27 is fast approaching, as is my second wedding annivesary and I am taking stock. There are many things remaining that I want to do with my life, and I'm hoping that this will kick-start me into some of them...
Books I've read: 1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 2. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 3. 1984 - George Orwell 4. Animal Farm - George Orwell 5. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 6. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 7 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Books I've read: 1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 2. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 3. 1984 - George Orwell 4. Animal Farm - George Orwell 5. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 6. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 7 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Husband and I both volunteered for a Green Living fair in Brisbane. Although when I originally wrote this task, I was intending more regular volunteering, it is proving hard to get. I am still trying.
Part one is complete - I have a list of books from friends. The list is as follows: 1. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler 2. Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin 3. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstader 4. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 5. Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller (to the end this time!) 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 7. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton 8. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 8. Outliers by Malccolm Gladwell 9. L'assomoir by Emile Zola 10.The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam 11. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut 12. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 13. Papillon by Henri Charrière 14. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard 15. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 16. Gift From Earth by Larry Niven 17. The Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan 18. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner 19. The Passage by Justin Cronin 20. Between the River and the Bridge by Craig Ferguson 21. The Player of Games, by Iain M Banks
I am reading number 1 at the moment :) I have read number 14. - Empire of the Sun