Reading

My little guy has learned to read. It kinda snuck up on me. He always sounds out things & has done it a few times while we were out at the store or driving around. It always surprised me when he would sound out a word on his own. Last year I bought the Bob Books set by Scholastic (I found them at Costco) to help him learn to read. During the summer we were reading them a lot, but haven't gotten them out in a while since school started. I decided to give them a try again this week. In a few minutes time he blazed through 10 of them. He was so excited that he read so many books on his own. I was, too. He is such a smart kid- only 4 & reading. I'm proud of him!



Now, on to my reading accomplishments...



I got this list from my cousin, Rachel. The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. I've made it to 35, but many of these are on my To-Read List. A current favorite website of mine is GoodReads. It's a place to create a reading list & rate the books you read so your friends can see how you liked it & get ideas for more books to read. I am an avid reader, so this was a great discovery for me. Looks like I have some work to do on this list, though!



1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen - Yes
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien - No
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte - Yes
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling - Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee - Yes
6. The Holy Bible - Yes
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte - No
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell -Yes
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman - No
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Yes
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott - Yes
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy -No
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller - No
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays) - No
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier - Yes
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien - No
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk - No
18. Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger - No
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger - Yes
20. Middlemarch -- George Eliot -No
21. Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell - No
22. The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
23. Bleak House -- Charles Dickens- No
24. War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy -No
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams - No
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh - No
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -No
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck -No
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll -Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame -Yes
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy -No
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens -Yes
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis –Yes (many times)
34. Emma -- Jane Austen -Yes
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen -No
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis -Yes
37. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini -Yes
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres -No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden -No
40. Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne -Yes
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell -Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown -Yes
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -No
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney -- John Irving -Yes
45. The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins -No
46. Anne of Green Gables -- L.M. Montgomery -Yes
47. Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy -No
48. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood -No
49. Lord of the Flies -- William Golding -No
50. Atonement -- Ian McEwan -No
51. Life of Pi -- Yann Martel -Yes
52. Dune -- Frank Herbert -No
53. Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons -No
54. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen -Yes
55. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth -No
56. The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -No
57. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens -No
58. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley -No
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon -No
60. Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -No
61. Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck -Yes
62. Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov -No
63. The Secret History -- Donna Tartt -No
64. The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold -No
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -No
66. On the Road -- Jack Kerouac -No
67. Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy -No
68. Bridget Jones' Diary -- Helen Fielding -Yes
69. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie -No
70. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville -No
71. Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens -Yes
72. Dracula -- Bram Stoker -No
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson -No
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce -No
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri -Yes
77. Swallows and Amazons -- Arthur Ransome -No
78. Germinal -- Emile Zola -No
79. Vanity Fair -- William Makepeace Thackeray -No
80. Possession -- A.S. Byatt -No
81. A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens -Yes
82. Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell -No
83. The Color Purple -- Alice Walker -No
84. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -No
85. Madame Bovary -- Gustave Flaubert -No
86. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry -No
87. Charlotte’s Web -- E.B. White -Yes
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom -Yes
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -No
90. The Faraway Tree Collection -- Enid Blyton -No
91. Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad -No
92. The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -No
93. The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks -No
94. Watership Down -- Richard Adams -No
95. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole -No
96. A Town Like Alice -- Nevil Shute -No
97. The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas -No
98. Hamlet -- William Shakespeare -Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl -Yes
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo -No