A flood of me-me

[annwfyn]

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.

The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys*
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina*
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales*
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed*
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo*
Crime and Punishment*
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote
Dracula*
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels*
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : a novel
The Hobbit*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
Jane Eyre*
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables*
Life of Pi : a novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mists of Avalon - Can I put in an anti star? I hate this book.
Moby Dick
The Name of the Rose*
Neverwhere
1984
Northanger Abbey*
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King*
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oryx and Crake : a novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice *
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion - As a note, I did finish it, but I read it in several different bursts.
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace*
Watership Down*
White Teeth
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
Wuthering Heights*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values

I'm better read than I thought...

The name meme

- What inspired your nick?

At the time I was in a quite bad mental place. I also had an LJ - winterthing. I'd been reading through old entries, remembering some fairly awful times in my life, and honestly just making myself even less cheerful, which is saying something.

So, I wanted a break. I wanted somewhere new, and I ended up looking for a name which sort of symbolized a space of 'otherness', or separation from all this old junk.

'Annwfyn' is a word I found somewhere as the Old Welsh for 'otherworld'.

I maintain that the spelling I use is a valid alternate to the more normal Annwn, Annwyn or Annwfn. pierot maintains that I've spelled it wrong and refuses to write it in protest. It's about the only time he admits to any knowledge of Welsh.

- Does any particular icon that you use embody it?

Not really, although all my LJ icons do have a very specific meaning and it's normally relatively significant which one I use, although that meaning might not be obvious to anyone except me.

As a note, if I use my tarot - devil icon, it means I'm playing devil's advocate/being argumentative. If I use any of my nonsense tags, I'm babbling nonsense. If I use my worst witch icon, it means I'm either being inept at college work, or I'm doing this when I really ought to be doing college work. It's my 'bad student' icon.

- If your nick had been taken, what would you have used instead?

I've got (somewhat sadly) several 'back up' LJs. The main one is gobolina which I've considered switching to several times, but have not quite yet reached the place where I need a change. That's named partly after a kids book, and partly because Jeremiah says he thinks of me as a female goblin.

And finally...

Comment and I'll...

Tell you why I friended you.

Associate you with something - a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Tell you something I like about you.

Tell you a memory I have of you. And you'll say 'you totally made that up!' for my memory is shockingly bad on occasion, and sometimes does just seem to invent stuff.

Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

In return, you must post this in your LJ.

You can tell I should be working, right?