Book List Stolen from Jessie...

Jessie posted this in her blog and apparently it's a list of every book that Rory has mentioned or read in the past six season of Gilmore Girls. I shall bold the one's I've read. Like Jessie did. Because who doesn't want to be like Jessie?

Bold - I've read it
Italics - I want to read it
Underlined - Absolutely no desire to read it whatsoever

Rory's Book List

Modern Reads:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzel
How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Extravagance by Gary Krist
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Property by Valerie Martin
Quattrocento by James McKean
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Unless by Carol Shields
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Classic Reads:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sybil by Flora Schreiber
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

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So, I'm walking down 55th Street....

Last night, I went to the Fall for Dance festival with Ashley and her friend, Maddie. On the way out, we're walking down 55th Street and I turn towards Maddie to say goodbye, while still walking and run straight into a tree. I bruise the side of my right eye (it swelled nicely) and broke beyond repair my beautiful glasses.

It was a pretty crappy end of the evening. I'm crying and then laughing because my first thought was, "Who put that tree there?!" and then crying again, because laughing hurt. I was very angry about the fact that it was one of those stupid skinny trees that are completely unnecessary in the city. The only purpose they're supposed to serve is to remind city-dwellers that there are trees out there. It's unnatural for a tree to grow out of the concrete! Had it been a pole or a large tree that the sidewalk was built around, eh.. maybe not so angry. But it was a tree that was specifically put in my way by karma (that bitch).

Thankfully, the injury wasn't bad enough to require medical attention, because we all know how that would go:

Me: I ran into a tree.
Them: Really? You can tell me what happened.
Me: I ran into a tree.
Them: Are you having trouble at home? With your boyfriend?
Me: NO, I RAN INTO A TREE!!!

I need to start working, but I felt the urge to relate my sorry tale.

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If ever there was a reason not to be on myspace...

I was in McDonald's tonight, enjoying a hamburger happy meal gleefully after a week of no bread to "celebrate" the exodus from Egypt those many years ago. I sat down near a large group of girls, high school by the looks of it. And as I enjoyed the sweet taste of bread again, I overheard the following statements:

"Yo, when I had my age up there saying I was 18, I was getting all the requests from old men trying to be my friend. I was like, 'Oh, Hell no!' ya know?"

"Dude! This white girl! She keeps sending a friend request and I keep saying no. And the next day, she sends it to me again! And again! I finally just accepted her, cuz I was sick of dealing with her shit. But I was totally like, "Damn, bitch, I don't know you.'"

"He left me this comment saying some shit and that I was probably gona beat his ass when I got to school. So, I see it, erase it and the next day at school, I walk right up to him and smack him across the face. He's all, 'What was that for?' and I was like, 'You asked for it, foo'!'"

Anyone else feeling a bit old for this website? Anyone?

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Some of My Best Friends Are Yankees Fans...

Postsecret is a community art project where people are invited to send a secret on a postcard anonymously. The postcards are extremely creative and the secrets range from tragic to hysterical. This one caught my eye:



So funny. Oh Varitek...

Anyone interested in checking out the Postsecret blog, go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. You can also find the Postsecret book at any bookstore in the city. I definitely recommend that everyone check it out.

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New Pictures!
Current mood: silly

From my "dates" with Katie! We walked all around the city last Friday and yesterday, we went to the zoo! Very very fun.

Currently watching : 10 Things I Hate About You Release date: 12 October, 1999

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In Case Anyone Hasn't Seen It...

...And everyone should!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/tls/trailer/

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Ahh... Baseball...

It's getting to be that time again. Spring training is well under way, which means that finally, after months of suffering through sports I don't care about, baseball is almost back. And I cannot wait.

I've been getting some shit from fans from the other team (*coughYankeescough*) about how my team is going to come in third in the division and I'd just like to take a moment to refute these claims.

First off, let's look at the Yankees. Well, they've got a new lead-off man: Johnny Damon. The former star of the Boston Red Sox is the new lead-off hitter for the New York Yankees. Well, given that he's thirty-two years old and already has a pretty weak arm, I'd say he definitely wasn't worth the 40 some-odd millioin the Yanks paid for him. He has a good on-base percentage and he's a great lead-off hitter, but he's just not a very solid investment. I will say this, though, I am very much looking forward to how much of a thorn in Steinbrenner's side he becomes. Johnny likes to talk. Steinbrenner don't like talkers!

Filling out the outfield, they've got Hideki Matsui, who was a very good investment. he's a solid player, both defensively and offensively. Watching him play is so sad though, because he looks like he doesn't have any friends. That damn language barrier. Gary Sheffield is on the way out and I would not be surprised to see my favorite Yankee, Bubba Crosby, making a number of starts in right field for Sheff. It's only spring training and he's already having back problems.

Infield is fairly solid, with Derek Jeter and Alex "I'm going to win a World Series eventually" Rodriguez. Robinson Cano is pretty good offensively, but his defense is crap. I think the number of runs he gave up via his poor defensive skills (read: the boy can't grab a grounder to save his life) is significant enough to take away from his offensive contribution. And Giambi.. he's just an old man. He's not a very good first baseman and it takes him so long to find his swing that the Yankees are already hurting by the time he starts to hit his stride, no pun intended.

And starting pitching, oh starting pitching. Steinbrenner is putting his entire World Series hopes on the back of an aging All-Star and a batch of injury prone hit-or-miss starters. Randy Johnson, besides being the ugliest man in baseball (and that's not just me saying it, Bill James agrees with me and he knows a thing or two about statistics), he's getting old. He completely fell apart during the post-season and is a tempramental little bitch. Hitting Johnny Damon with a ball during fucking batting practice is just ridiculous. What happened to the name on the fron to f the jersey being more important than the name on the back? Carl Pavano is already injured, though why should this season be any different from last season? Shawn Chacon is hit or miss, as is Mike Mussina (who I also like, for some reason). Jaret Wright is just a liability, because you know he's going to get injured. With Wright the question is not, will he get injured, but rather how? Which body part will get hit with a ball.. or a bat? Poor Jaret Wright. Chien-Ming Wang had a pretty good season last year. We'll see how this season goes.

I feel like the bullpen problems of years past are going to be the same this year. Joe Torre simply does not use his bullpen effectively. Mariano Rivera is the best closer in baseball. Simply put. Aaron Small should be a starter. I don't know why he keeps ending up in the bullpen after so many quality starts. I'm guessing that the bullpen will end up being Octavio Dotel, Tanyon Sturtze and Kyle Farnsworth, with one of them, at least, going down with an injury shortly into the season, causing a great deal of fumbling and a number of late losses.

Simply put, Steinbrenner doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

I'll be interested to see how Toronto does this season, with all their pitching additions. The Orioles and Tampa Bay are non-issues. They're not competative enough teams for such a competative division.

And now, to my boys. One thing that keeps coming up in conversations about how competative the Red Sox are going to be is their lack of offensive depth. I find this extremely curious looking at the past two years of Red Sox baseball. Looking at the 2004 and 2005 teams, the leading run producers in the American League both years, the teams weren't really made up, entirely, of big time offensive hitters. They had Johnny Damon and the number two hitter, who would get on base and then Ortiz and Manny. Looking at the RBI numbers, Ortiz and Manny are off the hook, while the rest of the team is simply respectable. The Red Sox had solid hitting in Bill Mueller, Trot Nixon, Jason Varitek, etc. putting up extremely respectable numbers and getting home on the big hitters. The Red Sox have never depended on big hitters, like the Yankees, to score runs. They depend on smart baseball. And with the line-up they've got for the 2006 season, I don't see that changing.

Leading off, Coco Crisp, replaces Johnny Damon with extremely comprable numbers and much younger legs and arm. In the number two spot, Mark Loretta, who is looking to excel at Fenway and sports a respectable OBP. Ortiz hits three with Manny cleaning up. Five, six and seven will go to Varitek, Nixon and Lowell, with Youkilis and Gonzalez rounding out the order.

Defensively, the team looks to be in great shape. Like I said, Crisp has a younger arm and looks to do well in center. Manny is hit or miss in the field, but is an expert at playing the wall. Trot is always dependable in right field, as long as he stays healthy. He's actually really fun to watch, those sliding catches are so cool.

Infield is new, but from the looks of spring training, defensive will be hot. Everyone is talking about Alex Gonzalez and his magic hands. I can't wait to watch him and Loretta turning those double plays. Don't know much about Lowell or Youkilis, but it'll be exciting to watch.

Pitching is going to be the deal breaker here and I'm excited to see how things work themselves out. Schilling looks to be in prime form for the season and Beckett is ready to watch, learn and get some wins. I like Matt Clement and I'm hoping he can repeat what the first half of the season was last year. I will always love Bronson Arroyo and I think he's a fairly dependable pitcher. He had some real quality starts last season. Time Wakefield is the man and continues to get people out. I am desperately hoping that Papelbon makes the starting rotation, because I love him. David Wells.. I think he'll probably start the season on the DL and then maybe get traded. I don't know. I like Wells, but he seems like the easiest to get rid of.

And I'm liking the looks of the bullpen. I have faith in Foulke, though I think he's a sleazy, sleazy man. Timlin is the man of the bullpen (because Wake's the man). I'm a bit disappointed that Manny Delcarmen is going back to Triple-A. I think he's got great stuff. I would go on about the bullpen, but I'm tired and this entry is already longer than I intended.

I think what it comes down to is that I'm really freaking excited for baseball to start. Though I'll never get to watch it, because I don't get the freaking YES network! Fox damn well better play some good games.

Currently listening : Oh, Inverted World By The Shins Release date: 19 June, 2001

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A Holiday Present... In February
Current mood: grumpy

Tonight, a friend of mine gave me my holiday present. She'd call it a Christmas present. I'd correct her and call it a Chanukkah present. We settled on holiday present. She got me this present during the holiday season, but did not give it to me until tonight.

She gave me slippers. Fuzzy white slippers.

I never want to wear anything else on my feet ever again.

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Connecting People.. Riiiight...
Current mood: Cheeky

We constantly hear about sites like friendster.com, facebook.com and myspace.com and how they "connect people." Connect people, my ass. Let's take a moment to establish what these sites are really for: Stalking people. You know you've done it. Open the search feature and find out if that guy you still hold a torch for from high school has a profile (he doesn't) or if that bitch from work has any friends (she does, more than me) or that guy you met at the bar the other night has any pictures you can show all your friends (done and done).

Stalking really has come a long way. In high school, it was just driving past his house with your friends, calling and hanging up when he picks up. Good times... The Internet has given us a wealth of opportunity to stalk. None of this, walking past his window to see if the lights on! Bring on the blog!

We've all done it. And I'm sure it's been done to us. Just as long as none of y'all are trying to pick up teenage girls on the Internet. That's Illegal.

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A New Amendment
Current mood: irate

I'd like to propose a new amendment to the Constitution. Not of the United States, but of the Guys Not Being Douchey. I'm not sure what the exact wording would be, but it would go something like, "Don't fucking flirt with a girl if you have a girlfriend without dropping a hint that you have a fucking girlfriend!"

Is it really hard to drop that hint? I can think of a few clever ways:

"Wanna grab a drink with us tonight?"
"No, I gotta meet my girlfriend."

"Hey, nice shirt!"
"Thanks, my girlfriend bought it for me."

"You look tired."
"Yeah, I was up late last night fucking my girlfriend."

See? Not that hard.

Currently listening : Why Should the Fire Die? By Nickel Creek Release date: 09 August, 2005

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