Dada doesn't catch flies: National Gallery Sculpture garden...

Saturday, January 14, 2012

National Gallery Sculpture garden...

Mirror sculpture, mist machine and mist over pond with bronze heads.

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ChristinaJanuary 14, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Looks like a fun place to explore!

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AnonymousJanuary 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM
It looks like you are having way too much fun.Are you missing us?We sure are missing you.Enjoy the weekend.Clare
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What I've read in 2011

Jane Austen "Persuasion"
Hemingway "True at First Light"
Evelyn Waugh "Vile Bodies"
J.K Huysmans "The Damned"
Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights"
Bill Bryson "Mother Tongue"
Hemingway "Festiva: The Sun also Rises"
Goethe "The Sorrows of Youth Werther"
Henry Murger "Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Hemingway "To Have or Have Not"
Gustave Flubert "Travels in Egypt"
Hemingway "A Movable Feast"
Hemingway "Men without Women"
Ford Madox Ford "The Good Solider"
Robert Adamson "Inside Out"
Bruce Chatwin "The Songlines"
Simone de Beauvoir "She Came to Stay"
Haruki Murakami "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
A.S Byatt "The Children's Book"
Ryszard Kapuscinski "Travels with Herodotus"
Marguerite Duras "The Sailor From Gibraltar"
Graham Greene "The Quiet American"

What I've Read in 2010

Charles Bukowski "Slouching Towards Nirvana"
Ernest Hemingway "The Garden of Eden"
Christina Stead "The Man Who Loved Children"
Gustave Flaubert "Flaubert in Egypt"
Bill Bryson "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
Orhan Pamuk "The New Life"
Ernest Hemingway "Men Without Women"
Livio Dobrez "Parnassus Mad Ward"
John Kinsella "Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective"
e e cummings "The Enormous Room"
Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time" vol. 4
Elizabeth Bowen "House in Paris"
Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre"
Jane Austen "Emma"
Graham Green "The Power and the Glory"
John Miller "Australia's Writers and Poets"
Lydia Davis "Almost No Memory"
Richard Adams "Watership Down"
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
Anne Frank "The Diary of a Young Girl
Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited"
Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time" vol. 3
William Faulkner "Sound and the Fury"
Evelyn Waugh "Decline and Fall"
Huysmans "Parisian Sketches"
Jasper Fford "The Eyre Affair"
Joris-Karl Huysmans "Against Nature"
Dotsky "Crime and Punishment"

The 100 Greatest Novels

of all Time: The Guardian's List:

I am working my way through the list.

Titles in black I have already read

- the rest are on the list...

1. Don QuixoteMiguel De Cervantes

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan

3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

9. Emma Jane Austen

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley

11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli

16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott

26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan

45. Ulysses James Joyce

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

49. The Trial Franz Kafka

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway

51. Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley

54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh

55. USA John Dos Passos

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford

58. The Plague Albert Camus

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett

61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor

63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding

67. The Quiet American Graham Greene

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller

75. Herzog Saul Bellow

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge

81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer

82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

88. The BFG Roald Dahl

89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi

90. Money Martin Amis

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro

92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie

95. La Confidentia lJames Ellroy

96. Wise Children Angela Carter

97. Atonement Ian McEwan

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

National Gallery Sculpture garden...

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