8 is the natural number following 7

I find it funny that every time I drop off the face of the earth for a few weeks, I'll eventually get around to posting a letter saying something along the lines of, "yo guys, I'm gonna be unplottable for a bit so just hold tight" and then BAM! I start posting the very next day. It's how I roll, apparently.

As it were, I was tagged a bit ago by Sara at Librarian Boredom to complete a survey. Surveys are my friends. I like surveys. ::strokes the survey's furry head::

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
1. Graduating from library school!!!
2. Being a certified book pimp*
3. Creating programs and other book pimpy things
4. Having time to work on my novel(s)
5. Crashing at my friend's house all summer, as she lives directly on the shoreline. :D
6. Swimming, swimming in the swimming pool...
7. Reading non-school stuff (not like I read school stuff to begin with, but yeah...)
8. Blogging more!

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Pimped books
2. Ingested nutrients
3. Began reading Jellicoe Road
4. Wrote up stuff to finish colloquium
5. Decided to reclassify my job title
6. Told a kid that for him, not being weird was like not breathing oxygen
7. Was then told by my boss that I am too informal with the patrons... meh
8. Celebrated my friend's A on an exam she was nervous about failing

8 Things I wish I could do:
1. Remember Chinese
2. Find time to exercise
3. Know what the heck I should expect for summer reading at my new job
4. Paint realistically, instead of just abstractly
5. Learn to sew
6. Not live with my parents after my housing runs up
7. Go on vacation with friends
8. Get a pug!

8 Shows I watch:
1. Charmed
2. Good Eats
3. Skins
4. Law and Order (with Sam Waterston and SVU)
5. 90210
6. Gossip Girl
7. Degrassi
8. Weeds

Oh hot daymn, this is my jaym

Thi is what my blog looks like, according to Wordle. Click that ish to actually be able to read it...

Book meme time!

I've hit an impasse with a project for work, so I am hoping that upon completing this meme all the answers will be revealed to me. That or the people I want to discuss said project with are on some sort of messenger program then. Either or. ^-^

Stolen from Jill's facebook (again, how does one cite Facebook notes?) but you can view the LibrariYAn's results over here.
100 Teen Books Meme

From Karen Brooks-Reese

The following list of books teens love, books teens should read, and books adults who serve teens should know about was compiled IN ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC MANNER and should be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Instructions:
Put an "X" next to the books you've read
Put a "+" next to the books you LOVE
Put a "*" next to the books you plan on reading
Tally your "X"s at the bottom
Share with your friends!

