List of Books

Reading

Books Read in 2018 (List of Books Read before 2017)

1. Jan. 15 - Nate Marshall, Wild Hundreds
2. Aug. 16 - Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

Books to Read (alphabetical by author's last name)

• Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Doyle, Arthur Conan - Canon of Sherlock Holmes
• Eugenides, Jeffery - The Virgin Suicides
• Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
• Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
• Harari, Yuval - Sapiens
• Heinlein, Robert - Time Enough for Love
• Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
• Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five

List of Books Read

in 2010

1. Jan. 04 - Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
2. Jan. 08 - Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M.D., Life After Life
3. Jan. 17 - Michael Crichton, Timeline
4. Jan. 22 - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
5. April 19 - Diane Matcheck, The Sacrifice
6. May 1 - Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
7. Jun. 1 - 하지은, 얼음나무 숲
8. Jun. 25 - Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational
9. Jun. 29 - Jessica Williams, 50 Facts that Should Change the World
10. Jul. 24 - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
11. Aug. 6 - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

 in 2011

1. May 11 - Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
2. July 17 - Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic
3. July 23 - Tamora Pierce, Wolf-Speaker
4. July 24 - Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
5. July 24 - Tamora Pierce, The Realm of the Gods
6. Aug. 1 - Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel 
7. Aug. 2 - Vivian Vande Velde, The Conjurer Princess
8. Aug. 7 - Sharon Green, Convergence
9. Aug. 9 - Sharon Green, Competitions 
10. Aug. 13 - Sharon Green, Challenges
11. Aug. 16 - Sharon Green, Betrayals
12. Aug. 27 - Sharon Green, Prophecy
13. Oct. 1 - Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
14. Oct. 5 - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

 in 2012

1. Jan. 27 -  Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. Jan. 28 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Vol. 1
3. May 28 - Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
4. June 1 -  Lou Beach, 420 Characters
5. June 2 - Michael Gregorio, Critique of Criminal Reason
6. June 6 -  Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
7. June 8 - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
8. July 22 - Jeffery Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
9. Aug. 19 - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
10. Sept. 11 - Michael Bakunin, God and the State

in 2013

1. Various, Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art

in 2014

1. Jan. 19 - Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
2. Jan. 30 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
3. Sept. 14 - Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

in 2015

1. Feb. 10 - 이미나, 그 남자 그 여자
2. Apr. 15 - Niki Jilvontae, My Bitch, Yo Bitch....Everybody Bitch
3. May 31 - Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics
4. June 21 - Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
5. July 17 - Mary Roach, Gulp

in 2016

1. Nov. 13 - Susan R. Barry, Fixing My Gaze
2. Dec. 20 - Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad

in 2017

1. Sept. 14 - Frank Herbert, Dune
2. Sept. 18 - Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
3. Sept. 20 - James Hynes, Kings of Infinite Space

Creating Meaning from Randomness

An exercise in creating meaning from randomness.

1. Generate a random number, n, from 1 to 8 using the True Random Number Generator.
2. Retrieve n number of words using the Random Word Generator.
3. Write something using those words.

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#. YYYYMMDD: word(s)

Things I Like

1. Lists.
2. Plans and planning.
3. Symbols, metaphors, allusions.
4. Stories.
5. Acquiring items with previous lives.
6. Blank paper.
7. Empty parking lots and open fields.
8. Fog.
9. Thunderstorms.
10. Dappled summer shade.
11. Driving with the windows open on summer nights.
12. Clear star-filled autumn night skies.
13. Hand-knit sweaters and scarves.
14. People watching and silent crowds.
15. Dancing in front of the mirror.
16. Coordinating outfits.
17. Blush and lipstain.
18. Caffeine affected heartbeats.
19. Sleep, dreams, and dreaming.
20. Watching people cook.
21. De-shedding fur and plucking hairs.
22. Dictionaries and thesauruses.

Book Cover Scavenger Hunt

Find a book with the listed item on the cover and read it!

Rules:

1. The physical copy of the book being read must have the image on the cover. 
2. Must be a book you have not read before.
3. A book cannot fill more than one category.
4. Book must be approved by the other participants of this game.
5. A book cannot be read by another participate, regardless of whether it is to fill another category.

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Category - Title, Author (Date Completed)

Serialized Shows

Currently Watching

• White Collar
• Franklin & Bash
• Suits
• Project Runway
• 黒子のバスケ / Kuroko no Basuke / "The Basketball which Kuroko Plays"

Waiting to Watch

• Elementary (Premier)
• Dexter (Season 7)
• Downton Abbey (Series 3)
• Sherlock (Series 3)

Furniture Wish List

CB2 Graph Desk - $299

Bright white. Spacious. Powder-coated steel! Peek-a-boo of natural wood. Just enough storage asymmetrically located <3

Artecnica Garland Light by Tord Boontje (White) - $75

Ethereal and whimsical, organic yet precise. Laser. Metal. White. Light. How mesmerizing?

Tolix Marais A chair by Xavier Pauchard (Vermillion) - $250

Painted steel? Like I could resist...

Case Study v-leg bed (natural queen) - $1,455

Sleek, modern & minimal. Low to the ground but the Roomba can still get underneath.

Waldilla naturally curved Hardwood Flooring - $??

Whimsical, organic and little bit "fun-house."

Malin Kallman Darwin Bookcase - $??

The desire to climb on furniture never seemed more sane.

Kartell Philippe Stark Louis Ghost Chair (Transparent) - $410

Plastic fantastic in a 16th century silhouette.

Ikea Poang by Noboru Nakamura (Birch & Dala natural) - $119

Seemingly breakable by the weight of a fat man, the sleek curvature of its back is so affordably sexy.

Herman Miller Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair/ LCW (Ash) - $679

A sculpture disguised as a chair! How brilliant.

Herman Miller Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman (Cherry & Black Leather) - $3,899

You know you've made it when you have one of these welcoming you home.