You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking Find someone with whom you don't agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length then take a seat shut your mouth and don't argue back It is physically impossible to listen with your mouth open
Stolen from agus_denz "The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed." 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated. 5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The 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 THANKS TO x_in_tenebris_x 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 Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller'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 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Talking lambs?Not for me) 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 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-time - 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's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (I'm soo Goth XD) 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
Mio padre mi ha gentilmente informata di aver finito A Feast for Crows e di volere il libro dopo. L'ho invitato a ripassare in autunno e di pregare molto intensamente che George Raymond Richard scriva qualche pagina. OVVIAMENTE non ha afferrato il concetto e si è messo a sproloquiare sul fatto che fosse impossibile che un libro uscito nel 2005 non avesse avuto un seguito...... Per farlo stare zitto e per risparmiargli la dura realtà gli ho dato The Colour of Magic di Pratchett. Avrei voluto dargli Good Omens ma lo ha ancora in ostaggio quell'imbecille di nexusanimarum
My father just called me. He asked me how was my morning but as soon as I started bitching about my class-mates (who accused me of being arrogant only because I answered all the questions the teacher asked us. I gave them the time to answer but they didn't utter a single word in one hour and half. So the teacher asked me if I could answer and I did. I don't want to waste my money and if they want to why should I care?)he interrupted me abruptedly saying"let's talk about something serious" Then he accused me of giving him the wrong George Martin's book. Me?Wrong about A song of fire and ice saga?
Tagged by smilingsadness "The rules are simple. Just create a post about a few things thathave made you happy recently. Then tag 8 people and have them post thismeme on their journals. Keep the happiness going please."
1 Being the first to spot the rainbow today
2 Making a wish upon the rainbow
3 The sound and the smell of rain around me
4 Rastlin purring at me when I came back home
5 Setting the intro of the Potter Puppet Pals "Mysterious tickling noise" as my mobile phone ring tone
6 All the books I've bought lately and that I still have to read
7 Giggling while listening to "Just you wait" (My Fair Lady) 8 And last but not least Lucca Comics*____*
vivre la vie comme un reve ou est ton ami vivre la nuit comme un reve ou est ton ami vivre le jour comme un reve ou est mon ami vivre la mort comme un reve ou est mon ami
je voudrais pouvoir sourire dans mes reves je voudrais pouvoir danser dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir chanter dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir rester dans mes reves pouvoir sourire pouvoir chanter pouvoir rester pas expliquer seulement rester
vivre les reves mon ami ou est ta vie vivre les reves mon ami ou est ta nuit vivre les reves mon ami ou est ton jour vivre les reves mon ami ou est la mort
je voudrais pouvoir sourire dans mes reves je voudrais pouvoir danser dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir chanter dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir rester dans mes reves pouvoir sourire pouvoir chanter pouvoir rester pas expliquer seulement rester
trop grand pour toi et pour moi j'aime la vie plus haut pour toi et pour moi tu aimes la vie parler de moi et de toi faut aimer la vie rever pour moi et pour toi concevoir la vie
je voudrais pouvoir sourire dans mes reves je voudrais pouvoir danser dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir chanter dans mes reves tu voudrais pouvoir rester dans mes reves pouvoir sourire pouvoir chanter pouvoir rester pas expliquer seulement rester
Been a little bit(more than actually) lost recently Grey seems to inhabit my present time or maybe it's me who's haunting the grey present time. Fuzziness
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"A Study in Emerald"
and someone is still asking why I've chosen Neil Gaiman for my degree thesis
Comment s'étaient-ils rencontrés? Par hasard comme tout le monde Comment s'appelaient-ils? Que vous importe? D'où venaient-ils? Du lieu le plus prochain Où allaient-ils? Sait-on où l'on va?
It's sad to say and hard to admit. I won't go there anymore. It's foolish nonsense. Feeling like I will miss something. Being able to erase every moment I spent there would be so perfectly upsetting neverthless ideal.
"Guess you dreams always end. They don't rise up, just descend, But I don't care anymore, I've lost the will to want more, I'm not afraid not at all, I watch them all as they fall, But I remember when we were young.
Those with habits of waste, Their sense of style and good taste, Of making sure you were right, Hey don't you know you were right? I'm not afraid anymore, I keep my eyes on the door, But I remember...."
1444 km no more, no less. I don't feel like saying one of my dreams has come true:I've never thought that meeting Tim Curry would have ever been possible. At the end I felt odd:Spamalot, the waiting at the stage door before and after the show ALL seemed unreal,less tangible than I dream I'd never had. Maybe I was not the happiest person in this world but I was happy, nor sad or disappointed, just silly happy. It was me the cause of that happiness, me the one who strained every nerv to be there no matter what. For once I felt proud to be me, what a stupid and childish phrase this is, I know I know. Now that that day has passed I keep on smiling and pretending everything's allright, that's the part I've to play,isn't it?
Whatever happened to me?I used to be happy easily, I used to stare back at the face in the mirror fooling myself without daring to raise doubts. I've never feigned well though. I can't stand the way she makes me feel. Here I go again. I've never wished for such thing to happen again but I coudn't help. Sometimes I get enough of this situation but then I realise it is exactly what I hoped for. I dreamed of someone who could accept my behaviour without any complaint, who could be there for me without ever making me aware of that, who could make me happy with nothing more than his/her presence. But wasn't this dream come true supposed to be more than this ?
"For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those grey days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks- accidentally- and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive"
How can a city still affect me after so long? It's not so long, after all, two years....only two years apparently. I can not help defining time by my emotional and mental state. I changed in a twisted way. Anodyne memories will never come. That city makes me sad and blue more than any other fragment of my past. When I was with Her the city din't hurt me a bit; a bettersweet arrière-gout has lingered untouched in my mind since then. Yesterday I missed her, my pain killer. I was alone, completely alone with my past. No shelter from the pain.
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