The Book Munkie
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The 10 Worst Mothers in Books
In honor of Mother’s Day, Jennifer Gilmore picks the worst mothers you’ll find in literature.
This list is definitely not exhaustive. I would have liked to add Margaret White from “Carrie” to this list. Who do you think is missing?
Just discovered a newish site called Inkling. Have any of you guys checked it out? It’s supposed to be a better way to use your textbooks.
Check out the features page here.
“There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficulty to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.”
-The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
50 Shades of Grey or Classic Literature?
See how you do on The Daily Beast’ quiz. I haven’t read “50 Shades” (and pretty much refuse to) but it’s still fun to guess and I was able to get them all right.
My only complaint is that I hate online quizzes that you need to keep track of your own answers, but oh well.
15 Summer Reads from Indie Sellers
I haven’t heard of the majority of the book on the list. I added “The Storytelling Animal”, “The Healing”, and “Hit Lit” to my wish list.
Cross out what you've already read. Six is the average.
Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Attempted a few times but could never get more than 1/4 through)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Attempted, but never finished)Harry Potter series - JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird - Harper LeeThe Bible - Council of Nicea (yuppers, the whole damn thing)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George OrwellHis Dark Materials - Philip PullmanGreat Expectations - Charles DickensLittle Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph HellerRebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (attempted but never got through it)
Birdsong - Sebastian FaulkCatcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo TolstoyThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor DostoyevskyGrapes of Wrath - John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland - Lewis CarrollThe Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA MilneAnimal Farm - George OrwellThe Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas HardyThe Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz ZafonA Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous HuxleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark HaddonLove In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Mice and Men - John SteinbeckLolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman MelvilleOliver Twist - Charles DickensDracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS ByattA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David MitchellThe Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid BlytonHeart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre DumasHamlet - William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald DahlLes Miserables - Victor Hugo (read the abridged in high school, liked it so much I read the unabridged over the summer)
Whoo, I got 38! Not too shabby, and a few were from this year’s reading challenge.
(Source: antoinetheswan)
I really, really want to see this show but the tickets are crazy expensive. Why do shows have to be so expensive? Don’t they realize that I don’t have a lot of extra spending money but thoroughly enjoyed the book and the Hitchcock film and therefore need to complete a literary trifecta?
April has come and gone, and I’m five books closer to my goal.
Favorite book for April: I’d say it’s a tie between “The Golden Compass” and “The Subtle Knife”.
I’m already nearing how many books I finished last year and we’re only 1/3 of the way done with the year. This makes me a happy camper.
How is everyone else doing with their challenge?
About The Book Munkie
My life revolves around books, food, and having adventures. I also enjoying running, watching Food Network, Doctor Who and a variety of other nerdy programming.
I live in NYC and work for a large academic book publisher.
Please note, I do not post much on the weekends. I'm a Monday-Friday type of person.
