Listshttp://www.spinningathena.com/lists/Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:59:08 +0000en-USSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Top 100 Children's BooksListsbookslistsKristinThu, 22 Apr 2010 17:09:10 +0000http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/top-100-childrens-books.html321808:6422235:7416653The Egypt Game — Snyder (1967)
The Indian in the Cupboard — Banks (1980)
Children of Green Knowe — Boston (1954)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane — DiCamillo (2006)
The Witches — Dahl (1983)
Pippi Longstocking — Lindgren (1950)
Swallows and Amazons — Ransome (1930)
Caddie Woodlawn — Brink (1935)
Ella Enchanted — Levine (1997)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School — Sachar (1978)
Sarah, Plain and Tall — MacLachlan (1985)
Ramona and Her Father — Cleary (1977)
The High King — Alexander (1968)
The View from Saturday — Konigsburg (1996)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Rowling (1999)
On the Banks of Plum Creek — Wilder (1937)
The Little White Horse — Goudge (1946)
The Thief — Turner (1997)
The Book of Three — Alexander (1964)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon — Lin (2009)
The Graveyard Book — Gaiman (2008)
All-of-a-Kind-Family — Taylor (1951)
Johnny Tremain — Forbes (1943)
The City of Ember — DuPrau (2003)
Out of the Dust — Hesse (1997)
Love That Dog — Creech (2001)
The Borrowers — Norton (1953)
My Side of the Mountain — George (1959)
My Father’s Dragon — Gannett (1948)
The Bad Beginning — Snicket (1999)
Betsy-Tacy — Lovelae (1940)
The Mysterious Benedict Society — Stewart ( 2007)
Walk Two Moons — Creech (1994)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher — Coville (1991)
Henry Huggins — Cleary (1950)
Ballet Shoes — Stratfeild (1936)
A Long Way from Chicago — Peck (1998)
Gone-Away Lake — Enright (1957)
The Secret of the Old Clock — Keene (1959)
Stargirl — Spinelli (2000)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle — Avi (1990)
Inkheart — Funke (2003)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase — Aiken (1962)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 — Cleary (1981)
Number the Stars — Lowry (1989)
The Great Gilly Hopkins — Paterson (1978)
The BFG — Dahl (1982)
Wind in the Willows — Grahame (1908)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Selznick (2007)
The Saturdays — Enright (1941)
Island of the Blue Dolphins — O’Dell (1960)
Frindle — Clements (1996)
The Penderwicks — Birdsall (2005)
Bud, Not Buddy — Curtis (1999)
Where the Red Fern Grows — Rawls (1961)
The Golden Compass — Pullman (1995)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing — Blume (1972)
Ramona the Pest — Cleary (1968)
Little House on the Prairie — Wilder (1935)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Speare (1958)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Baum (1900)
When You Reach Me — Stead (2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Rowling (2003)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry — Taylor (1976)
Are You there, God? It’s Me, Margaret — Blume (1970)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Rowling (2000)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham — Curtis (1995)
James and the Giant Peach — Dahl (1961)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH — O’Brian (1971)
Half Magic — Eager (1954)
Winnie-the-Pooh — Milne (1926)
The Dark Is Rising — Cooper (1973)
A Little Princess — Burnett (1905)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass — Carroll (1865/72)
Hatchet — Paulsen (1989)
Little Women — Alcott (1868/9)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Rowling (2007)
Little House in the Big Woods — Wilder (1932)
The Tale of Despereaux — DiCamillo (2003)
The Lightening Thief — Riordan (2005)
Tuck Everlasting — Babbitt (1975)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Dahl (1964)
Matilda — Dahl (1988)
Maniac Magee — Spinelli (1990)
Harriet the Spy — Fitzhugh (1964)
Because of Winn-Dixie — DiCamillo (2000)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Rowling (1999)
Bridge to Terabithia — Paterson (1977)
The Hobbit — Tolkien (1938)
The Westing Game — Raskin (1978)
The Phantom Tollbooth — Juster (1961)
Anne of Green Gables — Montgomery (1908)
The Secret Garden — Burnett (1911)
The Giver — Lowry (1993)
Holes — Sachar (1998)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — Koningsburg (1967)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — Lewis (1950)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philsopher’s Stone — Rowling (1997)
A Wrinkle in Time — L’Engle (1962)
Charlotte’s Web — White (1952)



]]>http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/rss-comments-entry-7416653.xml31 for 31ListslistsKristinThu, 22 Apr 2010 16:55:58 +0000http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/31-for-31.html321808:6422235:741652731 things to do while I'm 31

1. Finish the wedding quilt.

2. Sew the grey and pink fleece coat.

3. Design and knit my Weasley sweater.

4. Finish my Bayerische socks.

5. Knit a sweater for Justin.

6. Knit 20% of my yarn stash, including any new additions.

7. Spin 30% of my fiber stash, including any new additions.

8. Piece my very own Harry Potter quilt.

9. Send #8 out to be quilted.

10. Make a cream pie.

11. Finish the first draft of my story.

12. Complete and submit the first level of the Master Knitter's program.

13. Sew something out of knit fabric.

15. Teach myself Trigonometry.

16. Begin my quest to knit all of the sock architectures in Cat Bordhi's New Pathways for Knitters.

17. Finish big orange blanket.

18. Make macaroons.

19. Learn double-knitting.

20. Knit 5,000 yards of fingering-weight yarn.

21. Finish all of the Sherlock Holmes books.

23. Teach Gracie some manners.

24. Relearn geometry.

25. Repair the two white afghans.

26. Get Henry to roll over.

27. Go to Houston to see Abby (and go to Quilt Market...).

28. Lego Harry Potter. Buy it. Play it.

29.

