tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6857466301484063052024-02-18T21:36:30.999-08:00Surrender Is the only optionbethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-66881118969593795742011-11-23T10:35:00.000-08:002011-11-23T10:35:32.731-08:00I find it all ironic. . . .Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. Aug 23rd was a Tuesdaybethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-80311828621994158002011-11-19T01:02:00.000-08:002011-11-19T01:02:11.195-08:00Forgiveness<div style="background-color: white; color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that hurt or offended you may always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip on you and help you focus on other, positive parts of your life. Forgiveness can even lead to feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Forgiveness doesn't mean that you deny the other person's responsibility for hurting you, and it doesn't minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life.<br />
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Forgiveness is a commitment to a process of change, you'll no longer define your life by how you've been hurt.</div>bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-64706134722588088052011-11-18T11:07:00.000-08:002011-11-18T11:07:44.017-08:00Surrender is the only optionI recently made a post about betrayal, and how it made me feel. I also recently had a conversation about it, in which I opened up again about how I feel about the subject of Honest, Trust, Loyalty and Betrayal in which someone else told me this . . . <br />
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I am putting it here to remind myself of what it means to surrender and what must happen for that to take place.<br />
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<Name Left Blank> In my opinion there are two things that stand in the way of a kajira's surrender<br />
<Name Left Blank> When she does not know the nature of the person she is giving away. And when she does not know the nature of the person she is giving herself to.<br />
<Name Left Blank> Being lied to is in the second category.<br />
<Name Left Blank> For surrender you need trust. And for trust you need a man strong enough to be honest.<br />
<Name Left Blank> When you lie to someone you mold the world around their expectations, and you are a slave to them and to the situation.<br />
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Very Interesting points, indeed.<br />
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I thought the issue was my jealousy . . . . apparently it isn't.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-86274620756854884532011-11-17T20:54:00.000-08:002011-11-17T20:54:02.082-08:00For your own protection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ctwyd9KgID4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-44654008408169544122011-11-17T19:48:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:48:20.699-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#44<br />
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your self identity should be so strong that when someone walks away from you, they don't take you with them.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-52516048219422620212011-11-17T19:36:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:37:47.519-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#43<br />
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is they find the past to be better than it was and the present to be worse than it is.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-34880879638324642662011-11-17T19:34:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:37:11.882-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#42<br />
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People are like music.<br />
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Some speak the truth.<br />
Some are just background noise.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-60052453495051871962011-11-17T19:32:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:32:49.444-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#41<br />
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I've done alot of thinking about Jealousy this week.<br />
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Women always seem to compete. Competing is about comparing yourself to others.<br />
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Don't compare yourself to others, that's when you lose confidence in yourself.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-67071228792169683152011-11-17T19:30:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:30:11.388-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#40<br />
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Closeness has nothing to do with Distance and everything to do with Intimacy.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-84213093431939713162011-11-17T19:27:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:27:26.691-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#39<br />
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Don't overthink.<br />
You'll create a problem that wasn't really there.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-12210643882794524352011-11-17T19:26:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:26:22.170-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#38<br />
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You can't lose what you never had<br />
You can't keep what was never yours<br />
and you can't make someone stay who wants to go.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-49412348242598153542011-11-17T19:18:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:18:12.336-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#37<br />
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Don't cry because the left, smile . . .<br />
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because they gave you an opportunity to find someone better.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-42566638614638676052011-11-17T19:16:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:16:15.736-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#36<br />
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Be happy in front of people who don't like you.<br />
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It KILLS them.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-69722738978142550422011-11-17T19:14:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:14:19.499-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#35<br />
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Learn to let go of things you can not control.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-57194038804214667862011-11-17T19:12:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:12:48.967-08:00Words of wisdom from beth#34<br />
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When you put faith, hope and love together . . . you can raise positive kids in a negative world.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-4355613837288909732011-11-17T10:14:00.000-08:002011-11-17T10:14:25.130-08:00Become a You Tube Sensation, and make it on the Ellen show!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/_BgO9kzcPV0/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_BgO9kzcPV0&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_BgO9kzcPV0&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-85295970165003064242011-11-15T20:02:00.001-08:002011-11-15T20:02:19.480-08:00Ignorance is blissSometimes knowing too much overwhelms you with thoughts and you can’t seem to stop thinking about a particular issue. Then you’d wish you never knew.<br />
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The term does not necessarily mean ignorant of literal surroundings or events but instead ignorant of worries and suffering.<br />
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Now, I am left perplexed, exactly what was it about the situation that left me worried and suffering?<br />
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I think, I felt I had been lied too, betrayed. I don't even think this was about jealousy, I think this was more about honesty and how I felt I wasn't getting it.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-1011919841099269892011-11-14T07:16:00.000-08:002011-11-14T07:16:15.392-08:00The Puppet Master Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/b-A9oGYBCxU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Master downloaded The Puppet Master Series for me to watch, all 9 of them. For those of you who don't know it, I adore horror movies as much as I do sex . . . . okay, that was a stretch, but funny :)<br />
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The Puppet Master is your typical B rated movie, with a low budget and bad writing, it reminds me of a badly written porno. Surprisingly though, I enjoyed every minute of it! LOLbethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-71134560543789631142011-11-14T06:59:00.000-08:002011-11-14T06:59:05.232-08:00Immortals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/7VdONYkKFmQ?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div><br />
