Reading and Gaming

June's Book a Month Challenge theme is knowledge. Because half of my month will be spent traveling, and we are packing light for biking, I'm going to cheat a little and say that I'll be reading Let's Go:Ireland as my book this month. Normally, I pack some huge novel for the plane ride at least, but it all depends on what will fit in my backpack. This way I can guarantee I'll read something at least tangentially related to the theme.

From Musical Perceptions, I found this meme of LibraryThing books that were tagged unread. The job is to bold those books I have read, underline the titles I read for school , and italicize those I started but didn't finish.

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Wuthering Heights
   
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: A novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary
14. The Odyssey
15. Pride and Prejudice
16. Jane Eyre (Chris read it for school, and then made me read it)
    
17. The Tale of Two Cities
    
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel
20. War and Peace (managed to slog my way through somehow)
    
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assassin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway
    
28. Great Expectations
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver (sadly, not yet)
36. Wicked: The life and times of the wicked witch of the West
    
37. The Canterbury Tales
38. The Historian : a novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. Middlemarch
45. Frankenstein
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath (though somehow I had a library fine for it in grade school, even though I'd never checked it out)
    
52. The Poisonwood Bible
    
53. 1984
54. Angels & Demons
55. Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray (on the to-read list after watching The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
    
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
63. Oliver Twist
    
64. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
65. Dune (that's right, I haven't read it).
    
66. The Prince
    
67. The Sound and the Fury
68. Angela's Ashes: A memoir
69. The God of Small Things
70. A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
71. Cryptonomicon
72. Neverwhere (on the to-read list)
    
73. A Confederacy of Dunces
74. A Short History of Nearly Everything
75. Dubliners
76. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
77. Beloved
78. Slaughterhouse-Five
79. The Scarlet Letter
80. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
81. The Mists of Avalon
    
82. Oryx and Crake
83. Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed
84. Cloud Atlas
85. The Confusion
86. Lolita
87. Persuasion
88. Northanger Abbey
89. The Catcher in the Rye
90. On the Road
91. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
92. Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
93. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into values
94. The Aeneid
95. Watership Down
96. Gravity’s Rainbow
97. The Hobbit
98. In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
99. White Teeth
100. Treasure Island
101. David Copperfield

And finally, I just discovered a guild for librarians in World of Warcraft. I love the guild ranks, and am tempted to go join, but I'm already in 3 guilds: mine - The Northshire Book Club, my brother's- Skyseekers, and the Science guild on Earthen Ring, which I haven't even logged in at since the conference. I'd meant to, but I already play pretty much as much as I want. I love the idea though!