fic annoucement, thank you, and a book meme

[sophinisba]

Hey you guys! benebu posted her French translation of my Patil twins fic, Et que jamais personne…!! I have not tried to read the whole thing yet but I'm happy that I know enough French to read the comments and see that the people who read it both liked the story and thought it was a great translation! (The first person said it read like it had been written in French and not like a translation.) That is so cool! Thank you, benebu!!

Thanks also to mews1945 and slightlytookish for the holiday cards you sent me, that is so sweet of you. ♥

And now, a book meme, gacked from cesare on IJ (almostnever):

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (I think I've read this three times and that the third time was for a class.)
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote (I'm embarrassed that I haven't even read a significant portion of this, only a few short episodes.)
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre (My mom read this to me when I was a kid and then I read it again in high school.)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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
Quicksilver
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World (I can't actually remember whether I ever finished this or not.)
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
1984 (I think I've read this four times but maybe it was only three, and the second time was for school)
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
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States
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 Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (Read for school and then reread several times)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Comments

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

We didn't exchange addys, did we? :(

[sophinisba]

I haven't been commenting on the address-collecting posts because I'm not sending cards myself and I feel guilty, but I will e-mail you. Sorry to be a trouble-maker. ♥

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Oh--you shouldn't worry about that. I'd gladly send love. :)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! :)

[sophinisba]

So exciting omg!

[hanarobi.livejournal.com]

I stole your book meme. I haven't even read half of these! Hell, there are some there that I have never even heard of. I feel dumb.

[sophinisba]

It always makes me feel weird when other people have read books I think I ought to have read like Don Quixote and Love in the Time of Cholera. :/

[hanarobi.livejournal.com]

I put Love in the Time of Cholera (still too lazy to do all the code to make the italics show up) in the same category as Middlesex. Once you start reading, it is just a hoot and a wild ride to the end.

[sophinisba]

Other people really like Chronicle of a Death Foretold though and I did not. I don't know, it's weird how I associate him with school now and with things I should read rather than things I would like to read. But maybe I'll give it a try, um, sometime.

[slightlytookish]

Glad it arrived!

[sophinisba]

Thank you!!

[benebu.livejournal.com]

And now it's posted on ff.net too:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4709602/1/


...and I think I'll be stealing this meme^^

[sophinisba]

Awesome! Thank you!!