Saturday, 29 January 2011

Goal 38 - Read these lists from the Reading Journal

    Adventure Favourites (0/11)


    1. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    2. Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days

    3. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels

    4. H.G. Wells – The Islands of Doctor Moreau

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

    6. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book

    7. Daniel DeFoe – Robinson Crusoe

    8. Johann D. Wyss – Swiss Family Robinson

    9. H.G. Wells – Time Machine

    10. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island

    11. Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues under the Sea



    Epic Novel Favourites. (1/10)


    1. Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

    2. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brother's Karamazov

    3. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote

    4. John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath

    5. J.R.R. Tolkien – Lord of the Rings READ

    6. Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

    7. James Joyce – Ulysses

    8. Thomas Pynchon – V.

    9. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace



    Gothic/Horror Favourites. (1/9)


    1. Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto

    2. Bram Stoker – Dracula

    3. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

    4. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

    5. Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    6. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

    7. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    8. Henry James – The Turn of the Screw

    9. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights READ



    Mystery/Detective Fiction Favourites. (0/10)


    1. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None

    2. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep

    3. Ross MacDonald – The Dalton Cse

    4. Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress

    5. Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night

    6. Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon

    7. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

    8. Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    9. James M. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice

    10. Sir Athur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet



    Romance Favourites. (0/7)


    1. Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind

    2. George Eliot – Middlemarch

    3. Diana Gabaldon – Outlander

    4. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

    5. Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca

    6. E.M. Forster – A Room With a View

    7. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair


    Science Fiction Favourites. (1/10)


    1. Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain

    2. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

    3. Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game

    4. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451

    5. Isaac Asimov – Foundation

    6. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy READ

    7. Richard Matheron – I Am Legend

    8. Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

    9. H. G. Wells – War or the Worlds

    10. Madelein L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time



    Spy Novel Favourites. (0/10)


    1. W. Somerset Maugham – Ashenden or the British Agent

    2. Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Identity

    3. Robert Littell – The Company

    4. Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love

    5. Rudyard Kipling – Kim

    6. Graham Greene – One Man in Havana

    7. Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel

    8. James Grady – Six Days of the Condor

    9. John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps

    10. John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Man Booker Prize For Fiction

    1969 P H Newby - Something to Answer For

    1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member ̈

    1971 V S Naipaul In a Free State

    1972 John Berger G

    1973 J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur

    1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist

    & Stanley Middleton Holiday

    1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust

    1976 David Storey Saville

    1977 Paul Scott Staying On

    1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea

    1979 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore

    1980 William Golding Rites of Passage

    1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children

    1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark

    1983 J M Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K

    1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac

    1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People

    1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils

    1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger

    1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda

    1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

    1990 A S Byatt Possession

    1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road

    1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

    & Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger

    1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha READ

    1994 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late

    1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road

    1996 Graham Swift Last Orders

    1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

    1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam

    1999 J M Coetzee Disgrace READ

    2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

    2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang

    2002 Yann Martel The Life of Pi

    2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little READ

    2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty

    2005 John Banville The Sea

    2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss

    2007 Anne Enright The Gathering READ

    2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger

    2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall

    2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question

    2011 - ? -

    2012 - ? -

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Weeks 2 & 3 Progress


    Try out/make up 101 new recipes /take pictures & post them on both vegan blogs regularly (4x a month).
    (3/101)

    I made Vanilla Cupcakes with chocolate frosting & Gazpacho.


    Go to 50 different cafés/restaurants. (3/50)

    I went to two sushi bars here in Copenhagen that were both way too expensive but I was really craving some nice avocado maki(!yum!), went to Studiehuset with Nat twice


    Study 1001 hours. (5/1001)

    Most of this 3.5 studying was trying to get random French vocab back in my brain/refreshing it. I've been looking for the best online places to make flip cards but in all honesty I think I still prefer the offline version...


    Read 500 Books. (6/500)

    3. Sam Harris - End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
    4. Carolyn Jessop - Triumph (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
    5. Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God (audio book) (14.01.2011)
    6. L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)


    Read 50 Non-Fiction books. (4/50)

See all the ones above.


    Read books in five different languages. (2/5)

    Danish: L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)


    Watch 300 Movies. (7/300)

    6.American History X (re-watch) (10.01.2011)
    7. Satan rir media (Satan Rides the Media) (14.01.2011)


Write 1001 hours. (10/1001)

I wrote more than 5 hours but I didn't really write it down every time, silly me!


Write 101 letters. (2/101)

I wrote a letter to a hopefully new penpal in Holland (trying to practice my

Dutch) & sent a letter and Radiohead's “Ok Computer” to my boyfriend.


    Paint/Draw/Craft for 101 hours. (7/101)

    About four hours of making notebooks. :D



Sunday, 23 January 2011

Mixtape Jan/11: "Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate"
















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1. Edvard Grieg - In The Hall of The Mountain King (unknown recording) (?)

