• turn 30
• move to a new city
• read 35 books
• write a novel
• lose 40lb
• read a book in French
• make a new friend

• author
• art historian
• prose poet
• philharmonic orchestra groupie
• academic librarian
• tombstone tourist
• blogger
• amateur ballerina
• tiramisu taste tester

• the count of monte cristo
• tender is the night
• pale fire
• we have always lived in the castle
• anna karenina
• the book of margery kempe
• the gilded butterfly effect
• uncharmed
• katabasis
• god didn't make us to hate us
• short stories in french for beginners
• the glimpses of the moon
• the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic
• from new york, with love
• a tomb with a view - the stories & glories of graveyards
• the private lives of saints
• when women ran fifth avenue
• the goldfinch
• rouge
• my cousin rachel

• write a novel
• become fluent in French
• see an opera at the Met
• make a living from writing
• study art history
• read the Bible
• move to Oxford or London
• work as an academic librarian
• get a master's degree
• rescue a pet
• study at Oxford or Cambridge
• publish my writing
• read a book in a second language

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Peggy
• Cornelia
• Ruby
• Nancy
• Lark
• Amber

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• Henry
• Jasper
• Theodore
• Shiloh
• Edmund
• Sasha