Big Eden

almightychrissy @ 2008-06-12T19:08:00

2008-06-12T23:08:38Z

I AM REALLY CONFUSED.

Scene: 6:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time. I turn on the VS network and catch the last thirty seconds of something called the World Combat League.

It ends. I see the "CBC Productions" logo. I say yay, it's awards time!

It's....Coronation Street. It's on for a few minutes. I am cracking up, because they're putting this on a sports network?!

Then it switches to, uh, the draft lottery? Now, I love the draft. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the draft. But the draft lottery, no I would not like to watch this. And they just said....one day after the regular season wtf.....

WAIT OH. Finally, it's Ron MacLean.

Someone over at VS is really in trouble.

- AWW MIDGY. So cute.
- Oh Dom. He really likes chicken.
- Craig Simpson has the squarest head ever
- DATSYUK'S HAIR IS SO BAD. Hank had a pretty smile though. And oh man. "Hi guys." SO CUTE.
- Cassie Cambell is beautiful. Adam Graves has a shirt that looks like it might be plastic
- VINNIE. Who has no hair and doesn't look happy. Probably because he has no Brad. Aww, goofball forgot the trophy. His Frenchspeaking curls my toes.
- Jason Blake is the blondest creature on the planet. He made me sniffle though
- Datsyuk has this look like "motherfucker, it's not like I learned English in the last five minutes."
- "Now I don't have nothing."
- SCOTTY BOWMAN.
- Hey I saw Dandy's back! I miss him.
- Awww, the Caps coach was cute.
- Patrick Kane has like, baby hair with those curls
- GORDIE HOWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Oh look, it's this year's diabetes kid!
- Lidstrom. WHAT A SHOCK! ;)
- Brodeur. ALSO A SHOCK. I was gonna write a fic about him once but for the fucking life of me, I don't know who I was going to pair him with
- Just once I would like to see a smiley Russian.
- Awww the Caps coach looked so proud of Ovetchkin.

almightychrissy @ 2008-06-05T00:49:00

2008-06-05T04:49:54Z

Well, there was no drunken Fischer (seriously, the highlight of the 2002 Cup) and the camera wasn't on my Wallaby for his turn at the Cup, but I did get to see Holmstrom say what sounded a lot like "We don't need this shit" and generally be the cutest chipmunk ever, and McCarty's interview of Osgood was adorable. And, uhm, oh yeah, the overwhelming feeling of WOOOOOT.

High-fives to all my fellow Detroiters and Wings fans, BIG HUGS to all the Pens fans on my list.

almightychrissy @ 2008-06-03T00:58:00

2008-06-03T04:58:29Z

Just because I want to join in the train, I have to say that I was really disappointed that Sykora did not dedicate his goal to his chinchilla. However, I was quite amused that his post-game interview was only 25% actual words.

It could be worse. There could have been five overtimes. We could have broken someone. We would have been too tired to adequately party down. We could have to go some place much worse.

That said, I may have to kill one of those announcers if I have to hear the phrases "next goal wins it," "nhl.com/edge for stories about the playoff beard,"or "Kronvall" ever, ever again.

almightychrissy @ 2008-05-08T08:39:00

2008-05-08T13:00:28Z

What the headlines should read-

Michigan Conservatives: "Gays Not Even Good Enough For the Truth"

In 2004, the people of Michigan passed Proposal 2, which added an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage (as if we could anyway.) The driving force behind this amendment (Citizens for Protection of Marriage) swore up down and sideways that no really, this was just about protecting our families! And no, no, no, we're not going to go after domestic partner benefits, really! I can't cite my source on this, as google won't help me out, but the AFL-CIO remembers it too, so hopefully that's proof enough that I'm not making it up.

Well, it took them four years, but they did it. No benefits for gay partners, court says. Yes, that's right, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that Proposal Two bars public employers (such as, oh, the public school system) from offering domestic partner benefits.

Get this. This is what really, really makes me rage. Patrick Gillen, a professor at Ave Maria Law School and a coauthor of the amendment, said the court was correct to understand that same-sex benefit policies are an attempt to have "same-sex partners treated as spouses ... to redefine marriage and the family in a very radical way."

EXCUSE ME? That is not what you were saying in 2004. It's the exact opposite. So either you're changing your mind now or you were lying then, and I'm pretty sure it's the latter. I think there might be a commandment against that.

I don't even know what to say. This is not family values. This is sick parents and sick children and lawmakers and judges and worst of all, ordinary citizens who want to keep them from having health care.

I've been trying to write this without profanity, but it's times like these where I can't come up with a better expression of my feelings other that fuck you.

EDIT: In related news, And Tango Makes Three is the most challenged book in public schools and libraries for the second year in a row. I'm laughing and crying at the same time.

almightychrissy @ 2007-10-18T07:28:00

2007-10-18T11:28:23Z

Karl Urban? KARL URBAN??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?

Don't get me wrong, it's exciting to get to lust after him. But. KARL URBAN WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!

almightychrissy @ 2007-09-18T13:43:00

2007-09-18T17:43:52Z

I'm having a mix of emotions right now, and at first I wasn't sure I wanted to post about either of them, the first part because it's spammy and the second because I'm not sure I can properly articulate myself, but recent events in both areas have pushed me to make the post.

