Super Bookworm

I know, reading doesn't keep up with the image of a superhero but i do love to bury my head in a book most of the time. I'm big on bargain book hunting and my novels keep piling up cause I keep on buying and collecting even if i still have a lot of unread ones stacked on my small shelf. I'm sure most booklovers can relate. So now, I sell some of them in my multiply site. (The website is still in the works, my apologies)
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Anyway, here's a TAG I copied and posted. I hope readers out there would participate and share their favorites, too.


The Booklover's Tag
Here's a list of books you may or may have not read (or even desire to read). Here are the rules:
- Bold the ones you’ve read
- Italicize the ones you want to read
- Leave unaltered the ones that you aren’t interested in or haven’t heard of

Here it goes:

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (JRR Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (JRR Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (JK Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (George Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
68. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
69. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
70. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
71. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
72. Shogun (James Clavell)
73. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
74. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
75. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
76. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
77. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
78. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
79. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
80. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
81. Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)
82. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
83. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
84. Emma (Jane Austen)
85. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
86. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
87. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
88. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
89. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
90. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
91. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
92. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
93. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
94. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
95. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
96. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
97. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
98. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
99. Ulysses (James Joyce)

TOTAL BOOKS READ FROM THIS MEME: 30 (!) 

Some of my friends say , I read too much. I don't care. Reading takes me to other worlds and makes me learn about cultures and histories that are foreign to me. I'm not the type though who'd  post quotes from a book in their statuses or blogs. When reading, I try to understand the author's style and overall beauty and impact of the novel. Based on impact, my favorites are Atonement, The Kiterunner and The Da Vinci Code.
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My Big Mistake

Anyways, I guess the biggest mistake I did because of reading was when my friends came over at my house and I didn't get out of my bedroom because I was so engrossed with a book. They didn't come over anymore after that. We're still friends but I guess they were offended because I ditched them for a book.  Heck, I cant even remember the name of the book or it's story. It's now that I realized that that was really wrong and stupid. Lesson learned. 

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Okay, now, it's your turn to share about the books you love, too. Am I a record holder with my total of 30 ?

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10 comments:

Sendo said...

woah....was a bookworm in high school until the fiction ones got substituted by nursing books..since then....'ve been deprived of reading fiction...started some but left them rotten on book shelves...but want to start reading fictions again...ang style ko rin magbasa eh napakabagal haha...would also invest on Christian inspirational books...they're worth reading too ! ^^ naalala ko tuloy na andami ko ring books na display lang sa kwarto ko sa ozamiz hehe...

kcatwoman said...

ah ganun ba. grabe parusa ang mga nursing books! haha. pero since wala akong masyadong ginagawa ngayon, puro basa na lang ang ginagawa ko. see you around!

beng said...

dami mo ng nabasang books sis, nung Highschool ako mahilig akong magbasa ng fiction books, novels, mga ganun, pero bilang lang naman ang natapos kong basahin dun.. i know that feeling na sobrang hooked ka na sa binabasa mo, na parang ayaw mo ng matulog para malaman mo lang yung mangyayari.. hehe..

ngayon kasi pumalit na ang blogging idagdag mo pa yung mga online games. kaya di na din nakakapagbasa. lol.

thanks for dropping by my site pala. :)

Sendo said...

oo sobrang parusa nga....pero me dalawang buwan ako mag fiction books bago ako muling magpista ng nursing books hehe

kcatwoman said...

hi beng. i love blogging ang online games din. so parehas pala tayo in some ways. pag nagsawa sa pagbabasa, blog naman, drowing or gaming :)

sendo: happy reading!

Loida of the 2L3B's said...

hi catwoman, i love you list.. i'm just sad that your parting with any of it.. i hope i could buy and make it mine but it's not worth it 'coz i'm far.. although some among your lists are already in my collections.. i love books and thanks for sharing.. i hope i could buy some from you..

tomato cafe said...

huli talaga sa list ang ulysses. haha. most of the books i've read are not on the list but yu might want to try reading:

italo calvino
david sedaris
frank mccourt
and the likes of murakami :)

the best! :)

Che Guevara said...

ate, reserve ung the lord of the flies and gone with the wind ah!

i was searching for those books for centuries! HAHAHAHA.

kcatwoman said...

@ loida: i hope you could look through my collections too, share with me what youre reading now. :)

kcatwoman said...

@ tomato cafe: hi there, ive already read some of frank mcourt's books. imabout to try murakami. happy reading!