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The Ultimate Reading List: 100 Books For Your Older Children To Read

Laura — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:16:01 +0000

I found this reading list circulating around Facebook. It has an excellent mix of old and new literature that provides people a good grounding of our Western culture. How many of these books have you read? I challenge you, and your families, to read all the books on this list. Who will be the first to complete this challenge?

1- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2- The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4- Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6- The Bible
7- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9- His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
10- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14- Complete Works of Shakespeare
15- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18- The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20- Middlemarch – George Eliot

21- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33- Chronicles of Narnia series – CS Lewis
34- Emma -Jane Austen
35- Persuasion – Jane Austen
36- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40- Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

41- Animal Farm – George Orwell
42- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50- Atonement – Ian McEwan

51- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52- Dune – Frank Herbert
53- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70- Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72- Dracula – Bram Stoker
73- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75- Ulysses – James Joyce
76- The Inferno – Dante
77- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78- Germinal – Emile Zola
79- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80- Possession – AS Byatt

81- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
88- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94- Watership Down – Richard Adams
95- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Exchange Postcards From Around The World For Free

Laura — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:05:21 +0000

PostCrossing is a site that aims to connect people around the globe by sending post cards to one another. Their aim is simple; you sign up and send a post card to someone on the site, and after it returns, a random stranger will send you one, and so on.

This is a wonderful opportunity to collect post cards from all over the world and because of the 1:1 ratio, you don’t get in over your head. This is an excellent way to introduce your children to different world cultures.

21 Ways to Do Everything Better

Laura — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:40:01 +0000

Courtesy of Care 2.

By Heshy Shayovitz, DivineCaroline

Doing everything with quality increases your chances for success, enhances your reputation, and saves you time in the long run. People typically equate quality with skill, but quality is a by product of time, thoughts and systems.

Here are twenty-one ways to assure quality in everything you do. See where you can apply a couple of these rules to your life. In a few weeks, review the impact.

The 21 points are:

1. Review Everything
2. Review Contributions of Others
3. Review Your Mistakes
4. Review Accomplishments
5. Control Your Task List—Don’t Drop Anything
6. Control Your Commitments: Just Say No
7. Control Your Understanding
8. Control Expectations
9. Control Yourself
10. Learn from Others
11. Learn Through Research
12. Learn Through Education
13. Relearn
14. Commit to Quality
15. Brainstorm
16. Envision Success
17. Be Proud of Your Quality
18. Solve the Problem, Not the Request
19. Think Big Picture
20. Don’t Wait for Deadlines
21. Exceed Expectations

Read full article here.

Free Dresser Labels

Laura — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:21:11 +0000

In my quest to keep my children’s room clean, I’ve had to devise a system so that my younger one, who cannot read and still has trouble sorting her clothes, could figure out which drawer each type of clothing belongs in. I made up a set of these labels and cut them out, sticking the appropriate label onto the corresponding drawer.

Works like a charm! I suggest you laminate them if your child is likely to tear them up.

Download here

Letter Tracing

Why You Shouldn’t Text and Drive

Laura — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:50:08 +0000

Parents, please show this to your teens. It’s graphic, but it gets the point across!

I’m going to try and secure the full 30-minute version to post here.

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