I'm doing 39 things
So I did NaNoWriMo! And I finished! I wrote a really terrible, poorly plotted scifi novel, and I genuinely had a good time doing it. Now I want to write another novel!
luxperpetua's Life List
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1. Make 25 recipes out of Appetite for Destruction
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2. Read 50 books in 2011
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3. spend more time outside
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4. learn tai chi
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5. not have noodle arms anymore
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6. finish my cycle of Baldr poems
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7. get my Ph.D. eventually
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8. finish my Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book
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9. publish story to literotica
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10. write more letters
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11. stop killing spiders
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12. call people back
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13. Own a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
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14. read every book I own
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15. own a Great Dane
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16. make a mobile
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17. See the Top 100 Foreign Films
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18. watch the AFI Top 100 American movies
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19. read the donald barthelme syllabus
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20. read Proust's In Search of Lost Time
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21. learn to bake bread
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22. be kinder to those i love
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23. Become fluent in more than one language
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24. Go to Mardi Gras
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25. have a bomba party
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26. have a dinner party
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27. spend less time on the internet
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28. write more often
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29. see the Flaming Lips live
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30. learn the constellations
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31. learn how to drive stick-shift
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32. see the northern lights
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33. have a fancy tea party
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34. keep a dream journal for a month
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35. forage wild edibles
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36. scan my "sticky stuff" comics
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37. Upcycle a dress
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38. create a sourdough starter
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39. Try out three new farmer's markets
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Recent entries
As Bellow’s sophomore effort, this is the other book that he dismisses as youthful folly. That’s a bit harsh, as the book is certainly interesting and very well-written in parts. The protagonist is as unlikable as ever, but the book’s examination of human psychology is pretty adroit.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man, Dune is so good.
I haven’t read it since I was a wee tot, so basically every plot turn was a revelation. So well-structured and so addicting! I burned right through it. Sure, I wish that the gender politics weren’t so essentialist, but other than that, this is probably my favorite SF book ever. Of course, I’m far from alone in that.
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