Twelve for Twelve

1. Books to Read (from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die):
1. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
2. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
4. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
5. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
6. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
7. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut 01/03/12
8. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
9. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 1-13-12
10. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk 01/08/12
11. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
12. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
13. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
14. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 5-13-12
15. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
16. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
17. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
18. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
19. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
20. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel 01/05/12
21. Beloved – Toni Morrison
22. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis 02/12/12
23. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
24. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
25. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
26. Perfume – Patrick Süskind 05-13-12

2. Movies to Watch (from the list of movies that won Best Picture):
1. 1959 - "Ben-Hur"
2. 1952 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
3. 1951 - "An American in Paris"
4. 1969 - "Midnight Cowboy" 04/09/12
5. 1971 - "The French Connection" 01/12/12
6. 2009 - "The Hurt Locker" 02/29/12
7. 2010 - "The King's Speech"
8. 1985 - "Out of Africa"
9. 1984 - "Amadeus"
10. 1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
11. 1978 - "The Deer Hunter"
12. 1949 - "All the Kings Men"

3. Ride a camel in the Sahara (Morocco) 03/18/12
4. Get hennaed Removed from list and replaced with HAMMAM experience (Morocco) 3-20-12
5. Dance on the bar at Coyote Ugly (At NFR 2012)
6. Drink Absinthe in Paris  Replaced with Buy a random person a baby gift from their Amazon wish list. April 9. 2012
7. See a solar eclipse
8. Plant a vegetable garden and learn how to can using a pressure cooker
9. Donate platelets once a month for a year. Replaced with Donate to kiva.org 1-18-12
10. Spend 3 months getting my body in optimum shape
11. Rollerblade
12. Learn Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance