To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us

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	To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us Sasha Cagen Fireside, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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What Do Your Lists Say About You?

More and more, we are a nation of list-makers, from grocery lists, New Year's resolutions, and things to do before we die to DVDs to rent and people we've kissed. In To-Do List (based on the popular blog of the same name, todolistblog.com) Sasha Cagen celebrates the humble to-do list, exploring the ways these scribbled agendas reflect our personalities and passions.

To-Do List is both a celebration of lists and a peek at the lists that others create. Broken down by subjects like "Daily Lists" to "Sex Lists," it's a fascinating collection of lists from everyday people to the well-known:

Novelist Nick Hornby's list of desert island discs

A therapist's secret fears ("I HATE having to think about clients in relation to my hair or clothes")

A shopping list from chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse

A woman's accomplishments before her thirtieth birthday ("Hot air ballooned over the Serengeti," "Danced on a table in Vegas")

Qualities one man is looking for in a future wife, including "Chews with her mouth shut" and "Will let me give my first son the middle name of 'Jacob'"

With each list, Cagen offers the story behind it and a prompt for readers to compare notes and take their own stab at a similar list.

Voyeuristic and interactive, To-Do List will show you just how much -- and what -- your lists say about you.

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A List of 10 Reasons To Read This Book:
1. A voyeuristic slice into the scribbled lives of "the listmakers of America (and the world)" and the items on their minds
2. An entertaining collection of hand-written (on whatever paper was handy at the time) to-do lists from 100 real-live listmakers
3. Revealing, insightful, or just plain interesting commentary on each list (by the original listmaker)
4. The challenge of deciphering the listmaker's (unedited!) scribbles, which in some cases are decorated with fun doodles and unintended(?)/unidentifiable spills
5. Insight into the power of list-making--from helping us feel a bit of control in an otherwise-unlistable, chaotic world to giving words to the (often nagging) mumbo-jumbo circulating our minds
6. Endless DIY list ideas for creating your own lists, including "Places Where I Would Like To Get Frisky" "Foods I Want to Try" "My Qualities That Someone Else Will Appreciate" "A Sexual To-Do List for My Partner" "Thoughts to Remove from My Head" and "Ten Reasons to Be Happy Today"
7. "Garret Love" (a new standard of love line-by-line'd on p. 118)
8. Sasha's clever one-line comments following each list
9. Validation that you are not alone in your list-making obsession, uh, I mean tendency
10. Being able to cross off one item in your "Books to Read" list upon completion of this book

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Excellent

I am glad I purchased this book it helped me get my life organized on a daily basis by listing things to do, and I accomplished the best I can!

Intriguing

It's a different kind of reading to me but it's really cool how you get an insight into other peoples fears, hopes, whatever...all through their lists.
the author does a fantastic job in making her points clear.

Learn how to write to-do list.

Easy to read, and very colorful.
you can see how people organize and write things on a piece of paper.
Also you can see how different people do.

Not at the top of my to-do list, I'm afraid

I was kind of disappointed, I was expecting something more along the lines of the universality of Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World or PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, but it was not nearly so satisying. There were fewer lists and a lot of narration from the author and background information about the creators of the lists...sometimes too much information to make them likeable, and sometimes just plain voyeuristic without any emotional impact. I wished the lists were allowed to stand on their own a little more. Some folks may enjoy it, in fact, the things I disliked may be the very things someone else would like, but it wasn't my cup of tea and I wished I had looked at it before buying it.

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