{"id":1090,"date":"2007-11-14T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/one-thousand\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T13:06:34","slug":"one-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/one-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"One thousand (!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the letter A does not appear in the English spelling of any number lower than “one thousand”? Oh, the trivial gifts the Interwebs give to me.<\/p>\n

One thousand. Like, a thousand words<\/a>, or a Thousand Islands<\/a>. Or, one thousand posts. <\/p>\n

Yes, my bloggy peeps, this is my one-thousandth post<\/em>. One thousand posts in not-quite 34 months. The mind boggles. <\/p>\n

You know, I always wanted to be a writer, and I always knew that I had an easy style when it came to stringing words together — but I always feared I had nothing to write about. *snicker*<\/p>\n

And now, in honour of my one-thousandth post, a couple of favourite subjects: Books! Memes! BOOK MEMES!! <\/p>\n

(Thanks to Raising WEG<\/a>, from whom I filched this one.)<\/p>\n

This list is via the Guardian’s report of the top 20 books re-read by Britons<\/a>. I’ve italicized those books I’ve read, and bold-faced the books I’ve read more than once.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling <\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien<\/li>\n
  3. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen<\/li>\n
  4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<\/li>\n
  6. 1984 by George Orwell<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown <\/em><\/li>\n
  8. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte <\/em><\/li>\n
  10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<\/em><\/li>\n
  11. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n
  12. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee<\/em><\/li>\n
  13. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews<\/em><\/li>\n
  14. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell<\/li>\n
  15. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett <\/li>\n
  16. The Bible<\/em><\/li>\n
  17. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding <\/li>\n
  19. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell <\/em><\/li>\n
  20. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Hmmm, so I’ve read a lot of books Britons like to read, but didn’t enjoy them enough to re-read them. These <\/em>books, however, are the first five that come to mind when I think about books that I’ve read more than once, and sometimes more than twice:<\/p>\n

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    1. Contact, by Carl Sagan<\/li>\n
    2. Generation X, by Douglas Coupland<\/li>\n
    3. Who Do You Think You Are, by Alice Munro<\/li>\n
    4. The Shining, by Stephen King<\/li>\n
    5. Shoeless Joe, by WP Kinsella<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What books have you found worthy of re-reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Did you know that the letter A does not appear in the English spelling of any number lower than “one thousand”? Oh, the trivial gifts the Interwebs give to me. One thousand. Like, a thousand words, or a Thousand Islands. Or, one thousand posts. Yes, my bloggy peeps, this is my one-thousandth post. One thousand … Continue reading “One thousand (!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-editorial-asides","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}