Shiloh Needs...

Okay, here is a new game that I couldn't resist. You type "[Your name] needs" into google and see what comes up--report your top ten. Cherie did this and I thought it was really funny! So funny in fact, that I took a break from grading a painful pile of Art History 101 online essays on Kouros vs. Doryphoros to try it out. If you do it, leave a comment so we can all check it out and entertain ourselves with reading blogs instead of getting our work done!

1. Shiloh needs lots of exercise, grooming, training, and socialization.

2. Shiloh needs a forever home.

3. Shiloh needs a family who will give [her] lots of guidance, supervision and support as [she] grows up.

4. Shiloh needs basic obedience training.

5. Shiloh needs a quiet home, with one or two humans.

6. Shiloh needs her hair combed.

7. Shiloh needs you to make it this happen!

8. Shiloh needs some sunlight.

9. Shiloh needs two 18 year old males who have a heart and nerve to serve at-risk kids from the inner-city.

10. Shiloh needs a haircut but she's cute.

Sadly my name is mostly used as a pet name or as the name of Brangelina's daughter. It is also often used as a name for some Christian churches since it's in the Bible. If it was 1978 and there was such a thing as the internet maybe I'd get the more appropriate Neil Diamond hits with my google search! ;)

BBC's Top 100 Books

I've never done one of these before, but I thought I'd give it a shot when I saw that Vanessa had done it! (I secretly want to be cool like her someday!) It looks like I've got a lot of reading to do!! I need to get out of school so I'll have time to do it! Give me your suggestion of where I should start when I get the time!

BBC's Top 100 Books

Bold: read
Italic: started

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Elliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

And the Winner Is...

The Nelsons!

Thanks everyone for participating in my 200th Post Contest! I loved all the quotes on light you left! The winner was chosen at random, not by the best quote. That would just have been too hard! Jessica Nelson was the lucky winner drawn out of a hat! Her quote was:

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

- Robert Alden

I'll be contacting you Jessica to hook you up with the prize of your choice! :) Hooray!!

Hello Kitty MAC

Just had to share. Thanks Ari for letting me in on this new product!

Education in Zion

It is still under construction, but check out the new Education in Zion website! :) I still miss working there!