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ANA'S BIRTHDAY

THINGS ARE COMING OUT OF THE MELTING SNOW!

MY REBUS VALENTINE: two hearts beat ass juan

With the warm temperatures and the fact that all the snows have been skimpy recently, it was finally time to hike up on the road to the national forest with Jake.

I thought it would be nicer to hike where it's not so muddy. As you can see above, our driveway and road are really muddy.

The gate that I would always go through is now closed because of the snow and winter months, there's a photo showing how it would be hard to climb up over in the snow.

And there is also an environmentally conscious forest sign that's in a pretty sunny spot.

Oh see the Christmas tree? Someone decorated a growing tree at the teenage woodsy area. Maybe they had a yuletide party. In the summer you can find fire remains, newspapers, beer cans, and shot gun shells. The snow kept out some of the unadventurous. And that bit of partying seemed pretty environmentally conscious in comparison.

Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read in the future, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and do not do anything the ones you've never even heard of.

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)

2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkein)

6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkein)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkein)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) Watched the pbs version

9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) have it to read, but haven't yet

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King) I may have read this, but I think I just saw the tv special

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

21. The Hobbit (Tolkein)

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) after hearing excerpts from this, think I'd stay away

26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) Saw the movie

30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

31. __Dune</span> it's on the shelf

32.The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) I can't read him, it's too boring

33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) on the shelf

34. 1984 (Orwell)


35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)


39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)


42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) think I read this, but it wasn't that great

45. Gift & Award Bible NIV (Various)

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)


47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) love those sandwiches

48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)


50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)



51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)


52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) might have had to read in junior high, but not sure

53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)


54. Great Expectations (Dickens)


55.The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) I like her earlier books, not so much the science fiction

60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)


62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) on the shelf

63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
I took a Russian Literature class, so I've read a lot of this type

64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)


65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) on the shelf

67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)


72.Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)on the shelf

73. Shogun (James Clavell)on the shelf

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)


76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)


79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
, oh saw the play as well

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard's First Rule (Tery Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen)saw the movie

86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)


87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Able (Jeffery Archer)

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
LOOK OUT PIGGY!

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)


94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
I like her nonfiction better

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) saw the movie


98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)


100. Ulysses (James Joyce) read a lot about Sylvia Beach, but not this book she published for him