(Sidenote: I love having pictures to go along with my posts and to tell you the truth the picture that would go perfect with this post is going to have to be left to your imagination. My camera battery needs to be charged, with a lost charger, hoping to find soon. I have seemed to misplace my little camera, so I am left to shooting slide film... yes I know the last person you knew that shot slide film was your Dad and it was all on his mission, but that is a post for another time...)
So on to your imagination:
Picture a nice 3' x 6' bookcase filled with one of the widest varieties of books you could think of. They range from Cookbooks to John D Fitzgerald to Cormac McCarthy mixed in the middle of our free church books from our Deseret Book days.
I have decided to pick one of the 6 shelves and read all the books on that shelf. (really let's be honest I have read maybe 1/3 of the books in the whole bookcase and I think that is a little pathetic!)
I have chosen the middle shelf on the left side. As I decided this was going to be the shelf that would soon take up a lot of my free time over the next year I was sitting on the couch. The closer I got to the shelf I had a few thoughts that went something like this:
The Silmarillion (seriously how many of the average person has ever even heard of this book?) well, Jon really liked it. I could give it a try, wait no I want to be able to say I have read ALL the books on that shelf. I am going to HAVE to read that book...
Sweet. I remember sitting on my floor leaning up against my bed laughing hysterically while reading Shel Silverstiens book A light in the Attic. Awesome, I can read that one in a day.
Bleakhouse.... That book sure looks like it has a ton of pages....
I would hate to bore you with all of my reactions to each book that I realized was on the shelf and I started wondering how I could fit SO many books on one shelf. After a few minutes I decided I would have to make this goal possible. After a few needed switcheroos I was ready to start and accept my goal. The end result: 31 books.
I will list the titles and their Authors. If their is anyone out there that would like to join me in my quest I would love to start a "Pick a book off Kanien's book shelf" book club. There is a pretty wide variety of books, except it just happened to be the shelf that has all my Jane Austin.... Here are the titles and you can choose if you are up to the let's read all the books I SHOULD have read in high school challenge.
A light in the Attic ~ Shel Silverstein
Anne of green Gables ~ L.M. Montgomery
Black Beauty~ Anna Sewell
Peter Pan ~ James M Barrie
Heidi ~ Jolianna Spyri
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott
A Child's book of Stories
A Room with a view ~ E.M. Forster
The Hobbit ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austin:
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch ~ George Elliot
Where the Heart Leads ~ Stansfield
When Hearts Meet ~ Stansfield
Letters ~ Sister Hinckley
The Great Brain ~ John D. Fitzgerald
Dreams of Trespass ~ Fatima Mernissi
A Heart Like His ~ Virginia Pearce
The Giver ~ Lois Lowery
Silas Marner ~ George Elliot
Howls Moving Castle ~ Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air ~ Diana Wynne Jones
The Secret Garden ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Books ~ Rudyard Kipling
Winnie the Pooh ~ A. A. Milne
Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The Classic Fairy Tales
Anne of green Gables ~ L.M. Montgomery
Black Beauty~ Anna Sewell
Peter Pan ~ James M Barrie
Heidi ~ Jolianna Spyri
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott
A Child's book of Stories
A Room with a view ~ E.M. Forster
The Hobbit ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austin:
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Middlemarch ~ George Elliot
Where the Heart Leads ~ Stansfield
When Hearts Meet ~ Stansfield
Letters ~ Sister Hinckley
The Great Brain ~ John D. Fitzgerald
Dreams of Trespass ~ Fatima Mernissi
A Heart Like His ~ Virginia Pearce
The Giver ~ Lois Lowery
Silas Marner ~ George Elliot
Howls Moving Castle ~ Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air ~ Diana Wynne Jones
The Secret Garden ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Books ~ Rudyard Kipling
Winnie the Pooh ~ A. A. Milne
Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The Classic Fairy Tales
First Book: Anne of green Gables. (Side note: I have never finished this book. I don't even know if I have ever even gotten to the half way point. I LOVE all the other books in the series, I just have always skipped the first one to get on to the "better" ones. I hope I find I am completely wrong and I fall in love with this one as much as the rest.)
Wish me Luck!
Wish me Luck!
5 comments:
Interesting idea! I love to read, but once I get sucked into a book my whole house falls apart until I finish it. I have several Jane Austin books and Little Women on the shelf waiting to be read. I didn't know Howls Moving Castle was a book- we love the Hiyao Miyazaki movie- have you ever seen it?
super fun! I love reading too. That's a fun idea, reading a whole shelf of books. I'll have to pick one to read as soon as I finish the 5 I have waiting for me on my nightstand. Wait, I think I have one of your books from your shelf. Does that count?
Wow that's a big goal! I too have wanted to help my children become readers. I have never read Anne of Green Gables, just love the movies. Maybe I will have to read it after you!
I have read 8 of the books off of your list...and snippits of 3. What one are you starting with?
Reading is soothing, mind enlarging, imaginative, funny,sad and always thought provoking.
what us amazing is how yoy can get through a book even when you only read a page or five a day. Have fun.
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