I’m not really a fan of the ‘bucket list’. I find them a bit depressing. Although I don’t have a bucket-list per se, I do have a list of things I wouldn’t mind doing if time and money were no object. As it happens, I crossed one thing off my wish list a few years ago, when I went to Vegas with a friend to see Barry Manilow in cabaret. It was everything I’d hoped (because music and passion are always the fashion).
The Broke and the Bookish have asked readers to nominate their bookish bucket list. I thought I’d play along because there are a few bookish things on my wish list.
9 & 10. Actually get organised and do my (talked about) bookish projects – book swapping as an event that includes gin cocktails and a cookbook book group.
8. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy – still haven’t done it
7. Empire Falls by Richard Russo – see above (with added weight of Rory’s recommendation).
6. Complete my collection of Sweet Dreams and Sweet Valley High books (not all the books – they kept publishing long after I was over them but there’s a lot of happy reading memories tied up in those soppy stories).
5. Meet Judy Blume.
4. To have a pool* that resembles any of the pools in my coffee-table pool books.
3. Go on a John-Irving-inspired tour (of the world) – my visit to Maine was Irving-prompted but a thorough Irving trip would naturally go further than New England… to Vienna.
2. Meet my book-blogging friends from distant parts of Australia and overseas (you know who you are).
1. Read ALL THE BOOKS – see this post for what prompted this ridiculousness.
* Realise that I’m really stretching the topic with that one.
We will meet eventually and there will be gin and chocolate cake. If you manage to get one of those pools it may be sooner rather than later. Colorado is notoriously dry (few rivers, no lakes, lots of fires) and our soil has too much clay (and our winter is too harsh and long) to install pools. So my vacations consist of going where water is. I’ll be in the Outer Banks, North Carolina this summer (yay!).
Needless to say, I want to go to Vienna too. I was born and raised in New England, so I feel like I have every nook and cranny of that area explored.
We will and there will be ALL THE GIN and ALL THE CAKE. There is most certainly a pool in my future (when I can also afford someone to look after it…).
I went to Vienna many, many years ago (before I had read any Irving) so fairly sure it doesn’t count.
It counts, but your destinations would be different this time around.
I will leave wherever we are 5 pounds heavier and much happier. I LOVE the sun, it’s a shame the sun isn’t so loving back.
I’d love to meet everyone too! It’s crazy how many lovely and fantastic people I’ve gotten to know online and meeting in person would just be epic.
I have to admit – a little jealous of your Manilow experience!
Not many people would admit to being jealous of my Manilow experience… You must be an ace person 😉
I’d love to meet more bloggers too. I’ve met some! But not nearly enough! Great goals 🙂
I’ve met some people who I ‘know’ via Twitter, but yet to meet a blogger. It will happen!
I would love to meet my blogger friends + any book bloggers too! 😀
TTT: Bookish Bucket List
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I still need to read Empire Falls, too! I used to own a copy and then donated it because I had no idea it was such a good book (this was pre-blogging). Now I wish I still had it! I love how this is a Top Ten Tuesday. You may want to link up to the original Bookish Bucket List, too!
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