tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134947784053364422024-02-07T17:19:36.889-07:00Life With DogsLesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-50195244085320014002015-04-27T14:48:00.000-06:002015-04-27T14:48:21.714-06:00The Total Canine, LLCBusiness has kept me away from blogging and a lot has changed since the last time I posted.<br />
Here's an update on everything:<br />
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The Total Canine, LLC<br />
Focusing on Canine Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Conditioning<br />
House calls in the Front Range Area<br />
Office in Golden, CO<br />
Laser Treatment, Therapeutic Ultrasound, E-Stem, Manual Therapy and Exercise Plans available<br />
www.theTotalCanine.net<br />
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Brink:<br />
Qualified for 3 USDAA Cynosports in a row.<br />
Titles: AAD, AX, AXJ<br />
Overall amazing and continuing to teach me about working with dogs.<br />
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Stig:<br />
Officially measured into the 22" Championship height in USDAA.<br />
Titles: NAJ<br />
Working on qualifying for his first USDAA Cynosport.<br />
Continuing to help me figure out conditioning for the canine athlete.<br />
He continues to make me travel down the behavior path. He continues to make me one of the proudest dog moms in the world.<br />
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Ghost:<br />
Ghost is all grown up physically.<br />
She is absolutely amazing at agility. She made her agility debut in March of 2015 with a Gamblers run and a Jumpers run. I think she was a bit shocked that she was actually getting to do agility. The Jumpers run earned her first ever Q and I love her little victory lap after she finished.<br />
Ghost pushes me to be better every single day.<br />
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I'm starting a new website/blog: The Adventures of Ghost and Stig<br />
My goal for this site is to introduce people to canine conditioning a fun way that's not all about reps and hours upon hours of work. Canine conditioning includes workouts that will be 15-20 minutes long, learning new tricks, and lots of play time with the dogs.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">www.facebook.com/GhostandStig</span><br />
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<br />Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-91793787962780754452013-02-01T16:47:00.001-07:002013-02-01T17:13:56.704-07:00ADCH Rival<div style="text-align: center;">
An Unexpected Journey</div>
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In the spring of 2007, I realized that my River would never love agility the way I do. At that point I started thinking about getting another dog and letting River become a couch potato. Little did I know Zia Australian Shepherd Rescue would be at the spring NADAC trial in Albuquerque. At that trial, Zia was high-lighting a little red Aussie with prick ears named Pecos. Every one would look at his picture and say "super cute, shame about the ears" and walk off. I took one look and said "I love those ears!". River has prick ears as well and I thought it made her a really unique girl and it would be perfect for River's Rival. I made plans to go visit him at the foster house and do a two week trial. </div>
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As soon as he made it home, I named him Smithwicks Ewe've Got No Rival and he was mine. I told him he'd never have to run the streets again and immediately started training. </div>
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Rival immediately bonded with the family-people and dogs, he loved everyone the instant he saw them. He loved training time, snuggle time, and play time.</div>
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Training was fun, he was so much more enthusiastic than River. I decided he was going to do running contacts, something I had hoped to do with River. Rival loves to run! His contact work has been a journey and will continue to be for the rest of his career. Even now I am still working on how to perfect the dog walk. </div>
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I learned what not to do with weave poles-don't enter runs with weaves, and if he doesn't take them, just run by. It created a dog that never thought he really had to weave and it has taken until about mid-2012 that he finally started weaving reliably and for fun. </div>
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He taught me to not take things too seriously. </div>
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I love running him, I love how excited he gets watching other dogs run, I love how he tries to jump in my arms, and how he loves to smush! </div>
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We still work on getting tight turns and not looking at things outside the ring (I remember many ASCA trials where Rival would run out of the ring to go visit Chris). Chris was subsequently banned from coming to trials to watch Rival run. I think now Chris will be allowed to come watch when he wants to. </div>
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We really connected last year, we push each run, we run for fun, and I've been rewarded in spades. In June 2012, Rival got his AAD, in November 2012 he got his MAD, and now on January 27, 2013, he got his ADCH.</div>
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Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-77164308211386563772013-01-01T18:26:00.002-07:002013-01-01T18:26:48.548-07:00Year in ReviewI've officially been in Colorado for a year and what a year it has been!<br />
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Stats for 2012:<br />
Certified Canine Rehab Therapist<br />
Job at CRCG<br />
Re-connecting with old friends<br />
Started teaching agility classes <br />
Trip to Oregon/Washington<br />
Trip to DisneyLand<br />
Tori Self Seminar <br />
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Rival:<br />
Jumpers Master <br />
Advanced Agility Dog<br />
Advanced Standard Agility <br />
Snooker Master<br />
Master Agility Dog <br />
Snooker Champion<br />
Relay Master <br />
Standard Agility Master<br />
Qualified for USDAA nationals in DAM Team and Steeplechase <br />
AX<br />
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Brink:<br />
Advanced Snooker<br />
Relay Master<br />
Starters Standard Agility<br />
Agility Dog<br />
Advanced Jumpers <br />
Qualified for USDAA nationals in DAM Team and Grand Prix<br />
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Tundra:<br />
Twelfth Birthday <br />
Veterans Showcase All-Around at USDAA Nationals<br />
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Stig:<br />
Started Running Contacts with Silvia Trkman<br />
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Sadly, we said goodbye to Bosque this past year. Bosque came from the Albuquerque Humane Society and was my Flyball dog. He also got me into rehab in a way since he had back surgery in 2005. <br />
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Looking forward to 2013<br />
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Goals:<br />
Rival: ADCH, ATCH, fully qualified for USDAA Nationals, tighten turns, perfect running dogwalk<br />
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Brink: AAD, MAD, fully qualified for USDAA Nationals, better connection on course<br />
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Tundra: Run in Veterans for as long as she can<br />
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Stig: start competing<br />
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Me: Work on my agility instructing skills and build Twisted Tugs<br />
Hopefully welcome a new puppy into the home.<br />
Olympic Distance Triathlon<br />
and whatever the year throws at me!<br />
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Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-54444864527684034532012-09-23T20:52:00.000-06:002012-09-23T20:52:12.290-06:001001 Books to Read Before You Die<br />The titles in bold I've already read-looks like I've got a ways to go before I finish this list.<br />
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<li value="1"><b>2000s</b></li>
<li value="1">Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li value="2">Saturday – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="3">On Beauty – Zadie Smith</li>
<li value="4">Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="5">Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson</li>
<li value="6">The Sea – John Banville</li>
<li value="7">The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble</li>
<li value="8">The Plot Against America – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="9">The Master – Colm Tóibín</li>
<li value="10">Vanishing Point – David Markson</li>
<li value="11">The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd</li>
<li value="12">Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair</li>
<li value="13">Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell</li>
<li value="14">Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle</li>
<li value="15">The Colour – Rose Tremain</li>
<li value="16">Thursbitch – Alan Garner</li>
<li value="17">The Light of Day – Graham Swift</li>
<li value="18">What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt</li>
<li value="19"><b>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon</b></li>
<li value="20">Islands – Dan Sleigh</li>
<li value="21">Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="22">London Orbital – Iain Sinclair</li>
<li value="23">Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry</li>
<li value="24">Fingersmith – Sarah Waters</li>
<li value="25">The Double – José Saramago</li>
<li value="26">Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer</li>
<li value="27">Unless – Carol Shields</li>
<li value="28">Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami</li>
<li value="29">The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor</li>
<li value="30">That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern</li>
<li value="31">In the Forest – Edna O’Brien</li>
<li value="32">Shroud – John Banville</li>
<li value="33">Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides</li>
<li value="34">Youth – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="35">Dead Air – Iain Banks</li>
<li value="36">Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon</li>
<li value="37">The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="38">Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi</li>
<li value="39">Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald</li>
<li value="40">Platform – Michael Houellebecq</li>
<li value="41">Schooling – Heather McGowan</li>
<li value="42"><b>Atonement – Ian McEwan</b></li>
<li value="43">The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen</li>
<li value="44">Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini</li>
<li value="45">The Body Artist – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="46">Fury – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="47">At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill</li>
<li value="48">Choke – Chuck Palahniuk</li>
<li value="49"><b>Life of Pi – Yann Martel</b></li>
<li value="50">The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa</li>
<li value="51">An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma</li>
<li value="52">The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho</li>
<li value="53">Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare</li>
<li value="54">White Teeth – Zadie Smith</li>
<li value="55">The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda</li>
<li value="56">Under the Skin – Michel Faber</li>
<li value="57">Ignorance – Milan Kundera</li>
<li value="58">Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace</li>
<li value="59">Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy</li>
<li value="60">City of God – E.L. Doctorow</li>
<li value="61">How the Dead Live – Will Self</li>
<li value="62">The Human Stain – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="63">The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="64">After the Quake – Haruki Murakami</li>
<li value="65">Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande</li>
<li value="66">Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="67">House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski</li>
<li value="68">Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates</li>
<li value="69">Pastoralia – George Saunders</li>
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<li class="no-bullet"><b>1900s</b></li>
<li value="70">Timbuktu – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="71">The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra</li>
<li value="72">Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson</li>
<li value="73">As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?</li>
<li value="74">Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy</li>
<li value="75">Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb</li>
<li value="76">The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="77">Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="78">Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami</li>
<li value="79">Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq</li>
<li value="80">Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi</li>
<li value="81">Amsterdam – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="82">Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks</li>
<li value="83">All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom</li>
<li value="84">The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon</li>
<li value="85">Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters</li>
<li value="86">The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver</li>
<li value="87">Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis</li>
<li value="88">Another World – Pat Barker</li>
<li value="89">The Hours – Michael Cunningham</li>
<li value="90">Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho</li>
<li value="91">Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li value="92">The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy</li>
<li value="93"><b>Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden</b></li>
<li value="94">Great Apes – Will Self</li>
<li value="95">Enduring Love – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="96">Underworld – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="97">Jack Maggs – Peter Carey</li>
<li value="98">The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin</li>
<li value="99">American Pastoral – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="100">The Untouchable – John Banville</li>
<li value="101">Silk – Alessandro Baricco</li>
<li value="102">Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="103">Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker</li>
<li value="104">Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels</li>
<li value="105">The Ghost Road – Pat Barker</li>
<li value="106">Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse</li>
<li value="107">Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace</li>
<li value="108">The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin</li>
<li value="109">Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="110">The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li value="111">Morvern Callar – Alan Warner</li>
<li value="112">The Information – Martin Amis</li>
<li value="113">The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="114">Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="115">The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald</li>
<li value="116">The Reader – Bernhard Schlink</li>
<li value="117">A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry</li>
<li value="118">Love’s Work – Gillian Rose</li>
<li value="119">The End of the Story – Lydia Davis</li>
<li value="120">Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="121">The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst</li>
