Monday, November 08, 2010

December Goals


I'm posting this before I chicken out. ;)

  1. Post once a day on this blog (I have a huge back-log of planned posts...it's pathetic)
  2. Read these books:
How To Ride a Dragon's Storm by Cressida Cowell (awesome series)
Silver on The Tree by Susan Cooper (awesome series)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (author I want more of)
The West Wood by Charles deLint (author I haven't read before)
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech (lovely author)
Torch Red by Melody Carlson (pretty much the only Christian-fic author I read)
Gamer Girl (bargain book)
Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy by Ally Carter (bargain book; pretty good series)
Johnny Tremain (gift, Newbery winner I think)
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (sci-fi classic that I just need to read)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (same as above)
Tuesdays With Morrie (used book bargain; have heard good things)
The Call of The Wild by Jack London (classic?)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (classic, sounds good)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald(classic!)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (tried reading this a while back, going to try again since I like OW now)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (classic)
The Europeans by HENRY FREAKING JAMES
Washington Square by HENRY FREAKING JAMES
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Stories by Joseph Conrad (liked HoD, haven't read the SSS yet)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (was going to read this for Halloween...FAILED)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (classic)
The Bhagavad-Gita (what's not to love?)
Orthoodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (I have a crush)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (I heart him)
Princess Lessons by Meg Cabot (I won this book)
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (I won this book)

3 comments:

Snazel said...

Wow.

Um...

WOW.

I'm not even gonna TRY to keep up.

Pine Cone Boy said...

I'm fairly certain that was in fact Mr. James' actual middle name. Thank for including it.

Bahnree said...

Snaz: Yeahhh I decided to aim high, so that even if I fail I still get a lot done. :P

PCBk: It's true!!! ^_____^