1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams *
2. Kit's Wilderness / David Almond
3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian / Sherman Alexie *
4. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson +
5. Feed / M.T. Anderson X
6. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews
7. Thirteen Reasons Why / Jay Asher +
8. Am I Blue? / Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
9. Audrey Wait! / Robin Benway *
10. Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block
11. Tangerine / Edward Bloor
12. Forever / Judy Blume X
13. What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell
14. Tyrell / Coe Booth
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares
16. A Great and Terrible Beauty / Libba Bray
17. The Princess Diaries / Meg Cabot +
18. The Stranger / Albert Camus
19. Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card *
20. Postcards from No Man's Land / Aidan Chambers
21. Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky X
22. And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie
23. Gingerbread / Rachel Cohn *
24. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn and David Levithan *
25. Artemis Fowl (series) / Eoin Colfer +
26. The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins *
27. The Midwife's Apprentice / Karen Cushman
28. The Truth About Forever / Sarah Dessen
29. Little Brother / Cory Doctorow
30. A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly
31. Tears of a Tiger / Sharon Draper
32. The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer *
33. Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn
34. Stardust / Neil Gaiman
35. Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden +
36. What Happened to Cass McBride / Gail Giles *
37. Fat Kid Rules the World / K.L. Going *
38. Lord of the Flies / William Golding *
39. Looking for Alaska / John Green X
40. Bronx Masquerade / Nikki Grimes *
41. Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
42. Hoot / Carl Hiaasen X
43. The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton X
44. Crank / Ellen Hopkins
45 The First Part Last / Angela Johnson
46. Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curtis Klause
47. Arrow's Flight / Mercedes Lackey
48. Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson
49. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee X
50. Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan X
51. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks / E. Lockhart *
52. The Giver / Lois Lowry +
53. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry X
54. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie / David Lubar
55. Inexcusable / Chris Lynch
56. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things / Carolyn Mackler *
57. Dragonsong / Anne McCaffrey X
58. White Darkness / Geraldine McCaughrean
59. Sold / Patricia McCormick
60. Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta *
61. Wicked Lovely / Melissa Marr
62. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer X
63. Dairy Queen / Catherine Murdock
64. Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers *
65. Monster / Walter Dean Myers
66. Step From Heaven / An Na
67. Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
68. The Keys to the Kingdom (series) / Garth Nix
69. Sabriel / Garth Nix
70. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
71. Eragon / Christopher Paolini
72. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen +
73. Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer *
74. The Golden Compass / Phillip Pullman +
75. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging / Louise Rennison X
76. The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan X
77. Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez
78. how i live now / Meg Rosoff
79. Harry Potter (series) / J.K. Rowling +
80. Holes / Louis Sachar X
81. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger X
82. Push / Sapphire
83. Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi
84. Unwind / Neil Shusterman
85. Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah
86. Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
87. Chanda's Secrets / Allan Stratton
88. Tale of One Bad Rat / Brian Talbot
89. Rats Saw God / Rob Thomas *
90. Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman
92. Gossip Girl / Cecily Von Ziegesar X
93. Uglies / Scott Westerfeld +
94. Every Time a Rainbow Dies / Rita Williams-Garcia
95. Pedro and Me / Judd Winick
96. Hard Love / Ellen Wittlinger
97. American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang
98. Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin
99. I am the Messenger / Markus Zusak
100. The Book Thief / Markus Zusak

Youch. I've only read 26 of the 100! Eeep! I better get crack-alackin' if I want to be a good YA librarian, huh?

Crack? Cocaine? Nope, I'll take me some RPattz

So remember that time that Abby (the) librarian "tagged" me in her addictions meme post?  (by tagged I clearly mean we are both lazy and this is why I will do her survey.  She doesn't want to tag people and I don't want to generate something original during spring break)

Rules: Write up five things you're addicted to. 

1. Robert Pattinson.  It started off as an innocent crush--a faux-librarian getting pumped for the Twilight movie, projection and all that.  Then it moved on to watching interviews just to hear his beautiful British accent.  From there it became a full on love affair because he is hysterical and still vulnerable in a way that makes me want to stroke his hair.  People give him shit for his "poor hygiene" and awkward behavior, but I don't see how that does anything but add to his character.  Perhaps this is because I find showering only twice a week to be a common occurrence and I have taken to not leaving my house ever because of crippling social anxiety, but whatevs.  He's a dreamboat and I loves him! 

2.  Craft.  While I won't shell out the dough for their magazine, they provide me with gem after gem after gem of crafting goodies that it doesn't matter.

3.  K. A. Applegate.  We know how much I loves me some Animorphs, as people have shut doors in my face to get me to shut up about it, but I freaking love her in general.  She is my favorite author because of how well she appeals to the teen market (i.e., me... despite not actually being a teen).  I am currently finishing a reread of her Everworld series and will move on to read an independent book that she did before beginning Remnants, the series she wrote after Everworld.  LOVES!

4.  Harry freakin' Potter.  Yeah, he's slipping down the list, but that doesn't mean anything.  These books have become so important to me that they are like religious texts in my absurd life.  I think in Potterisms and quote it subtly in my daily life.  I banned myself from reading the books until July 21, 209 because I didn't want to overkill it.  

