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OMG WHAT TWISTS!!!
...like, where do they go from here??? A week is too long to wait! And this season is only six episodes, they're going to end it in some really terrible cliffhangers, aren't they. Not fair. Not fair at all.
NEED. MORE.

Borrowed from pipilj:
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

Expanded by me: put in italics those items where you have never heard of neither the title nor the author.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
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
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
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 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
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 Mitchel
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

So I’ve read 23 items on the list if I’m counting right? Not counting some others (Bible, Anna Karenina, The secret garden, a few more) which I haven’t finished, skimmed through for literature lessons or can’t for the life of me remember what they were about.

And 30(ish) books/authors that I’ve never heard of. I’d love to hear how they composed the list? Is it the list of a hundred most read books/series? If so, it’s weird to see some of the titles and authors omitted, such as the GOT books, The Book Thief, Stephen King, Jonas Jonasson (I absolutely hated The 100-year-old man but it is a pretty well known novel), Paulo Coehlo (The Alchemist at least is extremely popular here), something from Remarque (maybe he’s too German/central European?), Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Astrid Lindgren. From recent works, maybe Hunger Games, (ugh) Twilight or (UGH) 50 shades? Or how about Sophie’s choice?

Which books did you like; which are missing?

…that this movie might not be entirely great?
( Spoilers below cut )

Because this is still fun :)

Ask me anything about creating art.

Yay, these memes are fun :)

Ask Me Anything About My Writing

So my vacation isn’t exactly going as planned (it’s been raining for two days, therefore, no swimming). On the upside, I used the time to finish Season 4 of POI – I’d never have this amount of free time on my hands otherwise.

( Thoughts about the show (spoilers) )

Last July, the Czech singer Michal Hrůza was beaten up by two men after he first tried to break up their fight and then tried to call the police when they wouldn’t listen to him. The initial prognoses were grim; he suffered a severe head injury, bled into his brain, had to be operated on and spent two weeks in artificial sleep. He has spent the following months recovering; a while ago, he started practicing with his band again and then finally yesterday he had his first concert.

He can’t remember his texts fully anymore, so when his fans heard of his memory issues, they got him an e-reader. He used it yesterday in the concert – and despite that, the concert was a huge success. Most importantly, he’s back and he’s singing again – this act of violence didn’t rob him of his life, his love for music and his skill as a musician.

I was never really much of his fan, but I’ve been following his story ever since he was injured. If this isn’t a happy ending, I don’t know what is.

If you want to hear a sample, you can listen to his “Namaluj Svítání” (“Paint the sunshine”) at youtube.

While the legal system in my country works mostly fine, there are still things that could be improved. One of the bigger issues is that we don't have a decent system to handle the less serious crimes - it's either probation or hard time in prison. A few years back, the government finally introduced the "house arrest" option, but it's still only a very small minority of criminals who get this opportunity.

To change that, the tracking anklets were supposed to be introduced next year. Unfortunately, due to some mess at the ministry, they can't agree on the company that would supply the anklets, so the whole project was postponed yet again.

Damn bureaucrats.

(And does every WC fanfic writer feel like they assumed an unnatural knowledge of the legal system and prison issues? Jut saying...)