Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Blogiversary!



Dear Friend,

Today is my blogiversary!

And it's also Chocolate Cake Day . . .

And Mozart's birthday.

Such a special day.

To celebrate these wonderful events I'm firing up the ole blog, making my mother's chocolate cake buying a chocolate cake, and taking some time to practice Mozart's Sonata in C Major.



I've made a bit of progress on my quest in the last couple months.



Here's what my WEM novel list looks like now:

  1. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
  2. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  3. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  4. Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen
  5. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  6. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  7. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  8. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
  9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  10. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  11. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy  Leo Tolstoy
  13. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  14. The Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James
  15. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  16. Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
  17. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  18. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  19. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  20. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  21. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  22. Native Son – Richard Wright
  23. The Stranger – Albert Camus
  24. 1984 – George Orwell
  25. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  26. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  27. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
  28. If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
  29. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  30. White Noise – Don Delillo
  31. Possession – A.S. Byatt

Just seven more titles to go!


Hope you're having a lovely winter.

Love,
Adriana

P.S.

Don't forget to listen to Mozart and eat a piece of chocolate cake today. :-)