My God this little guy is definitely a survivor –
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Why would you buy a book, if you had no intention of reading it?
Instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones read solely as a curriculum requirement, italicize the ones you started, but didn’t finish.
Final touch: denote (*) the ones you liked, and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you did read them for school in the first place.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
*The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
*Pride and Prejudice
*Jane Eyre
*The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
*The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
*Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
*Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
*1984
Angels & Demons
*The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise) (the Divine Comedy, you know)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
*Oliver Twist
*Gulliver’s Travels
*Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
*A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
*The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Not quite sure why Dune and certainly not Angels and Demons would give me the impression that the reader is some great intellect.
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Happy Birthday ! I hope you have a lovely day today. Enjoy the moot and perhaps when you get back from the UK there may be something in the post which Jack!Bear or perhaps Stephen!Bear may like. Hopefully they won’t fight over who gets to use it first. *g*
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Met my new oncologist today. I think we will get on very well. My previous one was a nice person but I always had the impression she was incredibly rushed and didn’t have much time. This new one actually spent some time explaining to me why the type of chemotherapy I may have to have in the future is different from the type given to women whose cancer has not spread beyond the breast. She explained to me that the chemotherapy is much concentrated and stronger in those circumstances because they want to ensure the cancer cells don’t get into the rest of the body. She explained that they will give lower and more regular doses to me and because of this I should have less nasty side-effects.
She wants me to get a bone density test to check whether the current medication controlling my cancer is causing osteoporosis because as she said she doesn’t want me living the next fifteen years or more as a cripple from osteoporosis. I guess this means that if I can’t take the current medication because of the side-effects on my bones, I’ll have to have chemotherapy. She certainly made me feel a lot more comfortable about this option.
I definitely feel there is better communication and understanding between her and me than with my previous oncologist, so I’m feeling pretty good generally.
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Liberal Quaker, perhaps and certainly Secular Humanist sounds right, but don’t think I could be an Orthodox Quaker, a tad too conservative.
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