Books I Want

Here I'm going to start a list of books I want and as I get them they will be marked off. This list will be updated and reposted.


This is Diana Wynne Jones new book and it was released in the UK in January. I want it so bad, but it costs about $25 dollars to import it. The book comes out in April in America so I guess I will just have to wait.


This is a book I found tonight while looking through young adult mystery books on Amazon and it sounds so good. I'm going to try and order it soon.

There is a lot more books I want, but I'll add more to the list later. I did a lot of shoveling and I'm feeling pretty tired. Will update later.

March Already!

Wow, I can't believe it's March already. February went really fast! I hope that March, and the rest of this year goes slower. Sorry I haven't had time to update the books I want list. Been busy when I get online, but I have a few minutes so I decided to write something.

I've been writing posts on my Xanga blog and I'm working on a few now that I need to finish. One is about what I would want my dream home to look like and I really think about that a lot. The other is a book review on The Hobbit. Then I'm going to have to think up more stuff to write about, but I'm sure I will. I always do and I'm usually good at coming up with things to write about.
Last Thursday I went to the library and borrowed some books and also bought some books from the library's book store. Got the books for really cheap! I found Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill in hardcover for only $1.50!! That's cheap. I also got The Land of Elyon book 1 and 2 and a book called Companions of The night which sounds really good and I can't wait to read it. I'm currently reading a book I borrowed from the library called The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit. I really want to say I'm loving the book, but it's not as great as I thought it would be and I'm a bit disappointed, but I'm going to keep reading and finish it.
A few days ago I ordered some books from the Science Fiction Book Club so I could complete my commitment. Hopefully I will get the books this week or next week sometime.

I keep hearing we are supposed to get a really bad storm on the 7th of this month and I hope that doesn't happen. I can't stand to shovel anymore this year.
Nothing much else has been going on with me. Getting out last week was great and I hope I can do it again soon; staying home all the time can get pretty boring. Well, I'll write again soon, try to update my list of books I want and I'll be writing about my book again soon.

Just Another Boring Day

I bought The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle yesterday so I need to take it off my books I want to buy list. I need to update the list and add more books to it, I'll try to do that later tonight or within the next few days.
Anyway, I'm excited about reading The Vampire Diaries, but I'm not going to read it until I finish Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. Today was normal, didn't do much. Only slept for 3 hours and I've been up all day. It's 7:30 PM now and I don't even feel tired. I might nap a bit later though. Today I just read and wrote my book, which is still coming along great. Now I'm waiting for Celebrity Rehab to come on.

Next week sometime I'm going to my local library. I haven't been to the library in months and I miss going so much. I'm going to try and have some money to maybe buy a book or two from their little bookstore inside the library. The bookstore sells used books that look new and they are really cheap, plus it helps to fund the library. I'm going to get the Writers Market if they have it and have a look through it, take notes etc. Also going to get some Publisher's Weekly magazines if they have them. Probably going to get a some manga to read and I'm not sure what else I'm going to get. I'm excited about going to the library and probably going to the video game store as well. I'll update soon.

New Layout!

Found a layout I like. Couldn't find an anime one this time though. I really want a Card Captor or Revolutionary Girl Utena layout, but I know one of those will be hard to find. So I went with a fantasy layout and I love it. I think it looks awesome!

Anyway, I'll update again soon.

Finally Updating

It's been awhile since I last updated on here. I should try to update more often, but just don't always have time when I'm online. Last night I was looking for a new layout for my blog on here. I like the one I have, but still not completely happy with it. I would like another anime one or a video game one though.
My birthday was the 21st, and I turned 21. I stayed home with my boyfriend and we ate my birthday cake. I got a few presents too. I honestly haven't been up to much. I've just been stuck in the house since we lost our car back in November. Last time I went out was in December to the video game store and we had to go in my dad's truck. His truck is way, way to hard to get into and I hurt my back trying to get in. Now we have another car, it works okay and just honestly looks like a piece of crap, but it's all we could afford for right now. I'm not worried though, I know things are going to start getting much better.

I've still been writing my book and have been writing it much then usual, but that's good. I'm actually writing it in a journal for now because I have no editing programs for my laptop and at least this way I'm still writing the story. Although I'm hoping soon to get an editing program so I can begin to type it out on my laptop. I can type much faster then I can write and I figure once I can begin writing it on my laptop things will probably go much faster. Also when I have the money I want to buy a laptop just for writing my books. I'm really hoping to get the first book finished soon and begin to edit it and start the process of finding an agent and getting a publishing company to accept my book. I would like to go for Random House and I know people will say "It's hard for unknown authors to get signed by big publishing companies like that!" I know that already, but I believe my story is great, I believe the books can sell even better then Harry Potter. I know some people might think I'm crazy by saying that, but if J.K. Rowling, an unknown author, can sell that many books then why can't I? I just know my books will sell and I know I'll get signed by a good publishing company that will promote my books good.
I'm not really writing these books just for the money. The money will be nice, of course. All my life I've been poor and would be very nice to have enough money so I will never have to work again, but it's not just for the money. It's because I love to write. I have a lot of great stories in my head and I want the whole world to read them. I want people to one day (hopefully soon) read my books and be go drawn into the story they can't put it down, I want people to be able to relate with my characters.
That's really the best I could explain it. This time writing a book is so much different then the other times I've tried. In the past I've tried writing books, but never finished. But, I think it's because I tried to write books like S.E. Hinton or Walter Dean Myers writes. They are both amazing writers, but I know now that I'm good at fantasy more so then I guess what you could call more realistic stories like they write. While I love the stories I wrote in the past, I feel they are not good enough and don't think they show how good of a writer I can be. I think they were more practice for mre then anything. But, fantasy is for me. I love being able to create the world my characters live in and I'm very pleased by the story I've written so far. I think that's enough talking about my books now lolz.

But, I will say another thing; this time writing I've learned so much more and I've really been reading about different publishing companies. Two companies to be ware of are Publish America and AuthorHouse. I think it's really sad how many so called publishing companies are just out there to take your money and then they screw you over.
Besides all that I've been playing MySims Kingdom, which my boyfriend bought me for my birthday, and the game is so much fun. I've never really been into Sims games, but I love this one. I've also been reading The Hunt For The Eye Of Ogin and I won that from a giveaway on Goodreads. I'm liking the book so far, it's really good. I'm going to write a review when I finish it.
Nothing much else has been going on, really. I don't do anything really exciting much. I'm still posting on Xanga, of course and going to take a break soon to focus on posts for next month. A good friend of mine left Xanga recently, which I find sad. She used to love Xanga, but has become addicted to Tumblr so she left. I've been on Tumblr and it's fine, I've been on LiveJournal, but not in months and of course I'm on blogger. Xanga still comes in number one for me and next would be blogger. I wish Xanga was still popular and many more people were on it. It really is a great blogging site.

Well, I better stop writing for now. I didn't expect to write this much, but I'll update soon. Might post up some book reviews in a few days or so and maybe write some other stuff. Going to try and look for another layout tonight too. I'll update as soon as I can.

First Post Of The Year!

This is my first post of 2010 on blogger and sorry it's taken me awhile to update. I write on my Xanga blog everyday and write on here when I have the time. 2010 has been good for me so far, I'm looking forward to having a better year this year. I'm focusing on writing my book series, my goal is to finish it this year and start working on getting the series published.

I've started reading some of the books I got for Christmas and so far I've read The Giver by Lois Lowry and I'm reading the 3rd Harry Potter right now. I've also been writing posts on Xanga and recently a post of mine got featured on there. I've just been doing really good and I'm still excited about my book series. Writing it has been fun.

New Year!

It's been a few weeks since I last posted anything. I just haven't had much time to come on here. I actually wanted to write a post a few days ago, but didn't have time. Well, it's 2010 now and while 2009 wasn't the best year for me, it wasn't bad either. I'm hoping for 2010 to be a great year for me!

I wanted to post the day after Christmas and let everyone know what I got. My boyfriend got me a lot of stuff and of course I got tons of books and video games. And a few other things. When I have the chance I'll post a list of the books and video games I got for Christmas.

