i find it less interesting than that of last year.

A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee X
Scenes from an Execution – Howard Barker X
Victory – Howard Barker X
Act Without Words 1&2 – Samuel Beckett X
Endgame – Samuel Beckett X
Uncle Vanya – Anton Chekhov X
The Way of the World – William Congreve X
The Visit – Friedrich Dürrenmatt X
The Suicide – Nikolai Erdman X
Translations – Brian Friel X
The Government Inspector – Nikolai Gogol X
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme – Frank McGuinness X
The Crucible – Arthur Miller X
The Shadow – Yevgeni Schwartz X
A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare X
King Lear – William Shakespeare X
The Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles X
The Real World – Michael Tremblay X
Dog in a Manger – Lope de Vega
Fuente Ovejuna – Lope de Vega X
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde X
Camino Real – Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams X
The York Mystery Cycle X

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES.
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. {edited to add: put a * next to those you've listened to on cd.} Tag other 'Book Nerds'.."


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

Total: 9

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

Total: 6

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

Total: 9

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

Total: 7

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

Total: 9

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

Total: 6

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

Total: 7

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

Total: 7

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

Total: 8

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
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 X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X

Total: 6

74/100

Almost forget the fact that I'm an English major.

小彬彬白日发梦要申请school of arts 美其名曰 这样我们是同学
我这厢白眼没翻到屏幕另一端——你来soa学什么？
小彬彬说,总有个什么music theory之类的master学吧
错了葛革,music department不属于soa
只见屏幕wtf wtf wtf一圈 最后纳闷 music不算art吗？

其实我也没clue.

sienna miller要演60年代版的miss julie,找出marber的剧本看,大抵因为剧情实在太熟,看了3行汗毛直竖跳到后面看closer.
closer是个好剧本,改天应该找机会尝试.
后发现miller大姐的前男友jude law要带着他毁誉参半的hamlet来,我对law没什么太大期待,但是这提醒我应该回去瞅瞅hamlet.
我又翻出hamlet剧本看,翻了一遍,惊喜得发现我连老鬼在第几幕出现都还记得很清楚,当年在万年僵尸watterson手下没怎么花功夫,现在看起来还是老先生打得基础扎实.
接着发现小时候最喜欢的addams family给改变成musical???这个是一定得去看
julie taymor今年做spider man,想起年初yale面试面到最后一轮,老太太笑得一团和气得与我说你让我想起julie taymor－－看起来像表演系出身的导演学生.
我当时傻傻憨憨当这是赞扬,事后知道julie taymor在圈内是出了名的high-maintenance bitch.
初晓时气得人抖索得跟缅因州的小树枝似的,现在回头看又觉得这是个很好的compliment.
最重要的是 知道那个暗潮汹涌的年代过去 有一个地方 我是再也不用回去了

前几天michael jackson去世时 看着一群玩band的小朋友在facebook上呜呼哀哉还觉得很逗趣
今天报应来得极快 去guardian看剧评 不过随手一刷新的功夫 文化版头条即是pina bausch的讣告
半晌 回神 感觉像是懵里懵懂吞了枚小火药包 滑到喉管无预警爆裂
尔后意识到还没来得及看她的现场 愈加难过

人的生命是个long run
无由来想起三两年前某个人在背后对另一人评头论足 貌似说得极端愤慨 末尾不忘加一个 浪费了伊的教育
千个日子不到之后再看今时今日的两个人 云泥之间 根本不需讨论

写blog的时候 有人twitter "A visionary artist upstaged by a pop singer. What a world we live in."
时代变了 总是想快一点高一点浮一点
每每于此耳畔总是会听见Katie Mitchell掷地有声得说:"it's a long game, stick to it - at least for a decade."

蜉蝣抑或周期蝉 都是人的选择

RIP Pina Bausch