Yet Another 10 Things I've Done That You Probably Have Not

John Scalzi, wonderful SF writer, has written another Yet Another 10 Things I've Done That You Probably Have Not on his blog.  He always has an awesome, unbeatable list of cool stuff he's done.  Also, his blog readers leave their own impressive lists in the comments too. Check them out!

Here is my list, this time round (I've done one before in which I've included skydiving from 14,000 ft, so am not including that experience in this one).

1) washed and stimulated a squirrel’s butt and private bits.

2) sang Up On The Roof while being up on the roof while holding an umbrella.

3) drove by Tiger Wood’s mansion the day after the infamous car incident.

4) gave a copy of my book to the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

5) walked barefoot on coals for Deepavali.

6) participated in a six-day long Indian wedding/feast that included a dancing bear.

7) had my finger in somebody else’s boil.

8) given 1000 copies of my own book for my birthday (I know, I have a strange friend. He said he got them from someone who buys remainders).

9) and yup, touched, gaped at, and handled 1000 copies of my own book,

10) am currently reroofing a house whose original roof I installed 20 years ago (dammit, I was so certain I wouldn’t be back….)

How about you list ten (or less) things you've done that others probably haven't? It's fun!

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The 100 Books Meme Everyone Will Inevitably Do This Month

INSTRUCTIONS: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this list. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

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 (all)

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 – 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 Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell


22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald


23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

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 – 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 Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA 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 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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

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 – EB 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

Well, obviously, I read more than six of the 100 above ;-). To be fair, I was a Philosophy and English major.  If I weren't, I don't think I would have read Zola.  Or Moby Dick.

And where is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? I thought everyone has either read or attempted to read that one.

How about you?

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You Don't Nose Me

KAZ tagged me on a meme. I normally don't do memes but she promised me rendang.

Obviously, she knows one not very Random thing about me!

Anyway, here are Six Random Things About Me:

1) I have eight toes on one foot and six on the other.

2) I live in mountain cavern guarded by wild mutant poms.

3) I can read standing on my head while rapidly rotating one arm.

4) I can shapeshift into an eighty year-old woman in the morning.

5) I am immune to food bribes.

6) My nose. It grows.

I tag VANESSA JAYE. In fact, I tag y'all here to help with the nose-growing.

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Okay, due to silence from a certain end, I'm seriously thinking of giving away my ebook chapter by chapter through my website.

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The Limping Alpha Male is going to have his first physical therapy session today. His paperwork included "electrical stimulation." I asked him whether that would make him smarter. He told me it will definitely make ONE of his legs stand up.

Ooooh.

I think his nose is growing.

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