Well, this year I am going to focus on my writing and finishing my book series. I am determined to make it as an author and I want to make it happen this year. I am hoping to least get the first book in my book series published this year. I will make it happen and my book series will sell even more then Harry Potter :)

Hope everyone has a good New Year.

I Won a Goodreads Giveaway

Book Description:

"Young Elwood Pitch is only thirteen years old when he finds himself entrusted with a sacred mission to restore peace in the far-off world of Winnitok. The land's immortal protector, Granashon, has disappeared and her power that protects the land is fading fast. Elwood, his dog Slukee, and their newfound traveling companions, warrior Drallah Wehr and her talking raven Booj, set out on a dangerous quest to find the missing immortal. Elwood soon has a mysterious dream about the Eye of Ogin, an ancient turtle shell with the power to find Granashon. Elwood is determined to find the Eye, which was lost centuries before in the great swamp Migdowsh. The Great Swamp is riddled with quicksand, snakes, and monsters, but that does not deter the brave group. Along the way they must navigate an astonishing array of supernatural creatures–yugs, woogans, truans, graycloaks, and a terrible frog demon. Will they find the Eye and restore Granashon's divine power to the land? Will Elwood be able to handle the terrible truth the swamp reveals to him? Patrick Doud brings memorable characters, poetic language, and a driving narrative to this timeless tale that recalls classic epic adventure stories."

This is my 3rd time winning a book from goodreads and I'm excited to get it.

A Bit Annoyed

Sorry this is going to be a rant, but I'm annoyed about something. On my Xanga blog I write a new post there every day, I have quite a few friends on there and a lot of subscribers. I love Xanga, I love bloggin on there and I won't ever leave the site, but Xanga has like sister sites, I guess you could call them. These sister sites are all for different things, like fashion, food, dating, parenting, gaming and a few others. You can submit your posts to be featured on any of the sister sites, or you can go straight to Xanga and try and get your posts on the front page, I think both ways are cool, but I like being featured on the front page the best.
I've beeb featured on some of the sister sites, mostly the gaming one called the Hardestlevel, but I stopped submitting my posts to them. I did that because they kept changing the titles of my posts and rewriting or taking stuff away from my posts, which I didn't like. I haven't submitted any posts to the Hardestlevel in months and today I signed online to see the Hardestlevel asking my permission to feature my post about Nintendo Christmas Decorations. I didn't give them permission because I don't want my post being completely changed like they like to do.

Another thing Xanga has that I like is footprints, it allows you to see Xanga/users of sister sites that are viewing your blog and after I denied permission to my post, an editor from the Hardestlevel came to my site and took the pictures from my post and wrote a post similar to mine, but called it Gamer Christmas Decorations. They pretty much stole my post, but it has a bit different wording. Now I have editors from the Hardestlevel stalking my site all because I wouldn't give them permission to feature my post and then they stole it! What gives them any right at all to even do that? I took my time finding those pictures and writing that post only to have it stolen because they are upset that I wouldn't give them permission. This is why the main gaming site I go on is VGChartz. There are some users on VGChartz that aren't so nice, but the site is so much better then other video game sites and the Hardestlevel used to be good, it was a good gaming site with good posts and the people were nice, but a few months later they changed and are just like Gamefaqs, IGN and all those other gaming sites. I've really had enough of the Hardestlevel's crap and they better not steal any of my posts again.

My Christmas Book Wishlist

Dark Vengeance by Ed Greenwood is the sequel to Dark Warrior Rising and that is one of my favorite books. I've wanted Dark Vengeance since I first found out about it.



Hex by Arthur H. Lewis is about the murder of Nelson Rehmeyer in York County. I read this book a few months back, but I want to buy it. It is a good book, with lots of information about the trials and such. It's hard to find now though since it's out of print.

I also really want Revolutionary Girl Utena volumes 2 to 5 plus the movie manga. I love this manga series. I've only read volume 1 and 2 and the manga of the movie, but I recently bought volume one now I need the other ones. There really is a ton of books I want, but it would take so long to post all of them so this is what I'll post for now.