I'm not feeling anywhere near 100% yet, but I got this pressrelease from SPV today and thougth I'd post it here. It's about Alice Cooper. He got censored. "I'm a shock-rock Romeo/I like to leave 'em shattered" still goes I guess.


Well folks, he’s at it again…

Alice Cooper, your favourite shock rocker, has again succeeded in shocking the censors in America.  But we have just the remedy for you!

Last night Alice played “Vengeance Is Mine” from ALONG CAME A SPIDER on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on the CBS Network in the U.S.  And he wasn’t allowed to do it the way he wanted to! He wanted to re-enact a piece of his new video by picking a female victim from the audience to choke with a silk scarf.  But the TV Station wouldn’t allow it!  Huh?!  Like we don’t see violence on the news?  Anyways…..Alice wasn’t allowed to.  All’s not fair in TV and Rock ‘n’ Roll it seems.

BUT – in an effort to show the TV station what they missed out on – we’ve decided to move up the premiere of the uncut, uncensored video and put it out for YOU, the fans, online today!  Who needs TV?  Love him or hate him, Alice Cooper’s a legend with a killer show and a killer concept.  And this video is no exception.  Clocking in at 9+min. long, it features three (yes, 3!) songs from the ALONG CAME A SPIDER album.  (And Slash crushes in the vid btw!)

So, if you already have the now-famous Alice Cooper Pinball Widget installed on your page somewhere, you’ll see that the video just shows up in there.  If not, install it because due to the awesome response we’re extending the game until the end of the year!  Every month from now until the end of the year we’ll be announcing new winners, so check it out and enjoy!  (www.spv.de/alicecooper)

NO MATTER WHAT - make sure to check out the brand new video on one or all of the following sites and tell us, Alice, Slash, your neighbors, your cat, the dentist and even your favorite presidential candidate what you think!  Whoever's into freedom of speech should get a taste of Alice Cooper's rock 'n' roll, so it's up to you!  Enjoy!  

http://MySpace.com/AlongCameAVideo
http://YouTube.com/SPV
http://imeem.com/alicecooper

Walked in to:
Violin Concerto D, Op. 35 (Peter Ilychich Tchaikovsky) (Wedding Edit)

