Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dream a little dream: my wish list for the next 2 years

In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I was able find most of the books in my to be read list online.  I am now posting the list of books that I have yet to find as part of my wish list (hint*hint*ahem*ahem)
Wish List

1. A Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
2. Against the Day by Thomas  Pynchon
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Austerlitz  by W.G. Sebald
5. Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
6. Empire of the Sun  by J.G. Ballard
7. Life of Pi  by Yann Martel
8. Nostromo  by Joseph Conrad
9. On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza
10. Remembrance of Things Past  by Marcel Proust
11. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert  Selby Jr.
12. The Accidental by Ali Smith
13. The Bell  by Iris Murdoch
14. The Book of Daniel  by E.L. Doctorow
15. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting  by Milan Kundera
16. The Grapes of Wrath  by John Steinbeck
17. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
18. The Human Stain  by Philip Roth
19. The Melancholy of Resistance  by László Krasznahorkai
20. The Plague  by Albert Camus
21. The Portrait of a Lady  by Henry James
22. The Sea  by John Banville
23. The Sun Also Rises  by Ernest Hemingway
24. The Talented Mr. Ripley  by Patricia Highsmith
25. Vertigo  by W.G. Sebald
Of course my wish list would not be complete without some shooting for the stars entries:
26.  Kindle (or an Ipad...hehehe)
27. Asian tour for two (hint hint ahem ahem...hahaha)
28. Shopping trip in HK or Thailand (hehehe)
29. 24" (or higher) flat screen TV
30. Macbook or a pink Sony Vaio
31. Xperia X10

Ok ok, I know the last items in my list are pushing it but there's nothing wrong with dreaming big, right? It may be out there but I won't go as far as to say that it's out of the picture (hehehe)

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