tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50266530927910563642024-03-05T18:44:48.105-05:00Navy Wife, Navy Life. Watch me sink or swim.KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-22528557678263480142014-11-25T21:49:00.004-05:002014-11-25T21:50:13.295-05:00Rory Gilmore book list!I've had this book marked on my computer for a while and I really want to try to complete it! I've read a couple on here, so my goal is to read them all!<br />
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Here is the massive list! If anyone has read any on this list, please let me know what you thought and what ones should be at the top of my list!<br />
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Books in <span style="color: blue;">Blue</span> are ones I own and plan to read, <span style="color: red;">Red </span>are ones I've completed!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">1984 by George Orwell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">Alice in Wonderland by Lewis<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Carroll</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;">– read – Jan 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Archidamian War by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Art of Fiction by Henry James</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Art of War by Sun Tzu</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Atonement by Ian McEwan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Awakening by Kate Chopin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Babe by Dick King-Smith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Bel Canto by Ann Patchett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Bell Jar by Sylvia Pla<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">th</span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Beloved by Toni Morrison</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Bhagava Gita</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Brave New World by Aldous Huxley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Brick Lane by Monica Ali</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Candide by V<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">oltaire</span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Carrie by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Christine by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Complete Novels by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Crucible by Arthur Miller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Cujo by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadd<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">on </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Daisy Miller by Henry James </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">David Copperfield by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Deenie by Judy Blume</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Divine Comedy by Dante</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Don Quijote by Cervantes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Eloise by Kay Thompson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Emily the Strange by Roger Reger</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Emma by Jane Austen – read</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Empire Falls by Richard Russo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Ethics by Spinoza</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Eva Luna by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Extravagance by Gary Krist</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom </span><span style="color: magenta;">- read- Oct 2013</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Fletch by Gregory McDonald</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Frankenstein by Mary Shelley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Gender Trouble by Judith Butler</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Gidget by Fredrick Kohner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Gospel According to Judy Bloom</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Graduate by Charles Webb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald</span> <span style="color: magenta;">– read april 2013</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Great Expectations by Charles Dickens</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Group by Mary McCarthy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Hamlet by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling </span><span style="color: magenta;">– read april 2014</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: red;">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling </span><span style="color: magenta;">– read feb 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (TBR)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Henry V by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">High Fidelity by Nick Hornby</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Howl by Allen Gingsburg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Iliad by Homer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">In Cold Blood by Truman Capote</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Jungle by Upton Sinclair</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Life of Pi by Yann Martel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis </span><span style="color: magenta;">- read - dec 2012</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Little Women by Louisa May Alcott </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Lord of the Flies by William Golding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold</span> <span style="color: magenta;">– read 2011</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Love Story by Erich Segal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Macbeth by William Shakespeare – read</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Manticore by Robertson Davies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Marathon Man by William Goldman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Miracle Worker by William Gibson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Moby Dick by Herman Melville</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: red;">My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult </span><span style="color: magenta;">– read -2011</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Night by Elie Wiesel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Old School by Tobias Wolff</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">On the Road by Jack Kerouac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Oracle Night by Paul Auster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Othello by Shakespeare </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Out of Africa by Isac Dineson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Passage to India by E.M. Forster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Peyton Place by Grace Metalious</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hornby</span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Property by Valerie Martin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Quattrocento by James Mckean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Red Tent by Anita Diamant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rita Hayworth by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Roman Fever by Edith Wharton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Room with a View by E. M. Forster</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sanctuary by William Faulkner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: blue;">The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">A Separate Peace by John Knowles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Several Biographies of Winston Churchill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sexus by Henry Miller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Shane by Jack Shaefer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Shining by Stephen King</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Small Island by Andrea Levy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Songbook by Nick Hornby</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Sonnets by William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Sophie’s Choice by William Styron</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Story of My Life by Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett</span><br />
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I just finished this book this morning. Such an amazing story. Not only is it about Anne and the four babies she gives birth to way before they are ready, but of Anne's Father and the love he has for his family.</div>
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This is not a fast read. It doesn't have the normal ups and downs that 'normal' fiction books. It's real life and the ups and downs were real, not for the audiences pleasure. Parts were gut wrenching. Hearing Anne talk about how she feels she did something wrong was just so sad. </div>
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Since we bought our house in 2012, I've been planning a Circus Birthday for L. We have nice, big vaulted ceilings in the livingroom and I had a dream of turning it into a big top! </div>
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It took 7 hours start to finish to put the big top up. We cut table cloth, hand sewed it onto a hula-hoop, hung it around our ceiling fan and stuck it to the walls. It was the most amazing thing I've ever done! The kids were amazed when they walked in for the party.</div>
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I also printed labels for water bottles and made signs for the cotton candy, snow cone and popcorn machines. L wanted 2 different kids of cupcakes instead of a cake this year(which was fine by me!)</div>
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We couldn't have had this party without the help of our friends. Tons of our friends came to run booths for us. First up was the concession stand(popcorn, cotton candy and snow cones), a tattoo booth(where each kid got finger mustache tattoos), balloon animals, face painting and a photo booth. </div>
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The sweets were a hit! I loved the balloon animals and the photo booth. So much fun! </div>
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While I was getting lunch ready(hot dogs and corn dogs), The kids all headed down to the basement to play games! Once again our friends came in and ran the games for us!</div>
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We had a can toss(many chicken broth cans were saved for months!), a bean bag toss, ring toss, lucky duck pool and pin the nose on L(I took a picture of L in his ring master shirt and blew it up, cut red circles and had the kids stick them to his face. It was a hit!). </div>
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After games, the kids came up to eat and got to go into the prize tent(we moved the concession stand and I put out all of the prizes they could choose from)</div>
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The most amazing part of the party was being in our first 'real' home, surrounded by amazing friends, making memories. </div>
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During presents, the kids got in a tissue paper fight. It was so neat to look at these pictures after and see the pure joy on L's face. He is such a happy kid and I'm so happy he had such a great time. Many times during the party he would stop and thank me for putting so much time into the party.</div>
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<br />KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-31960955918050330102014-04-06T13:18:00.000-04:002014-04-06T13:18:57.449-04:00Shore DutyWe are now a year into shore duty. I'm not going to lie, the beginning was hard. I had been married for years but wasn't great at living with someone. I was so used to doing everything on my own that everything was always done my way. If J was 'home' he had duty every third day and didn't get home until 6-8 at night.<br />
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But we have found a balance. We've learned to work together and now are working on making our home OURS. Projects are being done and for the first time we are buying things for this house, not things we think could fit in 3 houses down the road when we move. It's different and so amazing.<br />
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I have so many things to post about and every time I think I'm going to make time to truly blog again, I fail. I've missed it and maybe now with my office about done, I will have a place to sit and do it.KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-68153909855088414022013-09-18T21:29:00.001-04:002013-09-18T21:29:53.736-04:00Sticks and stones......Friendships end and with it come harsh words said.<br />
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I had a friendship dissolve about a year ago. It was a hard decision that took some time to make. It crushed me at the time and now, months later, I still think about it sometimes.<br />
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I try not to say anything hurtful because we were good friends and I don't have anything unkind to be said...except the way things fell apart at the end. I was hurt and crushed by some of the things said/done and while I don't publicly yell it from the roof tops, my close friends listened to the tears as I explained.<br />
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Now, I'm hearing things from other random people. I try not to let it get to me, but it bugs me. The latest almost got to me. But my husband told me to stop and think about it.<br />
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I was told that I think my son "walks on water". Now, I don't agree with the phrase that was used, but yes, I do think the world of my child. He messes up. He's not perfect. But, I couldn't ask for more from him. He's a sweet, only child who does very well in school. He's kind and thoughtful and a huge help around the house. I love spending time with him. I never long for summer vacation to be over and for him to be out of the house. <br />
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So, I would say I'm sorry that I think my son "walks on water" but I'm not. I'm proud of the child I raised and I honestly think most parents think as highly of their child as I do mine. and in a weird way, if that's the worst someone has to say about me, I must be doing something right.KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-61924611375107482052013-09-07T21:16:00.003-04:002013-09-08T16:28:28.178-04:00The grass isn't always greener....Sea Duty was hard, but sometimes, just sometimes, I think shore duty might be harder.<br />
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I love my husband so much. He is an amazing husband and father and I hate when he's gone. It feels like a part of me is missing. A few months ago we hit a part in J's career where he will be home for the next few years. I'm used to him being underway, deployed or working 6 days a week for AT LEAST 12 hours a day. It was like that for 6 years. Now, a long work day is him getting home at noon. While this is amazing and he's home for everything, he's bored out of his mind. He likes to work, he likes to get things done and feel like he's contributing. Now, because he's bored he's hit that stage where he does nothing. NOTHING. and I was slowly losing my mind.<br />
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We are slowly getting past this point in our lives. He's started taking college classes again, we teach Sunday school together at church(oh my goodness 10 year olds are fun!) and it takes weekly planning, sports have started and we are coming together as a family. With this I have time to blog again! I just hope I can keep up with it since I've really missed it. Who knows if I really have any readers anymore, but I know my family back home will enjoy the updates.<br />
<br />KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-49117931492285724582012-12-01T19:21:00.001-05:002012-12-01T19:21:37.016-05:00Deployment Weekly Recap: Week 10!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Emotional:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> GREAT! It's December!!!!</span></span><br />
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Landon found my OLD camera and on it were pictures I don't remember having! This one was when landon was only 1! Seems like forever ago!</div>
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KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-46867511033252844142012-11-23T19:23:00.001-05:002012-11-23T19:23:25.254-05:00Deployment Weekly Recap: Week 9!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Emotional:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> I'm doing good! It's almost December!!!!</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Physical:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Doing good! My only problem is I've been having a hard time falling asleep at night.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Little told me he wanted to get pictures with Santa this year. He was so cute and I even overheard him tell Santa that if he can't bring him anything, It's ok, that he just really wants him to bring his mom a nice surprise. He's so sweet.</div>
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J sent me a new house for my Mickey Village!(the yellow one!). I'm so excited to really start collecting them!</div>
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I got the digital download of Little's school pictures yesterday! I love them! I was worried this year because they have to wear uniforms to school. But, I think they turned out adorable!</div>
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Me & Little at Clyde's Cider Mill with some of the ladies from the boat. We had a great time!</div>
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My 'new' bedroom! I have new bedding I want to put on today! The walls were an awful green, headboard was a med Wood color and night stand was black!</div>
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The hat J bought me in port! He wrote me and told me that he got me something....."I got you a gift today! It's ugly and I hate it, therefore, you will love it" Haha. I miss him.</div>
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We woke up a little early and he was a DREAM getting out of bed. Got right up, bushed teeth and got dressed. We packed his backpack, got shoes and socks on, refixed his tie and after snapping a new pictures we headed out the door!</div>
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All was well until we were ALMOST to the car...it was only a foot away! He tripped. In the mud. His knees got muddy but thank goodness his white sweater was spared! Running back into the house to change pants we went(this is a Major perk of uniforms for school! I knew exactly where two more pairs of clean uniform pants were!)</div>
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We got back in the car and were going to make it to school with 2 minutes to spare! THEN the long line of cars wouldn't let me over to get on the freeway. There is nowhere to turn around. Off to the next spot to get on. We were now 5 minutes late.</div>
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We parked in one of the furthest spots from the door and walked hand in hand into school. Even though our morning was a little hectic there in the end. It made me smile when I got back to my car. Normally I drop him off in the drop off line and he walks in by himself. Going in with him was a little blessing today. I got extra hugs and kisses and it was the most amazing part of my day.</div>
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Now enjoy how stinkin' cute he looked!</div>
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<br />KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-72015004987287861832012-11-12T23:29:00.000-05:002012-11-12T23:29:10.899-05:00Deployment Weekly Recap: Week 7!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Emotional:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> GREAT!</span></span><br />
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I got our dinning room finished! I think it's my favorite room in the house sometimes!</div>
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We got our October gift from J in the mail on Halloween! Landon was so excited!</div>
