{"id":32316,"date":"2012-11-01T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/01\/cross-out-what-youve-already-read-six-is-the\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T22:21:01","slug":"cross-out-what-youve-already-read-six-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/01\/cross-out-what-youve-already-read-six-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross out what you\u2019ve already read. Six is the average."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/morewyckedthanyou.tumblr.com\/post\/34778432296\/cross-out-what-youve-already-read-six-is-the-average\">morewyckedthanyou<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strike>Pride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane Austen<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Lord of the Rings &#8211; JRR Tolkien<\/strike><br \/><strike>Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Bronte<\/strike><br \/><strike>Harry Potter series &#8211; JK Rowling<\/strike><br \/><strike>To Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Bible &#8211; Council of Nicea<\/strike><br \/>Wuthering Heights &#8211; Emily Bronte\u00a0<br \/><strike>Nineteen Eighty Four &#8211; George Orwell<\/strike><br \/><strike>His Dark Materials &#8211; Philip Pullman<\/strike><br \/>Great Expectations &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/><strike>Little Women &#8211; Louisa M Alcott<\/strike><br \/>Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br \/>Catch 22 &#8211; Joseph Heller<br \/><strike>Rebecca &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Hobbit &#8211; JRR Tolkien\u00a0<\/strike><br \/>Birdsong &#8211; Sebastian Faulk<br \/><strike>Catcher in the Rye &#8211; JD Salinger<\/strike><br \/>The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife &#8211; Audrey Niffenegger<br \/>Middlemarch &#8211; George Eliot<br \/><strike>Gone With The Wind &#8211; Margaret Mitchell<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Great Gatsby &#8211; F Scott Fitzgerald<\/strike><br \/>Bleak House &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>War and Peace &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<br \/><strike>The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Douglas Adams<\/strike><br \/>Brideshead Revisited &#8211; Evelyn Waugh<br \/>Crime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br \/>Grapes of Wrath &#8211; John Steinbeck<br \/><strike>Alice in Wonderland &#8211; Lewis Carroll<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Wind in the Willows &#8211; Kenneth Grahame<\/strike><br \/>Anna Karenina &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<br \/>David Copperfield &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/><strike>Chronicles of Narnia &#8211; CS Lewis<\/strike><br \/><strike>Emma &#8211; Jane Austen<\/strike><br \/><strike>Persuasion &#8211; Jane Austen<\/strike><br \/>The Kite Runner &#8211; Khaled Hosseini<br \/>Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin &#8211; Louis De Bernieres<br \/>Memoirs of a Geisha &#8211; Arthur Golden<br \/><strike>Winnie the Pooh &#8211; AA Milne<\/strike><br \/><strike>Animal Farm &#8211; George Orwell<\/strike><br \/><strike>The Da Vinci Code &#8211; Dan Brown<\/strike><br \/>One Hundred Years of Solitude &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/>A Prayer for Owen Meaney &#8211; John Irving<br \/>The Woman in White &#8211; Wilkie Collins<br \/><strike>Anne of Green Gables &#8211; LM Montgomery<\/strike><br \/>Far From The Madding Crowd &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br \/><strike>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale &#8211; Margaret Atwood<\/strike><br \/><strike>Lord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding<\/strike><br \/>Atonement &#8211; Ian McEwan\u00a0<br \/>Life of Pi &#8211; Yann Martel\u00a0<br \/><strike>Dune &#8211; Frank Herbert<\/strike><br \/>Cold Comfort Farm &#8211; Stella Gibbons<br \/><strike>Sense and Sensibility &#8211; Jane Austen<\/strike><br \/>A Suitable Boy &#8211; Vikram Seth<br \/>The Shadow of the Wind &#8211; Carlos Ruiz Zafon\u00a0<br \/>A Tale Of Two Cities &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/><strike>Brave New World &#8211; Aldous Huxley<\/strike><br \/>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time &#8211; Mark Haddon\u00a0<br \/>Love In The Time Of Cholera &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/><strike>Of Mice and Men &#8211; John Steinbeck<\/strike><br \/>Lolita &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov\u00a0<br \/>The Secret History &#8211; Donna Tartt<br \/>The Lovely Bones &#8211; Alice Sebold<br \/><strike>Count of Monte Cristo &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<\/strike><br \/>On The Road &#8211; Jack Kerouac<br \/>Jude the Obscure &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br \/>Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary &#8211; Helen Fielding<br \/>Midnight\u2019s Children &#8211; Salman Rushdie\u00a0<br \/>Moby Dick &#8211; Herman Melville<br \/>Oliver Twist &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>Dracula &#8211; Bram Stoker<br \/><strike>The Secret Garden &#8211; Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/strike><br \/>Notes From A Small Island &#8211; Bill Bryson<br \/>Ulysses &#8211; James Joyce\u00a0<br \/>The Bell Jar &#8211; Sylvia Plath<br \/>Swallows and Amazons &#8211; Arthur Ransome<br \/>Germinal &#8211; Emile Zola<br \/>Vanity Fair &#8211; William Makepeace Thackeray<br \/>Possession &#8211; AS Byatt<br \/><strike>A Christmas Carol &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strike><br \/>Cloud Atlas &#8211; David Mitchell<br \/>The Color Purple &#8211; Alice Walker<br \/>The Remains of the Day &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>Madame Bovary &#8211; Gustave Flaubert<br \/>A Fine Balance &#8211; Rohinton Mistry<br \/><strike>Charlotte\u2019s Web &#8211; EB White<\/strike><br \/>The Five People You Meet In Heaven &#8211; Mitch Albom<br \/><strike>Adventures of Sherlock Holmes &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strike><br \/>The Faraway Tree Collection &#8211; Enid Blyton<br \/>Heart of Darkness &#8211; Joseph Conrad<br \/>The Little Prince &#8211; Antoine De Saint-Exupery\u00a0<br \/>The Wasp Factory &#8211; Iain Banks<br \/>Watership Down &#8211; Richard Adams<br \/>A Confederacy of Dunces &#8211; John Kennedy Toole\u00a0<br \/>A Town Like Alice &#8211; Nevil Shute<br \/><strike>The Three Musketeers &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<\/strike><br \/><strike>Hamlet &#8211; William Shakespeare<\/strike><br \/><strike>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory &#8211; Roald Dahl<\/strike><br \/><strike><span>Les Miserables &#8211; Victor Hugo<\/span><\/strike><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible I read too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>morewyckedthanyou: Pride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings &#8211; JRR TolkienJane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series &#8211; JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper LeeThe Bible &#8211; Council of NiceaWuthering Heights &#8211; Emily Bronte\u00a0Nineteen Eighty Four &#8211; George OrwellHis Dark Materials &#8211; Philip PullmanGreat Expectations &#8211; Charles DickensLittle Women &#8211; Louisa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/01\/cross-out-what-youve-already-read-six-is-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cross out what you\u2019ve already read. Six is the average.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}