First, the good

Dude, I totally owned those shoes Fraser was wearing. OMG best thing ever. His voice!!!!!!

Also, coming back to add- Fraser in the backseat with his wig off and makeup on and hair all sweatyspiky is the hottest thing I've ever seen.

Coming back AGAIN-

"Ray! Manners!"
"You know Benny, there is a limit."
"A limit to proper etiquette? I think not."

OH JESUS. THE DANCING. Why the fuck is he doing a pirouette? Oh my God, people, this is the most incredible thing ever.

And that last conversation, with Fraser getting mad that he's not Ray's type and "You're so sensitive!" and eeee. Best thing EVER.

The second, and far more serious matter, is related to much more current events.

The most disturbing thing I have ever seen in my life, hands down, more than anything, more than all the internet shock sites or horror movies or anything, was on a tv show. I do not remember the name, but I can tell you that it was on Spike TV and it was either about "incredible real-life videos" or "incredible police videos" or something of that sort. This episode was showing at maybe three in the afternoon. I wasn't trying to watch-- I was in the living room doing something else and my brother had it on for lack of anything better to do. In the segment that got to me, the police were called in regarding four girls (probably in their early twenties) who had handcuffed themselves to a tree stump in the middle of a bank. They were protesting something, I don't know why. The officers asked the girls to leave, and they would not. There were threats of legal punishments. I think maybe one or two left. All I remember was what the officers finally did. They put tear gas on a q-tip and stuck it in the girl's eyes. She was screaming in pain. I can't remember anything else, only my sense of nausea and horror and disgust. The girls weren't hurting anyone. They were handcuffed to a tree, and the officers decided to react so violently, so deliberately and sadistically violently. But what really got me was that someone had decided "Oh my God, we need to PUT THIS ON TV!" I couldn't believe I'd seen it, not as part of some news report, but just as part of a collection of videos viewers were supposed to be fascinated by.

If you've been looking at headlines today, you've probably seen the one about the University of Florida student tasered for, apparently, acting violently during a campus discussion thing with John Kerry. I don't want to debate the ethics of the actions of the police-- others can do that far better than I can, and as bad as this sounds, to form my own judgment would require me to watch the obligatory youtube video (in a sad bit of full-circleness, the video is prominently linked on spiketv's homepage) and I will not do that. I've already seen enough. A short clip was played on the noon news here in Detroit. I couldn't see anything, it all happened so fast, but what can clearly be heard is the student begging "Don't taser me, I didn't do anything!" and then screaming in pain. Now, at least this was a news show, with a reason to play the clip, but there was no warning for graphic content.

And I just don't get it, I really don't. Seeing a nipple at, what, nine or ten pm during the Super Bowl is going to scar children for life, but we can show someone begging not to be hurt at noon? I know it's a school day, but kids could easily be watching. These things, these moments of real people in pain, are somehow less offensive than nudity or profanity. Sally Field can't say "goddamn" at ten on a school night, but three o'clock is a fine time to show very large police officers causing pain to young women? How does that make any sense? I'm 24 and I wanted to vomit after I heard that clip; what could it do to a six year old? This kind of moral policing is incomprehensible to me.

(to cheer myself up i'm watching goofy sga interviews. and then i'm going back to fraser as a girl.)

I'm giving some (boring) books away!

2007-09-04T16:15:04Z

So I decided I don't feel like figuring out where the library does donations, and anyway, I figure I'd try this.

So, FREE TO A GOOD HOME ! First come, first serve and all that. Leftovers from my Contemporary Drama class.
(I can't imagine WHY anyone would want these, but just in case...)

Brecht on Theatre- The Development of an Aesthetic edited and translated by John Willett. Great condition, some highlighting.

Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez. Great condition, some highlighting and notes in the first play. Also contains Bandido! and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Looks a bit bent on the spine, some highlighting and notes.

Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett. going to offspeed

Plays 3 by Edward Bond. Great condition, some notes and highlighting on Bingo. Also contains The Fool, The Woman, and Stone.

almightychrissy @ 2007-07-26T20:51:00

2007-07-27T00:51:04Z

A post full of cut tags and other points.

1. I am procrastinating on watching the season two finale of Supernatural because I'm afraid it'll depress the shit out of me.

2.

In the HP-verse, are ghosts confined to a location? Is the Headless Hunt sort of proof that ghosts can travel? I know in traditional ghost lore (or rather, in traditional ghost lore as SPN has taught it to me) ghosts are confined to one place, being all unsettled, but is this true in HP?

3. Alex and I were discussing Eric Gagne and she expressed interest in the 2004 ESPN Magazine article about him. It's a really great article which makes me want to squish him, so I scanned it as text and posted it. I'm leaving this post unlocked (shock! awe!) in case people want to link it or whatever.

Over and Over by Tom Friend (ESPN Magazine, 8/2/04)
Eric Gagne doesn't just save game after game. He's transformed a team and its fans

The face of the Los Angeles Dodgers wears a Brillo pad on his chin, prescription goggles and a hat full of bacteria. He cusses in French, perfects his English watching Seinfeld ,and eats Japanese food almost every night. He has a headbanger theme song, pants that need to be let out at the thighs and a bobblehead of himself giving the finger above his locker. Other than that, he's harmless.

A once-pristine franchise is now playing with its jerseys untucked, and it's all because of a 28-year-old relief pitcher who answers to B.D.A. (Big Dumb Animal) and who, for 678 days, never blew a lead. blew a lead. Eighty-four times the Dodgers took at least a one-run edge into the last or next-to¬ last inning, and 84 times catcher Paul Lo Duca turned to his teammates in the dugout and said, “Bring on The Goon." Eighty-four times an unkempt man took a swig of Mountain Dew or coffee in the bullpen, and 84 times he walked in and annihilated hitters with a secret pitch: the Bugs Bunny changeup.

Eighty-four times, and the tying run reached third base only once. Eighty-four times, and his ERA had to be read with a microscope: 0.82. Eighty-four times, and a notoriously soft team learned it could be hard to the core.

Sometime during this DiMaggio of save streaks, the Dodgers were remade in their closer's image. Maybe it was when Lo Duca grew some Brillo of his own. Maybe it was when they started playing Eminem in the clubhouse. Or maybe it was when centerfielder Dave Roberts robbed Houston's Lance Berkman of an eighth-inning home run, preserving the streak at 52 games, and heard the following compliment from Eric Gagne: "Good job, f-er."

OF COURSE, before he could save the Dodgers, Eric Gagne had to save himself.

Take a look at his rookie card from the 2000 sea¬son and you will not see a goatee, and you will not see a barrel chest. Instead, you will see a boy starving himself to death.

Take another look, and you will not see a four-leaf clover tattooed on his right triceps or a scar on his right eyebrow. You will see only skin and bones.

Eric Gagne was not the face of the Dodgers back then; he was an erratic French-Canadian righthander with an eating disorder. His diet was milk and cookies and little else, and his weight fell treacherously from 220 pounds to 180. It's the most important jam he's ever worked out of.

He eventually sat with a Dodger psychologist in a minor league dugout to sort through his story, a story that begins with a family breakup and ends happily, with Cooperstown requesting the ball from his record 84th consecutive save. It was never Gagne's intention to electrify Dodger Stadium or jump-start the clubhouse or have 60-year-old ushers humming Guns N' Roses. He just wanted his parents to get back together.

But all he could control was the baseball. And so, nine years into his pro career, the emaciated kid has turned into this: a 6'2", 240-pound whopper.

Ask him how it's gotten so good, and Eric Gagne will tell you it's because it used to be so bad. He was 17 when his parents divorced, and it floored him. His father, Richard, drove a Montreal city bus, and his mother, Carole, waitressed in a Greek cafe, and, because they worked all hours of the day and night, he never knew their marriage was in tatters.

When he found out, he closed off, became a tough guy. Wore an earring in his eyebrow. Got the tattoo. Food? Who needed it. Eyeglasses? Who needed 'em. Sore arm? Pitched through it.

His minor league career was littered with denial. At Class-A Savannah in 1996, he tried to pitch through a dull ache in his elbow for six months until the Dodgers finally sent him to Dr. Frank Jobe for Tommy John surgery. He spent the entire 1997 season thinking about quitting, thinking about playing college hockey at the U. of Vermont or pursuing a psychology degree at McGill, never thinking about food. "I guess I was sad or whatever," he says. "I wouldn't eat."

When he returned to the Dodgers' minor league camp in 1998, he could only heat his fastball up to 88 mph. So he invented a pitch. A changeup. A changeup that ideally would look like a fastball for 55 feet and then fall off a cliff. A changeup that didn't change much for four months at Class-A Vero Beach. Then, in his last seven starts, it finally clicked: he went 5-1 with a 1.63 ERA.

The following spring, the Dodgers promoted him to Double-A San Antonio. Except now there was a new problem: he couldn't see. “At night I couldn't make out the catcher's signs," Gagne says. "He'd ask for a curveball, and I'd throw a fastball off his chest. I said, all right, that's enough. I think I need to see an eye doctor."

Actually, it was Valerie Hervieux, his girlfriend at the time, who convinced him to see an ophthalmologist. "Oh my god, it was bad," says Valerie, who's now his wife. "He'd be driving, and he'd say, 'Tell me where to exit.’ I'd say, 'Why?' He'd say, 'I cannot see.’ I'd say, 'You need glasses!'"

He wanted contacts, but an old hockey injury, a high-stick to the left eye socket, had left him with scar tissue that kept a contact lens from centering properly. So he got glasses and wore them to the mound. But the lenses kept fogging up, and because of his astigmatism, they also made home plate appear closer than it was. In his first game with the new specs, he didn't throw a strike until his 18th pitch.

When he finally found a reliable pair of goggles, he started winning, but he still wasn't eating, not enough, anyway. He talked again to the Dodger psychologist and finally accepted that his parents' divorce wasn't his fault. But the breakthrough was living in his in-laws' basement in the winter after the 1999 season and seeing how a relationship is supposed to work. "My parents are kissing all the time,'" Valerie says. “And then my grandma arrives and she kisses everybody.'" He and Valerie even found a food he would actually indulge in: sushi. Every day it was broiled crab rolls, a dozen at a time, to the point that he was almost roly-poly.

When he hit the bigs for good in 2001, no one knew the real story. All they saw was his circus pitch, the changeup that Brian Jordan would name after the one in the cartoon in which Bugs gets the Gashouse Gorillas to swing and miss three times on the same slowball. All they saw was his grisly goatee and his Kareem goggles. All they saw was his biohazard of a cap. "He was just a mess," Lo Duca says.

But that was the charm of Eric Gagne. He never wanted his colleagues to see him in his reading glasses, so he'd sit in the clubhouse squinting at his surroundings. His eyesight was deteriorating--he's needed three new prescriptions in the past two years--but he's still been known to bat in games without his goggles. He'd made himself into a tough guy, and he couldn't take it back.

At some point, his persona had gotten out of his control. Maybe because he'd taken his hockey player's intensity to the bullpen and reached 100 saves faster than any closer in history. Maybe because the Dodgers started flashing GAME OVER on the scoreboard and blaring "Welcome to the Jungle'" the moment he'd take the field. Maybe because he'd wanted to shave his chin this spring and his teammates wouldn't let him. Maybe because the famously jaded Dodger fans actually started staying all nine innings, for the first time in ages, just to see, him pump his ample fist. Maybe because hundreds of them took part in an Eric Gagne look-alike contest. ("Scary how much the winner looked like me,'" Gagne says.) Maybe because he'd crank Eminem in the clubhouse. And maybe because he'd given the Dodgers their swagger back.

He'd become the B.D.A., like it or not.

AND IT'S all such a lie.

Eric Gagne is leaving the stadium after his 82nd straight save, carrying a large, paper grocery bag. Is it food?

"No," he says. "Fan mail.”

He answers all of it, or does the best he can, and sometimes he1l even visit the fans in person. He's made a habit of visiting the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. And as T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times can attest, Gagne won't let reporters enter the rooms with him unless the kids are okay with it. A 9-year-old named Mario Castillo wasn't okay with it, so Gagne pulled him behind a curtain and offered to show him the secret. The secret of the Bugs Bunny changeup. "But you can't tell anybody," Gagne told him. "You have to promise."

When Gagne left, the boy was smiling, and Simers moseyed over to Mario. "You can tell me about the changeup," he said.

No way, Mario said.

"It's no big deal, Mario. I'm supposed to know these things."

Forget it, Mario said. And then he held up an autographed poster of an angry-looking Gagne pitching in the ninth. "Look how mean he gets," Mario said. "I promised."

Gagne, hearing about this later, sent up a jersey to Mario. And he signed it, "To the boy who can keep a secret."

The Dodgers’ front office hears these kind of stories, and they brag. Yes, the new owner, Frank McCourt, has changed the atmosphere in Dodger Stadium. Yes, the team's on its way to 3.4 million in attendance. But none of it would matter if the Dodgers didn't have a chance to make the playoffs for the first time since 1996, or if Lo Duca and Adrian Beltre weren't candidates for Comeback Player of the Year, or if Gagne weren't so automatic.

The Dodgers so depend on Gagne that, a year and a half ago, Lo Duca and the other clubhouse leaders asked him to stop taking BP, for fear he'd pull a muscle. "I know one guy can't win the pen¬nant," pitcher Jose Lima says, "but Gagne's close." He was late to the clubhouse a few weeks ago, thanks to LA gridlock, and the players were somewhat concerned. When he finally arrived, only 90 minutes before the first pitch, there was only one way to express-their relief: they blared "Welcome to the Jungle" as he walked through the door. "I guess I'm gonna hear that song every time I make an entrance," says Gagne.

"Without him, we're in trouble," says Roberts. "In the past, you'd hear that the Dodgers have that Hollywood image, and I think some people might construe it as being soft. But when you've got a guy like Eric Gagne, that toughness and attitude carries over."

If they knew his real story, though, his teammates would realize the B.D.A. is just a B.D.T.B. (Big Dumb Teddy Bear). They have no idea that the scar above his right eye isn’t from hockey (Valerie got her hair caught on his pierced eyebrow a few years back, and Gagne had to rip the piercing out.) That he's scared to get Lasik surgery to correct his vision. That he has 50 pairs of glasses at home, some of them horn-rimmed. That he just wrote a children's book called Break Barriers, touching on his eating disorder and his parents' divorce. That he doesn't speak in team meetings because he's hopelessly shy. That he keeps the 55 baseballs from last year's portion of his save streak in a brown paper sack. Or that the first time his mom saw him earn a save at Dodger Stadium, she began to weep. "She and the rest of my family are overwhelmed," Gagne says. "See, to them, I'm still the same little guy from Mascouche."

In Los Angeles, his face is up on billboards. He and his wife laugh at what's become of his image, and in particular, they laugh about the sweat¬stained cap that's such a big part of it.

"It's disgusting," says Valerie, who's also French¬-Canadian. "Don't put it on my head. Sometimes I am watching him on TV and I'm saying people will think he's a dirty person, that he never cleans, never showers. Every time I meet a new person, they ask me about the hat. I just tell them he says it doesn't smell.

“And sometimes people ask me, 'Is he nice with you?' What? I would not be with him if he was not nice. But people just get the feeling he's kind of aggressive. Maybe it's the goatee."

