Another year, more goals! This year’s:
- Go abroad to Canada
and somewhere else,at least Take a mushrooming classRead 53 books— running list below- Ski on snow
Climb a mountain, to summit!Okay, not the biggest mountain but so far I’ve done Dickerman!Visit five national parks— Rocky Mountain, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Mt. Rainier, North Cascades- See orcas
- Tell a story orally, publicly
Improve at yoga significantlyFinishing the 108 sun salutations challenge on March 20 counts, yeah? I’ll still yoga all year! – Did 108 again on September 22!- Learn to make a french braid that does not look like knots
Suggestions? Pointers? And what, dear reader, are your goals?
Books of 2015
David Benioff – City of Thieves
Mariusz Szczygieł – Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
China Miéville – The City & the City
Cheryl Strayed – Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Shannon Galpin – Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan
Leslie Jamison – The Empathy Exams: Essays
Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See
Jenny Nordberg – The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Claudia Rankine – Citizen: An American Lyric
Roxane Gay – An Untamed State
Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Catherynne M. Valente – Palimpsest
Tove Jansson – The Summer Book
Roxanne Gay – Bad Feminist: Essays
Catherynne M. Valente – The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Lindsey Pollak – Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders
Tove Jansson – Fair Play
Tove Jansson – The True Deceiver
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Pascal Khoo Thwe – From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Augusten Burroughs – Running with Scissors
Sofi Oksanen – Purge
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Yelena Akhtiorskaya – Panic in a Suitcase
Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber
bell hooks – Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Karl Marlantes – What it is Like to Go to War
Maya Angelou – All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
Jon Krakauer – Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Art Spiegelman – Maus, I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman – Maus, II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Joe Whitworth – Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild
Benson Bobrick – East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia
Adam Johnson – Fortune Smiles
Sofi Oksanen – When the Doves Disappeared
Sylvia Plath – The Colossus and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath – Ariel: The Restored Edition
Jane Austen – The Beautifull Cassandra
Héctor Tobar – Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life
Carl Safina – The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Gregory David Roberts – The Mountain Shadow
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
18 Comments
Post a commentWhere do you plan to see orcas, I’ve been to San juan Islands (between Seattle and Vancouver) and it’s a great spot to see them.
San Juan Islands is where I was thinking!
Canada is a great place to scratch a few goals off of your list. I recommend you base yourself out of Vancouver. Whistler and Victoria will provide the snow and Orcas, along with amazing Scenery and wonderful people.
Hello! Wonderful writing style you have! I’ve enjoyed your musings. The blog from which I am commenting on is dead, but I had to tell you–we live on the San Juan Islands and it IS a great place for Orcas. If you come here anytime soon drop a line!
I definitely am planning on visiting the San Juan Islands so thank you!
San Juan is a nice place! :) also you can try Mexico is beautiful place and Dominican republic friendly people and you can find ANYthing you want.
I’d like to visit both of those countries!
Never is too late lol
One of my goals for the year is to read at least 35 books, and I’m sucking… I used to read so much and now work and the internet have gotten in the way. You’re making me feel bad! haha
Btw, I’m reading The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. It’s a collection of fairy tales but told as novels and it’s seriously one of the best books I’ve read all year, definitely recommend it!
Well… I’m a little behind schedule on mine, whoops. I do have the bonus of a bus commute so most days I get at least a little reading time!
I have heard lots of good things about The Bloody Chamber. Thanks for bringing it up! I just placed a hold on it at the library. :)
Yeah that’s a great time to read! I have a long bus commute but reading on buses makes me nauseous boo :(
That’s awesome, I’m sure you’ll love it!!
Ah, Canada! Any particular provinces/cities already in mind? :)
Yep! I’m in Seattle so Vancouver is quite easy to do though I hope to get around BC a bit more even.
Love the picture and the goals you have set. I’m also going to look into some of those books that are on your list! I also have the goal of setting out to see Canada.
I hope to get to Canada in the next month or so. Good luck with your goals! And let me know if you have any specific book questions; I love talking books.
Thank you – Will do!
I loved City of Thieves. I don’t think I put it down until I finished. Also, I love your yearly goals idea. I do an annual bucket list as well
It’s a good one; I liked it too! I need to map out some goals for this year, still. It has been off to a hectic start, but at least I have been reading a lot. :)