2. Wild Nothing - Live In Dreams (2010)

3. Pink Floyd - It Would Be So Nice (1968)

4. Pulp - Babies (1992)

5. Spiritualized - Born Never Asked (Laurie Anderson cover) (1995)

6. And So I Watch You From Afar - Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate (2009)

7. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (1967)

8. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonata 14 in C sharp minor op 27 No 2 'Moonlight' (Alfred Brendel)(1971)

9. Bonnie Prince Billy - No More Workhorse Blues (2004)

10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Ljósmyndir (2008)

11. Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move (live) (1971)

12. Kevin Shields - Kevin Shields No 1. (Unreleased)

13. Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (1985)

14. Deerhunter - Cum Horizon (improvisation) (2008)

15. Florence + The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms (2010)

16. The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines (2000)

17. Idlewild - I Found That Essence Rare (Gang Of Four Cover) (2002)

18. Jaquces Brel - Amsterdam (1964)

19. José González - Save Your Day (2003)

20. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Fortune Teller (2007)

21. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Dow Jones Syndrome (2000)

22. The Sun The Sea - Even Happier (200?)



Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Goal 29 - Read 50 Non-Fiction books

Read 50 Non-Fiction books

1. Sam Harris - End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
2. Carolyn Jessop - Triumph (audiobook) (12.01.2011)
3. Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God (audio book) (14.01.2011)
4. L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)
5. Robert C. Solom - Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (audiobook) (29.01.2011)
6. Lindsey Hall - Bulimia (12.02.2011)
7. Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries - 100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (audio book) (23.02.2011)
8. Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book (audiobook) (06.03.2011)
9. Douglas N. Graham - The 80/10/10 Diet (11/03/2011)
10. Mimi Spencer - 101 Things to Do Before You Diet (14/03/2011)
11. Udo Pollmer (Ed.) - Opium fürs Volk (17/03/2011)
12. Heinz-Peter Röhr - Weg aus dem Chaos. Die Borderline-Störung verstehen (20/03/2011)
13. Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (audiobook) (25.03.2011)
14. Crimethink - Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners (30.03.2011)
15. Jaron Lenier - You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (30.03.2011)
16. Matte Resists - How and Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide (30.03.2011)
17. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Vegan Coach (15.04.2011)
18. Frederic Patenaude - The Raw Secrets: the Raw Food Diet in the Real World, 2nd Edition (18.04.2011)
19. Manfred Lütz - Irre - Wir behandeln die Falschen: Unser Problem sind die Normalen - Eine heitere Seelenkunde (24.04.2011)
20. Neon - Unnützes Wissen 2: Weitere 1374 skurrile Fakten, die man nie mehr vergisst (02.05.2011)
21. David Cowles-Hamar - Veganissimo (11.05.2011)
22. Inke Jochims - Bulimie & Zucker (re-read) (15.05.2011)
23. Ammon Shea - Reading the OED (12.06.2011)
24. Melanie Joy - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (12.06.2011)
25. Brendan Brazier - Thrive:The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports&Life (13.06.2011)
26. Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture (16.06.2011)
27. Stephen Batchelor - Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (17.06.2011)
28. Kate Harding -Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere:Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (21.06.2011)
29. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion (audiobook) (re-read) (28.06.2011)
30. TC Campell - China Study (03.07.2011)
31. Michael Blanding - The Coke Machine (04.07.2011)
32. Markus Wild - Tierphilosophie zur Einführung (09.07.2011)
33. Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Enimals (re-read) (10.07.2011)
34. Peter Singer - Animal Liberation (21.07.2011)
35. Holger Rainers - Psychotherapeuten im Visier (23.07.2011)
36. Jessica Spector (Ed.) - Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry (29.07.2011)
37. Julian Offray LaMettrie - Der Mensch eine Maschine (07.08.2011)
38. Josef Schurz - Vom Bilsenkraut zum LSD : Giftsuchten u. Suchtgifte (09.08.2011)
39. James Nicholas Young - 101 plots used and abused (09.08.2011)
40. Cracked - You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts (10.08.2011)
41. John Fuhrman - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (11.08.2011)
42. Mark Perryman - 1. FC Philosophie: Flach denken, hoch gewinnen (12.08.2011)
43. Hartmut Krüger - Die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und das Statut des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (13.08.2011)
44. Francesco Cirillo - The Pomodoro Technique (16.08.2011)
45. Eve Ensler - The Good Body (16.08.2011)
46. Karl Marx - Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei (05.2011)
48. . Leslie Iversen - Drogen und Medikamente (26.08.2011)
49. Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man: One Woman's
Journey into Manhood and Back Again (26.08.2011)
50. Michel Onfray - Nietzsche (26.08.2011)

Goal 35 - Read everything by Irvine Welsh.

Read everything by Irvine Welsh.

Books by Irvine Welsh:

Novels

Short story collections


Plays

  • Babylon Heights


Goal 33 - Read books in five different languages.

Read books in five different languages.

1. English: Irvine Welsh -The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (01.01.2011)

2. Danish: L. Ron Hubbard – Dianetik: En Videnskabs Udvikling (17.01.2011)