{"id":458,"date":"2007-11-28T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=458"},"modified":"2007-11-28T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T03:46:00","slug":"dominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/11\/28\/dominated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Basically, I suck. Of a list of 100 most popular books (must be of Canadians for all the Canadian authors in the list), I’ve read 18 of them. Amber on the other hand has read 32 of them. <\/p>\n

There are a couple reasons I suck: I read really really really really slowly and the other reason is that I do mindnumbing stuff like playing “The Never-Ending Movie Quiz” and iPod Cubis.<\/p>\n

Amber on the other hand can power through a novel in about 2 days and that’s when she practices restraint. She actually stops herself from reading novels because she would run out in a couple weeks and then have nothing to read for months. Punk.<\/p>\n

Popular books we’ve read:<\/p>\n

Just Amber:<\/p>\n

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
1984 (Orwell)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary (Fielding)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
Les Miserables (Hugo)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just Zaak:<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both of us have read:<\/p>\n

The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Handmaid\u2019s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Bible
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Angela\u2019s Ashes (Frank McCourt)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no consolation. Not even people telling me they’ve only read fortune cookies in the last ten years.<\/p>\n

(Amber’s dominatrix outfit is in the wash so we had to do a headlock pose instead)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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