But the Brillo doesn't get people out. Gagne saves games because he works out for 90 minutes in the clubhouse every day. Because his fastball hits 98 mph, and that Bugs Bunny changeup reg¬isters 86. ("That's only a 12 mph difference, but to hitters it seems more like 60," says Lima.) Because he also has a 68 mph slurve that he's not afraid to throw 10 straight times if he knows a hitter can't touch it. Because whenever he hears "Welcome to the Jungle," he breaks into a cold sweat. "Gets him in the mood," Valerie says. For 678 days, it worked like a charm.

And then, on the night he blew his first save in almost two years, his teammates saved him, and beat the Diamondbacks in 10 innings. "We owed him one--or 80," says Roberts.

When he did his interviews that night, he did them with his chest puffed out, knowing he couldn't let anybody see him droop, especially not the impressionable fellows in his clubhouse. He kept his eyeglasses in his pocket, and he told the media he'd start another streak soon, maybe one that lasted--gulp--longer.

And then he was out the door, glasses on. The sushi was waiting.

4. New icon. Feel free to doubt me on this, but I SWEAR this is Matthew Lewis at the OotP premiere. No further comment.

almightychrissy @ 2007-04-25T20:50:00

2007-04-26T00:50:30Z

So I actually think this is kinda accurate (not the animal, but the description) but I thought this was so freaking cool so I did it.

I am so twelve years old.

almightychrissy @ 2006-12-23T21:55:00

2006-12-24T02:55:44Z

christyedna is a horrible horrible person who made a request I could not refuse.

Mumble is actually standing on a box (hee) so he could do his full dancing action.

I am so so sorry.

almightychrissy @ 2006-12-22T13:27:00

2006-12-22T18:36:57Z

This is the post I was going to make yesterday.

So, as I understand it, my story about my mini-tree being tacky like JAke Shears of the Scissor Sisters caused much enjoyment. Thus, I bring you visions of the tree.

With the lights on.

This is me struggling to get it to right.

This is when I gave up.

Unrelated to the tree, I also want to show off my totally awesome dancing Mumble.

almightychrissy @ 2006-07-28T11:09:00

2006-07-28T15:09:53Z

Happy birthday Christiane!!!!!!!!!!! May it be a wonderful wonderful wonderful one (and may you bask in the glory of having your POTC fic recced by like, everyone on my flist) ;)

Now, a poll.

View Poll: Matching

Kenny's gonna cry!!!

2006-07-03T17:43:31Z

Why Steve Yzerman is my hero, by Chrissy, age 23.

You know, when I think about it, no matter where I go or what I do, I too would like my legacy to be that I did the best I could.

