'Acquired from tanarian. 

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ


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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler'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
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 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
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

 The rules - List 10 fictional characters you wouldn't kick out of bed (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same. (I'm not going to tag anyone though...if you want to, go ahead!)

1. Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds)
2, Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
3. Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
4. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
5. Danny Messer (CSI:NY)
6. Capt Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
7. Spike (Buffy)
8. Michael Westin (Burn Notice)
9. Shawn Spencer (Psych)
10. Dr Daniel Jackson (Stargate: SG1)
Honorable mentions...Col. John Shepard (Stargate: Atlantis) and Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap)

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

The wonderful dr_is_in gave me the letter "G"....

1. Georgia by Ray Charles
2. Glory Box by Blue Gillespie
3. God Only Knows by The Beach Boys
4. Gone Away by The Offspring
5. Get Out Alive by Three Days Grace

I got tagged by ahlai

 The Rules:
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people. 


And I tag... faithharkness teachwriteslash missthingsplace tintop_lizzy darketernal09 liten_sam gracie_musica</div>

 Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Toshiko, Owen, Gwen/Rhys, Martha Jones, Jeff Murdoch, Doctor (10), Donna
Warnings/Spoilers: Series 2 through Adrift, AU after that.  I'm going to say PG-13/R for language & adult situations.  Oh, and possible tooth decay from the fluff!
Disclaimer: I don't own the character's in this story...they belong to the genius of RTD and Steven Moffat, respectively.  Please don't sue...this is for entertainment only and no money is being made! (besides, you can't get blood from a turnip)

A/N - This is a sequel to "Rules For Dating Your Boss".  It's another cross-over fic with Coupling, beginning about a week after the first story.  Jack and Ianto are getting married, and when Ianto asks Jeff to be a witness, hilarity ensues. 
This is the last part - all about the ceremony and reception.  (BTW - some of the events that happen actually happened at my first wedding...should've been a clue, really!)
 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Internet banner ads make me laugh, but sometimes they freak me out a little too.  I was looking at my "Friends" page (which is mainly filled with Torchwood stuff) and as I refreshed the page, the banner ad changed to one for Gevalia coffee, then one where you can find out what kind of flirt you are, then one for some technical gadget....  It's like they know what is displayed on the page you're reading and customize the ads.  And, having worked in advertising, they probably do.  Freaky!

Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Toshiko, Owen, Gwen/Rhys, Martha Jones, Jeff Murdoch, Doctor (10), Donna
Warnings/Spoilers: Series 2 through Adrift, AU after that.  I'm going to say PG-13/R for language & adult situations.
Disclaimer: I don't own the character's in this story...they belong to the genius of RTD and Steven Moffat, respectively.  Please don't sue...this is for entertainment only and no money is being made! (besides, you can't get blood from a turnip)

A/N - This is a sequel to "Rules For Dating Your Boss".  It's another cross-over fic with Coupling, beginning about a week after the first story.  Jack and Ianto are getting married, and when Ianto asks Jeff to be a witness, hilarity ensues. 
This is the third of four parts - all about the stag night, where all the boys get a few surprises.  Thank you again to geordie_star for letting me use the IM names from Ianto's Blog, which inspired the original story. (If you haven't read the blog yet, you need to, it's wonderful!)

Sorry for the delay on getting this posted...real life, in the form of 80 degree weather in Washington State (!), interfered.  We Washingtonian's don't let lovely weather like that go by without getting out in it! *winks*
  
Chapter 1
Chapter 2


TBC 

Continued...

 Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Toshiko, Owen, Gwen/Rhys, Martha Jones, Jeff Murdoch, Doctor (10), Donna
Warnings/Spoilers: Series 2 through Adrift, AU after that.  I'm going to say PG-13/R for language & adult situations.

A/N - This is a sequel to "Rules For Dating Your Boss".  It's another cross-over fic with Coupling, set about a week after the first story.  Jack and Ianto are getting married, and when Ianto asks Jeff to be a witness, hilarity ensues. This is the second of three parts.  The story will be divided into Announcements, Planning and then the actual Wedding (although I'm thinking about adding a separate chapter for the stag night, what do you think?).  (BTW - some of the events that happen at the wedding actually happened at my first wedding...should've been a clue, really!)
Thank you to geordie_star for letting me use the IM names from Ianto's Blog, which inspired the original story. (If you haven't read the blog yet, you need to, it's wonderful!)

