I'm doing 16 things
This month I read 2 non-fiction books; one humorous and one more philosophical.
- “Yes Man” by Danny Wallace
- “Status Anxiety” by Alain de Botton
kittiwake's Life List
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1. See the Northern Lights
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2. Health: Lose Weight
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3. Learn Spanish
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4. Write a will
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5. Live in another country
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6. see a ghost
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7. Organise my digital photos
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8. see otters in the wild
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9. do the whole of the Artist’s Way course
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10. walk in the countryside
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11. reduce my unread books pile by half during 2005
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12. learn Swedish
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13. have a session in a floatation tank
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14. meditate regularly
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15. see the Milky Way
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16. read two non-fiction books per month
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Recent entries
I only read one non-fiction book this month, but I read three last month, so I’ve read fourteen non-fiction books in seven months and am still on course to reach this goal. Five months and ten books to go!
This month’s reading was about the effect of climatic change on history.
- “The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300 – 1850” by Brian Fagan
This month I read 3 non-fiction books; a collection of poetry, a memoir and a history book.
- “The Waste Land and other Poems” by T.S. Eliot
- “The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly” by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- “Viking Age Iceland” by Jesse Byock
