Daily Archives: July 16, 2008

I can’t help it… I have to post about this… jd2718 led me to a blog which is so awesomely captivating that I just spent the last hour reading like a zillion postings…

It’s not all flowers and sausages

It chronicles all the funny, frustrating, quotidian things teachers go through… you know what I’m talking about… there are those things which we go through and are funny to everyone

excerpt from blog: ”Well you need to get them to stop. We don’t need children standing there having orgasms. The next thing you know they will all be shivering and shaking and oooooohhhhhhhhh”

… and then there are those things that you only want to tell to other teachers because your friends wouldn’t get it

excerpt from blog: And as the cherry on my sundae, I ended my day with a doctor’s appointment. If that wasn’t sweet enough, I was correcting papers in the waiting room when my name was called. And she had the balls to say, “Oh look, you’re correcting papers, isn’t that cute!” I wonder if it would also be “cute” if Friday I run screaming from the building and bury myself face down in a cocktail?

Out of this list of 1001 books that one ought to read (from this book I guess), here are the ones I have read… about 5.1%. My favorites are marked with a *.

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
4. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates*
5. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
6. The Secret History – Donna Tartt*
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
8. Them – Joyce Carol Oates*
9. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
10. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
11. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
12. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
13. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
14. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
15. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov*
16. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
17. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
18. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison*
19. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
20. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger*
21. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell*
22. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
24. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
25. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*
26. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
27. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
28. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
29. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
30. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
32. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
33. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
34. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
35. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy*
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
39. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
40. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
41. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
42. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
43. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne*
44. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
45. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë*
46. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
47. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
48. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
49. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
50. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
51. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift