63-66: Wallflowers 1-4 by Lisa Kleypas

52. Green by Jay Lake
53. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
54. Codex by Lev Grossman
55. Uglies by Scott Westerfield
56. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
57. Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
58. The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer
59. The Art and Craft of the Short Story by Rick Demarinis
60. Foundling by D.M. Cornish
61. The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson
62. On Writing by Stephen King

I hope I didn't forget anything! These aren't in order, they're just in order of me remembering I read them! Hmmm...38 books in one month. I'll try my hardest!

47. Furies of Calderon (Book 1 of the Codex Alera) by Jim Butcher
48. Academ's Fury (Book 2 "                                      ") by Jim Butcher
49. Cursor's Fury (Book 3 "                                        ") by Jim Butcher
50. Captain's Fury (Book 4 "                                       ") by Jim Butcher
51. Princep's Fury (Book 5 "                                       ") by Jim Butcher

Fantastic series, definitely up in to my top 5 for Fantasy and now one of my favorite Authors (I've heard great things about the Dresden Files, plan on picking them up soon). I think I read this whole series in a week. :D And Book #6 (First Lord's Fury) comes out November 4th! Amazon is selling the hardback for $9, not sure why it's so cheap but I'm *not* complaining! Butcher has also been releasing the first few chapters online once a week so I got to read the Prologue and Chapters 1 & 2 last night when I finished Princep's Fury.

...is coming up. This year I am determined to at least write every day, if not make the 50,000 word count goal. In preperation I"m rereading two of the writing books I've read previously (On Writing and Write Away). I also plan on picking up Elements of Style. I want to give myself the tools to succeed! Even I have to write by hand. In fact I may try writing by hand this year, I seem to write better that way. I"m less likely to get distracted by different programs on my laptop...or the style of font...or what music to listen to...or, well, you get the drift.

Anyways, I bought a paperback On Writing by Stephen King. I borrowed it from the library the first time and I find it so valuable I wanted a copy I could mark up to my heart's content. I'm also looking over the NaNo forums looking for tips that would help me.

I'm excited! :D

45. Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) by Brandon Sanderson - OMGWOWYAY ending! Like I"ve said, if I have a baby girl her name is going to be Vin, end of story!
46. Knife of Dreams (WoT #11) by Robert Jordan. Finally finished my reread! Can't wait for The Gathering Storm now! *squee*

At this rate I won't reach 100 by the end of the year unless I pick up some super short novels. We'll see!

For now I"m reading Feeling Good by David D. Burns and it's good so far. I'm definitely going to have my Mom read it, I think it would help her loads (and hopefully it will help me!). I wish I could get my sister to read it but that would never happen. I haven't decided on which fiction book I'm going to pick up next.

42. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
43. Book 2 Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
44. Mary Mary by James Patterson (I like Patterson, what can I say?)

Still working on book 11 and started the final book of the Mistborn series. Then I"ll do a reread of The Name of the Wind. Hopefully all by the time I go home!

I really need to start on my writing.

Me and My Boys! is hosting a giveaway for EcoUsable Water Bottles . I want one! So I'm pimping the giveaway on my blog. Be sure to check out EcoUsable as well!

Check it out: www.twelve-paws.com/index.php/2009/08/24/etsy-give-a-way/

She has lovely prints, I'd be so excited to win!

My favorite is "single strand" and it's the one I'm asking for if I win. Though I really loved Bridge as well. I liked how there was a cross in this print though.

<3 Lia

Yay! I usually wait until I can post at least a couple but then I worry I've forgotten some LOL anyways:

35. The Final Empire (Mistborn 1) by Brandon Sanderson
36 - 38: Books 7-9 of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

Almost done with my WoT reread! Just started book 10 last night :D I'm also reading through the annotations and deleted scenes and such on Brandon's website while I reread the Mistborn series so that I can read the 3rd book. I bought the 3rd book in hardback when it first came out but I wanted to do a reread first and got distracted by other books and series so...didn't get to it till now!

I love this userpic :D

Anyways! Time to update my list :D

31. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
32. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
33. Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
34. Write Away by Elizabeth George

I loved the trilogy by Cassandra Clare, I'm glad it was the first paranormal YA that I picked up after Twilight :D The writing books were superb, they all go on my To Buy list. I got several references to other writing books in Write Away so I'll have to check them out too! Right now I'm working on my WoT reread and I started my Mistborn reread. Ironically, though I bought the 3rd Mistborn book as soon as it came out and in hardback...I still haven't read it yet. Mostly because I wanted to do a reread before I read the final book. I certainly need to give more time to my reading if I want to reach my 100 books in a year goal!bo

30. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

I finished this in one day. Well really in less than 12 hours. And it wasn't a short book by any means! It's YA fiction, so an easy read and I found myself enjoying it. I can't wait to read the next two in the trilogy! I decided to check out her website as well. And through her found a bunch of links to blog posts and articles that are about writing and will be useful for me. Thank you Cassandra!

Including this link, posted in February 2009 for the Locus Reading List 2008. I wanted to keep the link handy and use it as a reference, so I'm posting it here!

http://www.locusmag.com/2009/2008RecommendedReading.html

I haven't updated in ages! So I've probably forgot some books >.< Oh well, my fault!

15 - 19.) Books 1-6 of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
20 - 23.) The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
24.) On Writing by Stephen King
25.) How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott card
26.) Enemies and Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
27.) Mainspring by Jay Lake
28.) Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
29.) 8th Confession by James Patterson

Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot. Don't send a message, leave a comment on here. Next, re-post this paragraph in your journal and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Then these blog posts have good advice for you:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/11/unasked-for-advice-to-writers-about-money/

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/12/on-writers-marriages-and-nyclasf/

Enjoy ^^

It's a wonderful site, I really do encourage any of you interested to drop by! <3

Wow, I hadn't realized I haven't updated since the first day! Big update today...

Elegy for a Lost Star by Elizabeth Haydon (7)

The Assassin King by Elizabeth Haydon (8)

Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (9)

The Naming: The First Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon (10)

The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon (11)

The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon  (12)

Saga of the Light Isles, Book 2: Foxmask by Juliet Marillier (13)

New Spring by Robert Jordan (14)

Whooo. I didn't absolutely love the Haydon books but it was a nice end. At least it wasn't all about Rhapsody's beauty! I need to look around and see if there is any more current, the ending definitely gave that there was more to the story! I love anything by Juliet Marillier, she is one of my favorite authors hands down. The Pellinor books surprised me! I got into them quickly and totally enjoyed them, I need to get the next book! I reccommend them to anyone :D And of course I am starting my re-read of the Wheel of Time.