(snagged from shinydinosaur)

Strikethrough the books read and italicise those planned to be read.

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - I have King James Version
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte I can't actually remember if I've read this or not
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
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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - I honestly can't remember
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Have them in one volume!
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
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 Meany - 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
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 - Argh! I think I did...
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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
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
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 I've read every story and have the collected Holmes in 2 volumes
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 I read it after seeing it on Masterpiece Theatre
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl And the Great Glass Elevator
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wow, 32! And there were a couple I'm not sure about. The average read is 6, I'm told

That is tuna mixed with relish and cottage cheese surrounded by a sliced hard-boiled egg garnished with a sliced pickle and balsamic vinaigrette.

I know it's been ages, but I want to try and pick it up again. So....

1. Standing in the dock at Southampton, Trying to get to Holland or France.
2. ...I don't know how I'm gonna do it But I'm gonna make him mine
3. Some folks like to get away, Take a holiday from the neighborhood.
4. ...Like a flower bending in the breeze Bend with me, sway with ease
5. And if the darkness is to keep us apart And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off

If you were asked to guest host on a radio show and pick songs that were "you" or songs that you just love above all others, or even songs that got very little regular airplay, what would you pick?

I'd open with Michael Buble - Cry Me A River
I'd be sure to include:
Lena - Satellite
Magic Alex - Chica Chica
Red Molly - Ohio*
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free
John Barrowman - You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
Glee - Rumour Has It/Someone Like You
Neil Hannon - Love Don't Roam
Clannad - In a Lifetime*
The Corrs - Humdrum*
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
Celtic Woman - Si Do Mhaimeo*
U2 - A Celebration
On The STreet Where You Live but it must be the Broadway version by John Michael King

Oh, gotta have the Beatles! I'm not sure which but this would most certainly be in the running.
The Beatles - I Will

I'd definitely end with:
John Lennon - Imagine

*Could possible change in future

Are there any songs that you think I missed? Any that you know I like/love/sing?

This vid has probably been posted around to the DW comms and you might have already seen it there. I'm putting it here on my journal for those who don't belong to the comms because they might be casual fans, but the editing here is fabulous. It shows that he is the same being. (Plus U2!)

Not on the actual day, necessarily, but did anything famous (or infamous) happen on your birthday? One when you were alive is what I'm aiming for.

Why this question, you may ask? Well, I was switching channels this afternoon and landed on Bio when they were showing an episode of "Notorious" which was about a murder that happened on my 10th birthday in my town. Some of you may know of it, especially if you have an interest in true crime. The other weird thing? The convicted murderer was living in my new town when he turned himself in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Moxley

We got the call a little bit ago. My niece just had her first. A healthy baby boy at 7.5 lb, 21" born at 5:55. Wow, I'm a great aunt!

Sorry I haven't been posting but I've been easily distracted recently.

Hope everyone out there is well and I'm sorry I haven't responded to any of your posts as well.