What I'm Reading: The Power of Kindness by Brian Goldman, M.D.
Where I'm Going: Destination: Cascais, Portugal Date: Oct 17, 2018
About Me:
Hi everyone!
I'm a twenty-something year old, currently living in Berne, Switzerland. This blog is dedicated to my exploits and interests. Enjoy!
The 2011 Reading Challenge
Reading List: 2011
1) The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway 2) Just After Sunset by Stephen King 3) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 4) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 6) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 7) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 8) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 9) The Giver by Lois Lowry 10) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 11) The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson 12) The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo 13) Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 14) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 15) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 16) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 17) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 18) Room by Emma Donoghue 19) Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 20) Little Bee by Chris Cleave 21) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 22) Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen 23) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 24) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine d'Engle 25) Stitches by David Small 26) Under the Dome by Stephen King 27) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 28) Left Neglected by Lisa Genova 29) Promises by Marie Sexton 30) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon 31) Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom 32) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Reading Power
Reading List 2018
1. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer 2. The Outsider by Stephen King 3. Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose by Joe Biden 4. Every Note Played by Lisa Genova 5. We'll Always Have Paris by Ray Bradbury 6. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Reading List 2017
*Much of the past two years has been dominated by some extensive academic reading in Educational Research, mainly leadership, policy revision, program and practice evaluation, professional development and educational psychology. It has been lovely but has most certainly zapped my time and focus on other reading endeavours. I hope to take back my reading time in 2018 but I did squeeze in a few reads this year!
1. Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Martin Lugand Agnes 2. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 3. The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller 4. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 5. A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemmingway
Reading List 2016
1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin - Jan 1, 2016 2. The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz - Jan 1, 2016 3. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - Feb 14, 2016 4. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman - March 2016 5. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury - April 2016 6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer - June 11, 2016
Reading List 2015:
1) The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner - January 18, 2015 2) Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova - July 12, 2015 3) Looking for Alaska by John Green - July 13, 2015 4) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - July 14, 2015 5) The Shadow in the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - July 28, 2015 6) The Regulators by Stephen King - Nov 3, 2015 7) What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey - Nov 6, 2015 8) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver - Nov 7, 2015 9) The Guernsey & Literary Potato Peel Pie Society by - Nov 13, 2015 10) The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - Nov 14, 2015 11) Watership Down by Richard Adams - Nov 28, 2015 12) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Dec 4, 2015 13) Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - Dec 11, 2015 14) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - Dec 24, 2015
Reading List 2014:
1) Doctor Sleep by Stephen King 2) Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck 3) The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe 4) The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje 5) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 6) Inside by Alix Ohlin 7) Insurgent by Veronica Roth 8) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 9) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 10) The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 11) The October Country by Ray Bradbury 12) Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury 13) Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill 14) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 15) Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Reading List 2013:
1) The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 2) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 3) A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin 4) The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 5) Duma Key by Stephen King 6) Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 7) Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 8) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 9) The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Reading List: 2012
1) The Two Gentleman of Verona by William Shakespeare 2) Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes 3) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 4) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 5) Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 6) The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit 7) The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 8) Stones by William Bell 9) Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King 10) The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare 11) Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King 12) Paradise Lost by John Milton 13) Divergent by Veronica Roth 14) Psychic Tarot Nancy Atennuci 15) Poems of Thomas Hardy by Hardy 16) Needful Things by Stephen King 17) IT by Stephen King 18) Love Anthony by Lisa Genova 19) Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 20) Shiver by Maggie Stelvater 21) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 22) The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill 23) For One More Day by Mitch Albom 24) Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle 25) The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 26) The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway