BBC Classics and Writer's Wisteria Tags
12:40 PM
Hello all,
Since I'm all for knocking tags out in one shot, I'll put up the two tags that caught me in this post.
The first is the BBC Classics Tag. Apparently, the story goes that BBC put out this list of 100 classics and said that people only have read a percentage of them. Mary Katherine @ Sarcastic Scribblings gave me a challenge to see how many I've read. I (fool-hardily) said that I probably had read more than she did, seeing as how I recognized a lot of the titles. Well, we'll see.....
BBC CLASSICS TAG
RULES:
1. Be honest
2. Put an asterisk (*) next to the ones you've read and a addition sign (+) next to the ones you've started.
3. Tag as many people as the books you've read (yeah right, that's not happening!)
1. Be honest
2. Put an asterisk (*) next to the ones you've read and a addition sign (+) next to the ones you've started.
3. Tag as many people as the books you've read (yeah right, that's not happening!)
THE BOOKS
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *
- Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *
- Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee *
- The Story of the Eye- George Batallie
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott*
- Tess of the D'Uvervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
- Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
- The Master of Go by Yasunare Kawabata
- Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo
- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Feast of the Goat by Marin Vargas Llosa
- Middlemarch by George Elliot
- Gogol's Wife Tomasso Landolfi
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Fredydurke by Gombrowicz
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Kerenina by Leo Tolstoy + (audiobook)
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain ++
- Emma by Jane Austen *
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe *
- Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
- Cosmicomic by Italo Calvino
- The Joke by Milan Kundera
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Labyrinths by Gorge Luis Borges
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Own Meaney by John Irving
- Under My Skin by Dories Lessing
- Anne of Green Gables- L.M. Montgomery *
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes +
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Absalom Absalom by William Failkner
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Flounder by Gunther Grass
- The Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen *
- My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Idiot by Fodor Dostoevesky
- Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Men and Mice by John Steinbeck
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman *
- Death on the Installment Plan by Celine
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville *
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Metamorphosis - Kafka
- Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado De Assis
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Inferno - Dante +
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- The Light House - Virginia Woolf
- Disgrace - John Maxwell Coetzee
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *
- Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Box Man - Abe Kobo
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- The Stranger - Camus
- Acquainted with the Night - Heinrich Boll
- Don't Call It Night - Amos Oz
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pychon
- Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas + (never finishing it. I hated this book)
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Metamorphosis- Ovid
Books I've Read and Started : 18.
Ok, Mary Katherine, we tied.....
The second tag is the Writer's Wisteria tag. I snitched it off of Jane Maree's blog Maiden of the Misty Mountains. You can check out her post here.
Writer's Wisteria Tag
The second tag is the Writer's Wisteria tag. I snitched it off of Jane Maree's blog Maiden of the Misty Mountains. You can check out her post here.
Writer's Wisteria Tag
1) What inspired the idea for your current WIP (work in progress), and how long have you had the idea?
Which "current" WIP?
I assume you mean my Camp NaNo one?
Well....Rooglewood had a *small* influence in it.
I've had the idea for about a month and a half now...ever since I heard about Rooglewood's Five Poisoned Apple's contest.
2) What are you most looking forward to about this WIP?
Working with my amazing cabin mates *wink wink*
3) Have you ever dreamed about your characters?
How do you think they exist?
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4) How do you go about naming your characters?
I love names with meaning. Most of my characters and places, especially in my fantasy works, have names that reflect one or more characteristic of that character.
There are a couple ways that I go and find names for characters, places and even object names.
One is an Internet site called behindthename.com. Whenever I'm looking for names from a specific country or region, this is the first site that I go to. They also have a search option for meanings.
The second option is scouring through various baby name lists, including my board on Pinterest to find names. I've even found one for Elvish translations of normal baby names. My MC's name, Eirwen, actually came from a list of baby names related to winter.
5) Do you plan out your theme?
I'm playing with a theme of avoiding bad company and have a few other ideas jumbling around my head. We'll see how it goes.
6) Do you discover the MBTI thing of your characters? (if so, what are the types of your WIP protagonists?)
I used to be really into MBTI and using it to create characters. In the end, I started to feel really confined by it, as I was more concentrated on making my character fit the mold of the MBTI code.
Instead, I just base characters off of people that I know or have observed. I'm a big people watcher and I love to figure out how people react.
7) Have you a favourite genre to write in? (or do you like switching it up randomly)
I love writing contemporary, historical fiction and fantasy. Fantasy is starting to become more of my favorite, with historical fiction becoming a close second.
8) What is a big inspiration for you in writing? (a person, book, quote, scenery, etc.)
Almost anything and everything can inspire me to write. Something absolutely totally random, such as observing a mirror on the first floor while being on a second floor balcony, can result in a story vignette that will later be put into a spy story one day.
9) Are you competitive in your word counts, or more chill and relaxed?
I don't concentrate on the word counts. I want my story to make sense and to be complete. No matter how many words it takes. The only reason I had 10,000 word goal on Camp NaNo is because that is about the length of my one and only "finished" novella.
10) Do you like sharing small snippets of your work? (*hint hint* :P)
When I have them to share :)
As a matter of fact, I do have a very tiny one....
Now, I'm not going to follow the rules (somebody's got to be a rebel around here). Both of these tags are free for the taking, so go, have fun with them.
Now to get to writing....
Scribbingly yours,
Catherine
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10 comments
How cool that this tag got around to you! I did it too, but I think you had more.
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DeleteI may just have to do the second one. If I did the first one, it would be embarrassing. I haven't read enough classics. But the second tag sounds fun. Nice post, by the way.
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DeleteOoh I loved that snippet. XD XD
ReplyDeleteSO EXCITED THAT YOU DID THE TAG!! I loved reading all your answers also. :D
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DeleteThis is great! I love hearing about your writerly-ness (is that even a word? Let's pretend it is!) and characters. And that whole mirror thing sounds really cool! :D
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DeleteI love this tag and I love the snippet and I love being in the same cabin! XD Great post Catherine, it was fun to read about the way you write. That's always of huge interest to me :)
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