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Immortals is a movie that I really had been looking forward to for quite some time, plus when you hear that the 300 producers are on board you know that you are going to be in for a visual treat.<br />
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Much like 300 the movie is about the battle and the violence rather than having a deep and meaningful story, and artistic licences were taken when it comes to the story of mythology, but it is an entertaining ride all the same.<br />
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Henry Cavill has plenty to do from a physical perspective in this movie, and it has to be said he looks incredible, but there is not much in terms of character development, and the really great movies develop characters and make you feel for the people involved in the movies.<br />
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Mickey Rourke is perfectly cast as King Hyperion; cruel, evil, violent Rourke really does embody this character and brings a real air of menace to the role, I loved him when he was younger and am glad to see him making a come back.<br />
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But what is very disappointing about the movie is the real lack of action from the Gods, there’s only one major scene coming towards the end of the film - which I think is a major shame, so much more could have been done. I look forward to a second movie and much more action from them.<br />
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Singh must be congratulated for the stunning spectacle that he has created with this movie if the script and the characters could have matched the look of the film then we would have been in for one hell of a ride. I watched a clip on tv about the extensive care taken to make sure the fight scenes were not chopping and edited too much, which I like because nothing ruins a movie more than choppy fight scenes.<br />
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Having said that Immortals is a fast paced story, if a little simple, but it is a fun movie that really does transport you to another world and is highly entertainable, and that is what makes it good, but it had the potential to be great.<br />
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Immortals was much better than last year’s Clash of the Titans remake but it failed to reach the dizzy heights of the fab 300.<br />
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But I still think it kicked ass and I highly recommend it!bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-48625779193483033482011-11-09T17:03:00.000-08:002011-11-09T17:03:54.408-08:00An InvestmentI went into the city today and gave into buying some shoes. 120 dollar shoes. Shoes that are ugly beyond comprehension. Now that I am working, I walk about 5 miles a day at least. I had to invest in them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.alegriashoeshop.com/Alegria-Paloma-s/26.htm">Alegria Paloma Shoes</a>bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-4568088730148332222011-11-09T01:08:00.000-08:002011-11-09T01:08:08.653-08:00FearI feel like I have a muzzle on my mouth that I chose to put there for safety purposes, but I don't like it at all because that's just not who I am. I want to rip it off!!! The truth is...I'm afraid to. My solace is in knowing that my true self will ultimately win over my fearbethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-43294432691825581252011-11-09T01:05:00.000-08:002011-11-09T01:05:55.515-08:00Music Flashback<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/e0GVixJvt-g?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Tina Turner - what you see is what you get<br />
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From A Table Away<br />
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Everybody Else can Kiss my Ass<br />
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Drink myself Single<br />
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Stayin is worse than Leavin<br />
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Besides, ya gotta love a girl who chews gum, drinks and has a cross on her guitar strap while singing. :)bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-83331611471415470662011-11-08T23:58:00.001-08:002011-11-08T23:58:44.141-08:00I keep forgetting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/w1d8Ns6YRqM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>This is a song I have many a times drank too when I was getting over an ex.bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685746630148406305.post-57798229157923702422011-11-08T23:54:00.000-08:002011-11-08T23:54:28.611-08:00Books<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">• <strong>Bold</strong> those books I've read in their entirety.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">• <em>Italicize</em> the ones I've started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">1 <em>Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">2 <b>The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">4 <b>Harry Potter series - JK Rowling</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">5 <strong>To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">6 <em>The Bible</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">8 <i>Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><em>9 </em>His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">10<em> Great Expectations - Charles Dickens</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">11<strong> Little Women - Louisa M Alcott</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">14<em> Complete Works of Shakespeare</em> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">16<b> The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">18 <strong>Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">19 <i>The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">20<b> </b>Middlemarch - George Eliot</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">21 <i>Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell </i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">24 <em>War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy</em> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">25 <i>The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">27 <em>Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">28 <b>Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">29 <b>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">32<em> David Copperfield - Charles Dickens</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">33 <i>Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis </i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">34 Emma -Jane Austen</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">35 Persuasion - Jane Austen</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">36 <b>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">39 <b>Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">40 <strong>Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">41 Animal Farm - George Orwell</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">42<strong> The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">46 <b>Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">49 <b>Lord of the Flies - William Golding</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">50 Atonement - Ian McEwan</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">52 <b>Dune - Frank Herbert</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafo</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">57<b> A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">61 <strong>Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">62 <b>Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">64 <b>The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">68 <b>Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">70<strong> Moby Dick - Herman Melville</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">71 <strong>Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">72 <b>Dracula - Bram Stoker</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">73 <b>The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">75<em> Ulysses - James Joyce</em> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">76 The Inferno - Dante</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">78 Germinal - Emile Zola</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">80<i> Possession - AS Byatt</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">81<strong> A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">83<i> The Color Purple - Alice Walker</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">87<strong> Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">88<i> </i><b>The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">89 <i>Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">94 Watership Down - Richard Adams</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">97 <i>The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">98 <em>Hamlet - William Shakespeare</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">100 <i>Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</i></div>bethaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13591144656055867021noreply@blogger.com0