Read
“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy” - Douglas Adams
“Watership Down” - Richard Adams
“Little Women” - Louisa M Alcott
“The Handmaid's Tale” - Margaret Atwood
“Sense and Sensibility” - Jane Austen
“Inversion” - Iain Banks
“The Wasp Factory” - Iain Banks
“Jane Eyre” - Charlotte Bronte
“Wuthering Heights” - Emily Bronte
“World War Z” - Max Brooks”
“Notes From a Small Island” - Bill Bryson
“Possession” - AS Byatt
“The Woman in White” - Wilkie Collins
“Heart of Darkness” - Joseph Conrad
“Captain Corelli's Mandolin” - Louis de Bernieres
“A Christmas Carol” - Charles Dickens
“Bleak House” - Charles Dickens
“The Count of Monte Cristo” - Alexandre Dumas
“The Three Muskateers” - Alexandre Dumas
“The Virgin Suicides” - Alfred Eugenides
“Birdsong” - Sebastian Faulks
“Bridget Jones's Diary” - Helen Fielding
“Madame Bovary” - Gustave Flaubert
“Cold Comfort Farm” - Stella Gibbons
“Far From the Madding Crowd” - Thomas Hardy
“Jude the Obscure” - Thomas Hardy
“Dune” - Frank Herbert
“Les Miserables” - Victor Hugo
“Brave New World” - Aldous Huxley
“A Prayer for Owen Meaney” - John Irving
“The Remains of the Day” - Kazuo Ishiguro
“Ulysses” - James Joyce
“On the Road” Jack Kerouac
“The Stand” - Stephen King
“To Kill A Mockingbird” - Harper Lee
“Love in the Time of Cholera” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Life of Pi” - Yann Martel
“Rebecca” - Daphne du Maurier
“Atonement” - Ian McEwan
“A Fine Balance” - Rohinton Mistry
“Cloud Atlas” - David Mitchell
“The Time Traveller's Wife” - Audrey Niffenegger
“1984” - George Orwell
“Animal Farm” - George Orwell
“Fight Club” - Chuck Palahnuik
"Julie and Julia" - Julie Powell
“Swallows and Amazons” - Arthur Ransome
“Midnight's Children” - Salman Rushdie
“The Little Prince” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Catcher in the Rye” - JD Salinger
“A Suitable Boy” - Vikram Seth
“A Town Like Alice” - Nevile Shute
“Grapes of Wrath” - John Steinbeck
“Of Mice and Men” - John Steinbeck
“Dracula” - Bram Stoker
“The Secret History” - Donna Tartt
“Vanity Fair” - William Thackery
“A Confederacy of Dunces” - John Kennedy Toole
“The Color Purple” - Alice Walker
“Brideshead Revisited” - Evelyn Waugh
“Charlotte's Web” - EB White
“The Shadow of the Wind” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Germinal” - Emile Zola
Watch
12 Angry Men
A Beautiful Mind
Amelie
Apocalypse, Now
American Beauty
Braveheart
The Bucket List
Citizen Kane
City of God
A Clockwork Orange
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Goodfellas
It's Complicated
The Lion King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Pianist
Pulp Fiction
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Seven Samurai
Schindler's List
The Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
The Social Network
Taxi Driver
Thelma and Louise
Do
Watch a sunrise
Watch a sunset
Buy a Sunday newspaper at least once a month (a decent one!)
Update my CV
Climb Ben Nevis
Get everyone's addresses that I keep losing
Buy an address book
Fill said address book with said addresses
Reach 5% weight loss goal
Reach 10% weight loss goal
Reach 15% weight loss goal
Reach goal weight
Make Lifetime
Get a manicure
Get a pedicure
Get a haircut
Clear credit card
Buy some nice underwear
Decide what I'm going to do with my life
Get a facial
Write a letter to MBM for her birthday
Go somewhere on impulse that's not within walking distance
Get a spare set of keys cut
Update details with the microchip registry
Donate a lump-sum to charity
Have a picnic with friends
Complete my novel
Watch the entirety of 24
Update the music on my iPod
Stay a night in a hotel
Take mum and dad out for dinner
Go on a crazy shopping spree
Go on a boat
Either fix GPS on my phone or buy a cheap sat-nav
Stay up for 24 hours
Make a fully stocked medicine cabinet, with more than just paracetemol
Get free business cards for the blog and leave them in random places
Go skinny-dipping
Kiss under mistletoe
Make a cheesecake from scratch
Visit Amy
Visit Douglas and Emma
Learn German to an intermediate level
Throw a party
Walk the Forth Road Bridge
Update details with the bank
Buy something expensive
Do 20 push ups in one go
Go to Deep Sea World
Leave someone a £20 tip
Print out copies of our photos
Buy a back up hard drive
Back up all photos, documents etc.
