Will Dramaturg for Food: NaNo Update 1

November 1, 2008

NaNo Update 1

Total words today: 1,825
Number of scenes written: 1
Number of characters used: 2

Favorite sentence written today: "I suppose I could have made a measured study of how long it takes the petunias in your yard to grow to a foot high, but I worry that the neighborhood gardener boy would have come to mow your grass and pruned your bushes before I could complete my study."

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My Fill in the Gaps 100 List

1. Accidental Tourist, The- Anne Tyler

2. Age of Innocence, The - Edith Wharton

3. American Wife- Curtis Sittenfeld

4. Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman

5. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

6. Atonement – Ian McEwan

7. Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The– Junot Diaz

8. Brothers Karamazov, The - Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. Butterfly and the Diving Bell, The- Jean-Dominique Bauby

10. Candide- Voltaire

11. Catch-22- Joseph Heller

12. Cheri & The End of Cheri- Colette

13. Clockwork Orange, A – Anthony Burgess

14. Color Purple, The – Alice Walker

15. Confederacy of Dunces, A - John Kennedy Toole

16. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

17. Daniel Deronda- George Eliot

18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

19. Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol

20. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

21. Dombey & Son- Charles Dickens

22. Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes

23. East of Eden- John Steinbeck

24. Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card

25. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

26. Farewell to Arms, A – Ernest Hemingway

27. Gift, The - Vladimir Nabokov

28. Golden Compass—Philip Pullman

29. Golden Notebook, The – Doris Lessing

30. Grapes of Wrath, The – John Steinbeck

31. Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift

32. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

33. Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle

34. House of Mirth, The- Edith Wharton

35. House of Spirits, The- Isabel Allende

36. ~~House on Mango Street, The - Sandra Cisneros~~ (8/05/09)

37. Human Stain, The- Philip Roth

38. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The – Victor Hugo

39. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

40. I, Robot- Isaac Asimov

41. Iliad, The – Homer

42. Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer

43. Invisible Man, The - H.G. Wells

44. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

45. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell – Susanna Clarke

46. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

47. Jude the Obscure- Thomas Hardy

48. Kite Runner, The – Khalad Hosseini

49. Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H. Lawrence

50. Last King of Scotland, The – Giles Foden

51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52. Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

53. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

54. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

55. Member of the Wedding, The- Carson McCullers

56. Moby Dick- Herman Melville

57. Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe

58. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

59. My Antonia- Willa Cather

60. My Life in France— Julia Child

61. Namesake, The - Jhumpa Lahiri

62. Odyssey, The- Homer

63. Once and Future King, The – T.H. White

64. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

65. Orlando- Virginia Woolf

66. Paradise- Toni Morrison

67. ~~Passage to India, A - E.M. Forster~~ (9/05/09)

68. Persuasion- Jane Austen

69. Portable Dorothy Parker, The - Dorothy Parker

70. Portrait of a Lady, The – Henry James

71. Possession- A.S. Byatt

72. Reader, The- Bernhard Schlink

73. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

74. Remains of the Day, The – Kazuo Ishiguro

75. Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates

76. Room with a View, A - E.M. Forster

77. Screwtape Letters, The— C.S. Lewis

78. Secret Life of Bees, The – Sue Monk Kidd

79. Shipping News, The- E. Annie Proulx

80. Sister Carrie- Theodore Dreiser

81. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut

82. Sophie’s Choice- William Styron

83. Sound and the Fury, The – William Faulkner

84. Tender is the Night— F. Scott Fitzgerald

85. Time Machine, The - H.G. Wells

86. Time Traveller’s Wife, The- Audrey Niffenberger

87. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

88. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson

89. Tristram Shandy- Laurence Sterne

90. Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller

91. Ulysses- James Joyce

92. Unbearable Lightness of Being, The - Kundera

93. Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

94. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

95. Waiting- Ha Jin

96. Way We Live Now, The- Anthony Trollope

97. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

98. Wonder Boys- Michael Chabon

99. World According to Garp, The – John Irving

100. ~~Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The – Michael Chabon~~ (8/19/09)