read every book I own

this.is.gonna.be.interesting….(*yamns.&.rubs.eyes!)
LOL!

Just finished Flatmates by Chris Manby this morning. It’s a part of the Second Prize / Flatmates Omnibus.
See http://www.allconsuming.net/person/true_blue/consumed/book

Next book: The Great Indoors by Sabine Durrant.

Apart from owning almost every Stephen King novel written, I own other genre novels that I have not read at all. So the goal is to read these! It’s neat because it’ll be great number counts for my other goal to read 1,000 books in less than ten years! :)

To reading I go!

P.S. 43 things needs to find a way to have an undo option when you accidentally click that you’ve completed something.

i really need to do this haha. i have 100+ books just sitting there brand new or half read

I want to add to this goal . . . I don’t want to just read every book I own, but I want to get the most out of it that I can. I sometimes can read an entire page and have to keep re-reading it over and over. I really enjoy reading when I can focus and get what their saying, but I hate when I keep getting distracted and do what I call “zombie” reading (reading the words but not hearing or getting it at all).

So as I’m reading all the books I own, I want to take notes, give myself “assignments”, reflect on what I’ve read, etc.

Okay, I think it’s due to distractions, I can’t read in my living room, as there’s the laptop and the xbox. My new approach is to firstly seperate my bookshelf into read and un-read, then read while sitting on my bed with some light music on the ipod in the background. I’ll attempt to do this for at least one hour every day for the next month and see how I go. I think by the time I plough through the first few books, I’ll be able to see myself finishing the task. I’m also not buying any new books till I’ve done this.

Achewood: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar – Chris Onstad

The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman

Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman

The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama

Challenges for Game Designers – Brenda Brathwaite

Chronicles Volume 1 – Bob Dylan

Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmaker Must Know – Jennifer Van Sijll

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Confidence – Rob Yeung

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction – Susan Blackmore

Design: A Very Short Introduction – John Heskett

Doctor Who: Castrovalva – Christopher Bidmead

Does Anything Eat Bankers? – Andy Zaltzman

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland

Emergence – Steven Johnson

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Ken Kesey

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Homicide – David Simon

How To Win Every Argument – Madsen Pirie

India’s Vegetarian Cooking – Monisha Bharadwaj

Kandinsky – Ulrike Becks-Malory

Letters 2004-2006 – Martin John Callanan

Looking For The Lost – Alan Booth

Lyra’s Oxford – Philip Pullman

Making Short Films – Clifford Thurlow

Mysterious Japanese Manga Volume 1

Nothing To Be Frightened Of – Julian Barnes

Once Upon A Time In The North – Philip Pullman

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness – Gillian Butler

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return – Marjane Satrapi

Philosophy: The Basics – Nigel Warburton

Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers – Philip Stokes

Polaroids From The Dead – Douglas Coupland

Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction – John Polkinghorne

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You – Marcus Chown

Sandman: Endless Nights – Neil Gaiman

Setting Up Your Shots: Great Camera Moves Every Filmmaker Should Know – Jeremy Vineyard

Slept In Beds – Zachary Lipez and Nicholas Zinner

This May Help You Understand The World – Lawrence Potter

Tokyo: A Certain Style – Kyoichi Tsuzuki

What Colour Is Your Parachute? 2008 Edition – Richard Nelson Bolles

It is slow, but steady . . . I read almost everyday during my lunch break. My favorite types of books are motivating, self-help, daily devotional, etc. Since I’ve started reading these uplifting books almost daily I can really tell a positive difference in my attitude and outlook.

Now I just need to add a little more reading time to my week (like before bed, weekends).

1. Bad Boy – Olivia Goldsmith
2. Gravity – Tess Gerritsen
3. Bloodstream – Tess Gerritsen
4. Good at games – Jill Mansell
5. Best of friends – Cathy Kelly
6. Insiders – Olivia Goldsmith
7. Isobels wedding – Sheila O’flanagan
8. Suddenly single – Sheila O’flanagan
9. The first wives club – Olivia Goldsmith
10. The torment of others – Val Mcdermid
11. The mermaids singing – Val Mcdermid
12. King Lear – Shakespeare
13. Whatever love means – David Baddiel
14. Mr Maybe – Jane Green
15. Blood on the tongue – Stephen Booth
16. Hide and seek – James Patterson
17. Babyville – Jane Green
18. Spellbound – Jane Green
19. About a boy – Nick Hornby
20. Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone – JK Rowling
21. Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult
22. He’s got to go – Sheila O’Flanagan
23. Being Jordan – Katie Price
24. Getting personal – Chris Manby
25. Dracula – Bram Stoker
26. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
27. Gossip Girl – Cecily Von Ziegesar
28. Angels and demons – Dan Brown
29. The island – Victoria Hislop
30. Second Chance – Jane Green
31. The curious incident of the dog in the night time – Mark Haddon
32. The picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
33. Lady Boss – Jackie Collins
34. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
35. The fellowship of the ring – JRR Tolkien
36. The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
37. The return of the king – JRR Tolkien
38. Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer
39. Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
40. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
41. Eldest – Christopher Paolini
42. Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
43. The truth about diamonds – Nicole Ritchie
44. One Night Stand – Julie Cohen
45. How to be good – Nick Hornby
46. Remind me again why i need a man – Claudia Carroll
47. He’s just not that into you – Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
48. Flowers in the attic – Virginia Andrews
49. Special Delivery – Zoe Barnes
50. His dark Materials – Philip Pullman
51. Deadly Embrace – Jackie Collins
52. Thrill – Jackie Collins
53. New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
54. To Kill a mockingbird- Harper Lee
ARGH! I am pretty sure i have about 10-15 books at my Mums house she is borrowing also!

On Love
Zen and the Art of motorcyle Maintenance
9 stories
The Brooklyn Follies
The Red Notebook
Hand to Mouth(except for the story at the end)
half of Dracula