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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Lists, Lists, More Lists and a Chance to Win a Book

Lists, Lists, More Lists and a Chance to Win a Book

June 3, 2008 by Elizabeth Rush Brooks

For those of you great friends and readers who have been following my “This Life” blog since the beginning may remember This List from my New Year’s Eve entry:

Twenty Things I want to Do in 2008

  1. Adopt a baby
  2. Adopt a baby
  3. Adopt a baby…OK, so this is my primary focus!!!
  4. Run the San Diego Rock’n’Roll Marathon
  5. Lose 50 pounds
  6. Sell a freelance article to a major magazine
  7. Finish my book or scrap it all together and start a new one
  8. Stop obsessively worrying about the kids
  9. Stop obsessivley worrying about the kids
  10. Stop obsessively worrying about the kids….another huge area for concern
  11. Try and sell my Muskoka Alphabet book to a publisher
  12. Declutter my entire house
  13. Finally decide if we are renovating or moving
  14. Put decision into action
  15. Put friends further up on my list of priorities
  16. Create new and more exciting lessons for work
  17. Keep car clean!!!!
  18. Be more patient with myself (my priest told me at confession that if I was more patient with myself, I would be more patient with others)
  19. Finish decorating the rooms of the Gaffer and Sirtalksalot
  20. Find and be myself more often…this I hope is actually inherent in all 20!

 

I have actually accomplished one and here is my photographic proof that I did indeed run, finish, lose 20 of my fifty pounds and and beat my previous marathon time.

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So that is the first list from the title and the reason I am talking about lists instead of an actual book.

The Second List comes from the May issue of Real Simple magazine that I was reading on the plane. It had a number of lists of books for summer reading by noted authors. Here’s the link if you are looking for some reading ideas. Real Simple Summer Reading.

 

The Third List is the one that my book club is putting together of each of our top ten favourite novels of all time.  There are fourteen of us and we are each submitting ten. As one who can never quite follow the rules properly, I submitted a few more than 10. Kate, one of our members is putting the list together to distribute to all of us at our next meeting on the 10th of June.

 

And that leads to your Chance to Win a Book. Shari Lapena has kindly given me an

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 extra copy of her fun novel, which I will happily send off to the urbanmom who comes closest to choosing the most number of books on the top 10 list. The odds for this are about as random as a lucky draw since I am revealing nothing about my book club, its members or the type of books any of us like to read but I do want to share this great book with one of you and I can’t wait to hear some of your desert island lists.

I will post my book club’s recommendations on the 11th of June so you have until then to post your choices in the comment sections. 

What are your top ten choices for the desert island????? 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: book club, desert island, literary mom, real simple magazine, san diego rock and roll marathon, shari lapena, step-parenting, things go flying

Comments

  1. Tory says

    June 12, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Let’s see your list! Congrats on the Marathon.

  2. Elizabeth says

    June 10, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    I’ll give it until the end of the day on Wednesday, but at the moment it looks like Things Go Flying may go to Lientje!

  3. Lientje says

    June 4, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    1)Pride and Prejudice
    2)A Fine Balance
    3)The Great Gatsby
    4)Lullabies for Little Criminals
    5)In the Skin of a Lion
    6)Fall on Your Knees
    7)Suite Francaise
    8)Atonement
    9)No Great Mischief
    10)The Blind Assassin
    Looking at this list, I see I have a lot of Canadian Authors! Is that not incredible?
    Congrats on the marathon! You Rock!

  4. Lientje says

    June 4, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    1)Pride and Prejudice
    2)A Fine Balance
    3)The Great Gatsby
    4)Lullabies for Little Criminals
    5)In the Skin of a Lion
    6)Fall on Your Knees
    7)Suite Francaise
    8)Atonement
    9)No Great Mischief
    10)The Blind Assassin
    Looking at this list, I see I have a lot of Canadian Authors! Is that not incredible?
    Congrats on the marathon! You Rock!

  5. Elizabeth says

    June 4, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    YIKES!!!
    I don’t think I was very clear, I meant the titles. See how many titles you can match, not the numeric count.

  6. cwilman says

    June 4, 2008 at 9:11 am

    133 books

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