Thank you, Stevie.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning

almightychrissy @ 2006-06-21T21:01:00

2006-06-22T01:01:34Z

I'm slacking on EVERYTHING I should be doing, so I

150 Best-selling Children's Books of All Time in Paperback

1. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
2. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (1968)
3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume (1976)
4. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch; illustrated by Sheila McGraw (1986)
5. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (1973)
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (1971) I HATE IT SO MUCH
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling (1999)
8. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume (1972)
9. Shane, Jack Schaeffer (1972)
10. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks (1982)
11. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
12. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
13. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
14. The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford (1984)
15. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1968)
16. Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (1969)
17. Just Me and My Dad, Mercer Mayer (1977)
18. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (1976)
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J. K. Rowling (2000)
20. Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Judy Blume (1976)
21. Blubber, Judy Blume (1976)
22. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (1972)
23. Superfudge, Judy Blume (1981)
24. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (1987)
25. Freckle Juice, Judy Blume (1978)
26. On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
27. That Was Then, This Is Now, S. E. Hinton (1972)
28. Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar (1985)
29. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
30. Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
31. Just Go to Bed, Mercer Mayer (1993)
32. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1984)
33. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
34. The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
35. The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1974)
36. By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
37. Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
38. The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
39. The Pigman, Paul Zindel (1978)
40. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1961)
41. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg (1973)
42. Merry Christmas, Mom and Dad, Mercer Mayer (1982)
43. Just Grandma and Me, Mercer Mayer (1975)
44. Just for You, Mercer Mayer (1975)
45. Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (1987)
46. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland (1984)
47. Bunnicula, James Howe (1980)
48. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Nancy Burkert (1988)
49. The Berenstain Bears Go to School, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1978)
50. The Night Before Christmas, Clement Hurd; illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (1975)
51. These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
52. All By Myself, Mercer Mayer (1983)
53. Stuart Little, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
54. The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
55. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (1988)
56. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson (1979)
57. The Cay, Theodore Taylor (1970)
58. Kristy's Great Idea (Babysitters Club #1), Ann M. Martin (1986)
59. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
60. Then Again, Maybe I Won't, Judy Blume (1973)
61. I Was So Mad, Mercer Mayer (1983)
62. The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
63. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1994)
64. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
65. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (1988)
66. The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
67. The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
68. Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George (1974)
69. The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
70. The Berenstain Bears and the Truth, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
71. Gremlins, George Jipe (1984) OP
72. Stone Fox, John Gardner; illustrated by Marcia Sewall (1983)
73. I Just Forgot, Mercer Mayer (1988)
74. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz (1976)
75. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell (1975)
76. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary (1980)
77. When I Get Bigger, Mercer Mayer (1983)
78. The Berenstain Bears in the Dark, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
79. 500 Words to Grow On, Harry McNaught (1973)
80. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (1984)
81. Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1987)
82. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (1990)
83. The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White; illustrated by Edward Frascino (1973)
84. The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden; illustrated by Garth Williams (1970) I love this book so very very much.
85. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry (1956)
86. It's Not What You Expect, Norma Klein (1976) OP
87. Matilda, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Quentin Blake (1990)
88. The New Baby, Mercer Mayer (1983)
89. The Chocolate Touch, Patrick Catling (1984)
90. Corduroy, Don Freeman (1976)
91. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (1970)
92. The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
93. The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
94. Sounder, William H. Armstrong (1972)
95. The Return of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1987)
96. The Kitten Book, Jan Pfloog (1968)
97. Dinosaurs, Peter Zallinger (1977)
98. Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (1977)
99. The Truck Book, Harry McNaught (1978)
100. Barney's Hats (1993)
101. The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (1984)
102. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume (1978)
103. The Berenstain Bears: No Girls Allowed, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
104. Farm Animals, Phoebe Dunn (1984)
105. Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You, Richard Scarry (1973)
106. Rascal, Sterling North (1964)
107. Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (Babysitters Club #2), Ann M. Martin (1986)
108. Just Me and My Mom, Mercer Mayer (1990)
109. Me Too! Mercer Mayer (1983)
110. A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
111. Iggie's House, Judy Blume (1976)
112. Meet Samantha, Susan Adler; illustrated by Dan Andreasen (1986)
113. Poems & Prayers for the Very Young, Martha Alexander (1973)
114. The Farm Book, Jan Pfloog (1964)
115. The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
116. Just Me and My Puppy, Mercer Mayer (1985)
117. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps #1), R. L. Stine (1992)
118. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1986)
119. Chocolate Fever, Robert K. Smith (1978)
120. Say Cheese and Die (Goosebumps #4), R. L. Stine (1992)
121. Meet Addy, Connie Porter; illustrated by Dahl Taylor and Melodye Rosales (1993)
122. Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel (1979)
123. The Alphabet Book, P. D. Eastman (1974)
124. The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1988)
125. Rumble Fish, S. E. Hinton (1976)
126. The Little Duck, Judy Dunn; photos by Phoebe Dunn (1976)
127. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle (1979)
128. The Secret of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1990)
129. Curious George, H. A. and Margret Rey (1973)
130. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (1979)
131. Good Work, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish (1996)
132. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
133. The Zoo Book, Jan Pfloog (1967)
134. 101 Dalmatians, Dodie Smith (1976) OP
135. The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
136. The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
137. In & Out, Up & Down, Michael Smollin (1982)
138. Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Fritz Siebel (1983)
139. The Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
140. The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
141. Amelia Bedelia and the Baby, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1982)
142. Just Shopping with Mom, Mercer Mayer (1989)
143. Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's, Richard Scarry (1973)
144. Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum, (1974) OP
145. The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
146. Sunshine, Norma Klein (1976) OP
147. Deenie, Judy Blume (1974)
148. The Berenstain Bears and Moving Day, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
149. Meet Kirsten, Janet Shaw; illustrated by Renee Graef (1986)
150. Clifford the Big Red Dog, Norman Bridwell (1985)

100 Most Challenged Books

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison HAAAATE
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century

1. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)
13. 1984, George Orwell (1949)
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940) Finally, I agree with one.
18. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)
20. Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937—trilogy completed)
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)
30. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)
42. Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975—series completed)
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934)
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
54. Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960—series completed)
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)
72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)
79. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)
89. Loving, Henry Green (1945)
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)
93. The Magus, John Fowles (1966)
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)

100 Best Characters in Fiction in the 20th Century

Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, 1958
Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915 YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES.
The Invisible Man, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lolita, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
George Smiley, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
Mrs. Ramsay, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
Bigger Thomas, Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
Nick Adams, In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
Yossarian, Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
Kurtz, Heart of Darkness, , Joseph Conrad, 1902
Stevens, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino,1957
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
Oskar Matzerath, The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
Hazel Motes, Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
Alex Portnoy, Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
Binx Bolling, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse, 1919 HEEEEEE
Eugene Henderson, Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913–1927
Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
Peter Pan, Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1902
Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, , Dashiell Hammett, 1930</b>
Judge Holden, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 1985
Willie Stark, All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
Stephen Maturin, Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, 1969
The Little Prince, The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
The Whiskey Priest, The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
Neddy Merrill, The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
Sula Peace, Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
Meursault, The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Phoebe Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Janie Crawford, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston,1937
Antonia Shimerda, My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
Grendel, Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
Gulley Jimson, The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
Big Brother, 1984, George Orwell, 1949
Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
Seymour Glass, Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger, 1953
Dean Moriarty, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
Charlotte, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, 1952
T. S. Garp, The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978 HELL YES
Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
Geoffrey Firmin, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
Benjy, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charles Kinbote, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
Mary Katherine Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
Charles Ryder, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Claudine, Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
George Follansbee Babbitt, Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Christopher Tietjens, Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924–28
Frankie Addams, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
The Dog of Tears, Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
Nathan Zuckerman, My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
Arthur “Boo” Radley,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Henry Chinaski, Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
Joseph K., The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago, EBoris Pasternak, 1957
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1998
Hana, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
Margaret Schlegel, Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
Jim Dixon, Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
Maurice Bendrix, The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
Lennie Small, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
Mr. Biswas, A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
Alden Pyle, The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
Kimball “Kim” O'Hara, Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
Clyde Griffiths, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926 No Piglet????
Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charlie Marlow, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
Celie, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
Augie March, The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953

