Reading List

I have compiled what I have read and what I will be reading.

Read 2011

Alices Adventures In Wonder Land
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
American Gods
Black Powder War
Booky Wook Two
Business Stripped Bare
Casanova
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
The Colour of Magic
Coram Boy
The Drawing of the Three
Don Juan
Dorian Grey
Dracula
Empire of Ivory
Freedom From the Known
Green Mile
The Gunslinger
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Life Under The Jolly Rodger
The Light Fantastic
Lord of the Flies
The Ode Less Traveled
The Prelude
Paradise Lost
The Rules of Work
The Secret Garden
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A Study in Scarlet
Temeraire
Throne of Jade
Through the Looking Glass
Victory of Eagles
Wake Up and Change Your Life

As well as Oscar Wilde's short stories, the complete works of Lord Byron and the complete works of William Ernest Henley is what I can remember.

I tried to read a book a week, but in the words of Bruce Lee, "A goal is not always something to be reached; it often serves as something to aim at." I am sure I will add to that list this year anyway.

To Read

The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes
William Wordsworth Major Works
The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Chronicles of Conan
The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The War of the Worlds
The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man
In The Days of the Comet
Men Like Gods
The Sleeper Awakest
The War in the Air
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion and Lady Susan
The Great Gatsby
Howl's Moving Castle
Castle in the Air
House of Many Ways
The Devine Comedy
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Mysterious Wisdom
Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
Iliad
The Odyssey
Collecting Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon
Round the Moon
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island

As well as the rest of the Disc World series and the Dark Tower series, plus what ever else I feel like. This isn't to be read in a year by the way. Or is it... I'm going to give it a go.

Stephen Fry describes it as a mountain goat jumping from crag to crag, or a butterfly going from flower to flower. By I like how Terry Pratchett put it, I'm going to get my self an education.

Good Impression

Video 4 - The Literary Pursuit

Between the time I recorded this video and when it uploaded, I question it's necessity. But since I typed that sentence I have reassured myself. What I didn't make clear, was that at the moment, with my real job, I am currently working 5 evenings a week, all day Sunday and get Saturday off.

In a nut shell I can't get out to do open mic nights. Poor excuse I know but I'm sticking to it.

But what I've been left with is an exorbitant amount of time during the day. I currently read a lot already and so the original hesitation of the necessity of the post. But what is the point of the blog if you can't be self-indulgent.

What I am to do then is post updates of what I have read or reading.

Wasn't that hard really.

Winter Wonder Land

I was sworn at buy santa on the way home.

Black Garden Tattoo

I'm giving a shout out to Black Garden Tattoo. Currently I'm fortunate enough to be getting tattooed by one of London's finest artists, Tutti Serra. The man is a gentleman and a fine ambassador of his craft. More people need to know about the professionalism that sadly isn't offered by all Tattoo shops.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Garden-Tattoo/170573999644129

Also a shout out to Cult Classic Tattoo, to Mike Wall that has tattooed me in the past.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cult-classic-tattoo/122019483888

And to Nick Horn who now works in Good Times Tattoo.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Good-Times-Tattoo/114140011731

Secret of The Sphinx

A black halo of swarming moths crowns him,
Wretched from the forest , his pupils dilate.
The lights welcome dispels the ensemble.
Staggering to his feet, he rises to fate.

Huginn and Muninn perched on each shoulder,
Whispering secrets courtesy of the Sphinx.
His linage, the bastard son of Loki.
His Destiny, to dethrone Dionysis.

Jack Greengrass