First day of exams, last day of Drama + 16 818 pages

Today was officially my last day of high school Drama ever.  I'm still not sure whether it's hit me yet, I keep thinking I'll go back after exams and still have shows to work on.  But now it's only Zombie Prom.  Speaking of which, the show's going to be fantastic.  We got the script about a week ago, and I think it may be the best we've done since Seussical.  The past two shows have been... iffy.  Not that I didn't enjoy working on them, but they definitely weren't as strong as Ahrens & Flaherty.

But I digress.  This year was probably the most fun I've ever had in Drama, and even though at times it was horrendously stressful, I will miss it.  After working with the same core group of people for so long, you do end up at least tolerating each other.  Yep, that's what it is, I tolerate them.  Absolutely kidding.  I love them.

So that's that, then.  Art exam on Monday (apparently, part of the exam has to do with us drawing something from a prompt or quote, which is... different, but I'm pretty curious!), and then Challenge & Change Tuesday.  I feel like I'm not going to be ready, but I'm sure I actually will be.  Hopefully.

And on a completely unrelated note, I decided to do something.

Because I feel the need to make myself do things, instead of just sitting around and thinking all the time, I’ve decided to make one of my resolutions for this year (4. Get caught up in a good book more often) into a challenge.  Essentially, I've picked out fifty books that I've either always wanted to read but haven't, or recently discovered because I spend an exhorbitant amount of time on the Indigo website (and I regret nothing!).  I haven’t figured out what my prize to myself is going to be if I can manage all this (A NEW COAT), but maybe I can get Mum involved in a competition-type thing, and we’ll sort something out.  I’ve no idea :P

So, here’s the complete list:

1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts – Douglas Adams (832 pages)
2. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (318 pages)
3. The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz (304 pages)
4. The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje (288 pages)
5. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett (416 pages)
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery (325 pages)
7. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd (336 pages)
8. My Dear Watson – Margaret Park Bridges (234 pages)
9. Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gaiman (368 pages)
10. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (336 pages)
11. Shine – Lauren Myracle (376 pags)
12. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (352 pages)
13. Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson (368 pages)
14. A Mad Desire to Dance – Elie Wiesel (288 pages)
15. One Generation After – Elie Wiesel (224 pages)
16. The Story of Mankind – Hendrik Willem Van Loon (552 pages)
17. The Dead Witness – Michael Sims (608 pages)
18. As Simple As Snow – Gregory Galloway (320 pages)
19. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection – Michael Chabon (160 pages)
20. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – E.W. Hornung (176 pages)
21. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King (384 pages)
22. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay (320 pages)
23. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster (272 pages)
24. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (560 pages)
25. Rules of Civility – Amor Towles (352 pages)
26. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (320 pages)
27. Maggie-Now – Betty Smith (368 pages)
28. The Rag and Bone Shop – Robert Cormier (154 pages)
29. Ideas of Heaven – Joan J.R. Silber (224 pages)
30. The Name of the Star – Maureen Johnson (384 pages)
31. Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher (304 pages)
32. Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life – Gretchen Rubin (336 pages)
33. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky (224 pages)
34. Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell (228 pages)
35. The Universe in a Nutshell – Stephen Hawking (224 pages)
36. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (240 pages)
37. Dust and Shadow – Lyndsay Faye (336 pages)
38. The Sherlockian – Graham Moore (368 pages)
39. A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood (186 pages)
40. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John LeCarré (400 pages)
41. Tree of Codes – Jonathan Safran Foer (285 pages)
42. The Minds of Billy Milligan – Daniel Keyes (448 pages)
43. The Little Shadows – Marina Endicott (544 pages)
44. The Memory Palace: A Memoir – Mira Bartok (336 pages)
45. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (256 pages)
46. A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash – Sylvia Nasar (464 pages)
47. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain (352 pages)
48. My Week With Marilyn – Colin Clark (160 pages)
49. Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way – Bill Bryson (272 pages)
50. The Paris Wife – Paula McLain (336 pages)

Date Started: January the 26th, 2012

Pages completed: 0/16 818

I won't be keeping as documented a list on here as I will on tumblr, but whenever I update, I'll leave the number of pages I've read at the end of the post.  A lot less work than having to edit the list in two places, plus tumblr is easier to manage in regards to making changes.

I'm pretty excited to start, I'm actually almost finished one of the books already, and I suppose we'll see how this all pans out.