March 16, 2009
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 books from this list. Copy the list into your own note. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Delete ‘x’ from any you have not read. Post the number you have read in the note title.
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
- The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien Tried and couldn’t finish.
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X .
- Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X
- The Bible X
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien Tried and couldn’t finish.
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Time Traveller’s Wife
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Tried and couldn’t finish.
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Tried and couldn’t finish.
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy X
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden X
- Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X
- Animal Farm – George Orwell X
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery X
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding X
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel X
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen X
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley X
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck X
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens X
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Tried and couldn’t finish.
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Inferno – Dante
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession – AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker Tried and couldn’t finish.
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web – EB White X
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch AlbomX
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExuperyX
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down – Richard Adams X
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute X
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas X
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo X
February 7, 2009
Hi, everyone! I’ve got another list of books to give away. If you check out the December list, there are still some left that I will take to donate to the library next week, so you still have some time to grab them!
Just three requests:
- You like books! HAHAHA!
- You live in Japan
- You don’t mind paying the shipping cost. Usually 800-900 yen for a box of 5-6 books. Probably less for fewer!
- The Black Mountain by Rex Stout (PB) Nero Wolf series. Old copy.
- The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun (PB) ISBN 0-515-12739-6
- Dead Heatby Dick Francis (PB) (I paid $14 USD at the airport for this!!!!!!!! CRAZY!)
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie (old PB)
- Lake Newsby Barbara Delinsky (PB) ISBN 0-671-03619-X
- Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaidby Margery Sharp (HB) Old library copy
- The Case for Christby Lee Strobel (PB) ISBN 0-310-20930-7
- A Season for Simplicityby Donny Finley (Gift book in ENglish) ISBN 0-7369-0108-6
- Forgive and Forgetby Lewis B. Smedes (PB)
- The Comfort of Rest and Reassuranceby Roy Lessin (HB) ISBN 1-59310-653-X
Leave a comment if you would like any of these books. You can send me your snail mail address at kimsbookshelf@yahoo.com, for confidentiality! Let your Expat/English reading friends know too, yeah?
January 8, 2009
Jun got her very own computer (Leap’s Phonics Pond) for Christmas. Grammy found it at a recycle shop and got it for a steal. Of course, being the knowledgeable parents we are – or are not – we didn’t know exactly how much of a steal till I checked it out on Amazon. Nice $50 price tag.
It teaches lower case letters, gives a quiz on those letters, teaches and tests on phonics, does some basic spelling and…the reason for this post – has a song or some kind of music assigned to each letter. Well, my musical Junnie LOVES the music feature. However, there are no words to the songs. I have been trying to recognize the songs and remember/search for the lyrics so I can teach her the songs too. So far I have come up with the following. I hope it might be helpful to someone else too! There are a few I can’t figure out. If you can…PLEASE tell me! THANKS!
a – Part one of the ABC song: a-b-c-d-e-f-g
b – Billy Boy
c – Clementine
d – Do you Remember Sweet Betsy from Pike?
e – fun sound
f – Farmer in the Dell
g – Same sound/rhythm as “k”
h – Part two of the ABC song: h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p
i – I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
j – Jimmy Crack Corn
k – Same sound/rhythm as “g”
l – London Bridge
m – fun sound
n – Sounds like the tune of I’ll Fly Away. Again – should start with an “n”, though, shouldn’t it?
o – ?? but sounds like some song!?
p – Pop Goes the Weasel
q – Part three of the ABC song: q-r-s-t-u-v
r – Row, Row Your Boat
s – She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
t – This Old Man
u – fun sound
v – fun sound
w – Part four of the ABC song: w-x-y-z, Now I know my ABC’s, next time won’t you sing with me!
x – fun sound
y - Yankee Doodle
z – fun sound
Any ideas on the question marks?
December 1, 2008
I was so happy to send books out to two readers last month. Just think how happy we would all have been if I had gotten the right box of books to the right person!!!! Yep, between the post office lady and myself, we managed to send Nagano’s books to Hyogo, and vice versa! Thanks to the kindness of both readers, they read each other’s books and will soon be sending them on to each other!
I will try to do better this time around! I will be sending these books out the first of January, but wanted to give you a chance to look at the list before I took off for Christmas vacation.
Three Requirements:
- You love books
- You live in Japan
- You don’t mind paying COD charges. (I found you can get quite a few books in a box for 800-900 yen COD.)
Leave a comment in the Comments, and send me an e-mail at kims.bookshelf@yahoo.com with your snail mail address.
Click the links – (Amazon.com) to look at the books.
Here are December’s books:
- One-Way to Ansonia (PB) ISBN 0-425-08880-4 GONE
- Praying God’s Will for my Marriage (PB) ISBN 0-8407-9223-9
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (PB) ISBN 4-89684-515-3
- An American Childhood (PB) ISBN 0-06-091518-8 GONE
- Murder in Three Acts (PB) 0-425-09041-8
- Surrender (PB) ISBN 0-8024-1280-7
- Pollyanna (PB) ISBN 978-1-85326-145-9 GONE
- The Three Musketeers (PB) ISBN 0-14-044025-9
- Shame and Grace(HB) ISBN 0-06-067521-7
- American Tall Tales(HB) Old library copy (1952) GONE
October 29, 2008
Hi! Be sure to check the list of books to see if any are calling your name. I will post a new list on Nov. 1st
October Book Give Away
October 8, 2008
What can I say??? I love this book! Growing up, we had the full version and I loved each page of it. Especially the phrase “I think I can!”
I wanted to share the message of “I think I can!” with the Mamas and Kids in my Toddler’s class. However, the full story would have been more than the Mamas would have been able to learn to read to their kiddos. So, I searched and searched and searched.
This particular book is a Beginning Reader’s version. Not many words, same cute pictures, and “I think I can!” nicely repeated. Of course, when I read it aloud, I multiply the times we shout “I think I can!” while bouncing up and down, to my heart’s content.
So, this is not the full story – but it is great for ESL. Give it a try. This particular book has another story about the Little Engine and a Hippo. Hmmm. We won’t use that one in class, though, if you have a child, they may enjoy it too.