Found Randomly on the Net: this interesting quiz

Here is a list of the top 110 banned books. The idea is to bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you’ve read part of and underline the ones you specifically want to read.

1. The Bible
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. The Qur’an
5. Arabian Nights
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
11. The Prince by Niccolo Macchiavelli
12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
16. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (and never does Your Working Girl wish to glance upon these pages again)
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
29. Candide by Voltaire
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
31. Analects by Confucius
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
35. Red and the Black by Stendhal
36. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
43. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
47. Diary by Samuel Pepys
48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X [as told to Alex Haley]
57. Color Purple by Alice Walker
58. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
59. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
60. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
61. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
63. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
64. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
66. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
67. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
69. The Talmud
70. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
71. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
72. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
73. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
74. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
75. Separate Peace by John Knowles
76. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
77. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
78. Popol Vuh [Mayan mythology]
79. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
80. Satyricon by Petronius
81. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
82. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
83. Black Boy by Richard Wright
84. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
87. Metaphysics by Aristotle
88. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
89. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
90. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
91. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
92. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
93. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
94. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
95. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
96. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
97. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
98. Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
99. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brow
100. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
102. Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
103. Nana by Emile Zola
104. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
105. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
106. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
107. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
108. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
109. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Makes one feel rather poorly-read. Well, it's a good reading list to aspire to.

Love,
Booky,
Y.W.G.

2005 summed up (late)

Copied from an entry Tim did on his journal.

01 :: what did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Went to concerts by myself, sold everything and took off on a gigantic road trip, became extremely infatuated

02 :: did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Can't remember last year's resolutions, but I'm keeping my resolutions for 2006 so far.

03 :: good books read?
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Clarke
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Early Years
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

04 :: good movies seen in the theatre?
Capote, Oliver Twist, A Very Long Engagement

05 :: what countries did you visit?
U.S.

06 :: what would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
contentment

07 :: what date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Heh, nothing's coming to mind. Maybe November 28: the day we sold the house.

08 :: what was your biggest achievement of the year?
entering a new phase of my life

09 : what was your biggest failure?
My adventure at UVic.

10 :: did you suffer illness or injury?
No.

11 :: what was the best thing you bought?
My beautiful PowerBook!

12 :: whose behaviour merited celebration?
Erin's. Her negativity is immensely inspiring. And my mom's...for coping.

13 :: whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Mine.

14 :: where did most of your money go?
Good question. Where DID my money go?

15 :: what did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going back to Mt. A...and, embarassingly, the New Pornographers concert.

16 :: what music will always remind you of 2005?
Paul Anka - Rock Swings
The New Pornographers - Bones of an Idol

17 :: compared to this time last year, you are...
much happier, more involved yet less social

18 :: what do you wish you'd done more of?
writing

19 :: what do you wish you'd done less of?
Hmm let's see...perhaps feeling like dying.

20 :: how will you be spending christmas?
Since Christmas has passed, this question is now rendered creepy.

22 :: did you fall in love in 2005?
I thought so. Sadly, it was more like falling in mud or a similar groddy substance.

23 :: how many one-night stands?
Irrelevant. I am pure.

24 :: what was your favorite tv program?
Northern Exposure

25 :: do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate? No.

26 :: what was the best book you read?
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

27 :: what was your greatest musical discovery?
Shugo Tokumaru, maybe.

28 :: what did you want and get?
A beautiful new laptop, an Enid doll.

30 :: what was your favorite film of this year?
Capote

31 :: what did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Ye gods I can't remember. I probably ate cake. I was 20.

32 :: what one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A trip to Europe. Oh well.

33 :: how would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Twee! Arts and crafts! Amelie! The one good thing about Victoria is, due to warmer weather, many outfits are continually wearable.

34 :: what kept you sane?
The semester I took off from school. And my mother.


35 :: which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Kid Koala...bastion of coolness.

36 :: what political issue stirred you the most?
Nothing. Political issues tend not to stir me to the core...they're more satellite issues that seem to revolve in a separate hemisphere from my life.

37 :: who did you miss?
Lots of people! the Sackville gang: Candace's whimsy and fun, Tim's quirky Andy Warhol-esque socializing, Markus' craziness and cooking, Gauri's steadfast friendship, JELLY LEGS' LEGS AND ALSO JELLY LEGS IN GENERAL. Reunited with them at last! Except for Jelly. Also, Victoria people: Erin's refreshing cynicism, Justin's ridiculously rude and funny and shared sense of humour, Steve's crossdressing and infinite optimism.

38 :: who was the best new person you met?
Well, although we really met in 2004, since we only really started hanging out in 2005, Justin. Mouki. Nicole and Richard, our neighbours who we never knew until right before moving away.

39 :: tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Self-pity does nothing for anybody.

40 :: quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"You can't change the feeling, but you can change the feeling about the feeling."

Back in the Saddle

Dear Reader,

It's been a while, n'est pas? Your Working Girl, after a month of travel south of the border, has settled back into life at Mount Allison. And it ain't half bad. I've been so busy that there has been no time for thinking: doing sound for Stereophonic concerts, stage managing an extremely odd production of Antony and Cleopatra, pretending to read books. I am, at present, avoiding working on a Shakespeare essay. It's not due for three weeks, but I've four papers due at the same time that week and must get a start on them. Decided to tackle the one requiring the most thought processes first.

Candace and Your Working Girl have endeavoured to do a weekly Friday night dinner and t.v. watching session to keep ourselves sane. We are currently watching Arrested Development and plan to introduce Northern Exposure into the mix this week. Additionally, TJo is gathering people to join our impromptu "Sackville Scrabble Society". Numerous people have expressed jealousy over my fabulous folio edition travel Scrabble set, which fits nicely into a bar setting. And everyone knows that beer and Scrabble makes for wild and wacky goings-on.

My show: Sunday nights, 9-10pm Atlantic. Listen live.

Apartment searching. Why is it so difficult? Found a fabulous place, but some silly girls who have already signed a lease elsewhere have first dibs on it. The other options are Guantanamo-esque in comparison. I don't know what to do. Help, Dear Reader!

Experiencing recurring dreams about an acquaintance in which he never notices me. Had a surprising meta-dream last night in which said acquaintance refused to acknowledge me until I was falling asleep while listening to him babble about something pedantic. Then he kept on trying to wake me up.

Finally, Your Working Girl has entered into that stage of her life where she doesn't really feel like she has a parent-based "home" anymore, due to the fact that both parents live in separate places (and countries altogether). I am possessed by a strong need to shape my own home, which is currently impossible. On the upside, I'm not sad about this. In fact, I haven't been depressed for the past two months, which is a first in three and a half years. I am happy and I like myself, which is pretty much all a girl can ask for.

Love,
Her,
Y.W.G.

Lobby Sculpture

Lobby Sculpture
Originally uploaded by JackieTreehorn.

balzac

balzac
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Flag, Tree, and Graves

Flag, Tree, and Graves
Originally uploaded by JackieTreehorn.

Dear Reader,

Just back from NYC. I'm rather too tired to write anything at the moment, but will share some photos.

Love,
Ari,
Y.W.G.

My Work

Dear Reader,

Your Working Girl is copying Erin by showcasing her poems online:

http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?Bessiebrains

Love,
Agnes,
Y.W.G.

Bust and Tree

Bust and Tree
Originally uploaded by JackieTreehorn.

Dear Reader,

Your Working Girl is currently trucking her way through the U.S. over the holidays, accompanying her mother on a journey of self-discovery (for mother, that is).

We're in Upstate NY right now, on our way to NYC and then the South. Then back to Toronto for a few days, then Sackville. I can't wait to get back to Bagtown, to tell the truth.

But we're seeing some interesting things along the way: the Vanderbilt Mansion, FDR's home and library, etc. Today we visited Bard College - one of the schools Your Working Girl originally applied to. Thank goodness I didn't end up going there; it wasn't to my tastes. The layout was quite odd. The centre of campus looks like Mt. A, and is ringed by other buildings in a layout which is eerily similar to that of UVic. The town it's in is absolutely desolate. Red Hook is close enough to it (and I enjoyed the dinginess of the White Rabbit student cafe - aka. Taste Budd's), but the place just didn't feel right. It wasn't homey.

I am tired, Dear Reader. Tired of writing this entry.

Later,
Cleo,
Y.W.G.

Adbusters Makes Amends

Dear Reader,

So, not being one to be pushed around, Your Working Girl contacted the editor-in-chief of Adbusters, who has subsequently sent me a bunch of contributor's copies and a free year's subscription. To tell the truth, I think Adbusters is a hack magazine. It was great back in the early nineties but, like Vice, has since morphed into the very thing it professes to despise: a commercial denouncing commercials. What's with those Adbusters-brand shoes? The only people I ever saw wearing them were dreadlocked filthy-rich hippie kids from Oak Bay. Hippie-crites, as Justin would say.

On the upside, my poem has been published nationally. I'm one step closer to my book. One step on a winding staircase composed entirely of those bitty two-inch stairs in the Montreal art gallery that make you feel like a fool as you ascend them. Such is the writerly life.

Love,
Flora Poste,
Y.W.G.

Hoodwinked by Adbusters

Dear Reader,

Months ago, Your Working Girl submitted a poem to Adbusters magazine. I never heard back from them and assumed, therefore, that they had declined to print it.

Yesterday, in an attempt to prove my student status to the painfully hip and hair-gelled employees at the Apple store, I was forced to log in to my Mt. A email account. This was proof enough for them to give me a student rate on my SEXY NEW POWERBOOK G4. But that's not the point of the story.

The point of the story is, I just logged in to that account. And received the following email:
"I just wanted to let you know that I thought your poem in Adbusters "the game of life" was really beautiful.
Do you have a journal or website with your poetry on it? I'd love to read more.
Thanks so much"

Needless to say, I was flabbergasted (sp). Adbusters did not even bother to let me know that my poem was published in their July/August issue...which is no longer available on newsstands. BUT...if you can get your hands on issue #60 - "The Game of Life", do have a look at "Why Ugly Children Disappear". And send me a copy, for goodness sake.

Love,
Tia,
Y.W.G.