Chapter 1



TBC...
Continued here...

 

 Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Toshiko, Owen, Gwen/Rhys, Martha Jones, Jeff Murdoch, Doctor (10), Donna
Warnings/Spoilers: Series 2 through Adrift, AU after that.

A/N - This is a sequel to "Rules For Dating Your Boss".  It's another cross-over fic with Coupling, set about a week after the first story.  Jack and Ianto are getting married, and when Ianto asks Jeff to be a witness, hilarity ensues. This is the first of three parts.  The story will be divided into Announcements, Planning and then the actualy Wedding.  (BTW - some of the events that happen at the wedding actually happened at my first wedding...should've been a clue, really!)
Thank you to geordie_starfor letting me use the IM names from Ianto's Blog, which inspired the original story. (If you haven't read the blog yet, you need to, it's wonderful!)

 
Continued here...
 

Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Team
Spoilers: general for S2, set after From Out Of The Rain but before Adrift.  With minor references to Fragments.
Warnings: PG-13 for language, boys kissing and implied m/m sex.

A/N - This story started out as something different, but evolved into a team bonding night out, with a side of Jack/Ianto.  Hope you enjoy it!
(Also, there are several references to movies and/or movie quotes scattered throughout...virtual brownies for anyone guessing the movies they come from!)

 

So, I'm stuck in a house full of small (loud) children, drunk (loud) men and (loud) country music...for the entire weekend!  AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
Not to mention, the only internet service available is dial-up, no cell phone service and I finished the book I brought with me (stupidly forgetting the second book in the series I'm reading).  I had the foresight to bring my laptop and my S1 DVD's of Torchwood (plus I have several eps from S2 downloaded onto my laptop), but still.....Somebody shoot me now!  Please?  *begs with soulfull puppy-dog eyes*

Thank goodness for energy drinks and protein bars!  The concert last night was insane!!  Totally worth the fact that I'm literally shaking with exhaustion today.  All of the bands kicked ass!!!  Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold were the best, but the other bands were really good too.  Most of them were from Japan.  It was a general admission show, so for the first few bands we sat in the bleachers, but when Atreyu came out, my daughter and her boyfriend made their way down to the pit.  I totally wimped out and stayed in my seat.  Just watching the sea of humanity down there was enough for me...especially when they got a "circle pit" going...a huge sea of people with an insane whirlpool in the middle.  Didn't get home until almost two this morning and am now at work.  Ugh.  On the other hand, we found out another of our favorite bands (Disturbed w/Slipknot and a bunch of others) is coming in concert in July, so we're going to get tickets for that.  Yay!  Now if we could just get Blue Gillespe and John Barrowman to give concerts in this area...LOL.  (Yes, I do have a VERY wide range of taste in music...everything from Chopin to Ozzy)

Happy Wednesday!!!

Today is going to be an exhausting day!  After work, I'm taking my daughter and her boyfriend to the Taste of Chaos concert tonight (line up includes D'espairsray, MUCC, Idiot Pilot, BlessTheFall, Atreyu and Avenge Sevenfold).  After the concert I have to take her back to school (she goes to a boarding school 60 miles south of where we live) and the boyfriend home (another 20 minutes further south than the school).  Then I get to drive home by myself, try to get some sleep and get up for work tomorrow morning.  Ugh...I just hope the concert is worth the pain.  Thank goodness for energy drinks and insomnia! 

A/N - This is part 2 of The Doctor's Son series.  The idea for this series came about because I was wondering what Jack's reaction would've been if it had been Rose as the Cyberwoman in the basement, and it grew from there.
A big thank you to Talcat, thrace_adams & darketernal09 for their suggestions and encouragement!

Disclaimer: I dream about owning them, but unfortunately not all dreams come true!  They all still belong to RTD & the BBC.

Chapter 1...

 

Gah!  What is it about a man in a long flowing coat that just makes my knees go weak?!?  I was just watching Pride & Prejudice with Matthew MacFadyen and that scene of Mr. Darcy walking across the field at the end....yummy!  Then there's Jack in his RAF coat, the Doctor with his overcoat, Angel and Spike in their black leather.... What makes those coats so damn sexy????? 

A/N - What can I say?  I'm a romantic.  I didn't intend this story to go this way, it just grew.  Hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer - I don't own them...if I did there's no way the show could be edited for pre-watershed viewing... 

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