Monday, February 04, 2008

Reading around the world in 8 or so years

So, I have decided to join Tonya in her quest to read herself around the world.

So, here is my list (I have read a few from her "already read" list, so in order to facilitate things, I copied that from her):

Ecuador - Living Poor

Austria - A Death In Vienna

Ireland - Angela's Ashes and The Celtic Riddle

Russia - A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

The United States - As I Lay Dying or Angle of Repose

China - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Australia - Mutant Message Down Under

Republic of Lebanon - Little Mountain

Brazil - A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions


Have a great suggestion or two? Leave a comment!

The working list of countries (from wikipedia):

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

  • Flag of Haiti Haiti – Republic of Haiti
  • Flag of Honduras Honduras – Republic of Honduras
  • Flag of Hong Kong Hong Kong – Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)
  • Flag of Hungary Hungary – Republic of Hungary

I

J

K

L

  • Flag of Laos Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Flag of Latvia Latvia – Republic of Latvia
  • Flag of Lesotho Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho
  • Flag of Liberia Liberia – Republic of Liberia
  • Flag of Libya Libya – Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Flag of Liechtenstein Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein
  • Flag of Lithuania Lithuania – Republic of Lithuania
  • Flag of Luxembourg Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

M

N

O

  • Flag of Oman Oman – Sultanate of Oman

P

Q

  • Flag of Qatar Qatar – State of Qatar

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

  • Flag of Yemen Yemen – Republic of Yemen

Z

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Hey, just thought you might like to know

Posting a very innocent picture of your feet on flickr may bring out all sorts of foot fetishists out from the proverbial woodwork.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Oh dear, the countdown has begun

For Eurovision 2008 Belgrade.

Not much has been uploaded to the site yet, most of the countries are having their "contests" through the end of March.

I can't believe I set my Google calendar with weekly reminders to check for updates.

I can be such a dork.