snapsandsmoke:

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (although I have read about half of it. I should go back and read it properly sometime).
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (also read half of and never got around to finishing somehow)
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (gave up after Prince Caspian as I liked Susan more than Lucy)
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (must read)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (although apparently I NEED to read it according to Del)
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (have, need to read)
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (I do need to read this too)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (but must do because CLEVEDON, although in the film they inexplicably filmed most of the ‘Clevedon’ scenes in Weston I think)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (have but haven’t read yet)

26. I don’t prescribe to the idea that you have to only read ‘worthy’ books though and I don’t see the point in reading things just to complete some list. Thomas Hardy particularly I have no desire to read ever. Plus this list is pretty heavy on the Austen and Dickens so if you hate both of them you’re screwed.

(via theedgeofnight)

• Update le Etsy with more cards and the second coptic book I made, once I’ve actually worked out a cover for it.
• Finally use up the film that’s been sitting in my Holga for a couple of months.
• Attempt to make some anatomical tights for myself and Emmy.
• Descale the kettle. Unexciting I know but scaley coffee is one of the banes of my existence.
• Get more filters for water filter so massive scaliness doesn’t happen again any time soon. I have no idea what it is about Winchester’s water quality that makes it so bad but it pisses me off.

So yeah, other than that I plan on doing nothing but drinking lots of tea and working my way through Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s been a while since I’ve had a proper weekend off so it’s going to be good.

sara-silvertongue:

feliciajalapeno:

darksigyn:

dermochelyidae:

Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Personally, I think Heart of Darkness should count as 10 books. 

10 books :)

29! Wow, I’m rather surprised at myself.

16! Though there are like 10 other books on this list that I have but haven’t got around to reading (like all the Jane Austen books, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes) So many books, so little time. 

26. I’m not a big fan of these things though as I read a lot but I read things which don’t get into these kind of lists a lot, like fantasy or crime novels. I don’t agree with people being forced to read books because they’re part of some big list, just read what you want to read ffs.

• ANATOMY DRAWINGS (I have reference images and everything, I’ve just been busy with uni and being ill).
• Buy paper to make notebooks with.
• Look up binding methods for books with more than one section (I’ve made one before and it went wrong so I need to look up proper methods if I’m going to actually sell them).
• Photograph cushion covers for Etsy.
• Write up more listings (which I hate doing).
• Check on status of test strip (if you actually read this Del, which I doubt you will, it’s still on hold unfortunately).
• Go to Tesco to get painkillers and food.
• Do some washing.
• Digital designs for uni.
• Print out images for visualisations (again for uni).
• Work out mood board (ditto).
• Buy folder for technical file.
• Try to find a birthday card for my brother which isn’t too hideous (I have a slight tradition going of buying him insulting cards).
• Ditto for wrapping paper.
• Take back library books and DVD.
• DON’T OVERSLEEP.

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. Nirvana (particularly You Know You’re Right, most satisfying song in the world when you’re annoyed)
3. The Dresden Dolls and/or Amanda Palmer (mostly for family issues: Runs In the Family, Astronaut, Half Jack, Good Day…)
4. Slipknot (mostly Wait and Bleed)
5. And of course, Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit. A slight guilty pleasure but it’s pretty damn satisfying :D.

Your house: Ravenclaw all the way.
Your favorite character from the trio: Hermione, although I’d say all of them if I could.
Three other favorite characters: Luna, Lupin, Snape.
Least favorite character: Cho Chang, I know you’re supposed to feel sorry for her but I never really liked her.
Favorite book:  Prisoner of Azkaban
One favorite moment: The explanation about the Marauders in The Prisoner of Azkaban
How you were introduced to the series: From reading the first chapter of The Philosopher’s Stone in year 4 of primary school. I dragged my Mum to get it for me and read it while I walked home from the bookshop.

(via sara-silvertongue)

myheartleapt:

No particular order:

• Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Gob Bloth (Arrested Development)
• Perry Ulysses Cox (Scrubs)
• Walter Bishop (Fringe)
• Desmond Hume (Lost)
• RON FUCKING SWANSON (Parks and Recreation)
• Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
• Matt Saracen (Friday Night Lights)
• Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)

Pretty good list, I reckon.

• The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who/Torchwood)
• Rupert Giles (Buffy)
• Spike (Buffy and later Angel)
• Captain Mal Reynolds (Firefly)
• WASH (Firefly)
• Tim Bisley (Spaced)
• John Mitchell (Being Human)
• Castiel (Supernatural, don’t judge me)
• Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

and female just because I’m bored right now :).

• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy)
• Tara Maclay (Buffy)
• River Song (Doctor Who)
• Daisy Steiner (Spaced)
• River Tam (Firefly)
• Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
• Annie Sawyer (Being Human)
• Marsha Klein (Spaced)
• Abby Sciutto (NCIS)
• Theresa Lisbon (The Mentalist)

sylvysparrow:

alliespence:

29 ways to stay creative :)

I like idea #9 a lot, I do that all the time just because what I listen to while I write has always been a huge influence on what I create.

I never knew that drinking coffee makes you feel more creative, that sounds a little bit ridiculous to me :). Most of it’s common sense really but the kind of stuff it’s hard to convince yourself to do if you’re convinced that you’re a terrible writer anyway. I haven’t written properly in years because I just started feeling horribly unoriginal and crap. Hopefully one day I’ll get back to it as a hobby but I don’t think I’d ever be able to make a career out of it like I once planned to.

I keep remembering people I forgot to put on my list of ‘famous’ people I fancy.

So here’s the revised list with additions:

• Simon Neil (singer of Biffy Clyro)
• Seth Lakeman (folk singer)
• Josh Homme (ginger Elvis and singer with Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures)
• Tom Hardy (actor, only sometimes though. Maybe just in Wuthering Heights)
• Aidan Turner (Irish actor, Mitchell in Being Human)
• Luke Wilson (Owen Wilson’s brother, Richie in The Royal Tenenbaums)
• Neil Gaiman (writer, mostly for his mind and his excellent sense of humour. Plus, he was very good looking when he was younger)
• Adam Brody (Seth Cohen, do I really need more of a reason?)
• Daniel Radcliffe (when did he get good looking?? Maybe it’s the stubble.)

EDIT: Damn, I forgot someone again.

• Eoin Macken (Gwaine in Merlin :3. Makes it worth watching all by himself.)

Adding onto that…

• Matthew Macfadyen (The second best Mr Darcy and all round lovely man).
• Benedict Cumberbatch (no comments needed really :D).
• Milo Ventimiglia (Peter in Heroes, Jess in Gilmore Girls, wears a leather jacket pretty well).
• Zachary Quinto (what is it with me and hairy men? I clearly have some kind of hair fetish).

This pretty much proves that I’m actually sex obsessed and no one escapes my notice :D.

These are the things I find attractive:

• Good tattoos
• Nice arms.
• Facial hair as long as it isn’t stupid.
• Not caring too much about how they look.
• Good music taste.
• Politeness.
• Good sense of humour.
• Nice accents (like some Irish or Scottish accents) otherwise just well spoken.
• Intelligence.
• Kindness.

Things I find disgusting/turn offs:

• Spitting.
• Extremely skinny jeans, bleurgh.
• Being inconsiderate.
• Chewing gum with your mouth open.
• Being self centred.

Of course in real life all that tends to go out of the window when I actually meet someone. I have no real specific type and I’m getting less and less fussy the longer I’m single :).