Learn the Thriller dance
See something at the Fringe
Go to an art gallery
Make and send a postsecret
Buy Will an awesome present (to save for an awesome occasion)
Alphabetise DVDs
Journal at least 3x a week for at least six months
Have a romantic weekend away
Buy and use a good electric toothbrush
Keep a plant alive for at least 4 weeks
Do a 365 photography project
Stay off Facebook for at least one week
Do a marathon (you can walk it)
Close that savings account I've never really used
Complete at least two sewing projects
Release a Chinese lantern
Buy a Parker Rollerball
Catch up with Emily in person
Send mum flowers
Send gran flowers
Give/throw away every item of clothing that doesn't fit
Spend at least one night sleeping outside
Get a massage
See a show at the theatre
Make up one half of my face to see what difference it makes
Clear out cutlery drawer
Buy and fill a birthday calender
Spend a weekend doing exactly what gran wants
Spend a weekend doing exactly what Will wants
Join a choir
Make at least one recipe from every cookbook I own
Start wearing scarves more often
Spend 24 hours in complete silence
Do 100 sit ups in one go
Get a new hot water bottle
Do something special for Will that makes him happy
Buy dad a golf ball
Colour in a colouring book
Learn about family tree from mum
Learn what all the bits under the car bonnet do
Watch a sunset
Buy a Sunday newspaper at least once a month (a decent one!)
Climb Ben Nevis
Reach 10% weight loss goal
Reach 15% weight loss goal
Reach goal weight
Make Lifetime
Get a manicure
Get a pedicure
Get a facial
Go somewhere on impulse that's not within walking distance
Get a spare set of keys cut
Update details with the microchip registry
Donate a lump-sum to charity
Have a picnic with friends
Complete my novel
Take mum and dad out for dinner
Go on a boat
Either fix GPS on my phone or buy a cheap sat-nav
Stay up for 24 hours
Make a fully stocked medicine cabinet, with more than just paracetemol
Get free business cards for the blog and leave them in random places
Go skinny-dipping
Kiss under mistletoe
Make a cheesecake from scratch
Visit Douglas and Emma
Learn German to an intermediate level
Throw a party
Walk the Forth Road Bridge
Update details with the bank
Do 20 push ups in one go
Go to Deep Sea World
Leave someone a £20 tip
Print out copies of our photos
Buy a back up hard drive
Back up all photos, documents etc.
Learn the Thriller dance
See something at the Fringe
Go to an art gallery
Make and send a postsecret
Buy Will an awesome present (to save for an awesome occasion)
Alphabetise DVDs
Journal at least 3x a week for at least six months
Have a romantic weekend away
Buy and use a good electric toothbrush
Do a 365 photography project
Complete at least two sewing projects
Release a Chinese lantern
Send gran flowers
Spend at least one night sleeping outside
See a show at the theatre
Make up one half of my face to see what difference it makes
Spend a weekend doing exactly what gran wants
Spend a weekend doing exactly what Will wants
Join a choir
Make at least one recipe from every cookbook I own
Start wearing scarves more often
Spend 24 hours in complete silence
Do 100 sit ups in one go
Get a new hot water bottle
Buy dad a golf ball
Watch all of Misfits
Make individual cupcakes all decorated differently
Sort out kitchen cupboards and throw/give away unused stuff
Make something for myself that I can keep and cherish
Sell/give away at least 50% of my bags
Clear at least 1/3 of my overdraft (£600)
Transfer Tesco credit card to a new interest free card
Get a spray tan/buy a good fake tan
Learn how people practise Buddhism in modern Western society
Repaint bedroom radiator
Buy storage drawers for the bathroom (and use them!)
Sell shoes I don't wear on eBay
Replace sold shoes with a capsule shoe wardrobe
Get the garden sorted
Thank you letter to B
Use Facebook in German for a month, once I'm a bit better at it
Sort jewellery and store it better
Get fireworks
Get a WoW character to level 85
Send finished novel to around 20 agents
