Suspension of Disbelief » XP http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com An audience's willingness to accept the world of theatre as reality during the course of a play . . . Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Theatre in 1962 (Blogathon ’09 #7) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2009/07/25/theatre-1962-blogathon-09-7/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2009/07/25/theatre-1962-blogathon-09-7/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:59:54 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=1164 In 1962, both the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

The original Broadway production credited the choreography to an obscure dance director named Hugh Lambert, while the much better-known Bob Fosse received only a “musical staging by…” credit. Abe Burrows explains this in his autobiography Honest, Abe. While How to Succeed… was in its early development, producer Cy Feuer attended a trade show and was extremely impressed by an elaborate dance number created by Lambert, prompting Feuer to hire Lambert to choreograph the new musical. According to Burrows, it soon became clear in rehearsals that Lambert’s creative abilities were completely used up in that one elaborate dance number. Bob Fosse was brought in to replace him, but Fosse was unwilling to hurt Lambert’s career by having him fired. Lambert’s trade-show dance number was recycled as the “Treasure Hunt” dance in How to Succeed…, while Fosse agreed to take a “musical staging” credit for choreographing all the other dance numbers.

This post is for the Blogathon 2009! I am blogging for The Actor’s Fund. For more information about what I am doing, please click here, or you can sponsor me!



]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2009/07/25/theatre-1962-blogathon-09-7/feed/ 2 A-Z Challenge http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/az-challenge/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/az-challenge/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:18:11 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?page_id=853 I got this idea from Sassymonkey, so I thought I’d give it a try! I made this be #74 on my 101 in 1001. The idea is to make a list of books whose titles begin with A-Z, then read them (I included numbers too, just for fun). There may be some overlap between these books and other goals I have on the 101 in 1001 . . . but that’s OK. If I made everything be distinct different books, I’d never have a shot at completion, LOL!

1 – One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2 – The 2-Second Commute: Join the Exploding Ranks of Freelance Virtual Assistants, Christine Durst
3 – Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O’Neill
4 – The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
5 – The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
6 – Six Prayers God Always Answers, Mark Herringshaw and Jennifer Schuchmann
7 – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
8 – The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You’ll Never Quit!, Suzanne Brue
9 – Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
A – Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
B – The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
C – Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul, John and Stasi Eldredge
D – Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
E – East of Eden, John Steinbeck
F – The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
G – The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
H – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I – Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
J – Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
K – The King Must Die: A Novel, Mary Renault
L – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
M – Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
N – Not Tonight Honey, Wait ‘Til I’m a Size Six, Susan Reinhardt
O – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
P – The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren
Q – The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
R – Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers
S – The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
T – The Tenth Gift, Jane Johnson
U – Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
V – The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
W – Wizard and Glass, Stephen King
X – X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
Y – Y2k, Arthur Kopit
Z – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Robert M. Pirsig

I’ll cross off books as I finish them, and when I get all done I’ll be able to mark this off my 101 in 1001 list! Anyone else up for the challenge?



]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/az-challenge/feed/ 0 Children’s Literacy Initiative (Day of Blogs ’08 #42) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/childrens-literacy-initiative-day-blogs-08-42/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/childrens-literacy-initiative-day-blogs-08-42/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:32:13 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=770 Won’t someone please donate to Children’s Literacy Initiative?

Straight from their website, here is how CLI’s Professional Development Program works:

• Developing Engaging Read Alouds
Because being read to adds directly to children’s knowledge and vocabulary, experts stress the importance of reading aloud to students.
At the writing center, a first-grader has word books,
a dry-erase board and pen to work with. Activities can include writing a letter or writing about a book.

We instruct teachers to promote children’s interest in books by reading aloud expressively, and to use books to build comprehension and vocabulary by asking open-ended questions.

• Encouraging
Writing Skills
It is important to develop writing skills in young children, as language and literacy work together. Starting from infancy, almost everything that children learn about listening and talking contributes to their ability to read and write.

CLI trains teachers to incorporate writing in every classroom center, and to provide ample writing opportunities for their students.
• Creating a Literacy-Rich Environment in the Classroom
Displays of children’s writing, labeling, signs, and books in all areas of the classroom help immerse students in print conventions (such as punctuation and the way words are read) while providing them with a context for new vocabulary and letters.

A literacy-rich environment includes interactive instructional materials created by the teachers and a collection of quality books on display with their covers facing outwards.
• Designing a Center-Based Classroom
Work centers are physical areas of the classroom designated for learning and practice with specific instructional goals. Early childhood centers include such areas as a Library Center, Writing Center, Science and Discovery Center, and a Math Center. Classroom centers should be challenging and purposeful and the objective of each center activity should be targeted towards reaching classroom literacy goals.

At the science center, reading and writing are tools for learning. A book on frogs, alphabet tiles to spell with, tadpoles in a water tank, and paper and pens provide a purposeful learning opportunity. The results of a kindergartner’s tadpole study are displayed on the classroom wall.
CLI professional developers not only visit classrooms to help teachers rearrange and refine their classrooms, they also provide useful literacy instructional materials and activities that are theme- or content-related.

Teachers learn classroom management skills in order to provide effective individual and small-group reading instruction and to promote independent learning.

I had centers in kindergarten – they were a lot of fun, and in hindsight focused our learning so clearly.  I just can’t say enough good things about CLI – won’t you consider sponsoring me?

This post is for the Day of Blogs 2008! I am blogging for Children’s Literacy Initiative. For more information about what I am doing, please click here, or you can sponsor me!



]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/childrens-literacy-initiative-day-blogs-08-42/feed/ 0 Illuminated Manuscripts (Day of Blogs ’08 #39) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/illuminated-manuscripts-day-blogs-08-39/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/illuminated-manuscripts-day-blogs-08-39/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:45 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=764 Illuminated manuscripts – the world’s first picture books!  To see some stunning images (I absolutely LOVE looking at illuminated manuscripts), please click below!

Another fascinating link is to the St. John’s Bible project.  This is a work in progress to recreate the entire Bible in illuminated manuscripts.  They’re not cheap, but that’s because you’re pretty much investing in a work of art.  My mom actually has all the books that are completed so far, so I’ve seen them in person.  They are breathtaking!  Visit the site to see the pictures, but also to read about the process, because that is equally interesting.

This post is for the Day of Blogs 2008! I am blogging for Children’s Literacy Initiative. For more information about what I am doing, please click here, or you can sponsor me!



]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/illuminated-manuscripts-day-blogs-08-39/feed/ 2 WordPress Theme Directory (Day of Blogs ’08 #33) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/wordpress-theme-directory-day-blogs-08-33/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/wordpress-theme-directory-day-blogs-08-33/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:01:58 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=751 Had to run out to Starbucks real quick before they closed!

While I don’t consider my blog to be of great literary value, there are a lot of blogs out there that are creating some truly valuable content.  Blogging is like the modern-day newspaper column, except you have no censorship and you get a live, active community of readers that become involved with all your writing.  Blogging creates a unique creative outlet, and in my opinion can be used educationally if you do it right.

That said, there are many technical aspects that determine whether anyone actually gets involved with a blog.  Things like Search Engine Optimization fall into this category, but right now I’m thinking about the stickiness of a blog.  How likely are you to stick around and read that blog?  We’re superficial creatures.  Looks count.

If you want to do it up right, the best way to go is to get a custom design.  However, some people can’t justify the expense of something customized.  Today it was announced that free WordPress themes will now be available on WordPress’s actual website!  Take a look at the WordPress Theme Directory and pick out a shiny new suit to wear!



]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/wordpress-theme-directory-day-blogs-08-33/feed/ 3 Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/longest-meme-day-blogs-08-32/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/longest-meme-day-blogs-08-32/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:31:59 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=749 Yet another meme I’m stealing from Khouria Jen – I didn’t realize just how long this was until I started copying it . . . I actually have a LOT of these on my bookshelf at home that are TBR . . .

*bold those you’ve read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*add three of your own
*post to your blog

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in French)
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis loved!
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster loved
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp – Madeleine L’Engle
386. Here Be Dragons – Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) – translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
388. The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
389. Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner
390. Traveling Light, Max Lucado
391. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
392. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A. J. Jacobs
393. The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh

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]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/27/longest-meme-day-blogs-08-32/feed/ 0 Beautiful Libraries of the World (Day of Blogs ’08 #28) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/beautiful-libraries-world-day-blogs-08-28/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/beautiful-libraries-world-day-blogs-08-28/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:29:48 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=741 I love spending time in libraries.  I could get lost for hours in the library at Wake Forest, just looking and smelling that amazing old book smell.  And the library isn’t even a pretty library.  I can’t imagine getting to go to an old historic library with gorgeous architecture.

You can find an AMAZING collection of photographs of beautiful libraries from around the world at Curious Expeditions.  It makes me want to travel just to look at all these pictures!

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]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/beautiful-libraries-world-day-blogs-08-28/feed/ 1 Amazon Wishlist (Day of Blogs ’08 #27) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/amazon-wishlist-day-blogs-08-27/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/amazon-wishlist-day-blogs-08-27/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:00:49 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=739 I thought I’d share my Amazon Wishlist.  I don’t expect anyone to get me anything, I just always find it interesting to see what people are interested in reading!

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]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/amazon-wishlist-day-blogs-08-27/feed/ 0 Literary Quotes (Day of Blogs ’08 #23) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/literary-quotes-day-blogs-08-23/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/literary-quotes-day-blogs-08-23/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:03:06 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=728 I thought I’d share some literary words of wisdom:

“The Bible is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.” – Immanuel Kant

“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I feel that a comprehensive study of the Bible is a liberal education for anyone. Nearly all the great men of our country have been well versed in the teachings of the Bible.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.” – John Steinbeck

“It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.” – Horace Greeley (1811-1872), publisher and journalist

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.” – Robert Frost

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” – Samuel Johnson

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” – William Styron

“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.” – James Thurber

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” – Henry David Thoreau

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]]> http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/literary-quotes-day-blogs-08-23/feed/ 0 A Bit of Nostalgia (Day of Blogs ’08 #13) http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/bit-nostalgia-day-blogs-08-13/ http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/2008/07/26/bit-nostalgia-day-blogs-08-13/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:59:46 +0000 Lindsey http://www.mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/?p=697 I ran across a Day of Blogs post by Jennifer at Fairly Ordinary about some bits of nostalgia.  She was remembering Book It! pizza parties and Reading Rainbow, two things that I LOVED in elementary school.  That reminded me of Scholastic book fairs.  Man, how many books did I circle in the little catalog?  My mom had to give me a limit, because I wanted EVERYTHING!

Just goes to show you how giving kids a good incentive and great exposure to books will create lifelong readers . . . hint hint.  Please donate to Children’s Literacy Initiative!

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