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Monday, January 13, 2014

Book a Resolve

Personally, I have never been one for New Year's Resolutions as I believe that if something is bothering you and you wish to resolve the issue, you should not wait until the new year.  Life is too short any way.

But I have noticed that I could do with some more reading.  Perhaps by listing some of the books I will get to this year will help me to actually get to them.  So in no particular order...

1. The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
2. Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
3. Pushkin's Children, Tatiyana Tolstaya
4. To Live, Yu Hua
5. Irish Sagas and Folk Tales, Eileen O'Faolain
6. Evidence! Ciation & Analysis for the Family History, Elizabeth Shown Mills
7. Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Morley
8. Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Yu Hua
9. Finding Your Canadian Ancestors, Irvine & Obee
10. Linear Models with R, Faraway
11. The remaining Shakespeare plays I haven't read
12. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, Elizabeth Beeton
13. Teach Yourself Gaelic circa 1970, Roderick Mackinnon
14. How to take over the world from the tiny cell you made for yourself with just your laptop and unique personality
15. Cartographies of Disease, Tom Koch
16. Pushkin's House, Andrei Bitrov
17. Frederick Wentworth, Captain
18. Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes, Richard LaFeur
19. The Pattern Making Primer
20. Ancestry's Guide to Research: Case Studies in American Genealogy
21. A Garden Herbal, Anthony Gardiner

Hopefully this is not just another list, making me just another Emma!


With any luck, I also hope to get to:
1. an Aran pattern stitch sampler
2. type up the majority of my great, great grandmother's papers and notes
3. learn to play the violin
4. work on one of the many languages I am interested in
5. try to keep on top of everything

In truth, these are things that I don't intend to complete within this year but rather within the next couple of years, as some of the items are not activities that you want to do just once and then drop.  Guess what I should be doing now is setting up a schedule/time table to get to everything!


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