How many of these have you read? Me I have read....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)6 The Bible - (x)7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)8 1984 - George Orwell (X)9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x)13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x)14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( x)16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (x )18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (x )21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( x)25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( x)27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x )28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x )31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x )32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( x)34 Emma - Jane Austen (x )35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( x)36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x )37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (x )39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (x)45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( x)46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( x)49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (x )51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )52 Dune - Frank Herbert () 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( x)54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (x )57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x)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 (x )61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (x)63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (x)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 ( x)70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x)71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (x )75 Ulysses - James Joyce (x)76 The Inferno - Dante (X) actually read the Divine Comedy77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( x)79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (x)80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x ) -82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (x )83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x)84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (x )87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x) -88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x)89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x )90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( x)91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)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 (x )97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

Hey guys just an update about the visual art society...

we are going to canton next weekend to sell art work!

If you want to enter your work stop by the art office and pick up an application...there is a $20 fee for entrients that are not going to canton to sell...1/4 of your profits will be taken out to support the visual art society. We are taking up art all next week in the art building....


Also we have a blog its thevisualartsociety.blogspot.com

Picasso Settlement

The judge said that he was deeply troubled by the secrecy concerning the Picasso case. The Museum of Modern Art and the Guitenhiem gave a secret amout to the hiers inorder for them to continue to own the two works of art. The heirs demanded that the amout remain secret. They claim that the two paintings were force to be sold because of the Nazi regime and now the hiers demand the paintings back.

16 Bodies Found in New Mexico

IN Alberqureque, New Mexico 16 bodys belonging to young women were uncovered when a woman was walking her dog, most of the bodies belonged to prostitues. This uncovered a darker side of the new mexico city. Among these girls was a young girl from Forth Worth who was a hairstlyist and had traveled from Texas to the city for a fresh start and dissapeared three days later.

The face of Shakespeare....well maybe.

So little is known about the bard of Avon especially what he looks like. A portrait was unvield last week that could possibly be him, but the jury is still out. So you are looking at what cold possibly be Shakespeare.

MY Self Portraits.

I emulated Anne Lebovitz, Herbert Bayer,Eward Munch, and Leopold Bolly

Random Things About Me!

1. I have been sick since last thursday. Thats why I miss class and the critique on monday. I just have larengitous.

2. I have no time this semester at all. I am always busy.

3. I am New Member Ed. in my sorority, and Treasurer of he visual art society.

4. I am from a small unconsolitdated comunity called Harleton that is east of here, it is only 45 mins. from Shereveport, LA.

5. My parents have a small farm back home we raise goats, chickens, quail and I have a horse.

6. This is my first photography class ever, and I feel like I am doing horrible in it.

7. I have no tattoos or piercings other than my ears at this moment.

8. I am named after a charecter off of a soap oprea my mom and my grandmother used to watch together.

9. My parents and grandparents used to have a dairy farm together until they went bankrupt when the price of milk dropped and the price of feed went up.

10. I am from the country and at times I have an accent from it.

11. Neither of my parents went to college even though they are both really smart.

12. I hate math

13. I want to be an art teacher one day.

14. I love playdoh...for my birthday I got pink glitter playdoh it was awesome!

15. I love to color in coloring books...it helps relax me..i dont know why its just something I have done since I was a kid.

16. My Birthday is on Easter this year.

17. I love Mary Blair. look up her art work!

18. I plan on visiting Italy for a spell when I graduate.

19. I took my first plane ride this January, to a regional confrence with my sorority.

20. My Middle Name, Marie, is a family name.

21. I am so ready for spring break, because spring break is kicking my butt.

22. My favorite book is the Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemmingway

23. I love to read! When I  have time to my self you can always find me with a book in my hand.

24. I have two sisters 

25. I am behind on my blog..

N.Y. C. Stargazing...

two men who have never met each other before have one goal in common, the want to turn the lights off in new york for one night to look at the sky above.

One is an istallation artist, the other is an amature astronomer. They both want to give new yorkers something that they have never seen before the night sky from new york city.

Obama challenging teachers

Obama was praised for his educational speech, but that is not all he has challengened both teachers and teacher unions for better teachers. He points out that while there are flaws in our educational system and standardized testing is flawed it is better than nothing. I agree inorder to promote better education we need competition, and making sure that we have the right teachers out there who are not only teaching the material but are effective in getting the subject matter across to the students.

Teching Hsieh

An exhibt at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is dedicated to the artist Teching Hsieh. He was an illegal alien who channeled the alienation he felt into art.

So in 1978 he built a cage inside a loft to live in for a year. He shut himself up, and did not allow himself to do anything: read, write, listen to music, or watch televison for a year. He spent most of his time thinking. His cage is on display in the Modern Art Museum. This is not his only performace art piece. He also chained himself to a female artist for a year, he spent a year punching a time clock hourly, and also spent a year on the streets.

Each day he drew a line in the wall with his fingernail.

Hsieh is inspiring to me because he is able to channel his feelings of alienation into his art. He feeds off these emotions and channels them straight into his art.

State Colleges getting exactly what they want...and its not exactly a good thing...

Be careful what you wish for? That is something that we have always heard well cheaper state colleges are experiencing that now. Hoards of top students are now saying yes to their applications some are having to increase enrollment beyond 6,000 incoming freshman! While the colleges are still having to make budgeting cuts. The challenge for them is how do they make the cuts without diminishing the quality of the students education, especially with the gargantuan amount that are now pouring in.