Newberry Medal award winners, 1922-2002

1922
The Story of Mankind, Hendrick Willem Van Loon

1923
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh A. Lofting

1924
The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes

1925
Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger

1926
Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1927
Smoky, the Cow Horse, Will James

1928
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly

1930
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field

1931
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

1932
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer

1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

1934
Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs

1935
Dobry, Monica Shannon

1936
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink

1937
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer

1938
The White Stag, Kate Seredy

1939
Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright

1940
Daniel Boone, James Henry Daugherty

1941
Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry

1942
The Matchlock Gun, Walter Dumax Edmonds

1943
Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray

1944
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes

1945
Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson

1946
Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski

1947
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1948
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois

1949
King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry

1950
The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli

1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates

1952
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes

1953
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark

1954
. . . And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold

1955
The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong

1956
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham

1957
Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen

1958
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith

1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare

1960
Onion John, Joseph Krumgold

1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell

1962
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare

1963
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

1964
It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville

1965
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska

1966
I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

1967
Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt

1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg

1969
The High King, Lloyd Alexander

1970
Sounder, William H. Armstrong

1971
Summer of the Swans, Betsy Cromer Byars

1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien I loooove it.

1973
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George

1974
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox

1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton

1976
The Grey King, Susan Cooper

1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor

1978
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

1979
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32, Joan W. Blos

1981
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson

1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard

1983
Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt

1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary

1985
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley I'm always SO excited when I see this one.

1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

1987
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman

1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman

1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman

1990
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

1991
Maniac Magee: a Novel, Jerry Spinelli

1992
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1993
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant

1994
The Giver, Lois Lowry

1995
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

1996
The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman

1997
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg

1998
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse

1999
Holes, Louis Sachar

2000
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

2001
A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck

2002
A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

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almightychrissy @ 2006-06-11T12:25:00

2006-06-11T16:25:09Z

I just managed to cook a frozen pizza, remove it from the oven rack, slice it, and clean the oven rack using only a plastic spoon and fork, a towel, and a brillo pad. Go team me.

As you can tell, my supply of necessary things in this house is dwindling, and as such I'm not sure how much internet access I will have for the next few days. Tonight may be doubtful, tomorrow as well, but I should be back by Tuesday, barring total disaster.

See you soon!

almightychrissy @ 2006-06-10T00:37:00

2006-06-10T04:37:50Z

I am physically incapable of passing up a book meme.

Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read.Strikethrough the ones you started or read part of. Leave the rest.

1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
9. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
~~11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller~~
12. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
14. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
22. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
23. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
24. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Neuromancer - William Gibson
26. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
27. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
29. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Hate. haaaaaate.
30. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
32. Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
33. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
34. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
35. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
36. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
37. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
38. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkeni
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan More haaaaaate.
42. The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
43. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
44. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
45. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
46. Dune - Frank Herbert

I have been so so drained all day. I partly know why but am denying it.

zdarovyeh is the new winner of my Sweetest Person Ever award. Thank you so much!

Kimmy and I were talking and have come up with the ultimate in ultimate things ever. Celebrity Jeopardy with contestants Jon Stewart, Anderson Cooper, and Stephen Fry. Thoughts? Brainlust? Urgent appeals to NBC? I thought so.

almightychrissy @ 2006-06-03T23:07:00

2006-06-04T03:07:21Z

I (finally) bought Eats, Shoots and Leaves today. Read the intro and I LOVE IT. The author goes on a huge rant about people pluralizing by apostrophe and I was right there with her. What took me so long to finally buy this book?!

I also bought Between Men because I was fascinated by Epistemology of the Closet. Sedgwick isn't the world's clearest writer, but after Butler her prose is like crystal, and she's funny. One of these days I'm gonna talk about Gender Trouble and where I think Butler went wrong, but to make a long story short, Epistemology was great, there was much reference to Between Men, I decided Sedgwick was worth it, and now I have it. I read the intro of that and now I'm kindasorta reading three books at once, the two new ones and Confessions of a Wicked (Ugly? can't remember the title) Stepsister. Yipes.

I was also useful today, installing a doorknob all by myself. My parents were impressed, though I'm not sure why. Okay, actually I am sure why, because I'm not very good at these things, but still. I also hooked up a showerhead and a toilet seat, because I am just that good.

There is a very small wasp's nest between the door and screen of the back door of the new house. It really kinda makes me want to cry. It also makes me angry, so I spend a lot of time tapping on the glass whenever a wasp gets near.

