I love to read...

So I have finished the Twilight book series (Stephenie Meyer is a very good storyteller) and my first task, #81! It isn't surprising that it's one dealing with books since I spend a lot of time reading instead of doing something that would require cleaning and organizing. (blech!) I then moved on to task #84 (read 10 classic books)(edit: now 20 classic books) and read Brave New World, which was much easier to read than I thought and more interesting, too. Now I'm reading Beloved. I wish I hadn't seen the movie, but Toni Morrison is such an excellent writer, it won't matter that I already know the ending.



I've also made a "Rewards Envelope" pictured above which I have labeled (appropriately enough) "Oops! I did it again!". That's pretty much how I feel whenever I finish something - that it was by accident. Now I have to come up with $3 dollars. My first $3.00. :) If I finish the list, I should have more than $303.00 depending on how many weekly lists I finish. My weekly lists are monsters. They just keep growing and growing and growing! I need to rethink what I should be putting down on a weekly list because I would like to finish one. I'm beginning to think that I need a "202 things to do in 1001 days" list. Now I'm thinking that it would be nice if I had an assistant. :)

Task #84 - Read 10 Classic books

I've just completed book three in the series Twilight, and if Emily finishes book 4 quickly, I should be done with Task #81 soon, which means I can start either the selected classic list or maybe a nonfiction book. Here's the list for the classic book list. I don't know if I'm going to make a list for the nonfiction books. There are a few nonfiction books I want to read, but I haven't any idea what the titles are anymore. Oh well, more research.

Task #84 10 Classic Books

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5. A Room with a View by E.M. Forrester
6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
7. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
8. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
9. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
10.The Bostonians by Henry James

I own the first two so I'll probably start with them.