High Tea: (in random mode)
Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing.mp3
Alice Cooper - Be With You Awhile.mp3
Alice Cooper - Hard Hearted Alice.mp3
Alice Cooper - It's Me.mp3 (Because it’s Our Song!)
Alice Cooper - Look at You over There (Ripping The Sawdust From My Teddybear).mp3
Alice Cooper - The Saga of Jesse.mp3 (because Chris hates this song, yet it began with “I’m in jail in a Texas town, in my sister’s wedding gown”)
Alice Cooper - The Song That Didn't Rhyme.mp3 (Because it’s a sweet song about a song that’s just not good enough to be recorded… It’s an underdog, and we root for underdogs.)
Alice Cooper - What Do You Want from Me.mp3
Alice Cooper - You and Me.mp3
Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life.mp3
Ben E. King - Stand By Me.MP3
Bill Bithers - Ain't No Sunshine.mp3
Billy Idol - White Wedding.mp3 (The laptop picked this to be the first song. No, this was NOT a shotgun wedding!)
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together (First line: “You know the marriagevow is very sacred”)
Buoys - Timothy.mp3 (Would’ve been my name if I’d been a boy because of this song, but my parents didn’t know it was about *eating* poor Timothy)
Chi Coltrane - Go Like Elijah.mp3 (Yeah, it’s about how she wants to head to heaven, but it’s upbeat none the less)
Danny Elfman - The Ice Dance.mp3 (Original candidate to walk into the Villa to, but it makes me cry)
Danny Elfman - Victor's Piano Solo.mp3 (Same as Ice Dance)
David Bowie - As the World Falls Down.mp3
Deep Purple - smoke on the water.mp3
Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease.mp3
Depeche mode - Freelove.mp3
Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet.mp3
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing.mp3
Genesis - I Can't Dance.mp3 As Kornelis said it, we wanted to open with a dance, but the sad truth is: We Can't Dance
Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.mp3 (Bcause mum sang it wrong once.)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.mp3
Joan Osbourne - What if God Was One of Us.mp3
Kate Bush - Hammer Horror.mp3 (Kornelis is a big Hammer Horror fan)
King - Love and pride.mp3 (Mom and I loved this man and his Long Hair. We needed more really bad 80’s tracks:))
Kiss - I Was Made For Loving You.mp3
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven.mp3
Live - The Dolphin's Cry.mp3
Loreena McKennitt - The Highwayman.mp3
Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer.mp3 (Starts off with a russian orthodox choir singing here comes the bridegroom)
Mark & Clark Band - worn down piano.mp3
Matchbox 20 - Push.mp3 (“I want to push you around, and I will, yeah I will.” )
Meatloaf - I Would Do Anything For Love.mp3
Monty Python - Eric the Half-A-Bee.mp3 (Especially for Esmée)
Monty python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.mp3
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane.wma (Especially for Chris)
Nick Cave - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For.mp3
Nick Cave - Do You Love Me.mp3
Nick Cave - Into My Arms.mp3
Nick Cave - People Ain't No Good.mp3 (Just because it’s inappropriate for a wedding:))
Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together.mp3
Porcupine Tree - trains.mp3 (I used to listen to this song while waiting for my connecting train to or from Kornelis at Den Bosch)
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love.mp3
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It.mp3 (Inappropriateness! )
Rapalje - ride on.mp3
Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud.mp3
Sarah McLachlan - Angel.mp3
Saybia - The Day After Tomorrow.mp3
Saybia - The second you sleep.mp3
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You.mp3 (We all kept our ears though!:))
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer.mp3 (Wrong song for a wedding:))
The Eagles - Hotel California.MP3 (“You can never leave!”)
The Beatles - Love Me Do.mp3
The Beatles - Come Together.wma
The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand.mp3
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever.MP3
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps.MP3
The Cure - The Lovecats.mp3 (MEOW! Kittylovers:))
The Doors - People are strange.mp3 (Our families are anyway)
The Monkees - Daydream Believer.mp3
The Troggs - Wild Thing.mp3
The moody blues - nights in white satin.mp3
Weird Al Yankovic - The Saga Begins.mp3 (The Star Wars song for Esmée, haha)
Welle Erdball - Monoton Und Minimal (C64).mp3
ZZ TOP - Gimme All You Lovin.MP3
David Bowie - Dancin´ In The Streets.mp3
Franz Ferdinand - take me out.mp3
Lou Reed - perfect day.mp3 (Because it was)
Rocky Horror Picture Show - sweet transvestite.mp3 (The Most Unlikely Weddingsong EVER)
Talking Heads - road to nowhere.mp3 (Okay, this one is unlikely too:))

...And I'm a Mrs. now!

My feet are killing me, but I'm married, haha. It was a very chaotic day with lots of things that went horribly wrong, and still everyone looked happy, so who cares?:) Pictures will come soon. Not tomorrow most likely, but someday soon none the less. :)

Love,
Josepha Antonia Kalsbeek-van Lieshout


PS:YAY!!!!

I'll say "I do".

The alarmclock just went off about 8 minutes ago. Neither of us got much sleep in spite of the liquid courage of last night at our respective dinnerparties. (Had a great time!). I'm so tired and I'm afraid to look in the mirror, I don't want to see the blue circles under my eyes and I think there's a giant zit in there somewhere... But eight hours from now I'll be walking out of Villa Berg & Dal a married woman. I've already had a cry this morning, so the day's tone is already set. The make-up'd better be waterproof!!!!

I better go, much to do... Lots, lots, lots of people to see!

Love,
Jo

De fotografe wil graag aankomen 30 tot 15 minuten voordat de kapster klaar is. Weet ik veel wanneer de kapster klaar is! Ze begint om 9 uur...

..that i know more people in NO/LA than I thought I did. Those who are riding it out, I wish you'd reconsider, but if you feel that's what needs to be done, then I hope you'll be safe and well throughout. Those leaving, well, I hope you've already gotten the hell out and to safer, higher ground.

Stay safe. Please.

Love,
Jo

PS: What the fuck does it take for those damned levees to get fixed?! Dutch Deltaworks-experts have been over there assessing the situation years ago, so why hasn't anything been done yet, goddamnit!

Eighteen days, one hour, almost 30 minutes, and I’ll be Mrs. Kalsbeek. I can barely believe it and I am quite stressed: can we pull this off? When I see the effort everyone’s putting into it I get all intimidated, wonder whether they’ll think it’s worth it, once it’s over. All those people shopping for new outfits, going to the hairdresser’s… Kornelis has a few more hours of work before he’s off for his vacation, then the last nitty-gritty things kick off. Almost two weeks till the wedding. Yike!

So much going on lately… Mom’s been in hospital –she’s fine now- my uncle had a heartattack, Kornelis’ former neighbor died and we’ll go to her funeral tomorrow, and my own neighbor in Tilburg passed away this past month as well (couldn’t make his, but sent a letter to his widow). I met my deadlines, and Chris is coming over often now because his phone and internet are down, and will be until little over a week from now. We’re without a car but we do have a working washingmachine, Carolien is picking up the dress with us in Amsterdam and I finally have a ring that fits.

I’m going mad, and I’ll be glad when this month is over. So tired… I’m slacking off in the writingdepartment, sorry penpals… I just can’t seem to sit down for the task long enough. I’m trying though!  

Love,
Jo

VoteBoth.com seems to have quit on the "dream ticket", but I don't really get it... What's to stop Obama after Clinton delivers her speech, just to turn around, accept the candidacy and ask her to be his VP on the spot? It'd be kick-ass in my opinion... Why is everyone assuming she won't be VP? Has Obama mentioned anything of the sort, has she? I could be way behind on things but I wish they'd just get this the hell over with... I wanna know who wins what and when things are finally going to get better. Though mind you, the dollar being low makes it very attractive for us foreigners to buy out there. (Doesn't the injection of foreign cash help?)


Anyway...

Just puzzled. I so don't get US politics... Too damned complicated.

Here it is, another weekend. Tomorrow it'll be exactly a month before the wedding and we're going in for a "trial-do". As in, we're going to decide what my hair'll look like on the day. I had an idea, but then I had a few more ideas and now I don't know what the hell to do with it, so we'll see. The hairdresser made an appointment for several hours, so that should prove interesting.

Not everything's going well, -I still don't have a weddingring that actually fits- but at this moment I'm just glad certain familymembers'll be in attendance. My uncle had a heartattack last weekend, but it looks like he'll be okay. It was a mild one and he's already home, after getting his veins unplugged and spending most of the week on the cardioward. I'm glad he'll be okay. He's got two little girls at home and I'd hate for them to lose their dad. (Or for me to lose an uncle!)

What we did lose, is the car. It was a moneypit. A beloved moneypit, but a moneypit none the less. By our calculations we'll be without wheels for the next six to nine months, which complicates a whole lot of our plans, besides basically ruining our vacationplans for this year (Little daytrips. The honeymoon's next year:)). Ah well. Shit happens and at the end of it we'll have a newer, more reliable car. Just glad this one took us everywhere we wanted to go and got us there safely in this past year.

I think I'll keep it at this for now. The wedding/car/washingmachine-stress with the added uncle-worries kinda kicked my ass these past few weeks and I'm feelin' it, bigtime, so... I'll just sign off and cuddle up with my hubby-to-be.

Love,
Jo

We talked about it. If we have to go without a car for a half year or so after tonight's visit to the Forddealer's garage, then we will. Practically everything we do and/or have planned for the rest of the year can be done by train or per bicycle, except for one weekend. Kor, Rita and Carolien have something planned a month after our wedding and since we don't know what it is yet we don't know for sure, but we may need a car for that. Rentalagencies are an expensive option, so we'll have to see what we can do with that idea.

Yes, I am assuming the worst with our car. The gears have sounded weird for a while now and yesterday the engine started making a strange sound as well, just as we were driving into Tilburg. I was terrified all the way back home to Baarn. And not just me either, Kornelis was worried we might have to call the AAA again for assistance. It may be on its last legs/tires, and tonight's drive to the garage may be the last for our beloved little Ford. I hope I'm wrong. But I'm not willing to pay anything over 450 to get it fixed. And truly, i think 100 euro's 'd be too much already. It's a 800 euro car. And we already put a new katalyst and a new tire on there. More, and it'll be more expensive to fix it than it was to buy it! We've only had it for one year and it's been a real moneypit ever since. But it was a nice car none the less. I didn't get carsick in it, Kornelis had enough legroom (being 6 feet), and we've gone to hell and back with our little '93 toot-toot. And some good places too...

Time'll have to tell.

New washingmachine, the car's quitting on us and Kornelis insist on us having a car. If not this one, then another. And the wedding is a month and a half way.

I've spent a large part of my life relatively deep in debt. I finally got out with Kornelis' help and head for finances, and I don't intend to sink back into that hole again. Ever.
EVER.



(mind you, any one of these would've been a breeze to handle. But not all three at once. Stress!)

Life's just composed of waiting these days! Waiting to hear from the printer's, waiting to hear about the ring (It's getting resized for the second time, what the fuck?!), waiting to get a call from my mom so I know what train to take to meet her in Utrecht... Yup, a pre-wedding shoppingspree with the Mother of the Bride. I'm looking forward to it, and a little nervous too. Hope everything goes well. Just as a sign that we're definitely family: We're meeting up at the station's toilets. Seriously. It's the only thing she knows 100% certain to find, and I've no trouble finding it either, being a frequent return customer, haha. We're horrible!

What isn't horrible is Alice Cooper's new album. AC Goes to Hell, Dragontown and Brutal Planet all were very metal-ish, and now Along Came a Spider is going back to that sound. Well-mixed, fantastic production, great story (Conceptalbum revolving around a serialkiller named Spider... Considering I'm into Dexter these days, I do believe there's a bloody theme to my life here!), and Alice sounds like he's not a day over 20, energetic and creepy. I can't wait for the concert, and there's better be one this or next year for this album! (He's on the Psycho-Drama tour now, the next should be an album-tour).    http://www.youtube.com/officialalicecooper Should you want to check it out, it's on his myspace in its entirety. For free! :) There's a 12 inch vinyl coming out too, naturally we have it on pre-order. Try Vengance is Mine and I am the Spider first if you are unsure about listening to the whole album. Salvation's a really nice ballad too, as is Killed by Love.

Anyway.... I guess I should get ready now, mom just put in the call and I have to head for the station. Hope everyone's well out there. Sorry I'm still not on much.
Love,
Jo

Here it is, another monday. I woke up from a nightmare where people from another dimension could cross over and feed on people's shadows. But only those who were part of some rebellion in their home-dimension where another part of their consciousness lived (Yes, I am speaking of pandimentional living, if that is the correct term.). Basically the unsuspecting halves here would be assaulted and have something taken from their essense, not knowing it would kill their other half to which they were oblivious, in the other realm. Yeah, I know, it’d be Douglas Adams if it wasn’t for the grim non-humorous killing part. Basically I was one of those chased down but I found out how things worked, there was another me in another dimension and that me was in mortal danger, as was I, the me in what was known to them as the Shadow Realm rather than just plain earth as we know it. It was a lot to wrap my brain around but I did, eventually, which was quite the feat as I was on the run as well as thinking things through till they made sense. There was something about an industrial black canal as well and somesort of game, but in the end it basically didn’t look good for the rebellion I glimpsed, if I didn’t start letting halves in the here and now know what was happening to the halves in the there and then. Try convincing people they’re in danger of something that ludicrous is hard until someone actually jumps out of a temporal rip to get at them! There were powdered wigs and other Louis Quinze things there too. Beautiful, but deadly. Rips in the space-time continuum always are something not to mess with, especially if dimensions get all fucked up in the process. Whatever. Mind you, this is what goes on in my head when I sleep. And then I wonder why I’m so bloody tired all the time.

And considering that I am now officially not making any sense whatsoever to people who aren’t Trekkies and/or Adams enthusiasts,  I leave it for what it is and decide that no, this will not be part of a story as I don’t do science fiction and especially not the kind with powdered wigs. I’ll leave that to the experts.

So here it is, another Monday, and I’m dead on my feet. Had a busy weekend, but the invites are sorted and will be printed soon, Kornelis’ suit is 100% finished (I’m not counting his shoes, whish he still doesn’t have), and the wedding is drawing ever closer. *shiver* I hope everything’ll pan out. Mom just told me she doesn’t know whether my cousins’ll get the day off in September as it’s a schoolday and I’m ‘just’ a cousin, but I hope they get to come… After all, all they’ve been to is a plethora of funerals, they’ve never been to a wedding before. Anyway, we’ll see…

I have a lot to do today and it’s getting late. Truthfully though I just want to go back to bed and forget about everything... If just for a moment. Fat chance though. Ho hum! Back to the grind.

It fits!!!! It fits, it fits, it fits!!!!!

All the accessories were perfect too, everything just went together wonderfully. :)

They gave me some left-over material and I made a little bow with ribbons and a flower for the car-antennae. :-) (Dunno about out there, but it's tradition here). Just glad everything went well. Now they'll re-do the hem so it won't be dragging over the floor or tripping me up when I walk, and I'll pick it up a week before the wedding!

Today's my second-to-last fitting.... I'm nervous as hell, I wonder what the dress'll look like when it actually is made to fit me. If it fits me. I'm terrified. I'm dragging all the accessories along, see what gels and what doesn't.


*shiver with antici....pation*

Saturday was nuts. Caro came around 11 so we had to do groceries ahead of schedule -and some cleaning up- but it was all good. Talked a bit, had a good time. Kornelis and I went to a different printer's where we poured over a multitude of books with invites and found The Perfect One, which was somewhat different from our first choice, but it was just... Breathtakingly beautiful. In our modest opinion anyway. :) After that we went to a jeweller here in Baarn to ask what our options were with my weddingring. It was tight, but the lady at the shop in Amersfoort wouldn't listen and we basically went for a second opinion. Well, the jeweller here told me the ring was a full size too small, (compared to the ring I had brought along which is a nice fit and had said I wanted the exact same fit) so basically they ordered the wrong size! He said he could fix it, but we really should go back to the shop in Amersfoort instead, because they made a mistake and should rectify it for free, as he'd have no choice but to charge for the extra white gold and workhours. So we reluctantly went back to Amersfoort to kick some ass, but didn't have to in the end. I guess a Bridezilla trembling with anger'll get any shopassistant to bend over backwards to prevent her from exploding! Since it's engraved -that's why it's a bloody weddingring, but okay!- they couldn't replace it, but would modify it free of charge instead. I want my ring to fit, you know? I intend to wear it for the rest of my life. So we got that sorted as well as the invites, the printproofs (yes, multiple! Service was wonderful at Jolijn's!) should come in sometime next week or the week after that, and then we can still get anything we want changed. In the evening we watched some Dexter -LOVE!- and just relaxed together. Today my inlaws dropped by, and I cracked up when my mom-in-law walked into the livingroom and said "Oh, you've REALLY cleaned!" Uh... Yeah. *chuckle* I know our house is a mess, what with all the stuff we have no storagespace for, but she really, really was surprised. I guess I should be offended but hell, she's right, and it was so fucking funny:) Glad she noticed I'd been doing something around the house. I want to do more, but it's a little hard right now. Like I said, no storagespace. I want to do some more rearranging in the livingroom and I guess after that we'll see what we can do about the bedroom or something.

Anyway, that's it for now. I'll go see whether my mom's home yet -she needs some instructions about fixing her phone- and who knows, maybe Kornelis can stomach another Dexter episode...;-)

Hope everyone's well out there!
Love,
Jo
PS: Next weekend, dress fitting! Not the final one yet, but getting close!

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-).

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 - 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 (Not all of them, but some, yes)
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
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 Bernieres
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
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
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 (Go, Muad’Dib, go!!!!)
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' 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 (not all of them)
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


Little miffed that the only Marquez I read isn’t on there. (‘Del amor y otros demonios’ in Dutch translation). No Hanif Kureishi either, and he's really good. *shrug* I don't usually fill these out because they make me feel illiterate, (even with more books than i care to count in five bookcases and a number of boxes in storage). But more than six I think I've managed;) Wonder where the gothic novels went... Just Dracula? Nothing by Byron, no Shelly? Where did Jeckyll & Hyde go?


Ah well...;)