I'm doing 26 things
I had Broch’s Sleepwalkers on my bookshelf for more than a decade, taking it out on occasion to thumb through only to put it back with a “someday, yeah, someday when I get a nice block o’ time…”. Yeah, well, we know about that phantom block of time. An old paperback when I got it, the book literally fell apart as I read it—sorta appropriate considering ol’ Hermann’s theme of the “disintegration of values”. And oh, what a read it was! Yes, amigos, definitely worth the wait.
PioBarajas's Life List
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1. Get a good night's sleep
1 cheer123 people -
2. move back to spain
6 people -
3. improve my guitar playing
1 entry296 people -
4. Earn my coaching certification
1 person -
5. improve my spanish
1,094 people -
6. Redesign my website
511 people -
7. Publish a novel
1,074 people -
8. read the classics
726 people -
9. Visit Buenos Aires
71 people -
10. Go to Istanbul
71 people -
11. Learn to sing
2,865 people -
12. Write songs
657 people -
13. Go to Ireland
1,892 people -
14. Visit Eastern Europe
42 people -
15. Visit the Southwest
5 people -
16. Experience an SEC college football game
1 person -
17. Move to Austin
110 people -
18. Learn how to dance
940 people -
19. Cook a paella
1 cheer2 people -
20. Improve my German
528 people -
21. Visit Hong Kong
203 people -
22. Visit Montreal and Quebec City
1 person -
23. Visit Vancouver again
9 people -
24. Read Montaigne's Essays
4 people -
25. Visit Tokyo
562 people -
26. Kiss Jodi Foster on the lips
1 person
Recent entries
I started chipping away at this goal during the summer of 2004. So far, I’ve read Anna Karenina, First Love, Fathers and Sons, a collection of Chekov’s stories (Pevear), Crime and Punishment, Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita, Dead Souls, The Double and The Gambler…
Currently I’ve less than 150 pages left to finish Demons (it’s been a tough haul). I’ve got The Brothers Karamazov, Doctor Zhivago and Lolita still waiting on deck. I was set to call it a day after that. But now, with Pevear and Volokhonsky’s new translation of War and Peace, I just might be reading the Russians through 2009!
