Kayla's Goals For 2010

"If you're willing to try, anything is possible."

I am currently reading:

  • Why? by Charles Tilly

Books Read in 2009

Another new idea, this time books! I'm going to try and make a note everytime I finish reading a book, so that by the end of the year I'll know what I've read. Simple!

However I'm very bad at forgetting about recording what I have read. I'm also bad for starting reading one book, then abandoning it for months, where I then find it again and have forgotten what I've read so far. In such a way are many books never finished! So hopefully if I have something to keep me motivated to read, it might yet be sucessful. I think I'm going to add this to my main Goals page too.

I've also decided to try and write a breif summary about each book as I read it, which can be found on the "Book Reviews" page.

A Book A Month?

January: The Book of Seidh by Runic John

February: Basic Sigil Magic by Phillip Cooper, Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

March: The Little Book Of Lancashire (Dalesman), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric by Terry Pratchett, The Dark Archetype by Denise Dumars and Lori Nix

April: Four Laws That Drive The Universe, by Peter Atkins, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

May: (Finished Four Laws That Drive The Universe) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams

June: So Long and Thanks For All The Fish, by Douglas Adams, Body Language, by Collins Gems. Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams; Girl, Inerrupted by Susanna Kaysen; Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett; Coraline by Neil Gaiman; Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett; Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson.

July: Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern Tradition Shamanism, by Raven Kalder

August: More Humorous tales in Cumberland Dialect Rhyme, by Ethel Fisher M.B.E.

September: Cumbrian Poems, by Leonard Whitney; Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.

October:Hat Full of Sky & Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett; Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

November:Animal Farm by George Orwell; Why? by Charles Tilly; Nation by Terry Pratchett, Making Money by Terry Pratchett; Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

December: Why? by Charles Tilly; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien; Mr Quiet by Roger Hargreaves; Little Miss Splendid and the Princess, by Roger Hargreaves.

Pick up and Put down books

  • Staying Alive, real poems for unreal times. Edited by Neil Astley
  • Being Alive, the sequel to Staying Alive. Edited by Neil Astley
  • Poetry Please! Foward by Charles Causley
  • 101 Poems To Get You Through The Day (And Night), A survival kit for modern life. Edited by Daisy Goodwin
  • 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life, An anthology of emotional first aid. Edited by Daisy Goodwin
  • Essential Poems For The Way We Live Now. Edited by Daisy Goodwin.
  • (etc)

Site Last Updated:

18th December 2009

Random Quotes

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”



 

"Now the seasons are closing their files

on each of us, the heavy drawers

full of certificates rolling back

into the tree trunks, a few old papers

flocking away. Someone we loved

has fallen from our thoughts,

making a little, glittering splash

like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.

Otherwise, not much has happened;

we fell in love again, finding

that one red feather on the wind."

-   Ted Kooser, Year's End