Pottertober, NaNoWriMo and Decembookathon

My life has been lacking a lot of motivation to do things; I don't finish reading books and I haven't been producing all really great things from my outlets of creativity as often as I feel like I should be. So I've been suddenly inspired to go out of this year with a bang, at least to what I call a 'bang'.

There may be only a couple of weeks left of October, but I know in the past I managed to read HP and the Order of the Phoenix in a matter of a few small days. Since the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be out in under a month, all of the rest of this October will be devoted to going through the whole of the series (though I may stop at about half way through DH because, even though I know how it ends, it can't hurt to not spoil it for me.. haha).

All of November will be dedicated to NaNoWriMo (also known as National Novel Writing Month). Whilst I'm not entirely the best novelist, in fact I have never written anything longer than a two or three page story, I think next month will be a good start.

Following on from November, December will be dedicated solely to reading, and finishing, books. Some of you avid followers of my blog may recall a post I blogged late last year in which I wanted to read a whole bunch of books before the end of the year was out. Unfortunately I only ended up finishing one of them, so I will persist to finish a whole bunch of books. Some of the books from that list I have purchased over the past year, but haven't finished, so I may tweak the list a little bit.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Black by Ted Dekker
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Jumper by Steven Gould

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'engle

Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
What's So Amazing About Grace? by Phillip Yancey

If anyone has more suggestions of books I should add to this list, leave a comment. =]