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Trick-or-treating in Mystic Village!(our 4th year going!)</div>
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KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-78847779823907462032012-10-27T19:33:00.001-04:002012-10-27T19:33:19.707-04:00Deployment Weekly Recap: Week 5!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Emotional:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Better! I still don't feel like doing much, though.</span></span><br />
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Both are from our trip to the farm. He really loves it there.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>What do you miss this week:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> The fact that he can calm me down in a minute when I'm heated. I really needed it this week.....</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>How's Landon this week:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> For the most part, good. He went to bed one night thinking that someone out there wanted to hurt him and that broke my heart. Never again.</span><br />
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Finley followed us the whole way! Shes so funny.</div>
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At the very edge of the property we found these HUGE rocks! Landon was so excited we have some!(He was bummed when we bought the house that we didn't have any like the house down the street....little did we know that we did! But they were in the woods!)</div>
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I seem to be annoyed with the world and I hate when I get like this. <br />
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I'm annoyed that people don't watch their kids.<br />
I'm annoyed that people drive way too fast on my road and I have nightmares about being hit.<br />
I'm annoyed that grown ups act like kids.<br />
I'm annoyed at excuses.<br />
I'm annoyed with people who think it's fine to discipline my child while I'm dealing with it.<br />
I'm annoyed that I haven't heard from my husband in weeks.<br />
I'm annoyed with people who try too hard.<br />
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Every once in a while I get in a hole. I do my thing and hate the world just for a little while. I'm not much of a negative person, but I'm human. I'm not perfect and I have my moments. <br />
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Tomorrow will be a new day. The sun will rise and so will I. My day will start and all will be forgotten.<br />
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But, for today. I'm cranky.KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-30798082415676656252012-10-13T01:05:00.001-04:002012-10-13T01:05:12.602-04:00Deployment Weekly Recap: Week 3<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>Emotional:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I've been doing pretty good! I tend to not break down till about week 4-5.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>What made you happy this week:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> I love the feeling of really settling down. Buying a house has made me fall even more in love with our town. I love that the lady at the used book store knows us and has books for Landon to look at everytime we go in and I love that I'm on a first name basis with our Mail-Lady. It's the small things that make you feel like you belong.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>What do you miss this week:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Help lifting the heavy things I really shouldn't be doing. Haha.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>How's Landon this week:</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Good! We've started a reward system where if he is good all week, we will go for a surprise on friday after I pick him up!</span><br />
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I added the 60 books I bought over the last two weeks to my shelf! It took some crafty arranging, but it's done!</div>
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I plan to make a different one each year! It was so much fun!</div>
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Me- "No, dork! I would just fix the parts that look like junk. It's not like I would be painting them all black!"</div>
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Yesterday Little and I dug out a few of the houses and ran to the store to find some people we thought would look good in our village(we also got some trees and benches and such).</div>
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Giving Little his first lesson in spray paint! We did black then added random spurts of glow-in-the-dark spray paint.</div>
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First coat! We left a few pieces of color poking out but not much!</div>
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All dry and set up! The missionaries were here doing laundry and told me I needed to add the web to it! I think they were right!</div>
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<br />KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-76419167728973583902012-10-07T15:22:00.002-04:002012-10-07T15:22:46.380-04:00If only Cancer were just a horoscope sign....I've been debating on talking about this for a while now and since it's too hard for me to talk about in real life, I figured this might be the way to get it all out.<br />
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As some of you know, we lost my sister to cancer almost five years ago. It was devastating. We found out and two years later, she was gone. Leaving behind a husband and two little kids. <br />
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I was living across the country but was able to make it home in time to see her before she passed and was in the room with her, in my parents home, when she took her last breath. <br />
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Years later, my family still has not healed. We ache for our loss. My niece started high school this year and watching her grow and morph into an exact picture of her mother makes my heart hurt for her. She was only eight when she said goodbye to her mom and now is the time she would need her the most.<br />
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This story leads to this year. About a month ago my Father had his yearly physical come back abnormal. Levels were high. Things weren't right. A few weeks ago he went in for a biopsy. They confirmed the worst. Once again, our family would battle cancer. On a scale of 1-10 his is a 7. While they didn't give him an expiration date like they did my sister, our faith in cancer healing is slim. The doctors are confident that they can beat this. Surgery will take place in 3 weeks and from there we hope for the best. Surgery will change my parents lives forever. While he might be cancer free, things will be different. You can't just remove a body organ and go on as normal.<br />
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I don't know where to go from here. I feel lost. I can't lose another.KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-42217535071046137972012-10-05T23:23:00.002-04:002012-10-06T14:00:56.802-04:00Deployment Recap: Week 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Week #2.</u></span><br /><br />Emotional:</strong> Great! I'm in a really good place. I have goals and I won't let anything get in my way!</div>
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<strong>Physical:</strong> I'm feeling better! I think part is I'm getting more sleep, which is always a plus!<br />
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<strong>Communication:</strong> Quite a few emails this week! Exactly what I needed! <br />
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<strong>What's something fun you did this week:</strong> Girls days! Casey and I spent 3 hours at the book barn and ate at SOL where she works! It was a really amazing day. Then, Steph and I went to the movies today! We saw Pitch Perfect and it was super good! I also had book club this week which is always amazing!<br />
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<strong>What are you looking forward to next week:</strong> We have a 4 day weekend! I'm looking forward to getting some Halloween crafts done with the Sister Missionaries!<br />
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<strong>What made you happy this week:</strong> Feeling like I'm exactly where I need to be. I love our house and I'm really enjoying getting it all settled!<br />
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<strong>What made you sad/mad this week:</strong> Our favorite Missionary went home this week. He's been so amazing. He was always willing to help when I needed it and was a great friend to Landon. I know we will be seeing him again!<br />
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<strong>What do you miss this week:</strong> My foot warmer. We had a few cold nights and it took forever to get to sleep with my chilly feet. J sleeps soooo hot so I would always put my feet on him and they would warm right up!<br />
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<strong>How's Landon this week:</strong> Cranky. We will have a really good day, then a REALLY bad day. He's testing me and I know he is...it's just hard. We've started a good reward system so I hope that helps.<br />
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<strong>Favorite song/show/movie of the moment:</strong> Fall TV is back on! I LOVE Hart of Dixie!<br />
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My book barn finds! I got 42 books for $90! And they all look almost brand new!!! AMAZING! The most I paid was $6 for falling up, everything else was $4 and under!</div>
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Playing games with the missionaries! This game was sooo much fun! Not as easy as we expected either!</div>
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Landon and Lemon at Landon's soccer game. He was so excited that they came to watch him play.</div>
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Time seemed to crawl waiting for J to get home, it flew by when he was getting ready to leave and now that he's gone? I wait.<br />
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I feel my life is a constant wait.<br />
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Wait for him to come home<br />
Wait for him to leave<br />
Wait for Cancer results(more than one the past few months)<br />
Wait for the Navy to decide if we stay or go<br />
Wait for order choices<br />
Wait to see if buying a house really wasn't the best choice<br />
Wait for the boat to freak out when we accept orders<br />
Wait for Little to be home from school<br />
Wait during soccer, karate and lacrosse practice<br />
Wait for the dishes to be done so I can do more..same with laundry<br />
Wait for an e-mail...<br />
WAIT for an e-mail....<br />
Wait all day for phone calls.<br />
Wait for dinner to cook<br />
Wait for bedtime<br />
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I am happy to say that we have officially accepted orders to stay here for shore duty and they are already 'hard' orders not just verbal. Now I just wait for my man to get home and start shore duty!KKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08989143550400335223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026653092791056364.post-61904047998043672852012-09-30T10:30:00.000-04:002012-10-01T08:49:38.577-04:00Chalk board paint!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
All of the rooms in the house were painted beautifully when we moved in.....the kitchen had a little too much mint green though. I didn't mind it for the most part, but the big wall across from the stove and such was a little much. I was trying to think of how to make it not so..blah?</div>
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Right after I painted it....now to wait 3 days!</div>
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Curing it!</div>
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The start of my tree! My husband came home for lunch, I had the music blasting, doors all open and I was standing on a step ladder free handing a tree. Lol. He so kindly reminded me that I'm nuts.</div>
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I'm so excited to change the tree for every season! I think this is the perfect cure to me wanting to redecorate all the time!</div>
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<strong>Emotional:</strong> Tired. It was a long few weeks leading up to them leaving. We were counting on 3 weeks once they got home from being gone...but it changed to 3 days. We had so many things planned that we couldn't do. I'm sad.<br />
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<strong>Physical:</strong> I'm getting over a wicked sinus infection. Ha. Besides that, I'm sore from mowing the lawn(first time all by myself!)<br />
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<strong>Communication:</strong> Nothing yet....but that's to be expected.<br />
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<strong>What's something fun you did this week:</strong> Little and I stayed home all weekend. We built a fort outside, got yard work done and ate junk for breakfast! It was great!<br />
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<strong>What are you looking forward to next week:</strong> Oct is bonus time! Shopping takes my mind off of anything!<br />
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<strong>What made you happy this week:</strong> Knowing I have a GREAT support system.<br />
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<strong>What made you sad/mad this week:</strong> People who don't know what 'backoff' means.<br />
