Proving BBC Wrong!

So, way back in May MovieCritic tagged me with this quite unusual tag.
Apparently BBC have made a list of classics of which they don't believe people have read more than 6!

Preposterous, I know!

So because I love proving big know-it-all institutions wrong, and because I feel a little guilty of not yet answering this tag, here it is:


                               

The Rules:
1. Be honest.
2. Put an asterisk next to the ones you have read all the way through. Put an addition sign next to the ones you have started.
3. Tag as many people as these books that you have read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*

2. Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte*
4. Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Story of the Eye - George Bataille
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
9. Adrift on the Nile - Naguib Mahfouz
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott*
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
15. Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
16. The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
17. Woman in the Dunes - Abe Kobo
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gogol's Wife - Tomasso Landolfi
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
23. Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (But I have read Budenbrooks by Thomas Mann, which as far as I know is an even bigger classic of his)
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. Ferdydurke - Gombrowicz
26. Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll*
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair33. Tom Sawyer / Huck Finn - Mark Twain
34. Emma -Jane Austen* 
35. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe*
36. Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Naomi - Junichiro Tanizaki
39. Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
40. The Joke - Milan Kundera
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. Labyrinths - Gorge Luis Borges
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. Under My Skin - Doris Lessing
46. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery*
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Absalom Absalom - William Faulkner
51. Beloved - Toni Morrison
52. The Flounder - Gunther Grass
53. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen*
55. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
56. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (But I've read Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, so that should count as something)
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens*
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Idiot - Fodor Dostoevesky
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
64. Death on the Installment Plan - Celine
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas*
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens*
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
74. Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado De Assis
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Inferno - Dante
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. The Light House - Virginia Woolf
80. Disgrace - John Maxwell Coetzee
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Box Man - Abe Kobo
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. The Stranger - Camus (But I have read The Fall by Camus, still should count)
88. Acquainted with the Night - Heinrich Boll
89. Don't Call It Night - Amos Oz
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (This is unfair! I've read tons of her books but not this particular one)
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pychon
94. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare*
99. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe**
100. Metamorphosis - Ovid


Results:
17 read out of 100 (plus the 3 titles that technically wasn't on the list, but was a lesser known work by that same author)
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Mission accomplished!
BBC proven wrong!!

I'm gonna break that third rule and not tag anyone, but if you read this post and thinks this sounds fun, by all means fill it out:)

Catching Up On Tags

I love being tagged, I really do! However, actually getting around to do the tag is a bit harder for me. Mainly because I need time to formulate the answers in my head and then I forget, and new projects take over.

But after this very, very long post, I should be up to date on my tags.


Sisterhood Of World Bloggers Award

Cordy tagged me with this back in February! Yes, you read that right, February as in 5 months ago. But I told her I would do it, so here goes:

1. Do you have a favourite fictional couple? (If so, why do you like them?)
One of my all time favourites are Margaret and Mr Thornton from North & South. What I particularly love about their love story is that none of them had to change much, their journey was simply to truly get to know the other and not let preconceived ideas get in the way.

                                     

2. If you could have any animal (safely), as a pet you would have a...
A Cheetah!! 
They are so graceful and slender, and a documentary told me that they are the only big cat that can become completely tame, if you get them as infant cubs.

                

3. You get to live in Middle Earth, what race are you a member of?
I'm not familiar with the LOTR universe so I don't know.


4. In an ideal situation (you don't have to worry about living to far from family or money concerns) where would you live? (It can be fictional.)
There are so many places I would love to live. The Scottish Highlands, The English Countryside, Southern Germany and New England are a few that spring to mind.

                

5. Do you have a favourite 'vintage' movie? (As in, filmed before 1960.) What is it?
That is really not a fair question! Movies filmed before 1960 is my new favourite genre! How can I choose only one?
One of my favourites though, is State Fair, I could watch it every day without getting bored.
                 

6. When you were a little kid what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be a writer and a housewife.


7. You can be 'the best' in any sport (e.g. gymnastics, curling, synchronised swimming etc.) what do you choose?
I'm don't really consider myself a sporty person. However, one sport I wouldn't mind mastering is Figure Skating. To glide gracefully and confident across the ice must be really something.

                                      

8. List three things that you wish people knew about you but will never ask. (Or just three random things. ;))

I'm gonna list 3 random things.

1. One of my dreams is to get to wear pretty dresses every day.
2. I'm very addicted to soup at the moment.
3. I couldn't live without my bicycle.


9. Share a favourite quote!

                          

10. What is your favourite thing about wintertime? (Besides Christmas.)
The twilight sky! I don't know about other countries, but in Denmark it's the most beautiful thing ever. If you time it right, you can look to one side and see bright day light, and look to the other side and see black darkness. And everything in between is what I like to call A Study in Hues of Blue.

                     

Furthermore, I've been tagged twice with the Liebster Award, once by Abby P and once by Miss March.

Abby's questions:

1. What is your favourite decade of the 20th century and why?

Do you even have to ask? The 1940's all the way! I actually wrote a whole post on why I love that decade, you can read it here. 
Some of the things I absolutely love, are the clothing, the hair, the music and the movies.

                                   

2. Would you rather visit a giant library or a giant museum?

A tough choice. 
I would visit the library, I think.

                   

3. Do you drink soda, and if so, what is your favourite flavor?

I drink it occasionally. 
My favourite is Fanta.


4. Would you rather tour a famous castle or a stunning garden?

A castle! Always a castle!

                  

5. What kind of dancing do you like best? (Ballroom, swing, ballet, etc.)

I would really like to learn ballroom and swing dancing. But I also love watching ballet.

                  

6. Do you have a hope chest? What sort of things do you have in it?

No.
I have my own apartment, so I don't really have a need for one.


7. Have you ever owned/used a typewriter? How about a quill pen?

I had to use a typewriter when writing out checks at work, but all I remember was a crippling fear of mistyping, because then I would have to start all over.
I haven't tried a quill pen.

                  

8. Do you go to the library often, and do you have your library card number memorised?

Why, yes I do. At least a couple of times a month. And yes - I need to use it to get into the library outside the opening hours. (For the only thing that beats being at a library, is being at a library when there's no one around)


9. What is your favourite piece of makeup you own?

My red lipstick. I don't feel properly dressed without it.

                

10. What is your favourite blend of tea, and do you prefer iced or hot?

I love peppermint tea.
And in my opinion the only way to drink tea is hot.

                 

11. Do you share your birthday with anyone famous, past or present?

I have no doubt that I do, though I have never checked. 
However, my birthday is the day that the Danish flag was discovered, according to legend, so it's a national flag day.

Miss March's questions:

1. What is your personality type?

I'm an INFP. According to the site I took the test, I'm an idealist (which I disagreed on at first, but after some introspection I realised they knew me better than I did). 

2. What is one of your newest favourite movies? (As in one that you recently found, not necessarily a newly made film.)
Captain America: Civil War. I watched it by myself in the cinema and spent the 2+ hours shifting between a blissful state of awe and full blown fangirling.
                                      

3. Have you ever been prejudiced against a certain movie before watching it, but then after seeing it decided it wasn't so bad?  What movie was it?
Yes, it's been known to happen a few times. 
The most notable cases are Phantom Of The Opera (I didn't get the hype about it. Now it's one of my favourite musicals), Les Miserables (I thought with that title it could only be depressing. I was right, but it's depressing in a good way) and Fried Green Tomatoes (I thought it would be sad, but it turned out to be such a great movie).

                      

4. If you could meet any author in person, who would it be?
Most of my favourite authors are dead, but if that isn't an obstacle I would love to meet Jane Austen. 

                               

5. How many siblings do you have, and where do you fall in the lineup?  (Sorry if that's a rather nosey question.  You may answer it or not as you so choose.)
I have a younger brother, which makes me (you guessed it) the oldest one:)

6. If you could be related to any fictional character (from a movie or a book), who would it be and what relation would they be to you?

7.  What is your favourite household chore, and what is your worst?
My favourite chore is doing laundry, but in particular ironing. (My mom didn't like ironing, so I was glad to do it all.)
My least favourite is probably vacuuming, not because the task in itself is streneous, but because it takes me so long to clear the floor beforehand.

                       

8.  Anne and Diana (from Anne of Green Gables) are a classic example of best friends.  Do you have a best friend, and if so which one of you is more like Anne and which is more like Diana?
Yes I do, and if I have to honest I would describe us both as being Anne:)

9. What was one of the first chapter books you ever read?  (You know, the one that made you feel so proud because you were reading a "big kids' book"!)
The first book I remember reading, was the ending of On The Shores Of Silver Lake, and I know I read Farmer Boy as the next one.

10. What is one of the yummiest, most delicious desserts you can think of at the present moment?
ICE CREAM!!!

                   

11.  If you could be a character in one of your favourite movies, which movie would it be and which character would you choose?
I want to be Peggy Carter! 
The only movie she is in, is Captain America: The First Avenger, so that must be the one (also, it's set in the 40's, so could it be any better?)

                      

There, if you've managed to get this far, I commend you:)
You now know a lot of random things about me.

In turn, will you tell me 3 random things about yourself in the comments?
Consider it my very lazy way of continuing the tag.