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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
I am marking this as done, because although not for birthday's, I have made celebratory cakes for more than one person now :)
1. 3 Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
2. No Angel - Jay Dobyns
3. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
4. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Tomatoes - to the point of being able to eat the fruit! Spinach, and a wide range of herbs - hooray!
Note added to task Grow a plant
5 months ago
Took a beginner's photography course to learn more about my camera, and composition a little too. Great success!
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
For the last year, I have read at least one book a month, more most months. I intend to try and continue to do so.
Got photos of my hubby and I on a whim when we ran across a black and white photobooth - and they are fab :)



 
Member since April 2010 with 80 goals to do, 8 goals in progress and 15 goals achieved.

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Apr 05, 2010 - Dec 31, 2012

1. Visit one of the Australian rainforests before we leave
2. Do 10 things that I'm afraid of [2/10]
3. Read 10 non-fiction books [4/10]
4. Write a book
5. Join a book club
6
Goals with no specified timetime

1. Give blood
2. Go to Bestival
3. Throw a dart on a map and go to where it lands
4. Organize my music collection
5. Witness a meteor shower
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Goals completed!

1. Go to Costa Rica
2. Make my own pizza
3. Make my own soap
4. Preform a Chinese fire drill