Stolen from kightp: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.sh

Bold, I've read it, I'm quite sure. Italics, I've started it but either gave up in disgust or can't remember finishing it. Who is Jacqueline Wilson? Is she the children's author I've been looking at and thinking "Hmm, new teen books, really can't face likely prospect of them being appalling, will read them if my kids decide they want to" about? I have an image of pink, angles, yellow, and lurid green handbags.

( The list is here )

What I have done, and what I have failed to do

What I have done:

1. Washed dishes
2. Tidied dining room
3. Two loads of laundry
4. Found yet another florist, and called them. They are to call me back.
5. Bought some more clothes for Rob to be respectable in on his honeymoon.
6. Eaten a pear for my breakfast

What I have failed to do:

1. Make cupboard doors
2. Buy cladding
3. Put away clean laundry
4. Take winter duvet to the laundrette
5. Post wedding invitation
6. Chase more RSVPs
7. Go into town to return DVD, buy stationery, and lodge a cheque

So The Big Read could be a list for me...

Stuff I ought to try again:
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Persuasion, Jane Austen
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Stuff I ought to try for the first time:
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Katherine, Anya Seton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Stand, Stephen King
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

Stuff I'm not going to try:
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

I don't think there's a Dickens I haven't read the first three pages of, but I really really can't read his stuff. I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it.

Ho hum, ho hum, ho hum

Well, I managed to go into town and return a DVD and lodge the cheque and buy stationery (including some blank cards to use to record my points-for-rewards scores). I also ate lunch and started drinking cranberry cordial to tend what feels like a burgeoning infection. And I found out the correct url for one of my broken links-to-journals.

This is all good.

While I was in town I brought the copy of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm which Rob bought for me in WH Smith at Lakeside SC into WHS in Reading high street. From page 32-81 was missing, and pages 81-130 or so were repeated, instead. Most peculiar. So they exchanged it, and I am now reading the missing chunk. Sadly, the new copy is shelf-battered; the pages are bent at the top and the cover has a small tear in it. But I have got my hands on all the words, so that's that.

Regarding discarding:

Hoarding's rewarding.

Timesheet

I've never really kept a timesheet at work, but I thought I'd try to reconstruct one for today.

• 08:00 - 09:00: Dribble groan teadrinking moan dribble erk where's my socks? Put on load of laundry.
• 09:00 - 10:00: More tea, teethbrush, washing up, finalising the intricacies of dressing. Remove firs tload of laundry, assemble and start second. Fight large sack of detergent. Tidy dining room.
• 10:00 - 11:00: Catch up on livejournal, news, and email. Do more washing up. Determine that there is enough food to invite someone to lunch.
• 11:00 - 12:00: Eat a pear. Drink tea. Search house for other breakfast-like consumables. Make mental note to buy bread. Immediately forget mental note.
• 12:00 - 13:00: Invite someone over for lunch. Do ridiculous meme on 100 books. Make potato salad, dry and put away dishes, salvage those parts of the spring onions which weren't actually runny and add them to salad.
• 13:00 - 14:00: Feeding time at the zoo.
• 14:00 - 15:00: I have no idea, this house vanished.
• 15:00 - 16:00: Go into town. Lodge cheque, return DVD, buy stationery.
• 16:00 - 17:00: Frolic in stationers. Gambol in three different bookshops. Wend weary way homewards.
• 17:00 - 18:00: Catch up on mail, news and livejournal again. Become irritated at people who think that Clan of the Cave Bear is the name of the whole Earth's Children series, rather than just the first book.
• 18:00 - 19:00: Prepare for pottery class, mainly by trying to avoid it and hoping my big cover-all shirt will be dry on time.
• 19:00 - 22:00: Go to, attend, and go from pottery class.
• 22:00 - 23:00: Catch up on mail, news, and livejournal.

I hope you noticed how there was no study in there at all. I didn't do any study. I should have, and I didn't. Maybe tomorrow. Nighty night.