5.  Scrapblog.  'Nuff said.

BONAS JONAS:  SNL digital shorts would have to be my numba 6.  And apparently number 7 is speaking with incorrect grammar, despite being a grammarian.

Typealzer

No, it's not a typing test (don't I wish?), but another silly internet meme of ridiculous proportions! Yaaaay! Thanks to Alicia over at the LibrariYAn I was able to access this glorious bit of html announcing that my blog is authored by a doer. That's right, I do it.

Is this my secret? Sounds about right.

The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

Reasons library school shouldn't exist

Oh wait, there's only one:

• It is an institution that tries to outdo any rocket science and quantum physics program in collecting as many odd and socially awkward people together to meet and become friends.
  

See also: the Library Ladies Slumber Party we had last night. Just the fact that we find the need to call ourselves Library Ladies like we are in a teen drama show should indicate something in and of itself, but don't take my word for it. I will briefly review the highlights of the amazingness that was last night.

1. Danielle brought $20 worth of J-14, Bop, Tiger Beat and god knows what other glorious abominations to my house and we ripped out the posters and took quizzes letting us know which Jonas Brother is in love with us. Or something. There will be pictures in the future of the amazing RPattz and Kristen Stewart pictures I am now in the possession of once they go up on my wall. Don't you fret.
   
2. Apples to Apples is always a good time, but I noticed the single greatest thing about the game. While the puns in the noun descriptions are always a good time, Puff Daddy's blurb makes him my new automatic win card so remember that in case we ever play. It actually says, "'I'll be missing you' shot him to stardom." How does that even exist?!? [emphasis mine]
3. Speaking of Apples to Apples automatic win cards, Meghan imparted these wise words: "Helen Keller is the golden snitch of Apples to Apples." So true.
   
4. In other Apples to Apples happenings, we discovered that Cara=Blair Waldorf. Her adjectives are: mystical, timeless, wicked, glamorous, cold, luxurious, delicate, and sultry. I have yet to read Gossip Girls or watch it, but I am assured this is fact.
   
5. An event that is too glorious for words. You will have to wait until I post the pictures. Tingle with utmost anticipation because it is the single most ridiculous moment of my life.
   
6. Meghan shared a story that would ordinarily be heartbreaking and slightly adorable if not for the fact that it was had at 4 am. After Breaking Dawn was released, a woman went to the cemetery every day to read the book to her deceased teenage daughter because she was obsessed with Twilight but passed away before the release of the new book. We then had this inappropriate conversation:
   
   Sara:It's probably better that she died before that book came out.
   Me: [Meyer] could have stopped with Eclipse.
   Danielle: [The Twilight Saga] should never have existed.
   Me: How could you say such blasphemous words!? What would I write about on my blog?
   Lisa: What would Kristi(e)'s dog be named?
   
   The last bit from Lisa refers to the fact that I want to name my future female pug Renesmee. It is clearly the best name anyone could ever give their pet, if not their first born. In fact, if it wasn't for my dedication to my 2nd grade dream to name my daughter Claudia after the vice-prez of the BSC I might consider it (okay, false... I was just pulling your leg; however, the pug's appellation really is going to be Renesmee).
   
7. Twi-friggin'-light Madlibs. We completed two, but I will share the best one:
   
   "So are you going? This Saturday, I mean?" I was hoping he would, thought it seemed swimmingly. I couldn't picture him loading up to jizz with the rest of the pants from school; he didn't belong in the same world. But just hoping that he might gave me my first twinge of ejaculation I'd felt for the outing.
   
   "Where are you all going, exactly?" He was still looking ahead, bouncy, moist.
   
   "Down to your mom's house, to the grotto." I studied his face, trying to read it. His eyes seemed to narrow hauntingly.
   
   He glanced down at me from the corner of his eye, fornicating chagriningly. "I really don't think I was invited."
   
   I sighed. "I just invited you."
   
   "Let's you and I not push poor Bonus Jonas any further this week. We don't want him to snap." His eyes dance; he was enjoying the idea more than he should.

Speaking of Bonus Jonas, it's time for one of those now that we reach the end of the sleep over.

BONUS JONAS: We obviously had to look up the jizz in my pants digital short from SNL after the Mad Libs, and the first result I got back was Harry Potter jizz in my pants. Um.... AMAZING?! Oh wait, and I just found this johnson just now: Twilight jizz in my pants. Oh biology scene...

Delurkification

Alright guys, word on the street is National Delurking week is going on right now.  If you read my blog, even if you're just reading it for the first time, give me a shout out and let me know I'm not typing my little heart out to no one.  Actually, I'm pretty convinced no one reads this besides Jill and Danielle, so surprise me with a comment.  If you're like me, you feel hokey just saying "Uh, so I read your blog... yeaaah."  Feel free to leave a random fact or a link to your favorite YouTube video or any other thing you think I might like.  Or hate.  I'm not too choosy.  So go on, click "post comment."  You know you want to... 

Thanks go out to MotherReader, Jen Robinson and Abby (the) Librarian for keeping me posted!

Twilight Madlibs

I just got back from my friend Danielle's awesome Godfather Pastafest which was filled to the brim with LULz of all kinds, but mostly Twilight (i.e., the best kind).  There was an exchange of gifts that was pretty much amazing and could have happened at a ten year old's birthday party (see also: Lisa's HSM flashlight that appears to be a microphone, the HSM handsanitizer and bath set Danielle got, my Nerf gun...).  I gave Meghan an Apprentice Mad Libs book which was clearly ridiculous.  We took the hilarity up a level by supplementing only Twilight related words for the blanks (no worries, the transcripts will be provided in the next week).  This led to the obvious discussion that Twilight needs a madlib with 23940247 adjective slots.  Surprisingly I did not actually add additional spaces for adjectives.  What you see was actually deemed worthy to comprise one page's worth of adjectives according to Meyer's publisher.

Without further ado, I give you the Twilight madlib:

Directions:  Take out a sheet of paper and write your answers to each number.  Go to the comments section and read the quoted text from the Twilight Saga, supplementing your words for the numbered spaces.  Enjoy.  If you're feeling up to it, please supply your word choices in the comments section! (I made it slightly lengthy for full ridiculousness, my apologies)

1. adjective 
2. color 
3. generic noun matching previous color
4. person in room (possessive)
5. adjective 
6. adjective 
7. adjective 
8. verb ending in -ing. 
9. a vaguely familiar but different verb ending in -ing.
10. adjective 
11. adjective 
12. adjective
13. noun, 
14. adjective
15. noun
16. adjective 
17. obscure simile using "like"
18. noun
19. adjective
20. same noun as last time 
21. switch it up with a new noun that is similar to the repeated noun 
22. adjective 
23. oh snap, kick it back to that tired noun 
24. antithesis of said tired ass noun 
25. new noun
26. apparently there are a lot of nouns in this sentence,
27. onemonepia, 
28. repeat onemonepia, 
29. repeat  onemonepia yet again
30. adjective 
31. noun that will be repeated
32.  number 
33. remember that noun?  use it again...
34. significantly larger number
35. and again but plural this time
36. adjective 
37. significantly larger number (reprise) 
38. last adjective used goes here as well
39. new noun
40. verb 
41. adjective
42. adjective 
43. adjective 
44. obscure name that sounds like word vomit

BONUS JONAS:  Since the internet is as ubiquitous as it is ridiculous, someone already created Twilight Madlibs.  Check them out to satisfy your every Twilight LUL or in the case you found my large amount of required words to be obnoxious.  

