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Growing up, one checkmark at a time – Metro US

Growing up, one checkmark at a time

The To-Do List
Author: Mike Gayle
Publisher: Hodder
Price: $16.99 (Hardcover)

It’s difficult enough to stroke off a few items on your to-do list, let alone complete the whole thing. But British author Mike Gayle took the task index to another level, aiming to fulfill a massive 1,277-item to-do list in one year. Increasingly conscious of his immaturity, when the married man in his mid-30s anticipated his second child, he decided to do some growing up and used the to-do list to do it. His comical memoir tracks Gayle’s struggle through day 365, from “Eat more salad,” to buying his wife “underwear from Agent Provocateur.”