Sad little garden

Please grow!

I jumped the gun a few weeks ago and bought a bunch of plants and herbs for the balcony. And then all my neighbors talked sense into me and I held off on planting many of them. Now they are a sad set of root-bound, dried-out planties.

I will plant you and water you today: pretty please don't die!

Books, unread (a meme)

From LuckyBuzz:
"The top 100 or so books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the books you have read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish."
I also put asterisks next to the ones I really liked. And I put a hyphen in front of the bolded titles (read) since my font doesn't currently bold very well.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
-One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
-_Crime and punishment_ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte *
-_Catch-22_ a novel by Joseph Heller *
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The Odyssey by Homer
-_The brothers Karamazov_ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ulysses by James Joyce
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *
-The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
-_Moby Dick_ by Herman Melville
-Emma by Jane Austen
The Iliad by Homer
-Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
-The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood *
-Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen *
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
-The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer *
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
-Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel *
The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
-Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
-Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco
Dracula by Bram Stoker
-_The grapes of wrath_ by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
-Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen *
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
-The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas *
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
American gods : a novel by Neil Gaiman
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
-The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver *
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West… by Gregory Maguire
-_The picture of Dorian Gray_ by Oscar Wilde *
Dune by Frank Herbert
-A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie
-Mansfield Park by Jane Austen *
-_Gulliver's travels_ by Jonathan Swift
-The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The inferno by Dante Alighieri
The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon
-The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
-Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
-Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
-Persuasion by Jane Austen *
-_The scarlet letter_ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
-The once and future king by T. H. White *
Anansi boys : a novel by Neil Gaiman
Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Dubliners by James Joyce
-Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood
-Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt
-Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its… by Truman Capote
-Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence
A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Les misérables by Victor Hugo
-The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman *
_The prince_ by Niccolo Machiavelli
Watership Down by Richard Adams (started it as a young child and it was too violent for me.)
Beowulf : a new verse translation by Anonymous
The Aeneid by Virgil
A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into… by Robert M. Pirsig
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence
-Possession : a romance by A.S. Byatt
The book thief by Markus Zusak
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
The road by Cormac McCarthy
Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

So, if that gives you any indication of my taste in reading, please feel free to recommend a book!

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