My right eye has been sore for a week and last night it started in with shooting pains whenever I looked at light. So this morning we phoned NHS Direct, then went to the centre, then went to the eye infirmary. I haven't got any scratches or anything but it might be an infection...so I have to go back tomorrow for a swab. Since I'm working tomorrow I have to be there at 9 or they can't see me. This Bank Holiday is being a bit crap.
It was also a life changing day. It's the first time I've worn my glasses out of the house since 1997. Seriously. The only reason I did back then was cos I'd lost a lens and had a driving lesson. Even when we went to Spain I put my lenses in to go from the room to the pool, and walked round the water park half-blind.
Before I get evicted to the sofa (where I can't read or sew according to Anthony) here is something I stole from Michelle.
The Top 106 Books Most Often Marked As “Unread” By LibraryThing’s Users.
Strike-through books you’ve read before.
Italicize books you’ve read before but haven’t finished.
Copy and paste on your blog to see how “pretentious” you are.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Life of Pi : a novel
The Aeneid
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
Total: read 28, unfinished 7. Michelle got a percentage but I can't be bothered trying to sort it out. Basically this list tells me that I try to finish books and that I don't read things "just because I should" - I don't even own things because I should!
2 comments:
I worked out the percentage for you, but then I forgot it because I realised I hadn't counted the number of books I'd started and hadn't finished (23) that is so like me, starting loads of books to never finish them. Sorry your weekend sucks. I hate eye problems. I have an eye test booked for this week because I keep getting eye strain and headaches behind my eyes. I've been wearing glasses since before my third birthday, and apart from a brief stint around my wedding I've always, always worns my glasses. I totally hide behind them.
I'm scared that out of all the books I've read, only about half-a-dozen or so actually feature on that list.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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