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<strong>What do you miss this week:</strong> Nothing yet....I'm used to him being gone for a few days. It will take a bit for it to sink in.<br />
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<strong>How's Landon this week:</strong> He's fine. He's used to Daddy being gone...which almost makes it harder.<br />
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<strong>Favorite song/show/movie of the moment:</strong> (song)Sad by Maroon 5<br />
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When Little got his acceptance letter<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(what a crazy phrase for a 7 year old!)</span> into the amazing Science based Magnet school here, J and I <em>talked</em> about buying a house. We knew we wanted to stay put for Little to finish school there since you never really know how a school system is going to be in a new state, why chance it?! We'd been putting sooo much money into base housing for so many years and while we liked it, it wasn't worth what we were paying.</div>
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I started looking online and what type of homes were for sale out there....and fell in love with two.</div>
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Fast forward a month. I'm waiting at the pier for J's boat to pull in, when he gets topside I inform him that I had been going to look at houses, we now had a real estate agent and we would be looking at houses that weekend. He about flipped. Haha. After a little talking, he agreed to LOOK. </div>
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I had fallen head over heels in love with a blue house a town over. It was beautiful! It had an amazing pool.....but it had super close neighbors on each side, was a 20 min drive for J to get to work, had funky layouts in a few rooms and would need some work.....and it was above what we wanted to spend. We then went and looked at two other houses. One was an INSTANT no! The other was one I had seen and fallen in love with online, but it went under contract. It had come out of contract 3 days ago and was back on the market! So off we went to go see it!</div>
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We fell in love! It was a 100 year old home, out in the 'woods' without neighbors on top of us<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(but close enough to feel safe),</span> original hard wood floors, 4 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms, BUILT-ins! and close to J's work that he could still come by for lunch if he got the time!</div>
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We went home and seriously talked about it, called our agent and asked if we could look at the last house one last time. We went the next morning and really looked around at everything. We were sold. We left the house and went straight to the office to put an offer in. They countered, we countered and they accepted! All within a 5 hours time frame!</div>
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A little over a month later(in July) we moved in! We couldn't be happier! I'm so in love with this house! Now we have plans to do an addition in about a year to add a library(Yep! A Library!!!) with our master suite above it! The addition will make this house our dream home! We got a pretty good deal on it to! With the market being so low, we should make it all back <em>if</em> we decide to sell later down the road. </div>
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Here are a few pictures. I will add more as I get it all done. I don't let J unpack at all<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(He never puts things where they need to go and has this nasty habit of trying to throw everything away).</span> The main floor is almost done, so I should get those up soon!</div>
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The front! It's set up above everything and its sooo nice!</div>
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Our steep driveway that everyone hates. Haha.</div>
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Our big side yard! We have about an acre of land!</div>
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Landon's 'Pirate Ship'. It's an old pool deck with playscape toys attached to it! He loves it! It has stairs and a gate on the other side. He spends a lot of time up there with the pets.</div>
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My lime green front door! It's soooo me! I love this porch. I've spent many nights out there with tea talking to friends, reading or listening to the rain.</div>
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One of the built ins that I fell in love with! This one is in the dinning room!</div>
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Upstairs hall way! It's amazing! I touch it every time I walk by it!</div>
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J had duty the day before they left(which means he's not aloud to come home, he has to sleep on the boat). Little and I went down to have dinner with him(which was amazing as always) and spent a few hours talking and eating before saying goodnight.</div>
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The next day the boat did a picnic on the pier for all of the families. We got there at about 11 and ate with J, took a few pictures then had to say our final goodbyes....</div>
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My little family.</div>
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I take a picture of them like this every deployment</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(you can see them over to the left on the side!)</span></div>
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Me & my love!</div>
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The boat all tugged up and ready to go. These birds were EVERYWHERE it was crazy and so beautiful!</div>
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Watching my man work(far right).</div>
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He always knows when I'm taking pictures of him...even when I'm trying to be sneaky. haha</div>
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The most amazing thing about where we live is that we are able to chase the boat down the river. Once they leave the base, a stream of cars take off and beat them to a number of lookout points. Under the bridge is one of our favorites since they can hear us yelling and cheering for them.</div>
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Our final spot is right where the river opens to the ocean. It's so beautiful and they always know we are going to be standing there(many, MANY wives and kids) so they always honk.</div>
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Little and I then came home and took a LONG nap together. It's been a long few weeks emotionally getting ready for this.</div>
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