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

ISBN13: 9781135771331
ISBN10: 1135771332
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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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Order one today for yourself or as a gift and send the email receipt to todolistblog at gmail.com to enter yourself in a raffle. You could win a limited edition copy of To-Do List magazine number three, where this project (and quirkyalone) got started.

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: PETER TEIMAN CLARK, November 19, 2007 (view all comments by PETER TEIMAN CLARK)
Hi,PETER TEIMAN CLARK here,
A look how list control and change our lives.
Thanks,
PETER TEIMAN CLARK
Sweden

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: sashac, November 15, 2007 (view all comments by sashac)
Hey there! Thanks for sending your list! I interviewed the 100 people whose lists are featured in the book to get the "story behind it"--what was going on in their lives at the moment they were writing it. So if I didn't contact you for this it's not in the book.

There may very well be more to-do list projects so please continue to send your lists in! You can send scans/jpegs to todolistblog AT gmail.com or the real thing to To-Do List, PO Box 40128, SF, CA 94140.
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: ChakraGoddess, November 12, 2007 (view all comments by ChakraGoddess)
I love Sasha's concept and I especially love that it has reached "print" stage :-) One question - I sent a list in to Sasha a couple of years ago.... how do I know if my list made it to the book?

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Anita
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ISBN:: 9781135771331
Subtitle:: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us
Binding:: Paperback
Author:: Cagen, Sasha
Pages:: 256

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