{"id":2991,"date":"2006-03-05T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:20:25","slug":"british-librarians-disprove-value-of-american-english-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/british-librarians-disprove-value-of-american-english-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"British Librarians Disprove Value of American English Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, some British librarians have identified <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,1721526,00.html\" target=\"_new\">fifty books one should read before dying<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve listed the books below and have identified those I have read <b>in bold<\/b> and those I have on my to-read shelves <i>in italics<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><b>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<\/b><br \/>\n<i>The Bible<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien<\/i><br \/>\n<b>1984 by George Orwell<\/b><br \/>\n<i>A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<\/b><br \/>\nPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen<br \/>\nAll Quite <i>[sic]<\/i> on the Western Front by E M Remarque<br \/>\nHis Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman<br \/>\nBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks<br \/>\n<b>The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/b><br \/>\n<i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Tess of the D&#8217;urbevilles by Thomas Hardy<\/b><br \/>\nWinnie the Pooh by AA Milne<br \/>\nWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<br \/>\nThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham<br \/>\nGone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<br \/>\n<i>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<\/i><br \/>\nThe Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br \/>\nThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold<br \/>\nThe Prophet by Khalil Gibran<br \/>\nDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens<br \/>\nThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho<br \/>\nThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov<br \/>\nLife of Pi by Yann Martel<br \/>\nMiddlemarch by George Eliot<br \/>\nThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver<br \/>\nA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<br \/>\n<i>A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a meme!  Everyone play!<\/p>\n<p>Also, please note that should I get to a total of 49 of these books, I will not read the last, because that would indicate I am ready to die.  Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, some British librarians have identified fifty books one should read before dying. I&#8217;ve listed the books below and have identified those I have read in bold and those I have on my to-read shelves in italics: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Bible The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18874,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/18874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}