Lost in Space

So where have I been lo the entire month of April? Sick, recovered ~ slightly, sick again, committee work, more committee work, bickering with committee members, work, work, sick and tired of control freaks, who, as Kissinger says, are so mean and petty because in academic politics, so little of real importance is involved (awful paraphrase), sick again.

Did not even read a blog the whole month of April ~ didn't knit ~ just tried to get healthy. The end of the semester is nigh, and I. CAN'T. WAIT!!! Too bad another one begins a week later. Why did I ever volunteer for summer classes??!?!?!?

Saw this on Dr. Steph's blog today and figured I might as well do a meme because I have no content whatsoever.

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose (I don't remember the end, but I think the young priest did it ~ or was it the old one? Can't remember, so maybe I didn't finish it.)
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary (great, but The Awakening is better ~ I know that's a sacrilegious statement to some)
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities (tis a far better thing I do today . . .)
The Brothers Karamazov (hubby's favorite book)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (really want to read this one ~ heard the promo interview on NPR)
War and Peace
Vanity Fair

The Time Traveler’s Wife (this SUCKED so badly that I lost faith in recommendations)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations

American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

The Canterbury Tales (gotta love Bath's wife)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead (read and own everything by Rand)
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons (have this one too, but never got around to it)
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) (sometimes I think I'm able to pull myself out of that sucking mud swamp, mosquito infested hell of the 6th Circle, only to realize that I'm worse off in the inner ring of 7th Circle of fire ~ comedy my ass!)
The Satanic Verses (what IS all the fuss about?!)
Sense and Sensibility (no, I haven't read Austen)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (love, love, love Hardy, especially Far From the Madding Crowd ~ I know there is a mini-series or a Masterpiece Theatre version with Jeremy Northam that I would love to see)
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections (have this at home and hubby loved it ~ so someday)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (I think I am the only person in the US who hasn't finished this, and I don't know why)
On the Road (read Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest or Sometimes a Great Notion)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers (oh, what love-struck girl in 7th grade can pass this one up?)