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List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed

List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed
05. Throw out all the clutter in the house

List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed
05. Throw out all the clutter in the house
06. Replace the toilet seat in my bathroom

List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed
05. Throw out all the clutter in the house
06. Replace the toilet seat in my bathroom
07. Use my meat smoker for the first time.
08. Loose 10kg

List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed
05. Throw out all the clutter in the house
06. Replace the toilet seat in my bathroom
07. Use my meat smoker for the first time.
08. Loose 10kg
09. Stop using Facebook

List 10 things you are determined to get done this summer but probably won't.


01. island hopping
02. 4 City tours in 2 weeks...
03. Getting the carpet cleaned
04. Getting the dishwasher installed
05. Throw out all the clutter in the house
06. Replace the toilet seat in my bathroom
07. Use my meat smoker for the first time.
08. Loose 10kg
09. Stop using Facebook
10. Get a new tattoo


List 12 of your favorite things about Autumn.

List 12 of your favorite things about Autumn.

1. leaf colors

List 12 of your favourite things about autumn.

1. Leaf colours.
2. It's not winter.

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

1. Leaf colors.
2. It's not winter.
3. Rain

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

1. Leaf colors.
2. It's not winter.
3. Rain
4. I appreciate every last warm day

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)
08. The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, just perfect!

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)
08. The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, just perfect!
09. Sitting on my balcony with a cup of coffee and a book. West facing so the summer tends to be too hot to stay out very long.

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)
08. The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, just perfect!
09. Sitting on my balcony with a cup of coffee and a book. West facing so the summer tends to be too hot to stay out very long.
10. The World Series is played

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)
08. The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, just perfect!
09. Sitting on my balcony with a cup of coffee and a book. West facing so the summer tends to be too hot to stay out very long.
10. The World Series is played
11. Hiking

List 12 of your favorite things about autumn.

01. Leaf colors.
02. It's not winter.
03. Rain
04. I appreciate every last warm day
05. The Wind(s)
06. Bonfires
07. Football Season (American)
08. The weather is neither too hot nor too cold, just perfect!
09. Sitting on my balcony with a cup of coffee and a book. West facing so the summer tends to be too hot to stay out very long.
10. The World Series is played
11. Hiking
12. Back to school for the kids.

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
03. The Luminaries -by- Eleanor Catton

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
03. The Luminaries -by- Eleanor Catton
04. Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
03. The Luminaries -by- Eleanor Catton
04. Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
05. Becoming by Michelle Obama

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
03. The Luminaries -by- Eleanor Catton
04. Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
05. Becoming by Michelle Obama
06. Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year.

01. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02. Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
03. The Luminaries -by- Eleanor Catton
04. Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
05. Becoming by Michelle Obama
06. Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
07. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley

Ted, I've read some on your list - loved The Luminaries, related to it particularly because I grew up in New Zealand, and it's setting in Hokitika was/is familiar to me.
Yes to Michelle Obama's "Becoming." I'll also what I can do to read the others before the end of year.
Cheers.

Ted wrote: "Please list 7 books you are looking forward to reading before the end of the year."

@Ted, you completed the list, now you can start a new list. If Ted doesn't step up, anyone else is welcome to begin a new list.

@Carolyn, We all add one line to each list until it is completed. Since Ted completed the last list, he should start a new one, or you can since he failed to.

Carolyn wrote: "Ted, I've read some on your list - loved The Luminaries, related to it particularly because I grew up in New Zealand, and it's setting in Hokitika was/is familiar to me.
Yes to Michelle Obama's "Be..."

i added L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between. the preceding books were listed by other posters before me. but i'm a fan of authors Daphne Clair and Susan Napier who are both from new zealand.

Robert wrote: "@Ted, you completed the list, now you can start a new list. If Ted doesn't step up, anyone else is w..."

i hadn't noticed the 'list 7' part of the instruction. lol. i was thinking of another game, list 10.

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women is a spy novel?! o_0
Of course, That's why Jo was always writing... it was code!

Robert wrote: "Little Women is a spy novel?! o_0
Of course, That's why Jo was always writing... it was code!"

LOL. perhaps those women were spying on one another out of boredom? no tv, radio, movies or internet athat time. what would you do?

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
?# The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
7. The Key to Rebecca based upon the book by Ken Follett

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
7. The Key to Rebecca based upon the book by Ken Follett
8. Three Days of the Condor based on Six Days of the Condor by James Grady

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
7. The Key to Rebecca based upon the book by Ken Follett
8. Three Days of the Condor based on Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
9. No Way Out based upon The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing

Robert wrote: "Little Women is a spy novel?! o_0
Of course, That's why Jo was always writing... it was code!"

LOL Ummmmm....I guess I only read the movie based on a book part!!

Karen M wrote: "LOL Ummmmm....I guess I only read the movie based on a book part!!"

That's ok Karen, how about you finish off this list and start a new one! ;-)

List 10 films based on spy novels

1. The Night Manager based on The Night Manager by John le Carré
2. Gorky Park based upon the book by Martin Cruz Smith
3. Little Women based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Deadly Affair based on Call for the Dead by John le Carré
5. Firefox based upon Firefox by Craig Thomas
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
7. The Key to Rebecca based upon the book by Ken Follett
8. Three Days of the Condor based on Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
9. No Way Out based upon The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
10.The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan

List 8 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

List 8 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

1. The Little Match Girl

List 8 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

1. The Little Match Girl
2. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

List 8 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

1. The Little Match Girl
2. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
3. The Haunted Tea-Cosy by Edward Gorey

List 8 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

1. The Little Match Girl
2. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
3. The Haunted Tea-Cosy by Edward Gorey
4. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

List 5 of your favorite Christmas books themed books.

1. The Little Match Girl
2. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
3. The Haunted Tea-Cosy by Edward Gorey
4. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
5. 12 Terrors of Christmas by John Updike


Let's start a new list... Please list 10 books you on your To-Read shelf that you are most looking forward to reading this year.

Please list 10 books you on your To-Read shelf that you are most looking forward to reading this year.

1. ready player one by Ernest cline

Please list 10 books you on your To-Read shelf that you are most looking forward to reading this year.

1. ready player one by Ernest cline
2.41 Reasons I'm Staying In: A Celebration of Introverts by Hallie Heald

Please list 10 books you on your To-Read shelf that you are most looking forward to reading this year.

1. ready player one by Ernest cline
2.41 Reasons I'm Staying In: A Celebration of Introverts by Hallie Heald
3. Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Please list 10 books you on your To-Read shelf that you are most looking forward to reading this year.

1. ready player one by Ernest cline
2.41 Reasons I'm Staying In: A Celebration of Introverts by Hallie Heald
3. Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4. Just Kids by Patti Smith