Dissertation business

Friday, 9 April 2010 by Kate Howlett
Okidoke, I had meant to update more often but I'm a forgetful lass and this is how it is. Anyways, I have done many things!

I have made it possible to assign people to issues. This means that they're the people supposed to be doing work. Using the Rules module I also made it so that if you were assigned you would be sent an email.

I added in calendar functionality. These can only be seen on group pages as they are group specific.

Probably some other stuff but I forget.
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1001: A Book Odyssey

Monday, 5 April 2010 by Kate Howlett

So today my boyfriend linked me to http://1morechapter.com/1percent/ and we have decided to undertake the challenge. Except that! I have read 26 of the 1001 books in the free (I am too poor to fork out for the huger list) excel spreadsheet downloadable here. 26 is 2% of the total 1294 books to read before you die (or whatever) so I have decided to undertake a new challenge.

We have decided to read 5% of the full 1294 "books to read before you die". That is 65 books in total. So I pledge to have read the remaining 40 books before April 2011. Should be a fun year... My boyfriend has his corresponding blog post and book list here and will be reviewing books as he goes along.

Anyways. The list of books I shall read is as follows:

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • American Psycho
  • Atonement
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Cold Comfort Farm
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • Doctor Faustus
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Frankenstein
  • Gone With the Wind
  • The Bell Jar
  • Great Expectations
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Life of Pi
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Love in the time of Cholera
  • Middlemarch
  • Oliver Twist
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Tarzan
  • The 39 steps
  • The Cider House Rules
  • The Count of Monte-Cristo
  • The English Patient
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Reader
  • The Satanic Verses
  • The Shining
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • The Thousand and One Nights
  • The Three Musketeers
  • The Time Machine
  • The Wasp Factory
  • Wild Swans

These are from a cut down list of roughly 80 and included books that I've heard of, been told I ought to read, know I ought to read, know I ought to have read and plain old books that are already on my bookshelf.

Wish me luck. I reckon I ought to be reading a book every two weeks to finish by next April and I shall endeavour to review each book before starting the next.

Tarrah xx

P.S. Due to being poor I'm only reading books on the 1001 book list, not the 1294 one ;)