Reading Challenge

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.  I was hoping to read 25 books in the first half of the year but unless some of those books become readable in a half day, I do not think I will hit this goal.  I still want to read 50 books this year...it could still happen, right?

So in no particular order...
Highlight = in progress
Links to book review posts in blue ...or red?

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 (18 July)
6. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family History, Elizabeth Shown Mills
7. Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Morley (09 Feb)
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, Susan Kaye
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
22. The Early American Table, Eden
23. The Backstory of Wallpaper: Paper-Hangings 1650-1750, Robert Kelly
24. Complete Your Dissertation or Thesis in Two Semesters or Less, Evelyn Ogden
25. French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia
26. Write Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks, Belcher
27. The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon
28. Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians, Carrie Russell
29. French Verb Drills
30. Cajun Self Taught, Daigle
31. The Story of French, Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
32. The Poldark Series (12 books), Winston Graham

• Ross Poldark ...faster read that the Irish Sagas and Fairytales book
• Demelza
• Jeremy Poldark
• Warleggan

33. Highland Master, Amanda Scott 
34. Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle
35. Cajun, Elizabeth Nell Dubus
36. Heather and Broom: Tales of the Scottish Highlands, Sorche Nic Leodhas
37. Tales From Scottish Lairds, ed. by Jarrold & Sons publishers
38. The Rival Monster, Compton Mackenzie
39. German Genealogy Guide, Beider
40. Craft Inc., Ilasco
41. How to Market to People Not Like You, McDonald

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

Completed:
Six Stitch Cable Front (co 44 st)

Eight Stitch Cable Back (left side) & Front (right side) (co 40 st)

Five-fold Aran Braid (co 36 st)

Remaining Samples:
Cross Rib Cable 
Aran Diamond & Rope pattern 
Simple Aran Braid 
Aran Diamond & Braid 
Wide Plait Cable 
Twig Plait Cable 
Alternating Plait Cable 
Figure Eight Diamond pattern 
Wide Multi-cable pattern

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!