<li value="122">Whatever – Michel Houellebecq</li>
<li value="123">Land – Park Kyong-ni</li>
<li value="124">The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="125">The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami</li>
<li value="126">Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi</li>
<li value="127">City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol</li>
<li value="128">How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman</li>
<li value="129">Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres</li>
<li value="130">Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor</li>
<li value="131">Disappearance – David Dabydeen</li>
<li value="132">The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm</li>
<li value="133">The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx</li>
<li value="134"><b>Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh</b></li>
<li value="135">Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks</li>
<li value="136">Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy</li>
<li value="137">Operation Shylock – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="138">Complicity – Iain Banks</li>
<li value="139">On Love – Alain de Botton</li>
<li value="140">What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe</li>
<li value="141">A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth</li>
<li value="142">The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields</li>
<li value="143">The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides</li>
<li value="144">The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd</li>
<li value="145">The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="146">The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald</li>
<li value="147">The Secret History – Donna Tartt</li>
<li value="148">Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar</li>
<li value="149">The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch</li>
<li value="150">A Heart So White – Javier Marias</li>
<li value="151">Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker</li>
<li value="152">Indigo – Marina Warner</li>
<li value="153">The Crow Road – Iain Banks</li>
<li value="154">Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson</li>
<li value="155">Jazz – Toni Morrison</li>
<li value="156">The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje</li>
<li value="157">Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg</li>
<li value="158">The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe</li>
<li value="159">Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates</li>
<li value="160">The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín</li>
<li value="161">Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)</li>
<li value="162">Black Dogs – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="163">Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud</li>
<li value="164">Arcadia – Jim Crace</li>
<li value="165">Wild Swans – Jung Chang</li>
<li value="166">American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis</li>
<li value="167">Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis</li>
<li value="168">Mao II – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="169">Typical – Padgett Powell</li>
<li value="170">Regeneration – Pat Barker</li>
<li value="171">Downriver – Iain Sinclair</li>
<li value="172">Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres</li>
<li value="173">Wise Children – Angela Carter</li>
<li value="174">Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard</li>
<li value="175">Amongst Women – John McGahern</li>
<li value="176">Vineland – Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li value="177">Vertigo – W.G. Sebald</li>
<li value="178">Stone Junction – Jim Dodge</li>
<li value="179">The Music of Chance – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="180">The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien</li>
<li value="181">A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham</li>
<li value="182">Like Life – Lorrie Moore</li>
<li value="183">Possession – A.S. Byatt</li>
<li value="184">The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi</li>
<li value="185">The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle</li>
<li value="186">A Disaffection – James Kelman</li>
<li value="187">Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson</li>
<li value="188">Moon Palace – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="189">Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow</li>
<li value="190">Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li value="191">The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai</li>
<li value="192">The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker</li>
<li value="193">The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway</li>
<li value="194">The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago</li>
<li value="195">Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel</li>
<li value="196">A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving</li>
<li value="197">London Fields – Martin Amis</li>
<li value="198">The Book of Evidence – John Banville</li>
<li value="199">Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="200">Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco</li>
<li value="201">The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White</li>
<li value="202">Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson</li>
<li value="203">The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="204">The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst</li>
<li value="205">Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey</li>
<li value="206">Libra – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="207">The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks</li>
<li value="208">Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga</li>
<li value="209">The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams</li>
<li value="210">Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams</li>
<li value="211">The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble</li>
<li value="212">The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke</li>
<li value="213">The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy</li>
<li value="214">The Passion – Jeanette Winterson</li>
<li value="215">The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind</li>
<li value="216">The Child in Time – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="217">Cigarettes – Harry Mathews</li>
<li value="218">The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe</li>
<li value="219">The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster</li>
<li value="220">World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle</li>
<li value="221">Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul</li>
<li value="222">The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae</li>
<li value="223">Beloved – Toni Morrison</li>
<li value="224">Anagrams – Lorrie Moore</li>
<li value="225">Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o</li>
<li value="226">Marya – Joyce Carol Oates</li>
<li value="227">Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons</li>
<li value="228">The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis</li>
<li value="229">Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt</li>
<li value="230">An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li value="231">Extinction – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="232">Foe – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="233">The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi</li>
<li value="234">Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel</li>
<li value="235">The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann</li>
<li value="236">Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez</li>
<li value="237">Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson</li>
<li value="238">The Cider House Rules – John Irving</li>
<li value="239">A Maggot – John Fowles</li>
<li value="240">Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis</li>
<li value="241">Contact – Carl Sagan</li>
<li value="242">The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="243">Perfume – Patrick Süskind</li>
<li value="244">Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="245">White Noise – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="246">Queer – William Burroughs</li>
<li value="247">Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd</li>
<li value="248">Legend – David Gemmell</li>
<li value="249">Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?</li>
<li value="250">The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman</li>
<li value="251">The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago</li>
<li value="252">The Lover – Marguerite Duras</li>
<li value="253">Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="254">The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks</li>
<li value="255">Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter</li>
<li value="256">The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera</li>
<li value="257">Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker</li>
<li value="258">Neuromancer – William Gibson</li>
<li value="259">Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes</li>
<li value="260">Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis</li>
<li value="261">Shame – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="262">Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="263">Fools of Fortune – William Trevor</li>
<li value="264">La Brava – Elmore Leonard</li>
<li value="265">Waterland – Graham Swift</li>
<li value="266">The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="267">The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing</li>
<li value="268">The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek</li>
<li value="269">The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus</li>
<li value="270">If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi</li>
<li value="271">A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White</li>
<li value="272">The Color Purple – Alice Walker</li>
<li value="273">Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="274">A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro</li>
<li value="275">Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally</li>
<li value="276">The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende</li>
<li value="277">The Newton Letter – John Banville</li>
<li value="278">On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin</li>
<li value="279">Concrete – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="280">The Names – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="281">Rabbit is Rich – John Updike</li>
<li value="282">Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray</li>
<li value="283">The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="284">July’s People – Nadine Gordimer</li>
<li value="285">Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin</li>
<li value="286">Broken April – Ismail Kadare</li>
<li value="287">Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="288">Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="289">Rites of Passage – William Golding</li>
<li value="290">Rituals – Cees Nooteboom</li>
<li value="291"><b>Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole</b></li>
<li value="292">City Primeval – Elmore Leonard</li>
<li value="293"><b>The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco</b></li>
<li value="294">The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera</li>
<li value="295">Smiley’s People – John Le Carré</li>
<li value="296">Shikasta – Doris Lessing</li>
<li value="297">A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul</li>
<li value="298">Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer</li>
<li value="299">The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll</li>
<li value="300">If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino</li>
<li value="301">The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams</li>
<li value="302">The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan</li>
<li value="303">The World According to Garp – John Irving</li>
<li value="304">Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec</li>
<li value="305">The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="306">The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell</li>
<li value="307">Yes – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="308">The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt</li>
<li value="309">In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="310">The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter</li>
<li value="311">Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin</li>
<li value="312">The Shining – Stephen King</li>
<li value="313">Dispatches – Michael Herr</li>
<li value="314">Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o</li>
<li value="315">Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison</li>
<li value="316">The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector</li>
<li value="317">The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke</li>
<li value="318">Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo</li>
<li value="319">The Public Burning – Robert Coover</li>
<li value="320"><b>Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice</b></li>
<li value="321">Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg</li>
<li value="322">Amateurs – Donald Barthelme</li>
<li value="323">Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf</li>
<li value="324">Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez</li>
<li value="325">W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec</li>
<li value="326">A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell</li>
<li value="327">Grimus – Salman Rushdie</li>
<li value="328">The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme</li>
<li value="329">Fateless – Imre Kertész</li>
<li value="330">Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan</li>
<li value="331">High Rise – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="332">Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="333">Dead Babies – Martin Amis</li>
<li value="334">Correction – Thomas Bernhard</li>
<li value="335">Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow</li>
<li value="336">The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle</li>
<li value="337">Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee</li>
<li value="338">The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll</li>
<li value="339">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré</li>
<li value="340">Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</li>
<li value="341">Fear of Flying – Erica Jong</li>
<li value="342">A Question of Power – Bessie Head</li>
<li value="343">The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell</li>
<li value="344">The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino</li>
<li value="345">Crash – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="346">The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="347">Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li value="348">The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="349">Sula – Toni Morrison</li>
<li value="350">Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino</li>
<li value="351">The Breast – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="352">The Summer Book – Tove Jansson</li>
<li value="353">G – John Berger</li>
<li value="354">Surfacing – Margaret Atwood</li>
<li value="355">House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson</li>
<li value="356">In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul</li>
<li value="357">The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow</li>
<li value="358">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson</li>
<li value="359">Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll</li>
<li value="360">The Wild Boys – William Burroughs</li>
<li value="361">Rabbit Redux – John Updike</li>
<li value="362">The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima</li>
<li value="363">The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark</li>
<li value="364">The Ogre – Michael Tournier</li>
<li value="365">The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison</li>
<li value="366">Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke</li>
<li value="367">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou</li>
<li value="368">Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="369">Troubles – J.G. Farrell</li>
<li value="370">Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson</li>
<li value="371">The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="372">Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado</li>
<li value="373">Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover</li>
<li value="374">Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines</li>
<li value="375">Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</li>
<li value="376">The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles</li>
<li value="377">The Green Man – Kingsley Amis</li>
<li value="378">Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth</li>
<li value="379">The Godfather – Mario Puzo</li>
<li value="380">Ada – Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li value="381">Them – Joyce Carol Oates</li>
<li value="382">A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec</li>
<li value="383">Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="384">Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal</li>
<li value="385">The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="386">Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen</li>
<li value="387">Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn</li>
<li value="388">The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn</li>
<li value="389">2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke</li>
<li value="390">Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick</li>
<li value="391">Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry</li>
<li value="392">The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz</li>
<li value="393">In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan</li>
<li value="394">A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines</li>
<li value="395">The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf</li>
<li value="396">Chocky – John Wyndham</li>
<li value="397">The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe</li>
<li value="398">The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa</li>
<li value="399">One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez</li>
<li value="400">The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov</li>
<li value="401">Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson</li>
<li value="402">The Joke – Milan Kundera</li>
<li value="403">No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson</li>
<li value="404">The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien</li>
<li value="405">A Man Asleep – Georges Perec</li>
<li value="406">The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West</li>
<li value="407">Trawl – B.S. Johnson</li>
<li value="408">In Cold Blood – Truman Capote</li>
<li value="409">The Magus – John Fowles</li>
<li value="410">The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras</li>
<li value="411">Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys</li>
<li value="412">Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth</li>
<li value="413">The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li value="414">Things – Georges Perec</li>
<li value="415">The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o</li>
<li value="416">August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien</li>
<li value="417">God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut</li>
<li value="418">Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor</li>
<li value="419">The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector</li>
<li value="420">Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey</li>
<li value="421">Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme</li>
<li value="422">Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson</li>
<li value="423">Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe</li>
<li value="424">The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras</li>
<li value="425">Herzog – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="426">V. – Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li value="427"><b>Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut</b></li>
<li value="428">The Graduate – Charles Webb</li>
<li value="429">Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol</li>
<li value="430">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré</li>
<li value="431">The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark</li>
<li value="432">Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess</li>
<li value="433">The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath</li>
<li value="434">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn</li>
<li value="435">The Collector – John Fowles</li>
<li value="436">One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey</li>
<li value="437">A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess</li>
<li value="438">Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li value="439">The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard</li>
<li value="440">The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing</li>
<li value="441">Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges</li>
<li value="442">Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien</li>
<li value="443">The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani</li>
<li value="444">Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein</li>
<li value="445">Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger</li>
<li value="446">A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="447">Faces in the Water – Janet Frame</li>
<li value="448">Solaris – Stanislaw Lem</li>
<li value="449">Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass</li>
<li value="450">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark</li>
<li value="451"><b>Catch-22 – Joseph Heller</b></li>
<li value="452">The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor</li>
<li value="453">How It Is – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="454">Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino</li>
<li value="455">The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien</li>
<li value="456"><b>To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee</b></li>
<li value="457">Rabbit, Run – John Updike</li>
<li value="458">Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary</li>
<li value="459">Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee</li>
<li value="460">Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse</li>
<li value="461">Naked Lunch – William Burroughs</li>
<li value="462">The Tin Drum – Günter Grass</li>
<li value="463">Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes</li>
<li value="464">Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="465">Memento Mori – Muriel Spark</li>
<li value="466">Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll</li>
<li value="467">Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote</li>
<li value="468">The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa</li>
<li value="469">Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe</li>
<li value="470">A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute</li>
<li value="471">The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon</li>
<li value="472">Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe</li>
<li value="473">Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe</li>
<li value="474">Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico</li>
<li value="475">Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan</li>
<li value="476">The End of the Road – John Barth</li>
<li value="477"><b>The Once and Future King – T.H. White</b></li>
<li value="478">The Bell – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="479">Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet</li>
<li value="480">Voss – Patrick White</li>
<li value="481">The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham</li>
<li value="482">Blue Noon – Georges Bataille</li>
<li value="483">Homo Faber – Max Frisch</li>
<li value="484">On the Road – Jack Kerouac</li>
<li value="485">Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li value="486">Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak</li>
<li value="487">The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber</li>
<li value="488">Justine – Lawrence Durrell</li>
<li value="489">Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin</li>
<li value="490">The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon</li>
<li value="491">The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary</li>
<li value="492">Seize the Day – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="493">The Floating Opera – John Barth</li>
<li value="494"><b>The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien</b></li>
<li value="495">The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith</li>
<li value="496">Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li value="497">A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="498">The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett</li>
<li value="499">The Quiet American – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="500">The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis</li>
<li value="501">The Recognitions – William Gaddis</li>
<li value="502">The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini</li>
<li value="503">Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan</li>
<li value="504">I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch</li>
<li value="505">Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis</li>
<li value="506">The Story of O – Pauline Réage</li>
<li value="507">A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia</li>
<li value="508"><b>Lord of the Flies – William Golding</b></li>
<li value="509">Under the Net – Iris Murdoch</li>
<li value="510">The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley</li>
<li value="511">The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler</li>
<li value="512">The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="513">Watt – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="514">Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis</li>
<li value="515">Junkie – William Burroughs</li>
<li value="516">The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="517">Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin</li>
<li value="518">Casino Royale – Ian Fleming</li>
<li value="519">The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt</li>
<li value="520">Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison</li>
<li value="521">The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li value="522">Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor</li>
<li value="523">The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson</li>
<li value="524">Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar</li>
<li value="525">Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="526">Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham</li>
<li value="527">Foundation – Isaac Asimov</li>
<li value="528">The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq</li>
<li value="529"><b>The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger</b></li>
<li value="530">The Rebel – Albert Camus</li>
<li value="531">Molloy – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="532">The End of the Affair – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="533">The Abbot C – Georges Bataille</li>
<li value="534">The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz</li>
<li value="535">The Third Man – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="536">The 13 Clocks – James Thurber</li>
<li value="537">Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake</li>
<li value="538">The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing</li>
<li value="539">I, Robot – Isaac Asimov</li>
<li value="540">The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese</li>
<li value="541">The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk</li>
<li value="542">Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford</li>
<li value="543">The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge</li>
<li value="544">The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="545">Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier</li>
<li value="546">The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren</li>
<li value="547">Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell</li>
<li value="548">All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani</li>
<li value="549">Disobedience – Alberto Moravia</li>
<li value="550">Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot</li>
<li value="551">The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="552">Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton</li>
<li value="553">Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann</li>
<li value="554">The Victim – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="555">Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau</li>
<li value="556">If This Is a Man – Primo Levi</li>
<li value="557">Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry</li>
<li value="558">The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino</li>
<li value="559">The Plague – Albert Camus</li>
<li value="560">Back – Henry Green</li>
<li value="561">Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake</li>
<li value="562">The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?</li>
<li value="563">Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh</li>
<li value="564">Animal Farm – George Orwell</li>
<li value="565"><b>Cannery Row – John Steinbeck</b></li>
<li value="566">The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford</li>
<li value="567">Loving – Henry Green</li>
<li value="568">Arcanum 17 – André Breton</li>
<li value="569">Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi</li>
<li value="570">The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham</li>
<li value="571">Transit – Anna Seghers</li>
<li value="572">Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges</li>
<li value="573">Dangling Man – Saul Bellow</li>
<li value="574">The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</li>
<li value="575">Caught – Henry Green</li>
<li value="576">The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse</li>
<li value="577">Embers – Sandor Marai</li>
<li value="578">Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner</li>
<li value="579">The Outsider – Albert Camus</li>
<li value="580">In Sicily – Elio Vittorini</li>
<li value="581">The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien</li>
<li value="582">The Living and the Dead – Patrick White</li>
<li value="583">Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton</li>
<li value="584">Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="585">The Hamlet – William Faulkner</li>
<li value="586">Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler</li>
<li value="587">For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li value="588">Native Son – Richard Wright</li>
<li value="589">The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="590">The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati</li>
<li value="591">Party Going – Henry Green</li>
<li value="592">The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck</li>
<li value="593">Finnegans Wake – James Joyce</li>
<li value="594"><b>At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien</b></li>