Why I became a librarian

No, this isn't a blog post about my final term project for multimedia (though it sounds like it, no?). I am that bored that Googling "library meme" seems like a great idea. To answer the question, I decided to become a librarian on the NJTransit train going to New York on January 31, 2006. That's right, I know the exact date. Be jealous. The Targum (i.e., the atrocity that passes itself off as a school newspaper) had followed me over and over again. Each time, I spurned the advances of the silly little paper, only to have my seat littered with pages. I grabbed it reluctantly and read to pass the time. This is where I first heard the myth that people in library science are actually retiring, making it so that there will be no librarians in the future. Let me just point out this is a bold faced lie. Despite the lies, library science seemed like it made more and more sense and I stopped changing my major every five seconds. The end.

Now for the second half of the meme: Surveytime

• Best library school faculty member when I was getting my degree: Stew Mohr and his adorable little bowties and vests
  
• Favorite class: Storytelling (ahem... Traditions of Oral Narration... sorry)
  
• Best bosses: I've really only had two library bosses. Considering Kayo would disappear half the time she was supposed to be my backup and not tell me until I found out during a reference interview.... that would most likely tip the vote to Dr. Belvin's favor in and of itself.
  
• Favorite library: Belle's imaginearey library in the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast
  
• Most unexpected career move: Spending more money to go to more school
  
• Best career move to date: Going to library school? Helps with the whole being a librarian thing.
  
• Favorite piece of advice to others: Plan out your conference attendence by figuring out in advance which sessions and backup sessions you want to go to. Saves you from lots of boredom.
  
• Best piece of advice received: You can't cut carrots with a gun. Not library related, but still the best piece of advice out there.
  

Please don't fall asleep at the desk

That's just a little something I've been chanting in my head over here at the mostly abandoned children's reference desk to keep my head from making contact with the wood in front of it. Someone had this up as a neat little game on their facebook status a month or so ago, so I'm going to steal it here and have a good ole blog meme day. This will probably be the first of many attempts to keep me lucid.

Grab the closest book and open it to page 52. Type in the fifth sentence on that page exactly as it appears in the book.

"In the movie theaters of the larger cities, movies from Mexico and Hollywood are shown."

::Honduras...in Pictures::Visual Geography Series::

So you go out and do the same. Post it on your blog or in the comments section!

EDIT:: Apparently it is page 56. In that case:

"Two or three of the sprouts are allowed to bear."

How does one calculate an optional e?

By figuring out the difference in your Dewey numbers, that's how!  Thanks to Renee of the inner librarian for bringing this johnson to my attention.  

Here is with an E:

Kristie's Dewey Decimal Section:
103 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
Kristie = 1899095 = 189+909+5 = 1103

Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology

Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.

What it says about you:
You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

And here it is without: 

Kristi's Dewey Decimal Section:
098 Prohibited works, forgeries & hoaxes
Kristi = 189909 = 189+909 = 1098

Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Please note: I find both of these to be extremely accurate.  This further suggests that my E is actually optional.  Score!  

Also note:  The incorrect spelling of my name (Kristi) is the Dewey number for forgeries & hoaxes.  Figure that.

Book Meme

I saw this over on Fuse 8 many days ago, but schoolwork does not often let me have posts that require more thought than, Hey guys, look at this Rpattz video...  Now that I've put being a functioning human being on a temporary hiatus, I figured I'd get to it.

Put yourself in the role of literary matchmaker: What two characters, from two different books, would you pair with one another? 

Shelf Talker named this meme post "Harry Hearts Whom?" and I'm going to have to agree with her.  Which character is it that Harry loves?  Obviously there is Ginny, but this question allows the whole literary schiorgasboard for drama of Rita Skeeter proportions!  

If I were to think of Harry's best interests and the type of girl he could playfully grow and develop his power of being super awesome with, I would probably have to suggest Meggie from Inkheart.  I wonder if her ability to read things into being could be transferred onto spell-casting. They might have to be narrated spells since the words themselves are what calls things into being and not magical energy, like Harry.  Or, would her inner magic lend itself to Harry's type of magic once it is known?

