Digital Library Consortium, Anyone?

Hi All!

I've 'read' several books lately, mostly because I found my state library's "consortium" which is a different bird than our state library system. It's the "go to" place for all things electronic: audio, video and ebook. They have items in their system that I'm unable to obtain at my local library - and all it takes to borrow is my current library card!

Thus, I've been able to obtain several classics on audio (and many new books, too!) which I've been able to enjoy during my 2+ hour daily commute.

I'm in Maryland, but perhaps other states have them as well? Just thought I'd pass on the tip.

Is everyone gearing up their summer reading? I'm finding that I'm re-ordering my "next to read" list based on the season and where I might be when I'm reading. Does anyone else do that?

BOOK REVIEW

MY THOUGHTS: What do you do with all your broken things? Throw them away? Do you ever wonder what happens to them? Beware, they may go somewhere else and become a city. This what Un Lun Dun is all about. Imagination, at it's best. Umbrella's are Unbrella's. Milk cartons are pets. Old cars, windows and just about anything you can think of can become something. Where does this happen? In UnLondon of course. And UnLondon is being talked by Smog Monster. There is only one person or maybe two who can save UnLondon. Zanna and Deeba find out what's going on in UnLondon but there are people there who doesn't want Zanna and Deeba there. They send Zanna and Deeba back to London. Zanna's memory of UnLondon is wiped clean but Deeba still remembers and she finds her way back to UnLondon to help. They have to find the UnGun to help the city. They have to get it away from WebMinister Abby and the WebWindows. They then have to figure out how it works. Does Debba save the city? Who'll have to read the book to find out. Really great book. Full of all kinds of adventure and imagination. You can see my full review at my place, Just Books.

I'm back!

I've put this gap-filling project on hold while I drag myself through the final stages of my degree, but as of next Friday I am all done (I HOPE), so it's time for me to get back into this!

Trouble is, I don't know where to start. My mental state is in no condition to tackle anything too difficult right now (Iliad!), so I wanted to ask you guys - what book should I read next?

Here's where I'm at right now:

1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. The Iliyad - Homer
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
4. The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
5. Ulysses - James Joyce
6. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
7. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Persuasion - Jane Austen
12. The Boat - Nam Le
13. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
14. Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
15. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
16. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
17. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
18. 1984 - George Orwell
19. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
20. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
21. Middlemarch - George Eliot
22. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
23. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
24. The White Earth - Andrew McGhan
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
26. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
29. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
30. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
31. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
32. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
33. Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy
34. Wanting - Richard Flannagan
35. A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
36. Schindlers Ark - Thomas Kennally
37. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
38. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
39. The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker
40. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
41. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
42. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
43. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
44. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel
45. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
46. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
48. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
49. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
52. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
53. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
54. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
55. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
56. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
57. The Monkeys Mask - Dorothy Porter
58. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
59. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
60. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
61. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
62. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
63. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
64. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
65. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
66. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
67. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
68. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
69. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
70. The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
71. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
72. Watership Down - Richard Adams
73. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
74. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
75. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
76. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
78. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
79. Tbe Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
80. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
81. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
82. March - Geraldine Brooks
83. The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
84. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
85. Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
86. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
87. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
88. Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
89. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
90. The Gathering - Anne Enright
91. Life & Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee
92. The Sea – John Banville
93. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
94. The Divine Comedy - Dante
95. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
96. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
97. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
98. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
99. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
100. Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote