Six? Seriously? Six?

No wonder I'm disdainful of the general population if the average person has only read six of these books:

Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag other book nerds including myself.

X 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X 6 The Bible
X 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 9

X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not all of them)
X 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
X 19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eli

Total: 7
Total so far: 16

X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
X 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
X 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
X 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 7
Total so far: 21

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
X 34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
X 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total: 6
Total so far: 27

X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
X 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
X 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
X 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 6
Total so far: 33

X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
X 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
X 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
X 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
X 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 6
Total so far: 39

X 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
X 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
X 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 6
Total so Far: 45

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
X 76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
X 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt

Total: 5
Total so far: 50

X 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
X 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistr
X 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
X 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

Total: 4
Total so far: 54

X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
X 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 8
Grand Total: 62

The STFU Entry

In between getting and adapting to the radical change from mostly solitary lady o' leisure to cube monkey cat herder, I haven't written much. But I'm in a STFU mood about the Republicans so figured I'd at least get something out there.

For six years the Republicans were in total control of the government. During that time they did absolutely nothing to reform healthcare. As a result, private insurance companies rationed health care. People at insurance companies decided who should live and who should die. The latter were most likely the elderly and poor children. During these six years (and all while Republicans were in control of Congress since '94) Republicans couldn't have given two shiny shits about people dying. Now they accuse Obama of death panels that will kill the elderly and Sarah Palin's baby boy? Under their control of government, they already were. So STFU.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Leaving health insurance to the private insurers as we have for so long is insanity. But then again, we always knew they were nuts. That's why we call them right wingnuts. So STFU about private enterprise solving every problem. We know it doesn't, 'cause we're not insane. We see and learn and change.

Oh, and STFU about comparing Obama to Hitler for trying to solve the healthcare problem and STFU about what Rahm Emanual said about not letting a crisis go to waste. He was only borrowing from the Republican playbook about not letting 9/11 go to waste and trying to implement a really totalitarian regime in this country (you know, where presidential power includes stripping citizens of habeas corpus, holding citizens indefinitely, and spying on citizens without a warrant). Particularly STFU when we got the word of what we've known all along, now from the former head of Homeland Security that Bush used terror alerts for political gain.