Oh what a day and perhaps it must be uttered, what a life so far. I have entered the last year of my twenties, yesterday I celebrated my 29th new year of life, I am one year before 30. Many things have changed over my entire life while significant changes continue to happen each year. I became a vegetarian, found myself as runner and have generally mad peace with and settled into a life with my great love and bestest of all friends, my dear wife Emily.

So what did I do with my birthday? The sam as most years yet no cheesecake at Futures Bakery this year. Emily took me bookshopping and I got a large haul, 28 books in total.

No superbowl party this year, quiter evening, few people came over, some good cheer, good smoke and good food with a great game and the day and evening were perfect. It snowed, mostly lightly all weekend and it was nice to see snow on my birthday.

In all I look forward to the last year of my twenties, it feels more and more that I am becoming who I am, that I have accepted myself and am ready for the world.

Here are the books I got and will be reading this year:

Mr Funny -Roger Hargreaves

Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami

After the Quake - Haruki Murakami

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

The Essential Gandhi - Mahatma Gandhi

East, West - Salman Rushdie

On Living and Dying - Jiddu Krishnamurthi

One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam

A Happy Death - Albert Camus

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Radio Free Albemuth - Phllip K Dick

The Age of Reason - Jean Paul Satre

Cocksure - Mordecai Richler

The BFG - Roald Dahl

The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

Payback: The Shadow Side of Debt and Wealth - Margaret Atwood

The Upanishads - Swami Prabhavananda

The Plague - Albert Camus

The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie

The First Man - Albert Camus

The Wall - Jean Paul Sartre

Introducing Quantum Theory

The Witches - Roald Dahl

Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins