Matties party was pretty good. I love her family. I was the last one to leave, I was sitting with them while Mat and Lou played their ukelaylies (i dunno how to spell it)
I like talking to Lou b.c shes so nice and encouraging. She had the biggest 'praise' (sorry i couldnt think of another word, I dont mean to sound like a douche by saying praise.... but anyway..) for my drama. love louise
Talked with the British guy about movies and how good Adam Sandler and Denzel Washington are. He tested me with movie quotes and I prevailed quite admirably - got every one, even though Id been drinking - Another thing to be proud off (i think...)

Just chillin all w/e. Dont remember what I did yesterday - bought Watchmen and watched it today
Mum was out last night so I watched SVU and Parental Controls
Went to the school fair today. Not too bad but I was only there for an hour lol. Bumped into Tess as I was walking there, very weird.
Mary came along too, love mary.
Came home and watched Gone Baby Gone, wanted to see it for so long.. but i fell asleep in it, I was so tired and I was curled up on the couch with Jake, very warm. But I got the overall story. Good movie. Love the Afflecks
Fuck I seem to 'love' everyone right now

Anyway, I think I may have something else to say, but I dunno, So Im go pack up school stuff and go to bed.. 

:)

I feel like posting, so I though I'd post this.. I just found it funny how much they'd changed.. I know its a 25 yr gap lol, but they've seriously changed. Meh, Im bored....

   

 
well a lot has happened over the past few weeks...

few sats ago, i went to a party with tess and the like.. 80s themed lol. met the village people, they didnt have an indian, so mattie and i tried out for the part and i won. lol.. yes, it was a great victory.

 
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

Been 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing - I still don't think it was real. Im sure people have been there, but the famous 1969 one was a fake. Lol, and now they seem to have taped over the footage.. for fucks sake, you tape over old oscars but you dont tape over the fucking moon landing.
Also been Robin Williams' birthday - so.. happy birthday.
Comic Con on now. Im so jealous - I want to be there - Alice in Wonderland, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Iron Man 2..  something else i cant remember lol

Holidays nearly over, how sad. Finally doing work... should've started earlier, oh well.
Had drama workshop today.. very embarassing but beneficial.  Worked well on our GDP, now just have to rehearse the fuck out of it.
IP was embarassing... I had no energy in it.. oh well.
Did physical stuff which I failed cuz I have no strength.. awful. The guy was like, 'well maybe we can do it another way...' then the group was like 'we'll do it your way'... I know they're being nice, but it was still depressing. 
What's more depressing is school on Tues..

Had a really good weekend last week..
Meant to LJ but couldnt be bothered.

Sat - got passport/application pics done - actually decent, I usually hate them, but they're okay.  Forgotten what happened in here, but it was good. Dropped by Mary's, picked up the car, borrowed some dvds. Had some funny conversation lol.  Saw The Hangover again with Georgia. Fucking love it. Watched some good TV with mum - law and order, rock of love, dog the bounty hunter (fucking brilliant)

Sun - Skating - not too bad but not too good.  Bought my glasses lol. Went back to Mary's - dropped off car. Mum went for a walk, so mary and I hung out... yeah. Then went to Anne and Jeros and went to Cremorne Orpheum to see HP6 with Jero.
I liked it, but not my favourite. Ginny can F off.  Slo mo got boring.  Love me some quidditch.  First half was too slow and 2nd too fast. They didnt have enough action - needed more of finding horcruxes and less of ron and that chick.  Dumbledore's death and funeral.. for shame.
Still, enjoyable.

Bored now. Gotta go finish notes. Feel odd. Still cant believe this is my last weekend. argghh