Adorable little kids made a video for Tillly's "Beat Control" :)

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) 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 (the first book)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (about half of the series)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (parts)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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
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 (one of my favorite books EVER)
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' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
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

 

 We come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls
We come to every new morning
With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold

Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside

It comes in small inspirations
It brings redemption to life and work
To our lives and our work

It comes in loving community
It comes in helping a soul find it's worth

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside

This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful
This is grace, an invitation

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out our best

And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside

Come, Thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
While the hope of endless glory
Fills my heart with joy and love,
Teach me ever to adore Thee;
May I still Thy goodness prove.

Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be;
Let that grace now like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee;
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
-Robert Robinson (1758)

"Through brokenness and heartbreak, we have cried together and have witnessed together how God can create beauty and love in places that felt full of desolation."
-Sara Groves

"Every scar is a bridge to someone's broken heart."
-Thrice

"Loving Jesus, not just "deciding" for him or "being committed to him" or affirming all the right doctrines about him, is the mark of a true child of God."
-John Piper

"It is a matter of great comfort and rejoicing to any person, whatever circumstances he is in, when he can say that he knows that his redeemer lives."
-Jonathan Edwards

Lord, it's all that I can't carry
And cannot leave behind
It often overwhelms me
But when I think of all who've gone before
And lived a faithful life
Their courage compels me

And when I'm weary and overwrought
With so many battles left unfought

I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars
I see the shepherd Moses in the Pharaoh's court
I hear his call for freedom for the people of the Lord
And when the saints go marching in
I wanna be one of them
And when the saints go marching in
I wanna be one of them

I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad
I see the slave awakened to the value of her soul
I see the young missionary and the angry spear
I see his family returning with no trace of fear
I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights
I see the sisters standing by the dying man's side
I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor
I see the man with a passion come and kicking down that door
I see the man of sorrow and his long troubled road
I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load
-Sara Groves

I have a new job! I'm the Registrar at the High Point Museum, so I'm moving back to Greensboro and starting the job on February 11. I'm going to have to learn a lot in a short amount of time, but I think it'll be really fun.  I'm really looking forward to being near all my Greensboro friends and my great church and the Greensboro library and Ed McKay :)  



 Also, I've been wanting to take some online classes through  www.museumclasses.org, but didn't want to spend the money on them, and the HPM signed me up for one on object numbering!  I get a numbering kit with samples so I can experiment with pens and such on different kinds of materials - fun! :)  Hopefully I'll get to take another one on Integrated Pest Management...not as much fun, but I know nothing about it and it's supposed to be part of my job.    Anyway, I'm still at my old job, so I guess I should stop wasting time and get back to filling out 90923489348 purchase requests.

Current Mood: excited

80% Joe Biden
78% John Edwards
77% Barack Obama
76% Hillary Clinton
70% Chris Dodd
64% Bill Richardson
63% Mike Gravel
62% Dennis Kucinich
46% Rudy Giuliani
38% John McCain
35% Mitt Romney
35% Tom Tancredo
27% Fred Thompson
26% Mike Huckabee
21% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Have you read any of the ( books I read in 2007? )
This is mostly for the librarything community, but I'm also putting it here in place of an end-of-year quiz, since reading is probably what I did most this year. That and complaining about work. We had snow today, so I got to stay home!

I want one of these Border Collie puppies!  They're so adorable!

I'm applying for two more jobs...

1. Site Interpreter at Redcliffe Plantation SHS in South Carolina - "Plans thematic interpretive services focusing on the Hammond family, plantation life, African Americans, architecture, and decorative arts, at this state-owned historic house museum. Conducts tours, programs, workshops, field trips and activities for the park visitor through personal contact, oral and written communication. Promotes the park, the park system and the state. Performs curatorial duties including object care, registration, housekeeping, and research. Assists with administrative and operational activities and preservation of historic structures and landscapes as needed. Coordinates volunteers in conducting workshops and other park projects. Performs grounds activities and assists with the park’s maintenance. Assumes the responsibilities of the Park Manager in his/her absence.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
A Master's degree or a bachelor's degree and two years experience in the interpretation, public history, or the museum field. "

Adding up all my jobs and volunteering, I have close to four years of part-time experience, but I'm not sure if they'll consider that equal to two years of full-time experience.

2. Intern/Fellow in the Digital Research Lab at Colonial Williamsburg - again, not sure about the qualifications, but it sounds like a fun job.  And "fellowship" sounds so important! :P

I also might apply for a job at the DAR Library in Washington, DC, although they want to fill the position immediately and I'm not available until September.