Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Jon and I will be starting our small adventures now.  We have a year to complete the tasks, I think we might be able to finish some goals quickly but I could be wrong. Some things are more complicated then they look.

Jon and I have come up with a book list for our small adventures. Initially the plan was to follow the New York Bestseller list but the list was too extensive. We also thought about Oprah’s book club list too which was also quite big. It was overwhelming to look at the lists so Jon and I have made our own list. We have chosen twenty four books that we would like to read. I’m still going to stick to my other goal of reading the books that I currently own and have never read too and Jon is going to try and beat his record of forty books.

Book list

1.       Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

2.       To Kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

3.       The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

4.       A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

5.       Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

6.       Seriously ... I’m kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

7.       1 Book from the bargain bin

8.       Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

9.       Nineteen Minutes By Jodi Picoult

10.    The Essence of Happiness by The Dalai Lama & Dr Howard C Cutler OR any book written by the Dalai Lama.

11.    Decision Points by George Bush

12.   Holes by Louis Sacher

13.   Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

14.   The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

15.   The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

16.   Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

17.   The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

18.   Soon I Will Be Invisible by Austin Grossman

19.   The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

20.   King Dork by Frank Portman

21.   Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt

22.   The Call of the Wild by Jack London

23.   The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

24.   The Lighthouse at the End of the World by Stephen Marlowe

When we finish reading the books, we will write a review about them. Feel free to comment on the reviews and read the books too.  We have decided to read the books in the list in any order for convenience.

I have started reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which is on the book list and I’m going to finish reading The idle thoughts of an idle fellow by Jerome K Jerome, a book that is part of my other goal. Jon has started reading The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins and Pictures of you by Caroline Leavitt.