They emerged three hours later carrying 7lb of chilis

[fightingthecage]

Dear Scribble

Get a fucking move on. The hospital won't force you out until the 15th and I can't be doing with waiting around that long.

No Love

Me

ETA: BWHAHAHA!

ETA 2: Book meme thing.

The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thingusers. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable.

I'm adding an extra to mine. I'll underline the ones that I own but have not yet read. Because I have a lot of those in my bookshelves.


* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
* The Time Traveler’s Wife
* The Iliad
* Emma
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner
* Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
* The Canterbury Tales
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New World
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King
* The Grapes of Wrath
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* 1984
* Angels & Demons
* The Inferno
* The Satanic Verses
* Sense and Sensibility
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Mansfield Park
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* Oliver Twist
* Gulliver’s Travels
* Les Misérables
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Dune
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
* Cryptonomicon
* Neverwhere
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five
* The Scarlet Letter
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
* The Mists of Avalon
* Oryx and Crake: a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* Lolita
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
* The Catcher in the Rye
* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers


If anyone hasn't read The Time Traveler's Wife or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...sort yourselves out. And I really need to read whats in my bookshelves. I didn't realise I'd collected so many and not started in on them.

Comments

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

Soemday, your child will read your LJ and either feel guilty or crack up or both.

This is how I felt when reading my mother's diaries that often included lines like, "Dear Thumper: Please stop kicking me in the bladder in the middle of meetings, it's rather irritating."

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

Are you having any strange psychic ideas as to when it might be? Dreaming of mystical dates, or whatnot? Then, if Scribble is a boy, you can be DOUBLY psychic :D

[wakeupnew]

I arrived seven weeks early, while my parents were in Lexington, Massachusetts for a weekend. Or, well, I tried to arrive while my parents were in Lexington, Massachusetts; they drove two hours home to go to the hospital. This is why I was very nearly named Lexie, anyway. *grin* My mom always says she was furious with me because she hadn't gotten to the last part of all the pregnancy books yet, figuring she had plenty of time. So -- at least you are well-prepared, and probably not two hours from home?

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

As I suspect you know, I was born in Africa, and at the time Mom and Dad were living in a tiny little rural village up in the mountains of Lesotho. Anyway, the hospital in the capital was crap, so they'd already made the choice to go to Bloemfontein for the birth.

So one day, about a week prior to the due date the doctor gave her, my mom starts going into labour. And she is a calm sort, so she doesn't panic, just hops in the car with my dad and drives to the hospital (which takes a little bit). At the hospital, they tell her they're just false contractions, despite my mom pointing out that she's had a child before and remembers the difference. They say no, you're wrong, you've got a week yet, go home and then come back later. So whatever.

It's my dad's birthday, so she's like "while we're here, let's just go out for lunch!" So they find a nice restaurant and settle down and order. And then, because I have the best ever sense of timing in the world, my mom's water breaks.

And because she is disgustingly practical and offered to mop the floor, I was almost born there. Fortunately she started being in too much pain to actually mop, and went to the hospital where I was born a very short time later. Which accounts for my second-first-name, Rose! As I was born in what is, translated quite literally, 'The City of Roses'.

And to jump on the bandwagon, my pre-birth nickname was Tabby XD

(incidentally, when they did routine bloodwork on me at birth which included checking my blood type, they thought I was a bastard child - Dad's blood type is A+, Mom's is A-, and my sister was A+. I was O-. Apparently there were some very, very awkward moments until they managed to sort out that I got my blood type from my grandparents on my dad's side)

[shadowofdoubt.livejournal.com]

After reading all the comments, I asked my mother what she called me before I was born. Ricky was called Baby Toot (no clue), and me . . . apparently I had no name until I was born. *POUTS* God, mom, thanks. :(

[im-a-yogi.livejournal.com]

Watch Lord of the Rings - it worked for me!

I went to the movies in the evening and then had what felt like cramps during the night. I woke up around 9 and just felt like something was about to happen. I had time to think: OMG, the mattress!!! and I jumped out of bed. I managed as far as the bedpost - then the water broke! LOL