xamonster




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xamonster's Life List

  1. 1. make a smaller ecological footprint
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  2. 2. return to vegetarianism
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    6 people
  3. 3. be an activist
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    103 people
  4. 4. eat healthier
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  5. 5. To live instead of exist
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  6. 6. learn to speak Latin
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    126 people
  7. 7. learn modern Greek
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  8. 8. Journal regularly
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    276 people
  9. 9. become a better knitter
    38 people
  10. 10. fight aids
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  11. 11. do things that scare me
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  12. 12. become a master knitter
    58 people
  13. 13. return to Greece
    12 people
  14. 14. return to Turkey
    8 people
  15. 15. go to the Louvre
    33 people
  16. 16. get in shape
    9,386 people
  17. 17. drink more water
    18,984 people
  18. 18. be content
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  19. 19. stop homophobia
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  20. 20. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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  21. 21. Be a hoopy frood
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  22. 22. celebrate Towel Day
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  23. 23. Do the Couch to 5k running plan
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  24. 24. give up caffeine
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  25. 25. explore androgyny
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make a smaller ecological footprint
1.7 planets 3 years ago

It seems that my footprint is 3. My highest was food at 1.2, which can be easily remedied, I think — time to go organic! Now that spring’s coming, composting is beginning to seem like a viable option, as is walking to work.

chanting Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!



Read all the books on the BBC Big Read Top 100
19 down 3 years ago

Read, Partially read

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman *
4. *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee *
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis *
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. _Catch-22, Joseph Heller _
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. *The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger *
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. *Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling *
23. *Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling *
24. *Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling *
25. *The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien *
26. _Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy _
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. *Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll *
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. _One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez _
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. *The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. *Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck *
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. *Black Beauty, Anna Sewell *
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. *Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden *
63. _A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens _
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. *Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman *
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. *Lord Of The Flies, William Golding *
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. *Night Watch, Terry Pratchett *
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. _The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy _
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. *Brave New World, Aldous Huxley *
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie



Read the ALA 100 Most Freqently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
Banned books I've read 3 years ago

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
2. Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
3. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
4. Goosebumps (Series) — R.L. Stine
5. A Wrinkle in Time — Madeline L’Engle
6. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
7. Harry Potter (Series) — J.K. Rowling
8. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
9. Lord of the Flies — William Golding
10. The Face on the Milk Carton — Caroline Cooney
11. Where’s Waldo — Martin Hanford

I thought I’d read more than that …




 

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