I'm doing 16 things
August
4 years ago
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. see otters in the wild
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5. see a ghost
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6. do the whole of the Artist’s Way course
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7. walk in the countryside
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8. read two non-fiction books per month
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9. reduce my unread books pile by half during 2005
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10. Write a will
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11. learn Swedish
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12. have a session in a floatation tank
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13. meditate regularly
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14. Live in another country
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15. see the Milky Way
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16. Organise my digital photos
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Recent entries
July
4 years ago
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
June
4 years ago
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