<li value="595">Coming Up for Air – George Orwell</li>
<li value="596">Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood</li>
<li value="597">Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller</li>
<li value="598">Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys</li>
<li value="599">The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler</li>
<li value="600">After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner</li>
<li value="601">Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson</li>
<li value="602">Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre</li>
<li value="603">Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier</li>
<li value="604">Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler</li>
<li value="605">Brighton Rock – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="606">U.S.A. – John Dos Passos</li>
<li value="607">Murphy – Samuel Beckett</li>
<li value="608">Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck</li>
<li value="609">Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston</li>
<li value="610"><b>The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien</b></li>
<li value="611">The Years – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="612">In Parenthesis – David Jones</li>
<li value="613">The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis</li>
<li value="614">Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)</li>
<li value="615">To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li value="616">Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner</li>
<li value="617">Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley</li>
<li value="618">The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West</li>
<li value="619">Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell</li>
<li value="620">Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell</li>
<li value="621">Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson</li>
<li value="622">Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner</li>
<li value="623">At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft</li>
<li value="624">Nightwood – Djuna Barnes</li>
<li value="625">Independent People – Halldór Laxness</li>
<li value="626">Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti</li>
<li value="627">The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood</li>
<li value="628">They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy</li>
<li value="629">The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="630">England Made Me – Graham Greene</li>
<li value="631">Burmese Days – George Orwell</li>
<li value="632">The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers</li>
<li value="633">Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht</li>
<li value="634">Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev</li>
<li value="635">The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain</li>
<li value="636">Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller</li>
<li value="637">A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh</li>
<li value="638">Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald</li>
<li value="639">Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse</li>
<li value="640">Call it Sleep – Henry Roth</li>
<li value="641">Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West</li>
<li value="642">Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers</li>
<li value="643">The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein</li>
<li value="644">Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain</li>
<li value="645">A Day Off – Storm Jameson</li>
<li value="646">The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil</li>
<li value="647">A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon</li>
<li value="648">Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline</li>
<li value="649"><b>Brave New World – Aldous Huxley</b></li>
<li value="650">Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons</li>
<li value="651">To the North – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="652">The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett</li>
<li value="653">The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth</li>
<li value="654">The Waves – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="655">The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett</li>
<li value="656">Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham</li>
<li value="657">The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis</li>
<li value="658">Her Privates We – Frederic Manning</li>
<li value="659">Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh</li>
<li value="660">The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett</li>
<li value="661">Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico</li>
<li value="662">Passing – Nella Larsen</li>
<li value="663">A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li value="664">Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett</li>
<li value="665">Living – Henry Green</li>
<li value="666">The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia</li>
<li value="667">All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque</li>
<li value="668">Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin</li>
<li value="669">The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen</li>
<li value="670">Harriet Hume – Rebecca West</li>
<li value="671">The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner</li>
<li value="672">Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau</li>
<li value="673">Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe</li>
<li value="674">Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille</li>
<li value="675">Orlando – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="676">Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="677">The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall</li>
<li value="678">The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis</li>
<li value="679">Quartet – Jean Rhys</li>
<li value="680">Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh</li>
<li value="681">Quicksand – Nella Larsen</li>
<li value="682">Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford</li>
<li value="683">Nadja – André Breton</li>
<li value="684">Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse</li>
<li value="685">Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust</li>
<li value="686">To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="687">Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson</li>
<li value="688">Amerika – Franz Kafka</li>
<li value="689">The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li value="690">Blindness – Henry Green</li>
<li value="691">The Castle – Franz Kafka</li>
<li value="692">The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek</li>
<li value="693">The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="694">One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello</li>
<li value="695">The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie</li>
<li value="696">The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein</li>
<li value="697">Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos</li>
<li value="698">Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="699"><b>The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald</b></li>
<li value="700">The Counterfeiters – André Gide</li>
<li value="701">The Trial – Franz Kafka</li>
<li value="702">The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky</li>
<li value="703">The Professor’s House – Willa Cather</li>
<li value="704">Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville</li>
<li value="705">The Green Hat – Michael Arlen</li>
<li value="706">The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann</li>
<li value="707">We – Yevgeny Zamyatin</li>
<li value="708">A Passage to India – E.M. Forster</li>
<li value="709">The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet</li>
<li value="710">Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo</li>
<li value="711">Cane – Jean Toomer</li>
<li value="712">Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley</li>
<li value="713">Amok – Stefan Zweig</li>
<li value="714">The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield</li>
<li value="715">The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings</li>
<li value="716">Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="717">Siddhartha – Herman Hesse</li>
<li value="718">The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton</li>
<li value="719">Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair</li>
<li value="720">The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus</li>
<li value="721">Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="722">Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis</li>
<li value="723">Ulysses – James Joyce</li>
<li value="724">The Fox – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="725">Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley</li>
<li value="726">The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton</li>
<li value="727">Main Street – Sinclair Lewis</li>
<li value="728">Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="729">Night and Day – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="730">Tarr – Wyndham Lewis</li>
<li value="731">The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West</li>
<li value="732">The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad</li>
<li value="733">Summer – Edith Wharton</li>
<li value="734">Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen</li>
<li value="735">Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton</li>
<li value="736">A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce</li>
<li value="737">Under Fire – Henri Barbusse</li>
<li value="738">Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke</li>
<li value="739">The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford</li>
<li value="740">The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf</li>
<li value="741">Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham</li>
<li value="742">The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="743">The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan</li>
<li value="744">Kokoro – Natsume Soseki</li>
<li value="745">Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel</li>
<li value="746">Rosshalde – Herman Hesse</li>
<li value="747">Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs</li>
<li value="748">The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell</li>
<li value="749">Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence</li>
<li value="750">Death in Venice – Thomas Mann</li>
<li value="751">The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens</li>
<li value="752"><b>Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton</b></li>
<li value="753">Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre</li>
<li value="754">Howards End – E.M. Forster</li>
<li value="755">Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel</li>
<li value="756">Three Lives – Gertrude Stein</li>
<li value="757">Martin Eden – Jack London</li>
<li value="758">Strait is the Gate – André Gide</li>
<li value="759">Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells</li>
<li value="760">The Inferno – Henri Barbusse</li>
<li value="761">A Room With a View – E.M. Forster</li>
<li value="762">The Iron Heel – Jack London</li>
<li value="763">The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett</li>
<li value="764">The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson</li>
<li value="765">Mother – Maxim Gorky</li>
<li value="766">The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad</li>
<li value="767">The Jungle – Upton Sinclair</li>
<li value="768">Young Törless – Robert Musil</li>
<li value="769">The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy</li>
<li value="770">The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton</li>
<li value="771">Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann</li>
<li value="772">Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster</li>
<li value="773">Nostromo – Joseph Conrad</li>
<li value="774">Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe</li>
<li value="775">The Golden Bowl – Henry James</li>
<li value="776">The Ambassadors – Henry James</li>
<li value="777">The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers</li>
<li value="778">The Immoralist – André Gide</li>
<li value="779">The Wings of the Dove – Henry James</li>
<li value="780">Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad</li>
<li value="781">The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</li>
<li value="782">Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann</li>
<li value="783">Kim – Rudyard Kipling</li>
<li value="784">Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser</li>
<li value="785">Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad</li>
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<li class="no-bullet"><b>1800s</b></li>
<li value="786">Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross</li>
<li value="787">The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane</li>
<li value="788"><b>The Awakening – Kate Chopin</b></li>
<li value="789">The Turn of the Screw – Henry James</li>
<li value="790">The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells</li>
<li value="791">The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells</li>
<li value="792">What Maisie Knew – Henry James</li>
<li value="793">Fruits of the Earth – André Gide</li>
<li value="794"><b>Dracula – Bram Stoker</b></li>
<li value="795">Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz</li>
<li value="796"><b>The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells</b></li>
<li value="797">The Time Machine – H.G. Wells</li>
<li value="798">Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane</li>
<li value="799">Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="800">The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross</li>
<li value="801">The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman</li>
<li value="802">Born in Exile – George Gissing</li>
<li value="803">Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith</li>
<li value="804">The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</li>
<li value="805">News from Nowhere – William Morris</li>
<li value="806">New Grub Street – George Gissing</li>
<li value="807">Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf</li>
<li value="808">Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="809">The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde</li>
<li value="810">The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li value="811">La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola</li>
<li value="812">By the Open Sea – August Strindberg</li>
<li value="813">Hunger – Knut Hamsun</li>
<li value="814">The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson</li>
<li value="815">Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant</li>
<li value="816">Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés</li>
<li value="817">The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg</li>
<li value="818">The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="819">She – H. Rider Haggard</li>
<li value="820"><b>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson</b></li>
<li value="821">The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="822">Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson</li>
<li value="823">King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard</li>
<li value="824">Germinal – Émile Zola</li>
<li value="825"><b>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain</b></li>
<li value="826">Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant</li>
<li value="827">Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater</li>
<li value="828">Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans</li>
<li value="829">The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li value="830">A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant</li>
<li value="831">Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson</li>
<li value="832">The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga</li>
<li value="833">The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James</li>
<li value="834">Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert</li>
<li value="835">Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace</li>
<li value="836">Nana – Émile Zola</li>
<li value="837">The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li value="838">The Red Room – August Strindberg</li>
<li value="839"><b>Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy</b></li>
<li value="840">Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li value="841">Drunkard – Émile Zola</li>
<li value="842">Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev</li>
<li value="843">Daniel Deronda – George Eliot</li>
<li value="844">The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="845">The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert</li>
<li value="846">Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy</li>
<li value="847">The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov</li>
<li value="848"><b>Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne</b></li>
<li value="849">In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu</li>
<li value="850">The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li value="851">Erewhon – Samuel Butler</li>
<li value="852">Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev</li>
<li value="853">Middlemarch – George Eliot</li>
<li value="854">Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll</li>
<li value="855">King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev</li>
<li value="856">He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li value="857">War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy</li>
<li value="858">Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert</li>
<li value="859">Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li value="860">Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont</li>
<li value="861">The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li value="862">The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins</li>
<li value="863"><b>Little Women – Louisa May Alcott</b></li>
<li value="864">Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola</li>
<li value="865">The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li value="866">Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne</li>
<li value="867">Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li value="868">Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll</li>
<li value="869">Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="870">Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu</li>
<li value="871">Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li value="872">The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley</li>
<li value="873">Les Misérables – Victor Hugo</li>
<li value="874">Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev</li>
<li value="875">Silas Marner – George Eliot</li>
<li value="876"><b>Great Expectations – Charles Dickens</b></li>
<li value="877">On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev</li>
<li value="878">Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope</li>
<li value="879">The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot</li>
<li value="880">The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins</li>
<li value="881">The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne</li>
<li value="882">Max Havelaar – Multatuli</li>
<li value="883"><b>A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens</b></li>
<li value="884">Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov</li>
<li value="885">Adam Bede – George Eliot</li>
<li value="886">Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert</li>
<li value="887">North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell</li>
<li value="888">Hard Times – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="889">Walden – Henry David Thoreau</li>
<li value="890">Bleak House – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="891">Villette – Charlotte Brontë</li>
<li value="892">Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell</li>
<li value="893">Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe</li>
<li value="894">The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne</li>
<li value="895"><b>The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne</b></li>
<li value="896">Moby-Dick – Herman Melville</li>
<li value="897"><b>The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne</b></li>
<li value="898">David Copperfield – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="899">Shirley – Charlotte Brontë</li>
<li value="900">Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell</li>
<li value="901">The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë</li>
<li value="902"><b>Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë</b></li>
<li value="903">Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë</li>
<li value="904"><b>Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë</b></li>
<li value="905"><b>Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray</b></li>
<li value="906"><b>The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas</b></li>
<li value="907">La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas</li>
<li value="908"><b>The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas</b></li>
<li value="909">The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe</li>
<li value="910">Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="911"><b>The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe</b></li>
<li value="912">Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac</li>
<li value="913">A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="914">Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol</li>
<li value="915">The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal</li>
<li value="916">The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe</li>
<li value="917">The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="918">Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens</li>
<li value="919">The Nose – Nikolay Gogol</li>
<li value="920">Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac</li>
<li value="921">Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac</li>
<li value="922">The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo</li>
<li value="923">The Red and the Black – Stendhal</li>
<li value="924">The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni</li>
<li value="925"><b>Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper</b></li>
<li value="926">The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg</li>
<li value="927">The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin</li>
<li value="928">Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin</li>
<li value="929">The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li value="930">Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li value="931"><b>Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</b></li>
<li value="932">Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen</li>
<li value="933">Persuasion – Jane Austen</li>
<li value="934">Ormond – Maria Edgeworth</li>
<li value="935">Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li value="936"><b>Emma – Jane Austen</b></li>
<li value="937">Mansfield Park – Jane Austen</li>
<li value="938"><b>Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen</b></li>
<li value="939">The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth</li>
<li value="940"><b>Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen</b></li>
<li value="941">Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</li>
<li value="942">Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth</li>
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<li class="no-bullet"><b>1700s</b></li>
<li value="943">Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin</li>
<li value="944">The Nun – Denis Diderot</li>
<li value="945">Camilla – Fanny Burney</li>
<li value="946">The Monk – M.G. Lewis</li>
<li value="947">Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</li>
<li value="948">The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe</li>
<li value="949">The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano</li>
<li value="950">The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin</li>
<li value="951">Justine – Marquis de Sade</li>
<li value="952">Vathek – William Beckford</li>
<li value="953">The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade</li>
<li value="954">Cecilia – Fanny Burney</li>
<li value="955">Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau</li>
<li value="956">Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos</li>
<li value="957">Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau</li>
<li value="958">Evelina – Fanny Burney</li>
<li value="959">The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</li>
<li value="960">Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett</li>
<li value="961">The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie</li>
<li value="962">A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne</li>
<li value="963">Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne</li>
<li value="964">The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith</li>
<li value="965">The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole</li>
<li value="966">Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau</li>
<li value="967">Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot</li>
<li value="968">Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau</li>
<li value="969">Rasselas – Samuel Johnson</li>
<li value="970">Candide – Voltaire</li>
<li value="971">The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox</li>
<li value="972">Amelia – Henry Fielding</li>
<li value="973">Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett</li>
<li value="974">Fanny Hill – John Cleland</li>
<li value="975">Tom Jones – Henry Fielding</li>
<li value="976">Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett</li>
<li value="977">Clarissa – Samuel Richardson</li>
<li value="978">Pamela – Samuel Richardson</li>
<li value="979">Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot</li>
<li value="980">Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift</li>
<li value="981">Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding</li>
<li value="982">A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift</li>
<li value="983">Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift</li>
<li value="984">Roxana – Daniel Defoe</li>
<li value="985">Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe</li>
<li value="986">Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood</li>
<li value="987">Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe</li>
<li value="988">A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift</li>
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<li class="no-bullet"><b>Pre-1700</b></li>
<li value="989">Oroonoko – Aphra Behn</li>
<li value="990">The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette</li>
<li value="991">The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan</li>
<li value="992">Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</li>
<li value="993">The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe</li>
<li value="994">Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly</li>
<li value="995">Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais</li>
<li value="996">The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous</li>
<li value="997">The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius</li>
<li value="998">Aithiopika – Heliodorus</li>
<li value="999">Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton</li>
<li value="1000">Metamorphoses – Ovid</li>
<li value="1001">Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus</li>
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I had a great time today learning how to paint a portrait of my dog from a picture. I think it turned out nice and it's now my favorite painting. I just have to find the perfect place to put it.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-26602745497868131942012-05-14T20:13:00.000-06:002012-05-14T20:13:10.803-06:00So You Want to be on the Silver Team...Great agility weekend. Something crazy over took me and I entered three dogs. Rival got to return to the fun and Tundra got four runs in veterans at 12 inches. Brink didn't have a great weekend. Last Sunday, we had some really tough weave pole entries that he never quite got even after multiple tries. I guess that carried over to this weekend, as he only did one set of weave poles successfully the whole weekend.<br />
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Rival was the superstar of the weekend. He managed his first ever Steeplechase Q, with a 2nd place in round 1 and 3rd in round 2. I was super happy that he had no issues with 2 sets of weave poles in round 2. He almost finished that coveted AAD title, with a mid-weave pop on day one and missed dog-walk contact on day 2. He got a Master Snooker's Q and 3rd place (one place away from a Super Q) and a Master's Jumpers Q. Master's Gamblers was weave poles and Rival actually went to them and did 4 or 5 before popping out.<br />
Brink managed a Master's Pairs Q and had a perfect Standard run that was taken away by the mean judge who didn't like his teeter.<br />
Tundra got herself a Veteran's Standard and Veteran's Jumpers Q. She did the gamble, but I didn't get enough opening points for the Q. <br />
Rival and Brink have another trial this weekend and the training schedule has been set-weaves and contacts.<br />
Today we started by running through the channel weaves for speed and accuracy. Surprisingly, it took Brink multiple tries to get into the channel weaves correctly and stay in to the end.<br />
Second, dog walk repetitions, Rival running to a target approximately five feet away, Brink stopping in a 2 on 2 off with a target, but no verbal command, and staying in position until released.<br />
Third, weave pole entrances. I don't have two by twos, but I do have a set that breaks up into 4 sections of three. So using one of those we worked on hard entrances-90 degrees from both sides without having to push out. I used clicker to reward the tight wrap around the pole. Brink caught on to this very quickly, Rival was more difficult as he always wanted to cut to the second pole as the entrance.<br />
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Stig got to do the second and third exercises. He is jumping from the dog-walk, so I think a hoop will be in order. I did bring out the target and that helped to get collection, but I want to make sure he builds speed appropriately. He loved the weave pole entrance exercise!<br />
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Maybe a few words: Having fun at work-hopefully I'm making a difference. Loving training and doing agility with the dogs.<br />
Wrote lesson plans for my first two classes that I will be teaching soon.<br />
Planning an agility vacation to Washington state.<br />
That is all, for now...Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-59254179617606572482012-01-18T15:15:00.000-07:002012-01-18T15:15:49.981-07:00New BeginningsI started the year by moving to Erie, CO, literally on New Years's Eve. I was wrong when I thought everything would be fixed by that move, it still takes time. The job market is oh so not good and I started applying for small business loans today and everything came crashing back to reality. I don't think starting a practice is going to happen any time soon, even though the banks advertise nothing down, they still want 20%-on a veterinary clinic! That's a ton of money. So I will build my very small business that I already have going, and keep looking for a veterinary job. The rejections are very hard on the ego.
