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To Be Read (W - Z) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink W Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë * X Y The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling Z

To Be Read (T - V) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink T A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #1) * Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough * The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi * The Town and the City byJack Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith* (RR) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett True Believer by Nicholas Sparks * U Ulysses by James Joyce The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe V Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann * The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

To Be Read (Q - S) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink Q R Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers * The Reader by Bernhard Schlink * The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble * Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi * Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Room by Emma Donoghue * Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin S Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Sammy’s Hill by Kristin Gore * The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett * Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen * A Separate Peace by John Knowles * She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb * Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #5) Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers * Songbook by Nick Hornby Sophie's Choice by William Styron The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner * Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #6)

To Be Read (N - P) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink N Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Sparks * Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult * North and South by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #1) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen O Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck * (RR) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens P Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (RR) The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld * Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen * Property by Valerie Martin Pushby Sapphire Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

To Be Read (K - M) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink K The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini L The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks Le Divorce by Diane Johnson * Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Light in August by William Faulkner * Little Bee by Chris Cleave * Little Women by Louisa May Alcott * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov * Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Love Story by Erich Segal Love and War by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #2) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez * The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *(RR) The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks * M Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Mansfield Park by by Jane Austen * A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton * Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #8) The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards* Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks * Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #7) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides * The Miracle Worker by William Gibson The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #2) * A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Friend Leonard by James Frey * My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell

To Be Read (H - J) (alphabetized by title) Own ~* Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink H The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (#2) * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (#7) * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (#4) * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K Rowling (#6) * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (#5) * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (#3) * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (#1) * A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story by Dave Eggers The Help by Kathryn Stockett * Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger * High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland I I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb * I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres Irish Born Trilogy by Nora Roberts * J Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë * (RR) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

To Be Read (E - G) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink E East of Eden by John Steinbeck * Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook * Eleanot Roosevelt: Volume Two:1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Emma by Jane Austen * F Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs * From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #8) * Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #3) * G Gidget by Fredrick Kohner The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #1) * Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier * The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #3) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #2) The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Great Expectations by Charles Dickens * The Group by Mary McCarthy

To Be Read (C - D) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink C The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer * The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger *(RR) Charlotte's Web by E. B. White * (RR) Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Choice by Nicholas Sparks * Columbine by Dave Cullen * Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire * The Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time by Mark Haddon * D Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende * Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #9) Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #5) * Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #10) Dear John by Nicholas Sparks * Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #6) * The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani * Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

To Be Read (A - B) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge Book ~ pink A The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #7) * American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank * (RR) Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner * At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks * Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy B Babycakes by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #4) Baby Proof by Emily Giffin * Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Beloved by Toni Morrison Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman Capote

Currently Reading: Synopsis:

Below are the books I've read in 2011. My goal this year is to read at least five books a season. I'm open to any and all recommendations, so if you have something in mind that you think I'd like, please let me know. =) ~ Books I've read are rated out of five. ~ Books I re-read are marked (RR) ~ Books I read for the Rory Gilmore Challenge are in pink. My Rating System 1 - Awful! If I didn't have such respect for books, I'd have thrown it at the wall! 2 - Annoying. Wouldn't recommend this. 3 - Average. Didn't sway me one way or another. 4 - Enjoyable. Would definitely recommend it to others. 5 - Excellent! Didn't want to put it down! Books Read in 2011: Winter: Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #1) 4/5 Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #2) 4/5 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #3) 4/5 Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #4) 4/5 Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers 3/5 Spring: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 5/5 Little Bee by Chris Cleave 2/5 Summer: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 5/5 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 5/5 Fall: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

I had no idea! Going to have to look it up. Thanks! =)

Korn put out a new album?!

Loving this thread! I just bought my boyfriend a Le Creuset cast iron pot for his birthday so It's been nothing but soup lately in our house. Our favorite at the moment is a recipe that came from one of my former students. He would often have beef lentil soup for lunch during the winter months and it It looked so yummy that I had to have the recipe! His mother was happy to pass it along and now it's a staple in my home during the winter. Sebastian's Beef Lentil Soup 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 1/2 pounds boneless beef chuck, cut into 1 inch cubes salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 large celery stalks, chopped 2 large carrots, peeled and chopped 1 large onion, chopped 6 garlic cloves, chopped 1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano 6 (14 ounce) cans beef broth 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes in juice 2 cups (about 11 ounces) lentils, rinsed 1/3 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves Heat the oil in heavy large pot over medium - high heat. Sprinkle the beef with salt and pepper. Add half of the beef and cook until brown, about 8 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the beef to a bowl. Repeat with the remaining beef. Add the celery, carrots, onion, garlic, rosemary, and oregano to the pot. Saute until the onions are translucent, about 8 minutes. Return the beef and any accumulated juices from the bowl to the pot. Add the broth and tomatoes with their juice. Bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium - low. Cover and simmer until the meat is just tender, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour. Add the lentils. Cover and continue simmering until the lentils are tender, about 40 minutes. Stir in the parsley. Season the soup to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into bowls and serve. Enjoy with crusty bread on a cold night!

Thanks, Echo! I'm obsessed with Mad Men these days.

I know what you mean, I absolutely love Bill Murray!

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