30.

31.

]]>http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/rss-comments-entry-7416527.xmlAFI's Top 100 Movies (as of 2007)ListslistsmoviesKristinThu, 08 Apr 2010 17:55:12 +0000http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/afis-top-100-movies-as-of-2007.html321808:6422235:72690241. Citizen Kane, 1941.
2. The Godfather, 1972.
3. Casablanca, 1942.
4. Raging Bull, 1980.
5. Singin' in the Rain, 1952.
6. Gone With the Wind, 1939.
7. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962.
8. Schindler's List, 1993.
9. Vertigo, 1958.
10. The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
11. City Lights, 1931.
12. The Searchers, 1956.
13. Star Wars, 1977.
14. Psycho, 1960.
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.
16. Sunset Blvd., 1950.
17. The Graduate, 1967.
18. The General, 1927.
19. On the Waterfront,  1954.
20. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946.
21. Chinatown, 1974.
22. Some Like It Hot, 1959.
23. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940.
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962.
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939.
27. High Noon, 1952.
28. All About Eve, 1950.
29. Double Indemnity, 1944.
30. Apocalypse Now, 1979.
31. The Maltese Falcon, 1941.
32. The Godfather Part II, 1974.
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975.
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937.
35. Annie Hall, 1977.
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946.
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948.
39. Dr. Strangelove, 1964.
40. The Sound of Music, 1965.
41. King Kong, 1933.
42. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.
43. Midnight Cowboy, 1969.
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940.
45. Shane, 1953.
46. It Happened One Night, 1934.
47. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.
48. Rear Window, 1954.
49. Intolerance, 1916.
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001.
51. West Side Story, 1961.
52. Taxi Driver, 1976.
53. The Deer Hunter, 1978.
54. M-A-S-H, 1970.
55. North by Northwest, 1959.

56. Jaws, 1975.

57. Rocky, 1976.
58. The Gold Rush, 1925.
59. Nashville, 1975.
60. Duck Soup, 1933.
61. Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
62. American Graffiti, 1973.
63. Cabaret, 1972.
64. Network, 1976.
65. The African Queen, 1951.
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981.
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966.
68. Unforgiven, 1992.
69. Tootsie, 1982.
70. A Clockwork Orange, 1971.
71. Saving Private Ryan, 1998.
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994.
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969.
74. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991.
75. In the Heat of the Night, 1967.
76. Forrest Gump, 1994.
77. All the President's Men, 1976.
78. Modern Times, 1936.
79. The Wild Bunch, 1969.
80. The Apartment, 1960.
81. Spartacus, 1960.
82. Sunrise, 1927.
83. Titanic, 1997.
84. Easy Rider, 1969.
85. A Night at the Opera, 1935.
86. Platoon, 1986.
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957.
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938.
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999.
90. Swing Time, 1936.
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982.
92. Goodfellas, 1990.
93. The French Connection, 1971.
94. Pulp Fiction, 1994.
95. The Last Picture Show, 1971.
96. Do the Right Thing, 1989.
97. Blade Runner, 1982.
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.
99. Toy Story, 1995.
100. Ben-Hur, 1959.

]]>http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/rss-comments-entry-7269024.xmlTime's Best 100 Novels of All TimeListsbooksKristinTue, 06 Apr 2010 22:02:55 +0000http://www.spinningathena.com/lists/times-best-100-novels-of-all-time.html321808:6422235:7249414
  1. The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
  2. All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
  3. American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
  4. An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
  5. Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
  6. Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
  7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
  8. The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
  9. At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
  10. Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
  11. Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
  12. The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
  13. The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
  14. The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
  15. Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
  16. Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
  17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
  18. Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
  19. Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller (attempted)
  20. The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
  21. A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess (attempted)
  22. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
  23. The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
  24. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon (attempted)
  25. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
  26. The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
  27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
  28. A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
  29. The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
  30. Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
  31. Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
  32. Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
  33. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
  34. The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
  35. Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
  36. Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
  37. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
  38. Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
  39. The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  40. A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
  41. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
  42. The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
  43. Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
  44. Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
  45. A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
  46. I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
  47. Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
  48. Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
  49. Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
  50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
  51. Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
  52. Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding (attempted)
  53. The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
  54. Loving (1945), by Henry Green
  55. Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
  56. The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
  57. Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
  58. Money (1984), by Martin Amis
  59. The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
  60. Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
  61. Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
  62. Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
  63. Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
  64. Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
  65. 1984 (1948), by George Orwell
  66. On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
  67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
  68. The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
  69. Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
  70. A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
  71. Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
  72. Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
  73. Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
  74. The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
  75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
  76. Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
  77. Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
  78. The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
  79. Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
  80. Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
  81. The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
  82. Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
  83. Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
  84. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
  85. The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
  86. The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
  87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
  88. The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
  89. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
  90. Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
  91. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
  92. To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
  93. Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
  94. Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
  95. Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
  96. Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
  97. Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  98. White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
  99. White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
  100. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys

 

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