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Goals for the New Year:<br />
1.Finish CCRT certification<br />
2.Lose and keep off the 10 pounds I keep yo-yoing<br />
3.Stick to the cleaning schedule<br />
4.Find a job and save tons of money to start my own clinic<br />
5.Get Brink qualified for USDAA nationals.<br />
6.Train Stig to be ready to do agility by next year
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First trial of the new year:
Brink went to FRAC's USDAA trial last weekend. We only had one Q-Advanced Snooker for our Advanced Snooker title. We had a lot of really great runs. His contacts are broken and if we could fix that, we would be a Q'ing machine. I'm not expecting much for the SWAT trial the end of this month, but hopefully by March we will have made some progress.
Here's his Grand Prix run, this was my favorite run of the weekend. He had a dropped bar due to my spectating and got called on the A-frame contact. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7GH9Po9R5tA" width="560"></iframe>Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-80371486479709366972011-11-28T15:10:00.001-07:002011-11-28T15:35:53.675-07:00The Real Embudito TrailFive days off work and a week with Chris and all the dogs back together. Some final decisions were made and I'm looking forward to the new year bringing better things-{like paying all the bills :)}
Got some good hiking in the last few days, Stig did his first 3 hikes ever and I think he did great.
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Tundra hiking up the trail.
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Brink's a happy hiker.
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I love hiking!
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The view.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-89492498245613644872011-11-09T16:01:00.000-07:002011-11-09T16:01:13.370-07:00Wordless Wednesday for Happy Memories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_rHrFCVdKEzMqZxHC4MD7PwwEPltOhY_RWXFjfWJc4WAoG04Jukp5aU1t_Ettk8rpW4NSU6Dhh0u0DXi7vmHgVspBwWEDmL2E0OmkFr4erhiGN5hvTCIKiqDcS1cJAK9goyGO0TvDX8t/s1600/DSCN0147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU_rHrFCVdKEzMqZxHC4MD7PwwEPltOhY_RWXFjfWJc4WAoG04Jukp5aU1t_Ettk8rpW4NSU6Dhh0u0DXi7vmHgVspBwWEDmL2E0OmkFr4erhiGN5hvTCIKiqDcS1cJAK9goyGO0TvDX8t/s400/DSCN0147.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-IBSmGcz6rD85kpvTUy73jLj5nt27ZxWTW281gU17E8wwSBb4WWLxTtsFNChHHRCtVPezAZH-6N6POpNLdGsAfnQWFrzkOpDstgSnZ4rI2QMKgP1OMnhq1qIX9VOpP2Wl6NDnw_THkWv/s1600/DSC_0771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="267" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-IBSmGcz6rD85kpvTUy73jLj5nt27ZxWTW281gU17E8wwSBb4WWLxTtsFNChHHRCtVPezAZH-6N6POpNLdGsAfnQWFrzkOpDstgSnZ4rI2QMKgP1OMnhq1qIX9VOpP2Wl6NDnw_THkWv/s400/DSC_0771.JPG" /></a></div><br />
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Check out my new banner! Sorry the picture's so small. Trying some new advertising for the business, so that hopefully I'm a little more visible at trials. I'm excited about the new logo-I had some car magnets and a t-shirt made also. <br />
My last class-Canine Sports Medicine-for my Canine Rehab Therapist Certificate is this weekend and next weekend Rival gets to run in an ASCA trial. He is only entered in 3 runs, but I'm sure we will have a blast. <br />
Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-16317969607240027902011-08-08T12:18:00.000-06:002011-08-08T12:18:28.157-06:00It's been awhile since my last post. Things have changed. Chris is living in Erie, CO going to school for Speech and Language Pathology. Brink got his second Open Standard Q. I am half way down with my Canine Rehabilitation Certification. I did another triathlon that didn't go well. Harry Potter has ended. <br />
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Brink's video:<br />
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Upcoming goals:<br />
Last rehab class will be done Aug. 21 and then will have to schedule my internship.<br />
Patriot tri in September, same course as Spring Fling, so main goal will be to go faster, but also to be 10 pounds lighter by the race.<br />
Brink and Rival are getting to trial a bit here and there. Brink's goal is to get that last Open Standard Q to move into Excellent. I would like to finish Rival's ATCH in the next year-he needs 6 more gamble Q's. Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-79694770429850071372011-06-27T09:57:00.000-06:002011-06-27T09:57:10.520-06:00FriendsMy heart still aches at the loss of a friend<br />
But life goes on and so must I<br />
We used to help each other through the ups and downs,<br />
But now the world just goes round<br />
I wish I knew what went wrong<br />
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Big changes are coming. Chris found a house in Erie, CO and starts school August 1. I still don't know what I'm doing, but I should have my rehab certification done by the fall. <br />
Another year has passed-my birthday is this Thursday. It's been one year since my world changed-good and bad. Here's to hoping the next year brings more good.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbs_nGDZCdJ1z-2bAM76GR4NbJLYsy0rcD4bj7EaOtDLMIJiv7z-gBZdm2ENTMHQU0RsJWx6zJcytp3UBFR8FCy-ixxa0IaMd4rzvTxE6at1_j8x4FV0Wl7ySqUyZJQNYwv3lHM30ZVM2D/s1600/253806_1775155298321_1222484791_31535475_2032691_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="400" width="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbs_nGDZCdJ1z-2bAM76GR4NbJLYsy0rcD4bj7EaOtDLMIJiv7z-gBZdm2ENTMHQU0RsJWx6zJcytp3UBFR8FCy-ixxa0IaMd4rzvTxE6at1_j8x4FV0Wl7ySqUyZJQNYwv3lHM30ZVM2D/s400/253806_1775155298321_1222484791_31535475_2032691_n.jpg" /></a></div>Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-12249175137401180862011-05-22T19:55:00.001-06:002011-05-22T21:37:35.778-06:00"Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me."Book review Number 2:<br />
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'A Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness - Book 1 in the All Souls Trilogy<br />
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I picked up this book, looking for a good read and thinking this would be a book mainly about witches. I had recently finished another book about witches and was ready for another. I love my fantasy books, but anything about witches seems a bit more realistic and Harry Potter has instilled a love of magic in my heart. Boy was I surprised when within the first chapter a vampire was introduced. Great I thought another book capitalizing on the vampire craze going on. Don't get me wrong, I love Twilight, Sookie, and The Vampire Diaries, but I didn't want the cheese or a bad story that entices people to buy just because of the subject. <br />
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I kept reading with reluctance and a chip on my shoulder, waiting to be brought into the story and convinced this was a book worth reading. It didn't take long, 2.5 days later I'm finished with the book and counting the days until 2012 when the jacket says to look for Book 2. The book is fantasy, romance, adventure, and history all rolled into one. Yes, it is a love story between a vampire and a witch, but it is like nothing I've read before. Matthew and Diana will sweep you into their world by the first 100 pages, just give them a chance.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-56046223641351568112011-05-15T17:47:00.000-06:002011-05-15T17:47:52.145-06:00Book ReviewJust finished a great book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Any one in the medical or biologic fields should read this book! This book not only taught me about the amazing field of culturing cells, but also providing thought provoking discussion about medical/research ethics and informed consent. Legally, once tissues or cells leave our body, we no longer have any say over what can be done with them. Your blood may be used to cure cancer fifty years from now. Anyway, check out this book and let me know what you think.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-3187178628550728342011-05-14T18:01:00.000-06:002011-05-14T18:01:02.994-06:00TransitionsLife is full of transitions right now. The biggest being the pending move to Colorado. I'm excited about moving and things to come, but at the same time it's nice being comfortable in New Mexico. Even the job is hard to leave. I may not be making enough except to make it month to month, but the stress of job hunting is weighing me down. My goal is to at least send out two resumes this weekend. I really want to focus on rehab, but I have a feeling I'll be doing some general practice as well.<br />
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The last few weeks in training have been going well. I'm only able to swim once a week, but I am coming to the realization that even swimming every day won't effect my swim time that much. Swimming makes me feel good, it's a great workout without all the pain. I'm running about 3 times a week and biking about 3 times a week. I have calculated to reach my goal time at Milk Man, my bike has to be at 20mph and my run will have to be 8:50 miles. Both these paces will be very difficult, since my training paces are much slower. I have been able to do a couple 9min miles, but can't hold the pace. I wish I could get a TT bike, it won't get me to 20mph, but would help put a little more speed to my pace. <br />
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Today I worked on transitions. I worked on mounting and dismounting my bike, which I've never done with speed before. I'm leaving my shoes already clipped in, but I'm not going to try the 'flying squirrel' mount yet, but I am doing the flying dismount. I'd like my transitions to be around 1 minute each. Next week I should try to get out to Cochiti Lake for an open water swim practice. I'm also no where near my race wait. I'm really struggling to lose weight, even with all the exercise. It's very frustrating and demotivating. <br />
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Today, I'm posting a picture of my younger, skinnier, stronger self with the girl that started all this crazy triathlon obsession.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-79592100874711110182011-04-28T21:28:00.000-06:002011-04-28T21:28:11.458-06:00The Devil is in the Details<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglELn_w230lOxH4lEPYSXP0Va2xPwv2K2hgq_IaQidnwkhpH_d_8kjLNAOCmyiJ1jentLsecIbOM9W66YlgCVuLNfOmaKs0KPu93gSuQV5XBbQXJ1Qa9EEOSjCwJGgdeIDvh8AbnzVqeOi/s1600/DSC_03343.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglELn_w230lOxH4lEPYSXP0Va2xPwv2K2hgq_IaQidnwkhpH_d_8kjLNAOCmyiJ1jentLsecIbOM9W66YlgCVuLNfOmaKs0KPu93gSuQV5XBbQXJ1Qa9EEOSjCwJGgdeIDvh8AbnzVqeOi/s400/DSC_03343.JPG" /></a></div><br />
Last weekend I did my first triathlon of the season. I had been considering doing a race, but didn't register due to the fact that I hadn't been in the pool since October and I really wasn't consistently running or biking yet. Well, to make a long story short I did race and it was a slap in the face. I really need to train! The swim wasn't bad, luckily I have 15 years of highly competitive swimming in my back pocket to get me through a 400yd swim. I was happy with the bike, felt good and the course did have a couple tough hills. I didn't have my aerobars and I do think that made a difference. Then we get to the run, which I thought I would breeze through since I have been doing the most running, boy was I wrong! I had such bad abdominal cramps that I walked the first mile. I was able to get it going again and ran/jogged the last 2 miles. I ended up 26th overall and 6th in my age group and no where near ready to meet my goal of placing at Milk Man in June. <br />
So this week, my training has been stepped up a notch, to say the least. So far a 20 mile bike ride, a 4 mile run, a Brick, and a swim workout. I also registered for a 10K run on Sunday with the goal of breaking an hour (which will be very tough for me). I have approximately one month left to get ready for the next sprint triathlon.<br />
I'm still looking for someone to travel to Ireland with me :) My plan is to be there a little more than a week, August 28th to September 5th, with the triathlon on September 4th. <br />
On the veterinary side, I have paid for all my rehab classes, which is a huge step for me right now. I am learning a lot working with two special dogs. I hope I'm lucky enough to find a rehab job in Colorado. I am doing a lot of the exercises I have learned with Brink, mainly for strengthening and remembering he has back legs. <br />
Today I did a great agility work out with Brink. It consisted of 3 jumps in a pinwheel and the dog walk. I was super impressed with how things went. I believe he only knocked two bars and I think both were due to hitting the stantion not the bar.<br />
Some of the exercises we are doing include cavaletti's, front leg waves, back leg kicks, and core work. He's still going on runs with me also, so he should be the fittest dog ever!<br />
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P.S. I'm selling a triathlon full sleeve wet suit on ebay. It's new, never been worn, and comes with a travel case. Please pass this on if you know anyone needing a wet suit!Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-21193692029072734682011-04-19T12:19:00.000-06:002011-04-19T12:19:51.699-06:00Decisions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YkAOHI55tiIWq2ex2Os_R4QQJ7omaLxw3ZC5snEZYqapzqdjUutKApSVnasN4-oF4whIN_ua5v5T-8uKOWj6gZLDcPtNj5cDzn4jMVH6B9ffUh70HDZ0LLEzFvgAdqeRvL_0EIr7N-XO/s1600/DSCN0116.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0YkAOHI55tiIWq2ex2Os_R4QQJ7omaLxw3ZC5snEZYqapzqdjUutKApSVnasN4-oF4whIN_ua5v5T-8uKOWj6gZLDcPtNj5cDzn4jMVH6B9ffUh70HDZ0LLEzFvgAdqeRvL_0EIr7N-XO/s400/DSCN0116.JPG" /></a></div><br />
So Chris has decided to attend the University of Colorado, Boulder for his Masters in Speech Hearing Pathology. The program starts August 1st, yes this August as in less than 3.5 months from now. So, the question is how to we get ourselves up there? At this point I think my best plan is to start looking for work with hopefully a starting date in mid September. This hopefully would give me the break needed to do my Ironman 70.3 in Galway and hopefully get to spend at least a week in Ireland. I also will be done with my rehab course by then, so again hopefully I would be able to get a job just doing canine rehab and pain management. My biggest decision is do I somehow make it work that I can come back to Albuquerque once a month to work? I didn't want to get attached to my job, but now I feel like I do have an attachment to some clients and I also have been building my massage business. I'll have to look at all the logistics for this and see what can be done...<br />
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On the training side, I did 5 massages at the ASCA trial on Sunday. I try to use the massages to get my hands on as many dogs as possible. Every dog teaches me something new and adds to my skill set and usually makes the dog feel good as well :) I spent about an hour or so working with my horse, Quid. I was very proud of her. We did only ground work, but I was able to start putting my weight in the stirrup of the English saddle. She's only ever been worked with a Western Saddle before, so the goal is to be riding her English by the summer. I don't know much about horse training, but Quid is a great teacher. Monday was a day off from any training(very bad allergies). Today, I got in a 3 mile run with brink and a 20 minute conditioning session. Tomorrow I need to get in a long bike ride. Thursday will be another hike with the dogs. <br />
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Things are looking up. Due to my lack of motivation, I have to set goals for what to do each day. It feels so good to get things done. I'm basically setting a mental To Do List. So far this week, I wanted to take Brink to the park every morning to work on his jumping. Check. We worked on jump shoots, serpentines, and single box so far this week. He's still dropping bars, but I think he is starting to understand he only gets to play with the squirrel when he keeps the bars up. <br />
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Today my plan was to take Brink to the park, go to lunch with Leila, take Tundra for a hike. Now Brink is sleeping under my legs and Tundra is passed out on the couch next to me. Happy dogs, make happy people. I would still like to get out for a bike ride today. The stitches came out on Tuesday, so I'm ready to get active again. <br />
I don't know when my next agility trial will be, but I'm hopeful I can save up for the Rocky Mountain Regional.<br />
I've been very good about sticking to my goals of no Starbucks coffee and cutting down on my trips to Einsteins for breakfast-only one time this week :) Every penny counts!<br />
The rest of the day will be getting my business more organized for Sunday. I already have 5 patients lined up - very stoked about that. Maybe I'll sell some tugs too!<br />
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What if I had gone to New York. I realize I'm not as good at agility as I thought and I spend a lot of money on it. If I hadn't decided to go to vet school, would I have ever started competing or would I be traveling the world. <br />
Right now, not much makes me happy. I ran in DAM team today with Rival and Brink-Brink had no good moments, Rival was off his head in Gamblers, did a great Snooker and Standard, and then didn't want to run in either Jumpers or Relay. Overall, I almost left crying...again. Luckily Rival's team still managed to Q and my friends joy over it helped me. I'm glad I'm taking a break from agility, but that leaves work and home and lots of time for thinking. Did I make the right decision? I guess I'll never know...<br />
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What a difference a day makes. The past two weeks, my work schedule has not given me two days off in a row. By some chance, I ended up with Saturday and Sunday off this week. Just knowing I have tomorrow free made it so much easier to do things today.<br />