I cannot believe it is June already., Where has the time gone?

almightychrissy @ 2006-05-16T08:32:00

2006-05-16T12:32:20Z

Le squee! 'tis the birthday of Her Disconess, the wonderful SDQ!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day.

On that note, I got your graduation announcement and ee your picture is so pretty!

almightychrissy @ 2006-05-10T13:30:00

2006-05-10T17:30:03Z

Oh smooth move Chrissy! I just slammed my left thumb in the door so hard that I got naseous and dizzy. The dizzy part was loads of fun as I had to walk down a flight of steps to get back to work. That was an amusing House flashback.

I would like to appeal to LQ (at least, I think LQ is the person to whom I should be appealing) and others on my friendslist-- I am reading Wicked and greatly enjoying it, so much so that I am interested in reading the actual Oz books. However, checking out my library's online catelogue produces lots of children's books that all talk about the pretty pictures. I get the sense that this means the books are an edited version of the original story. Is there something I should be looking out for to get the book I want to read, with all the creepy stuff?

Also, for whoever it is on my friendslist who I know loves the books (LQ? Is it you? Is it Caitie?)-- have you read Was by Geoff Ryman? It's very dark and disturbing and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I thought you might be interested.

I'm sure this one is for Caitie! They're making Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel into a movie. There is no casting yet. My head is messed with, because while I almost never have mental pictures of characters, I do have a VERY clear mental image of Strange, and I cannot place what actor I am basing it off (though I get the feeling I have him too young) but I know whoever they cast, I'm going to have trouble adapting to it. Actually, one article has Strange as a redhead, which is certainly not how I pictured him, so I quit on the mental casting game. The movie might be interesting, though I fear how much they'll need to chop because that is a really long book.

I suppose it is back to reading and waiting for 2:00 now.

almightychrissy @ 2006-05-01T21:46:00

2006-05-02T01:47:48Z

Le squee!!!

I have a mood theme again! It is all Felicity Huffman and was made by privateuniverse and it is SO AWESOME. I loves it.

almightychrissy @ 2006-04-28T18:45:00

2006-04-28T22:45:22Z

My room smells like pineapple. Not in a good way, though. In a "you spilled juice on the floor and can't figure out where and now your room smells all sickly sweet" way.

In other news, as some of you may know, I have either a talent or an obsession with seeing Big Eden actors guest-starring on TV. I have seen Henry on CSI and West Wing, Dean on Without a Trace, Sports Night, CSI, and Seinfeld, Mary Margret on CSI, the Widow Thayer on CSI and Nip/Tuck, and Sam on West Wing (and he might be in Studio 60!) A few days ago I added a new name to the list, as I saw Jim on Seinfeld. It was very exciting and amusing.

Hey, apparently Anna Rudolph from Big Eden is Lianne Mars. Is that Veronica's mother? That would be....awwww. That would be kinda sweet to see. Also, CSI is clearly the Big Eden retirement home.

I wish my mom would get home from work. I am hungry and she is bringing the dinner.

almightychrissy @ 2006-04-24T21:18:00

2006-04-25T01:18:40Z

This is a really cool meme so I'm doing it.

How many times has someone on your friends list posted about something and you were really confused, but you didn't want to ask because you knew you SHOULD know? How many times have you felt guilty asking a close LJ friend a question that should be obvious?

Well, here's your chance.

If you've missed a few things, missed an entry and are confused, ask me any thing. Even something EXTREMELY basic, like where I live or what my favorite hockey team is. I'm not allowed to get even slightly irritated at any of the questions - we've all missed things before.

Today at work I fought an epic battle versus a paper shredder. It was sad, messy, and involved trash bags bigger than I am, but I won in the end with the help of a vacuum from the Humanities office. I also got to attempt to explain the Honors Program to high school kids who were probably looking for reasons not to join. It amused me.

You know what I have from Netflix? I have two discs worth of Sentinel (the show, not the movie) goodness. I think it is now time for some Cascade action. Squee.

Also, thank you to all you people who answered my poll but you all gave THE WRONG ANSWER. See, I have an antenna, and the maker of it made the box part into a picture frame. Rebecca asked why it needed decoration, I said it didn't but that it would make sense to me to make it like a little bug because you know, bug, antenna. Makes sense! Rebecca said "You are the only person who would think of it." I doubted it, she told me to make a poll, I did and none of you said bug. Boo on all you.

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry....

2006-04-20T11:18:40Z

I don't mean to be spammy, but I read this, cracked up, and thought others (especially SDQ and West Wing fans) would find this as amusing as I did. That said, this could totally just be one of these bad jokes only I find funny.

From an article about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' baby, Suri:

No word if Suri will make the M:I-IIIpremiere decked out with fringe on her top.

almightychrissy @ 2006-04-08T17:16:00

2006-04-08T21:16:07Z

So I thought it was like, everyone in the world's birthday when semagic gave me the notification last night (because it was midnight and I was dead and incapable of thought) but as it turns out it's just two people with a lot of livejournals.

So, happiest of birthdays to Lanna (and Lanna) and Alex (and Alex and Alex and Alex)!

seriously, i got like, nine hours of sleep last night and i'm still just not functioning. apparently i'm getting over my cold just to come down with the severe unexplainable exhaustion blues or something.