{"id":173,"date":"2007-03-13T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/?p=173"},"modified":"2007-03-13T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T01:08:13","slug":"and-they-write-books-about-this-sort-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/2007\/03\/13\/and-they-write-books-about-this-sort-of-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"and they write books about this sort of thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theplainjane.com\/crafty\/images\/book-stack.jpg\" alt=\"stack o' books\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listology.com\/content_show.cfm\/content_id.22845\/Books\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die&#8221;<\/a> (says some guy), I&#8217;ve read:<\/p>\n<p>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mark Haddon<br \/>\nThe Virgin Suicides \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jeffrey Eugenides<br \/>\nBeloved \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Toni Morrison<br \/>\nThe Handmaid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Margaret Atwood<br \/>\nThe House of the Spirits \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Isabel Allende<br \/>\nThe Bluest Eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Toni Morrison<br \/>\nSlaughterhouse-five \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<br \/>\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude &#8211; Gabriel Garc\u00c3\u00ada M\u00c3\u00a1rquez<br \/>\nThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold \u00e2\u20ac\u201c John Le Carr\u00c3\u00a9<br \/>\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nest \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ken Kesey<br \/>\nTo Kill a Mockingbird \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Harper Lee<br \/>\nThe Lord of the Rings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c J.R.R. Tolkien<br \/>\nThe Quiet American \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Graham Greene<br \/>\nLord of the Flies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c William Golding<br \/>\nThe Catcher in the Rye \u00e2\u20ac\u201c J.D. Salinger<br \/>\nNineteen Eighty-Four \u00e2\u20ac\u201c George Orwell<br \/>\nAnimal Farm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c George Orwell<br \/>\nThe Grapes of Wrath \u00e2\u20ac\u201c John Steinbeck<br \/>\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Zora Neale Hurston<br \/>\nThe Hobbit \u00e2\u20ac\u201c J.R.R. Tolkien<br \/>\nBrave New World \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Aldous Huxley<br \/>\nAll Quiet on the Western Front \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Erich Maria Remarque<br \/>\nThe Sound and the Fury \u00e2\u20ac\u201c William Faulkner<br \/>\nThe Castle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Franz Kafka<br \/>\nThe Great Gatsby \u00e2\u20ac\u201c F. Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>\nSummer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Edith Wharton<br \/>\nEthan Frome \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Edith Wharton<br \/>\nThe House of Mirth \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Edith Wharton<br \/>\nSister Carrie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Theodore Dreiser<br \/>\nTess of the D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Urbervilles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Thomas Hardy<br \/>\nThe Mayor of Casterbridge \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Thomas Hardy<br \/>\nA Tale of Two Cities \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Charles Dickens<br \/>\nThe Fall of the House of Usher \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Edgar Allan Poe<br \/>\nNorthanger Abbey \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jane Austen<br \/>\nMansfield Park \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jane Austen<br \/>\nPride and Prejudice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jane Austen<\/p>\n<p>36 out of 1,001. Ah well. Of the things on the list I have read, some were force fed from school.  If I ever have to read another Edith Wharton book, I&#8217;ll shoot myself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also just joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/25380\" target=\"_blank\">Good Reads<\/a>, a neat site that reminds me somewhat of myspace&#8230; but uh, just with books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the &#8220;1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die&#8221; (says some guy), I&#8217;ve read: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mark Haddon The Virgin Suicides \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jeffrey Eugenides Beloved \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Toni Morrison The Handmaid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Margaret Atwood The House of the Spirits \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Isabel Allende The Bluest Eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theplainjane.com\/crafty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}