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I did start the day very anxious, knowing I was going to a local agility trial to do canine massages and knowing I would get all the questions about why aren't you showing this weekend? I actually ended up having a really good time. I did 6 dog massages and talked to lots of people about what I was doing with my career. It's always nice to just take the time and relax and really connect with the dogs.<br />
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When I got home I was actually energized enough to work both Rival and Brink outside. I haven't worked both dogs at home in probably months. Both dogs were great. I'm also working on teaching the boys to wave. Bosque and the girls all can wave great, so now the boys have to learn. Plus it's great shoulder and biceps exercise. Tomorrow, I need to exercise myself :) I'm thinking a short run with Brink would be good.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-66330787673381982342011-03-17T18:14:00.000-06:002011-03-17T18:14:57.268-06:00St. Patrick's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijyoD2XKEheZL285tHFeaoMc6mGuCPs8itJ99t8H-x-iTAAkW8gYpCjllLttFJxiwBd3J9qk2ibkN8EaH-3Rk1kdIgBbO74e3b8voYGHzqHJHrpaOuGsquZGYBaZIxB9bSse2CAV_LHDuN/s1600/four-leaf-clover.gif" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="268" width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijyoD2XKEheZL285tHFeaoMc6mGuCPs8itJ99t8H-x-iTAAkW8gYpCjllLttFJxiwBd3J9qk2ibkN8EaH-3Rk1kdIgBbO74e3b8voYGHzqHJHrpaOuGsquZGYBaZIxB9bSse2CAV_LHDuN/s400/four-leaf-clover.gif" /></a></div><br />
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It's been awhile since I posted last. St. Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday, not because I'm Irish, but probably because green is my favorite color, I love Ireland, and luckily I'm with someone who is very Irish. Luckily I have the day off and I've been thinking about posting for awhile, but kept putting it off.<br />
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The year hasn't been great so far. While I do have a job again, I've still been forced to make a lot of changes. First, I gave up Starbucks, which really wasn't that hard. Now, I'm giving up agility. This is extremely hard. I think I knew this was coming, but I tried to be hopeful that things would turn around. For the past 10 years my life has revolved around agility. I really became a veterinarian because of agility. I hope to return to the great sport someday. I still plan on getting my canine rehabilitation certification and possibly pursuing board certification. I hope that it will get me out of the state of New Mexico. I really wish I was writing about how great agility was going. How Brink is just taking the agility world by storm, but it just wasn't meant to be. Needless to say, I won't be trying out for world team this year.<br />
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Today is Rival's birthday. He got a birthday bagel and we practiced some running dogwalks. I'm very happy with his dogwalk and we were able to progress to tight turning into a tunnel. He has one more trial to show it off. Maybe he will finally get that last Standard leg for his AAD.<br />
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In more positive news, I have registered for an Ironman 70.3, so I need to get my a$$ in gear and start training. I'm planning on at least 3 triathlons before the Ironman as well. I did finish my first half-marathon in February-it was exhilarating. I hope to do the same one again next year, but my goal would be to finish around the 2 hour mark. I just have to get motivated to start training again. <br />
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I promise to post more often and stay positive!<br />
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This is Brink modeling his new leash. I have been wanting to add leashes to the Twisted Tug repertoire for awhile but never could figure out the pattern I wanted. I finally found one that I like, except I still haven't perfected the handle. I picked this leash to show off Brink's Irish ancestry that I have decided he has (Rival is Irish, too, because he has red hair). Brink's leash has a clip to connect to a martingale type collar, but I think I will start making them as an all in one martingale leash.<br />
In other news, my dad is in the hospital for the second time this week after having a heart procedure on Tuesday. It doesn't sound serious, but it is always on my mind. My half-marathon is a little over a month away and I'm looking forward to spending time with my family and having my dad cheer me on from the side lines. He did the Houston marathon a couple times and we would cheer him on through the race.<br />
I did actually get a 4.5 mile run in today, although I coughed for a couple hours after. I do feel more energized. I have been watching the USDAA 4-star event all day and I just love it! I wish I knew a little more about who was running, but it's still very fun to watch. I hope everything works out so I can continue to do agility. I would miss it so much if I had to stop.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HxU9pFvJ1nvvVz4K4OR67_1MiBcSXgzbTBhWP5FF6HUt8d7t4Rr2riFLcbgWORYtyhEnWcvEmPOj1R7jBGrRU3sGSvxpx40DvlX4gXjRedFxiybGAAinMAcWsD0FvRj8gygVLpRNuBvc/s1600/IMG_3947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HxU9pFvJ1nvvVz4K4OR67_1MiBcSXgzbTBhWP5FF6HUt8d7t4Rr2riFLcbgWORYtyhEnWcvEmPOj1R7jBGrRU3sGSvxpx40DvlX4gXjRedFxiybGAAinMAcWsD0FvRj8gygVLpRNuBvc/s320/IMG_3947.JPG" /></a></div>Portrait from the first snow of the year, hiking 3 Guns Canyon.Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-34969163556678820142011-01-14T18:16:00.000-07:002011-01-14T18:16:17.322-07:00Certificates in the Mail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLerkDOVxFe6x8JAhqaWWtECx_TyU1z3bR9QxcOs8bmeEy_QBNAPiz4qUO-gVL60X72-HAFfPXUL299udiTWsrX33iiZfQf24U7IdbwikI7CdjSUe-DBnzB3P1FUVlkQfyD2Tsja3htKb/s1600/IMG_3554.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLerkDOVxFe6x8JAhqaWWtECx_TyU1z3bR9QxcOs8bmeEy_QBNAPiz4qUO-gVL60X72-HAFfPXUL299udiTWsrX33iiZfQf24U7IdbwikI7CdjSUe-DBnzB3P1FUVlkQfyD2Tsja3htKb/s320/IMG_3554.JPG" /></a></div><br />
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Today I received three certificates in the mail. One for Rival's advanced pairs title, one for Brink's advanced pairs title and one for Brink's advanced Gamblers title. None of these came as a surprise. I knew all these titles had been achieved at our local SWAT USDAA. It's just nice to get something in the mail, now if people will only start sending me money in the mail! Ever since college I have been obsessed with checking the mail. I hated those federal holidays when the mail didn't come, but you still had to go to school or work. <br />
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Anyway, here's a video from our weekend in Arizona. There's only one, because it really was our only good run, although you can see none of the contacts actually meet my criteria of two on, two off. So, basically, the video is getting published because it is our first master gamblers Q. Enjoy.<br />
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P.S. I haven't wanted to run this week, so the picture is to motivate me to get off my butt-the half marathon is only a little over a month away!Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413494778405336442.post-2699420666213792502011-01-13T20:19:00.000-07:002011-01-13T20:19:12.164-07:00Re-EvaluatingI hate when I say I'm going to do something and then I can't do it. If I say I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it. Unfortunately, life has this way of making sure you can't actually do it. This is my biggest pet peave and it eats and eats at me. So what does this have to do with my blog? First, I officially gave up on a running A-frame with Brink today. This bothers me because I know I could train him to do it, except I have no way of getting an A-frame and probably won't be able to get one for years, so I have to go to a 2 on, 2 off, because I can train that behavior in my back yard. So, that was an easy solution and I should let it go, right? I'll be happier in the long run that I decided to do this.<br />
Now for all the other things planned in 2011. Trying out for world team-I still want to do this, even though I have no expectation of making the team at this point. The problem is that I don't know if I will actually be able to go to any of the regionals I have planned. This also affects the goal of doing my Half-Ironman in Ireland in September. I really liked when my only worry was whether or not I could get the time off to go do the stuff I wanted to do or said I was going to do. <br />
Unfortunately, I need to get my business off the ground to be able to do all the things I said I was going to do. And now I'm playing the waiting game...Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730423884582946004noreply@blogger.com0