Sunday, December 16, 2012

Time

Time, as defined by a google search of define: time, is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Time is something I always have too much of yet never have enough of at the exact same ... time.  It blows my mind how that works.


Over the course of a day, it frequently seems that time is achingly slow.  However when it comes time to go to sleep, I always have so much left to accomplish.  When it comes time to wake up, it rarely feels as if I have spent enough time asleep.

Where am I going with this?  I'm not sure.  I want to be writing about the Christmas season and my feelings regarding the current state of the world ... but all of those posts seem to take an inordinate amount of time to formulate and put into words.  

This year, I am on track to complete my New Year's Resolutions, which took an inordinately large amount of time.  In 2012, I will have completed every single USAToday crossword puzzle.  In 2012, I will have read 52 novels (I'll actually probably pass it by about 3 or 4 if I finish everything I'm currently reading).  Hopefully, later I'll give a more complete rundown of my favorites, but for now, I'll simply list them below.  Completing these has given me the chutzpah to come up with some very lofty goals for the new year.  I'll reveal those in due time, but rest assured, they involve time.



(books listed in reverse order, Dec - Jan)

Currently Reading:
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
King of Hearts by Wayne G Miller
Micro by Michael Crichton


Finished:
National Security by Marc Cameron
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Artic Fire by Stephen Frey
Placebo by Steven James
Reached by Ally Condie
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Death Benefit by Robin Cook
12.21 by Dustin Thomason
The Racketeer by John Grisham
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Third Gate by Lincoln Child
Fifty Shades of Gray by E L James
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
Black List by Brad Thor
Crossed by Ally Condie
Fifty Shades Freed by E L James
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Wheat Belly by William Davis
The Innocent by David Baldacci
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
Tempted by PC Cast
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fifty Shades Darker by E L James
The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe
Burned by PC Cast
Intern by Sandeep Jauhar
Awakened by PC Cast
The Exile by Andrew Britton
Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillippa Gregory
The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
Hoodwinked by John Perkins
Matched by Ally Condie
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Destined by PC Cast
County by David Ansell