Welcome to our blog.

This was our original purpose for creating this blog:

We are both baby boomers fast approaching sixty. This blog will chronicle the time leading up to reaching our significant day. Our mutual goal is to complete sixty specific tasks each by our 60th birthdays, and to both celebrate our experiences and our accomplishments.

We are "the fabled tortoise" in this effort. Our blog will begin with a slow start, so we ask for your patience. We are aiming for a strong finish, so we ask for your encouragement. We invite you to join us on our journey, laugh and cry with us, and celebrate with us. We encourage you to leave us your comments and feedback. Most of all, we hope you become inspired to perhaps create and complete your very own "___ by ___ list."

We borrowed this idea from a blog one of our nieces told us about: http://makingitlovely.com . The author is working on her list of "30 Before Thirty."

As we progressed we continued to reflect on the process and the progress:

We would like to make a point of clarification. Because we did not begin our endeavor until April that left us both with less than a year to complete all 60 tasks on each of our lists. Actually, JR has about four months and CEA has about seven months. For that reason we agreed that we would both use CEA's birthday so that we both have the same amount of time to complete our tasks.

Now we are both 60 and moving forward. We have decided to continue the blog, setting goals and celebrating our accomplishments, sharing our experiences and voicing our thoughts, and enjoying life by making the most of every day with which we are blessed.

Monday, August 23, 2010

JR’s List Item #28 – (August report) Listen to at least three audio books a month until my 60th birthday.

August listening selections:

Lian Hearn's the Otori Trilogy was my choice for this month.  These books have been in my audio library for several years, so I decided to make them this month's book selections.  The Otori trilogy is a saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan centering around the hero and heroine, Takeo and Kaede.  I liked the way the books are written through the perspectives and voices of these two characters.  The audios used two narrators, Kevin Gray and Aiko Nakasone, which enhances the author's storytelling approach.  Imaginative and engrossing.  Great!
  • Across the Nightingale Floor:  Tales of the Otori, Book 1
  • Grass for His Pillow:  Tales of the Otori, Book 2
  • Brilliance of the Moon:  Tales of the Otori, Book 3
I am now listening to the Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, his second book in his three book series.  I am really enjoying this one as much as the first one.  While each book seems to have its own murder mystery, there is also the personal story of Lizbeth Salander that weaves its way through all the mysteries and the books.  I understand why these books have been so popular.

NOTE:  Officially, my 60th birthday has come and gone, but I have decided to continue sharing my audio selections through CEA's birth month.
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2 comments:

The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

Ooh! I read the first of the Otori series when it was first published and loved the book, but forgot to watch for the rest of the trilogy. I will order the other two!

August 24, 2010 at 9:36 PM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

Maybe reread the first one...

August 25, 2010 at 8:32 AM

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