But if I were to create a Rita Skeeter-esque match for him I would suggest Sabrina Grimm from The Sisters Grimm.  Sabrina would throw a fit and make sure everyone would know she wasn't actually dating Potter.  Obviously for both her and Meggie to work, this has to be Harry circa Philosopher's Stone to Prisoner of Azkaban.  Deathly Hallows Harry is just too old.  Then again, that would provide more speculative fodder for Skeeter's rumormongering.  ::Gasp!:: An 11 year old dating a 17 year old!! Oh my!

Animorphs=love

And I always thought I was more of a Rachel.  Guess not.  Oh well.  In ideals, I'd like to live up to Cassie's personality, so +!  I'm still going to be Rachel for Halloween, no matter what any silly quiz says...

Book Meme

Bored at work + Not much to do = Book meme

I Googled it and found this blog as one of my results. Thank you, Left Coast Mama for helping abate my boredom at work. You are a lifesaver.

1. Bold all those you’ve read.
2. Italicise all those you started but haven’t finished.
3. Add three of your own.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymos
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
374. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Philip K. Dick
375. Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb
376. number9dream, David Mitchell
377. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
378. Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
379. Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
380. Self, Yann Martel
381. Totto-chan, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
382. Underworld, Don DeLillo
383. The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
384. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
385. To Ride Pegasus, Anne McCaffrey
386. Riding a Pale Horse, Piers Anthony
387. The Blackstone Chronicles, John Saul
388. A New Spring, Robert Jordan
389. Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card
390. The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien
391. The Man in the Iron Mask, Dumas
392. The Bone Collector, Jeff Deaver
393. A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein
394. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
395. Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro
396. Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones
397. Nemesis, Isaac Asimov
398. The Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass
399. Ben-Hur, General Lew Wallace
400. Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
401. A Doll’s House, Neil Gaiman
402. Dream Country, Neil Gaiman
403. A Game of You, Neil Gaiman
404. Fables and Reflections, Neil Gaiman
405. Brief Lives, Neil Gaiman
406. World’s End, Neil Gaiman
407. The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman
408. The Wake, Neil Gaiman
409. A cookery book by Nigella Lawson
410. A cookery book by Jamie Oliver
411. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
412. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
413. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
414. Rosie Dunne, Cecilia Ahern
415. Boy A, Jonathan Trigell
416. My Family and other animals, Gerald Durrell
417. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
418. The collected short stories of Saki, Hector Hugh Munro
419. The Opposite of Fate, Amy Tan
420. The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
421. The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
422. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
423. I am the King of the Castle, Susan Hill
424. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
425. A Case of Need, Michael Chrichton
426. Battle Royale, Koushun Takami
427. The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
428. Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett
429. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
430. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
431. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
432. Roses Are Red, James Patterson
433. Animorphs, K.A.Applegate
434. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
435. Eyeshield 21, Riichiro Inagaki
436: Twilight, New Moon, Eclispse, Stephanie Meyer
437: The Deed of Paksennarion, Elizabeth Moon (trilogy)
438. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
439. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
440. The Sisters Grimm, Michael Buckley
441. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

MASH it up.

What happens when you pay about a thousand dollars for a three hour class featuring a compulsory attendance policy that reiterates information almost entirely word for word from the textbook? Four games of MASH. If you are unaware of what MASH is, please check out this rudimentary skeleton of a game from the Middle School Survival Guide. Anyway, on with alternate life scenarios...

MASH result one: Meghan is going to end up married to a ridiculously awkward man from our program that shall remain nameless. They are going to live in a mansion with their demon spawn and hairy pet spider. She is going to continue her Harry Potter addiction in her free time, when she isn't busy with her full-time job of being a bum. Apparently, being a bum pays off well for a select few, because her salary is $100,000 per year!

MASH result two: Jake Gyllenhaal and I will be amorous in our Appalachian mansion with our crack baby and goldfish named Rascal. Why Jake Gyllenhaal decided to make a simple septic-tank pumper with a salary of $50,000 a year with a heavy addiction to booze is beyond me.

MASH result three: Meghan will grow up to fall madly in love with her mom. They move to Hogsmeade and live in a lovely little house. Hopefully, as the only all-magical community in all of England, Hogsmeade is liberal and tolerant of such controversial issues as homosexuality and blatant incest. Instead of adopting, Meghan and her mom purchase robots to act as offspring. Meghan earns the dough (all $69,000 a year) with her freelance dumpster diver career. As one would expect of a Hogsmeade resident, Meghan is endowed with certain magical powers. Her invisibility ability is all the rage at neighborhood block parties. Perhaps it is this talent that led to her affair with Mr. Rogers back in the day.

MASH result four: Peter Pettigrew, my lover, gave me genital warts. Fortunately, we live in a mansion so I can escape his presence in one of our many other rooms. Despite making $7,000,000 a year, I maintain a steady job as a chimney sweep. It's a relaxing way to spend my day, which is much more than I can say for the nights. The octuplets Peter impregnated me with during our honeymoon in Venice are a nightmare and a half. Sometimes, even the thrill of cleaning out a long-forgotten flu is not enough, and I must escape the only way I know how--by turning into a hawk. Thanks to my many years of dedicated magic education, I finally became an animagus to fly far far away from my traitorous husband.

Six Word Memoir

This seemed like a really neat concept. Create a novel in six words (I won't get into the debate that the difference between novel, novella and short story is determined by amount of words; that's just me picking apart everything).

I received an email with this link, which proves a highly interesting read!

As for my own attempts at a six word novel, the following are my rough drafts:

• Help! I'm permanently seven years old!
• Go with flow, then you'll know
• Forever and ever, circling 'round again...
  

Pottertastic Tuesday

I've been saving this one for a rainy day. Not literally rainy as in clouds and dripplets and stuff, but when I saw this awesome personality quiz on A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy I saw it everywhere (and I do mean everywhere... see also: Fuse 8, bookshelves of doom and so on). I felt it best to wait until we almost forgot about and then BLAM! There it is. So, without further ado, I present my results from Pirate Monkey Inc.'s Harry Potter Personality Quiz! As next Tuesday is the full moon, I may be unable to type up my usual Pottertastic Tuesday reports due to a sudden need to ravage villagers. I'm sure you understand.



Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

Blog Game Time!

Aside from three questions about books and reading, there isn't any real connection to kidlit here. Sometimes, a gal just needs a good survey, ya know? Without further ado, I give you the latest meme craze:

What Privileges Do You Have?
(developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. Blog meme taken from A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy)

Instructions: Bold the true statements.

1. Father went to college

2. Father finished college

3. Mother went to college

4. Mother finished college

5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.

6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.

7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.

8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.

9. Were read children's books by a parent.

10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.

11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.

12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.

13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.

14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs.

15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs.

16. Went to a private high school.
Practically. I mean, Hunterdon Central is practically a private high school in public school's clothing.

17. Went to summer camp.
From the age of 4 to 14. I still have my Princeton Y shirt from the first summer. It was a dress and now... well, it's more of a belly shirt that I can't seem to talk myself into wearing now that I graduated undergrad. When did I get all conservative? Hmph.

18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
hahahaha

19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels

20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Mostly. I bolded half.

21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them.

22. There was original art in your house when you were a child.
I don't know if it counts, since it was painted by my father. But let me tell you, he's pretty damn good with the oils.

23. You and your family lived in a single-family house.
This is tricky, since my mom and I didn't, but my dad and company do. Such is the life of the divorced kid.

24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home.
Again, my dad and stepmom not moms.

25. You had your own room as a child.

26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18
I had my own phoneline for a few years, then I got a cell phone halfway through high school.

27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course.

28. Had your own TV in your room in high school.

29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college.

30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.

31. Went on a cruise with your family.
Went on a cruise with marching band?

32. Went on more than one cruise with your family.

33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.

34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.
Grand total: 14
(the two half-bolds joined together for one whole bold line)