{Top 100 Books}

I love to read. Lately, I've been thinking that I would like to start reading some books with more depth to them, instead of just the normal "beach reads" (not that I don't enjoy the beach reads). I ventured over to GoodReads and found a list of the Top 100 Books of All Time. I am going to start reading these books. I may only get to 1 a month, but any amount that I read will be fine with me. Below is the list that I am going to attempt.

Key

BOLD: Read
UNDERLINE: Read previously and plan to re-read
ITALICS: Replacement book for one I don't plan on reading
PINK: Currently Reading (or I have the book in line to read)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Ronald Dahl
1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Odyssey by Homer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 569 people voted
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma by Jane Austen
The Iliad by Homer
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Reduced Shakespeare
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Don Quijote De La Mancha by
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

{Februrary Goals}

As part of my new "try" to keep up with writing a blog, I am going to start listing some goals that I would like to accomplish for each month. Hopefully, this will keep me on track to actually completing them. Then at the beginning of the following month I will follow up with what I did and didn't finish.

So here it begins. My goals for February:

*Organize all of my digital files. This is a very big undertaking as it includes all of my pictures on my computer as well as all of my digi scrapbooking files. I think this might take me some time, but I am going to try to follow Stacy Julians's Photo Freedom book to keep it kinda simple. I really wanted to take her Library of Memories class this year, but circumstances did not allow that. There's always next year!

*Read at least 1 book. I found a list of the Top 100 books of all time and I would like to tackle these. Some I have already read or tried to read but most I have not. More on this later.

*Make birthday cards for the year. I want to have a stash of birthday cards and others this year so that I am not scrambling for them last minute.

{1 Month}

Wow! I can't believe it's been 1 month since we found out we were pregnant.

It has definitely been a lifestyle adjustment for me, having to watch what I'm eating and what I carry around at work. Although I was in complete shock when we found out, I am getting more and more used to the idea of being a mom everyday.

I have my first doctors appointment next Monday. Hopefully we will be able to narrow down a EDD then.