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Hi folks,
here I am starting all over again. So what is my first TT-post after 6 months goin to be about?
Well I thought about giving you a list of13 literature classics I had to read for my literature exams in anglistics. I bet you know all of them, have read some of them, even like a few and maybe I can inspire you to grab one of those and have a look at it again. Books change - if you look at them after 10 years you might find that your point of view on them has changed, that you see and understand different things now.
So here we go:
1.) The picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde
2.) Dracula - by Bram Stoker
3.) Ecotopia - by Ernest Callenbach
4.) Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
5.) The Scarlett Letter - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6.) Kim - by Rudyard Kipling
7.) A Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood
8.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
9.) Salome - by Oscar Wilde
10.) Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Mille
11.) The Great Gatsby - by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12.) Hills like White Elephants - by Ernest Hemmingway
13.) She walks in beauty - by Lord Byron
Ok, so grab a book and get started :) Let me know if you know these books and what you think about them ...
Have fun and thanks for enjoying this TT!
Love Julia
Showing posts with label thursday thirteen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thursday thirteen. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Thursday Thirteen #7
13 Things about Juliadamus
Today I wanna talk about one of my favourite books: "The deeper meaning of liff" by Douglas Adams.
It's a wonderful, funny and witty book, or better said an encyclopedia or dictionary. Douglas Adams is known as a critic for restaurants at the end of the universe, and as the famous founder of the Hitchhikers Guider to the Galaxy, but this book is much more about everyday life on earth.
The purpose of the dictionary/encyclopedia is to give names to things, behaviours and feelings in life that are common and well known to all of us, but not named, yet.
For example:
To SPOFFORTH (vb.): To tidy up a room before the cleaning lady arrives.
I hope you get the gist, and here is the first part, letters A-D:
1.) ABILENE (adj.): Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
2.) AHENNY (adj.): The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
3.) AITH (n.): The single bristle that sticks out sideways on a cheap paintbrush.
4.) BALDOCK (n.): The sharp prong on the top of a tree stump where the tree has snapped off before being completely sawn through.
5.) BLITHBURY (n.): A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have undertood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.
6.) BROMSGROVE (n.): Any urban environment containing a small amount of dogturd and about forty-five tons of bent steel pylon or a lump of concrete with holes claiming to be a scuplture.
8.) COTTERSTOCK (n.): A piece of wood used to stir paint and thereafter stored uselessly in a shed in perpetuity.
9.) DEAL (n.): The gummy substance found between damp toes.
10.) DIBBLE (vb.): To try to remove a sticky something from one hand with the other, thus causing it to get stuck to the other hand and eventually to anything else you try to remove it with.
11.) DOBWALLS (pl.n.): The now hard-boiled bits of nastiness which have to be scraped off the crockery by hand after it has been through a dishwasher.
12.) DROITWICH (n.): A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.
13.) DULEEK (n.): Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.
Make sure to stop by next week, to read the next 13!
It's a wonderful, funny and witty book, or better said an encyclopedia or dictionary. Douglas Adams is known as a critic for restaurants at the end of the universe, and as the famous founder of the Hitchhikers Guider to the Galaxy, but this book is much more about everyday life on earth.
The purpose of the dictionary/encyclopedia is to give names to things, behaviours and feelings in life that are common and well known to all of us, but not named, yet.
For example:
To SPOFFORTH (vb.): To tidy up a room before the cleaning lady arrives.
I hope you get the gist, and here is the first part, letters A-D:
1.) ABILENE (adj.): Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
2.) AHENNY (adj.): The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
3.) AITH (n.): The single bristle that sticks out sideways on a cheap paintbrush.
4.) BALDOCK (n.): The sharp prong on the top of a tree stump where the tree has snapped off before being completely sawn through.
5.) BLITHBURY (n.): A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have undertood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes.
6.) BROMSGROVE (n.): Any urban environment containing a small amount of dogturd and about forty-five tons of bent steel pylon or a lump of concrete with holes claiming to be a scuplture.
7.) CLIXBY (adj.): Politely rude. Bliskly vague. Firmly uninformative.'Oh, come my dear, and come with
me.
And wander 'neath the bromsgrove
tree' - Betjeman.
8.) COTTERSTOCK (n.): A piece of wood used to stir paint and thereafter stored uselessly in a shed in perpetuity.
9.) DEAL (n.): The gummy substance found between damp toes.
10.) DIBBLE (vb.): To try to remove a sticky something from one hand with the other, thus causing it to get stuck to the other hand and eventually to anything else you try to remove it with.
11.) DOBWALLS (pl.n.): The now hard-boiled bits of nastiness which have to be scraped off the crockery by hand after it has been through a dishwasher.
12.) DROITWICH (n.): A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.
13.) DULEEK (n.): Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.
Make sure to stop by next week, to read the next 13!
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Thursday Thirteen #6
Thirteen Things about Juliadamus
Although I'm not American, we do have a Thanksgiving party at our house. We would be watching the games anyway, so why not have some friends over here for dinner.
We've been doing this for a couple of years now, and if there's any tradition to it, then it's me, grabbing my purse and keys, hurrying to the store, last-minute-shopping all the stuff for the dinner.
That's why I have to make this a quick one today ;)
So first of all here's my twelve things I still have to get for the dinner tonight:
1. Red Wine - most likely some Cabernet Sauvignon
2. Cinnamon Sticks - for the cranberry sauce
3. Cranberries - well, that's obvious, right?
4. Camembert - the turkey replacement for the veggies, served breaded and fried
5. Pumpkin - we'll have it as a soup
6. Carrots - for the pumpkin soup
7. Ginger - goes into the soup as well
8. Coconut Milk - also for the soup
9. a Lemon - well, have a guess ... yes it's for the soup
10. Bacon - for the stuffing
11. Parsley - hmm, I like my stuffing with lots of parsley
12. Turkey - yeah I know I'm late! I told you so!
And number thirteen will be me, wishing everybody a Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Thursday Thirteen #5
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 2. Bananas 3. Oranges and all other kinds of citrus fruits 4. Melons - all shapes, all tastes 5. Cherries 6. Persimmon 7. Mango 8. Grapes 9. Papaya 10. Strawberries, raspberries, ... all berries! and black currant ;) 11. Pears 12. Nectarines 13. Cacao
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Thursday Thirteen #2
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Thursday Thirteen #1
Oki, here we go, my first Thursday Thirteen! thinking about my birthday party yesterday and about how delicious, though poisonous those cocktails were, my first 13 will be my favorite cocktails:
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Spiderman, just for the looks ;)
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