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101 Things in 1001 Days

Jan 01, 2017 - Sep 28, 2019

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Note added to goal Read the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Man Booker Prize shortlist

7 years ago

12 Nov, 17

2015
A Brief History of Seven Killing - Marlon James [winner] (read: 16/10/2015)
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota (read: 01/06/2017)
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler (read 01/02/2016)
The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma (read 07/01/2016)
Satin Island - Tom McCarthy (read 24/10/2015)

2016
The Sellout - Paul Beatty [winner]
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
All That Man Is - David Szalay
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Hot Milk - Deborah Levy (read 19/09/2016)
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh (read 24/10/2016)

2017
4321 by Paul Auster
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders [winner]
Autumn by Ali Smith (less)

2015
A Brief History of Seven Killing - Marlon James [winner] (read: 16/10/2015)
A Little Li (...more)

Note added to goal Watch 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet

7 years ago

20 Aug, 17

A - Avengers: Age of Ultron
B - Big Hero 6
C - Catching Fire
D - Doctor Strange
E - Edge of Tomorrow
F - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
G - Gone Girl
H -
I - Interstellar
J - Jurassic World
K -
L - The Lego Movie
M - Mockingjay - Part 1
N -
O -
P -
Q - Quantum of Solace
R - Rise of the Guardians
S - Skyfall
T - Ted
U -
V -
W - The Wolverine
X -
Y -
Z - Zootropolis

Note added to goal Watch 10 new TV series

7 years ago

04 Jul, 17

True Blood
Rome
Attack on Titan
Cordon (Belgian version)
The Last Kingdom
BoJack Horseman
Fullmetal Alchemist

Note added to goal Get a piercing

7 years ago

11 Jun, 17

A
Albania - The Palace of Dreams (Ismail Kadare)
Andorra - The Teacher of Cheops (Albert Salvadó)
Armenia - Armenian Golgotha (Grigoris Balakian)
Austria - Frozen Time (Anna Kim)
Azerbaijan - Ali and Nino (Kurban Said)
B
Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
Belgium - Hygiene and the Assassin (Amélie Nothomb)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric)
Bulgaria - Street Without a Name (Kapka Kassabova)
C
Croatia - Our Man in Iraq (Robert Perišič)
Cyprus - Ledra Street (Nora Nadjarian)
Czech Republic - Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal)
D
Denmark - Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Peter Høeg)
E
Estonia - The Beauty of History (Viivi Luik)
F
Finland - The Egyptian (Mika Waltari)
France - Submission (Michel Houellebecq)
G
Georgia - A Man Was Going Down the Road (Otar Chiladze)
Germany - The Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse)
Greece - Kassandra and the Wolf (Margarita Karapanou)
H
Hungary - Satantango (László Krasznahorkai)
I
Iceland - The Atom Station (Halldór Laxness)
Ireland - Ulysses (James Joyce)
Italy - My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante) - COMPLETED
K
Kazakhstan - Nomads (Ilyas Esenberlin)
L
Latvia - With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows (Sandra Kalniete)
Liechtenstein - Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
Lithuania - Hour of the Wolf (Andrius Tapinas)
Luxembourg - Minute Stories (Robi Gottlieb-Cahen)
M
Macedonia - On the way to Damascus (Elizabeta Bakovska)
Malta - Happy Weekend (Immanuel Mifsud)
Moldova - The Story of an Ant (Ion Drutse)
Monaco - Grace Kelly: Princesse du Cinema (ed. Richard and Danae Projetti)
Montenegro - A Lullaby for No Man’s Wolf (Xenia Popovich)
N
Netherlands - The Twin (Gerbrand Bakker)
Norway - Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
P
Poland - Snow White and Russian Red (Dorota Maslowska)
Portugal - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (José Saramago)
R
Romania - The Baiut Alley Lads (Filip and Matei Florian)
Russia - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
S
San Marino - The Republic of San Marino (Giuseppe Rossi)
Serbia - Lake Como (Srdjan Valjarevic)
Slovakia - Rivers of Babylon (Peter Pišťanek)
Slovenia - The Golden Shower or What Men Want (Luka Novak)
Spain - Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
Sweden - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
Switzerland - Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (Aglaja Veterany)
T
Turkey - The Bastard of Istanbul (Elif Shafak)
U
Ukraine - Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
United Kingdom - Martha, Jack and Shanco (Caryl Lewis)
V
Vatican City (Holy See) - Shroud of Secrecy / Gone with the Wind in the Vatican (Luigi Marinello & The Millenari) (less)

A
Albania - The Palace of Dreams (Ismail Kadare)
Andorra - The Teacher of Cheops (Albert Sal (...more)

Note added to goal Read the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Nebula shortlist

7 years ago

21 May, 17

2016
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
Borderline, Mishell Baker
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
Everfair, Nisi Shawl

2015
Uprooted, Naomi Novik [winner] (read 02/06/2015)
Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen
Updraft, Fran Wilde

Note added to goal Finish the 12/12 Challenge (video games)

8 years ago

30 Dec, 16

January - The Walking Dead
February - Oxenfree
March - The Witcher 3
April - Mass Effect
May - Portal 2
June - The Wolf Among Us
July - The Last of Us
August - Beyond: Two Souls
September - Trine
October - The Cave
November - Bioshock
December - Shadowrun Returns

Note added to goal Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each

8 years ago

25 Nov, 16

Brazil -- Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Daniel L. Everett)
France -- The Queen of the Night (Alexander Chee)
Iran -- Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Shahriar Mandanipour)
Mauritius -- Watch Them Go Down (Anand Mulloo)
Mexico -- Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
Mongolia -- Walking the Gobi: A 1,600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair (Helen Thayer)
Morocco -- Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Fatema Mernissi)
Romania -- The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller)
Singapore -- Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
South Africa -- Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
United Kingdom -- NW (Zadie Smith) (less)

Brazil -- Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Daniel (...more)

Note added to goal Complete a 52 week photo challenge

9 years ago

10 Jan, 16

Note added to goal Ask 20 friends to suggest a book, read them all

9 years ago

22 Jul, 15

Wizard of the Crow
Children of the Alley
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Snow Crash
The Earthsea Quartet/A Wizard of Earthsea
Terminal World

Note added to goal Ask 20 friends to suggest one book, and read them all

11 years ago

12 May, 13

Wizard of the Crow
Children of the Alley
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Snow Crash
The Earthsea Quartet/A Wizard of Earthsea

Note added to goal See a play

11 years ago

21 Apr, 13

"Macbeth" starring James McAvoy, 15th April 2013

Note added to goal Learn to cook 10 new meals

12 years ago

29 Mar, 13

Carbonara
Salmon and homemade tartar sauce
Sirloin steak
Pigeon
Roast beef
Thai green curry
Roast chicken
Pork steak
Swordfish steak
Lamb roast

Note added to goal Donate blood

13 years ago

19 Feb, 12

Keep doing it every 3 months

The 7 Things Challenge:

13 years ago

01 Jan, 12

7 Things x 2012

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:

Learn how to knit
Start doing jogging
Stop biting your nails
Take a vacation to Prague
Find a safe place to be happy
Try Thai cuisine
Be more optimistic