Love for Books
Good evening,
and welcome to one of my last, if not the last, entry to this journal in 2012. I hope you all had a pleasant christmas with your loved ones and that you got the presents you wished for and deserved. My christmas was fine and unexpectedly peaceful this year, and I got tons of books to read, some movies and beautiful music. I'm extremly content and really glad that the world didn't go down on the 21th. Who would have thought. *caughcaugh*
Anyway, I didn't get to read too much in the past few weeks, but I'm still on time thanks to short stories and really short novels, currently reading book #16. If I get through it in the next four days I might really make the 34 books till next september. Who knows, I might be able to read even more, though I really doubt it. I'm trying to catch up on movies, animes and series' I wanted to see for quite a while, and there are mangas I have to catch up to, so I'll have to continue at this slow but steady pace, I guess. Not to mention the thousands of stories I wanted to write, my beloved rpg I want to pick up, and the mass of music that I wanted to keep a cleaner track of. Which reminds me of my various lists in generall. I guess that will be one of my many goals for 2013. I'm not one to set myself many goals, since I'll just be all the more disappointed if I don't make them, but I'm think of listing a few here and coming back to read them by the end of 2013. Would be a quite interesting and new thing for me to do, though done before by thousand other peoples. Okay, let’s see what goals I’d like to set for myself… I’m not sure weather I want to set myself really realistic defined goals or far-off goals to aim for… perhaps a mixture of both? I find the topic of goals to aim for a really interesting one, but I’m not sure which way actually works for me. I’m not even sure if those goals are tough or not. I’ve never done that. I can only hope that some of them are reachable.
Ideas for goals for 2013
- Read 34 books till September
- Write 500 pages for one story
- Write a story in english
- Complete Camp NaNo
- Finish ‘Fate is a circle’
- Refresh my language skills
- Teach myself a few things about Japanese grammar
- Sorting through my various list of music and books
- Re-arranging my book-shelf
- Going through old school stuff and setting them up in folders nicely
- Re-approaching old NaNo-Projects and old Story-Projects in general
- Change something about my hair
- Set up a time-chart of my university-life
- Continue my ranting-book until it’s finished
- Write at least five poems
- Sort through old accounts on various sites and get rid of them
- Doing more sports on a more regular basis
- Cleaning my laptop and my external harddrive
- Writing at least 24 letters in the whole year (old fashioned, pen and paper)
- Get back into the habbit of writing
- Sort through old childhood-stuff and only keep what I really really want to keep
- Make pictures of everyone and everything through the course of the year and set up a photo-book by the end of it.
- Re-arrange my whole room
- Cook a Korean, Indian or Japanese meal
- Beak at least three cakes
- Make room for more books and more dvds
- Re-sort and re-arrange the dvds, the cds, the books and EVERYTHING, especially my clothes
- Write a letter to myself in January and open it in December
But I’m actually, as mentioned before, quite content at the moment. I don’t think that I’ll need to change to much in the next year. I was really happy, looking back now. There are so many things, moments, minutes and days, people and sights, ideals and emotions I experienced and got to know that I didn’t know before and for which or whom I am extremely grateful. The year was not easy and there horrible things that happened, but looking back now, I am glad for most of them. I can honestly say that this year changed me, and I think I should never forget it.
But stopping this now, I’ll need to do what I wanted to do for a long time - update my lists and enter them into this journal.
Goodbye,
Sirrah
Update on my reading:
#08 - The God of Small Things
#09 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The List
- A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin √
- A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
- A long way down, Nick Hornby
- A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave
- Andere Räume, andere Träume, Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Anna Karenina, Lep Tolstoi
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer √
- Asylum, Patrick McGrath
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Chinesische Liebesgedichte, Ernst Schwarz
- Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
- Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard
- Danse Macabre, Stephen King
- Das Traumfresserchen, Michael Ende
- Dead until Dark, Charlaine Harris
- Dealbreaker, Harlan Coben
- Der Niemandsgarten, Michael Ende
- Die schönsten japanischen Erzählungen, Nelly und Wolfram Naumann
- Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
- Eric, Terry Pratchett
- Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin
- Forgotten, Catherine McKenzie
- Frische Goldjungs, Wladimir Kaminer √
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Hagakure I, Tsunemoto Yamamoto √
- Hagakure II, Tsunemoto Yamamoto
- Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
- In the Miso Soup, Murakami Ryu
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki
- L’Élégance du hérisson, Muriel Barbery √
- Lady Susan, Jane Austen
- Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- Misery, Stephen King
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- Momo, Michael Ende
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- Myths of old Japan, Nelly Naumann
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai.
- No Plot? No Problem, Chris Baty
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Northanger Abby, Jane Austen
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Novellas of Death, Edgar Allan Poe* √
- Ophelias Schattentheater, Michael Ende
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Payment in Blood, Elizabeth George
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Plays by Tom Robertson, William Tyderman
- Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard
- Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
- Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, A.S. Byatt
- Ramses I, Christian Jacq
- Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon
- Selected Poems, Emily Dickinson
- Skippy dies, Paul Murray
- Small World, David Lodge
- Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
- Symbol, Dan Brown
- Tales of Dunk and Egg, George RR Martin
- The Alice Companion, Jo Elwyn Jones & J. Francis Gladstone
- The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin
- The Bell jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Children’s hour, Lillian Hellman
- The Chivalry of Crime, Desmond Barry
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Deper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams & John Lloyd
- The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
- The Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
- The Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
- The Girl in the Steel Corset, Kady Cross
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy √
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Habit of Loving, Doris Lessing
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- The Hound of Baskerville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Last Empress, Anchee Min
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving √
- The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- The Outsider, Albert Camus
- The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
- The Ronin and the Fox, Cornelia Grey
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Stand, Stephen King
- The Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice
- The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
- The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
- The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffery Eugenides
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Thirst for Love, Yukio Mishima √
- Tis pity she’s a whore, John Ford
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Turn Coat, Jim Butcher
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Well-Schooled Murder, Elizabeth George
- Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett