Another One Down

I completed another New Years Resolution this week.

This one was to complete the list of books I had set myself to read this year.

Being unemployed for the first two months of the year meant that I got through a lot of them quite quickly. And then the rest took, well, longer.

This is the list (and I added one while I went along that I had borrowed from a friend):

1. We Need To Talk About Kevin
2. Fifty Shades trilogy
3. Cary Grant - In Name Only
4. The Descendants
5. Enduring Love
6. Pride & Prejudice
7. Anna Karenina
8. Gulliver's Travels
9. Huckleberry Finn
10. Freakonomics

Of these I enjoyed The Descendants, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Pride & Prejudice the most. Enduring Love was also very, very good.  My least favourite were Gulliver's Travels and Huckleberry Finn.
And I am now looking forward to watching various film and television versions of Pride & Prejudice, as well as the more recent film adaptations of We Need To Talk About Kevin, and Anna Karenina.

Now I shall have to make a new list of books...

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I also completed all the things on my April To Do list bar one - watch 6 1001 films (I've managed 5, though I still have two days to go and I have some on my iTunes that I could put on my phone.)

One thing I did achieve was my first real piece of DIY. I've put together beds and such (yknow, with those IKEA-style instruction manuals) but today I just guessed what I needed to do, learned from the mistakes I'd made last time I tried, and went for it.

And I managed to put up my bag hooks.
Hoorah!