52 Lists: Week 20

Confession time - I had to go back through my posts to determine what week of lists I actually left off on.  Oops! Let's skip over that part, and move on shall we? Anyway, as I was thinking today of what type of list I should write, I got kind of a cool-strange idea for a list.  

I realized I do a lot of things because of books (and articles, blogs, plays, etc.) I read a lot and because of this I get all sorts of crazy ideas in my head.  I'm sure (I hope!) we all do this, but the post started writing itself in my head and thought it would be fun.  So today's list topic is:

I like...... because.....

~ I have this weird obsession with the tiny country of Bhutan because of the book "Radio Shangri-La." I so want to travel there one day and all I basically know about it is what I've read in this book.

~ I plan to see the musical Cats when it opens at the end of this month because I read an article that said every good Broadway fan should see Cats - even though I'm fairly certain I'll hate it.

~ I really wanted to travel to Edinburgh Scotland because I had read the 44 Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith and fell in love with the city.  (For the record, that totally worked in my favor because Edinburgh is just plain beautiful.)

~ I have this picture of all British villages being idyllic full of eccentric and lovely people because of every single book by Jenny Colgan.  (I was pretty much in heaven in the Cotswolds but annoyed that I didn't meet a lonely British farmer/bee-keeper/baker/solicitor that fell head over the heels for me as soon as he saw me.  Jenny's books have taught me that happens quite often.)

~ I believe that it's perfectly financially viable to buy a fixer upper in Provence or take 2 years off to sail around the Caribbean because of "A Year in Provence" and "The Spice Necklace."

~ For a while I had visions of living in a boarding house in San Francisco because of "The Tales of the City." I even planned to have a pot-smoking landlord just like Anna Madrigal.

~ I decided to never own a dog because of "Marley & Me." I couldn't stop sobbing at the end of life of a dog I was just reading about.  I'm fairly certain I would require anti-depressants to deal with that with a real dog.

~ My current dream job is cookbook editor and archivist in Manhattan because of "Delicious!"

~ I started trying everything I was offered because of "A Cook's Tour." "A Cook's Tour" is also the reason I want to try Durian and maybe Fugu (if I can get past the possibly deadly part...)

~ I visited Paris because of every book I've ever read having to do with people traveling to Paris.  I now know I could never (NEVER!) live there because of every book I've ever read having to do with people moving to Paris.

~ I'm sort of ok with my awkwardness, since it's not just me because of "Are People Hanging out without Me?"  Mindy Kaling is the much more glamorous version of me if her books are to be believed.  I thought I was the only one that had such random fears : )

~ I've decided that it's not a crime to just be nice and want other people to be nice, and it's possible to be nice and funny at the same time because of "Yes, Please."