And talk about
me! more interesting, about my OCD tendencies, and obsessive ways with my
books, both the ones I buy and the ones that I write.
I thought of
doing this because of something on... shit, I can't remember it was a while back and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. so....
This is going to
show you the inner weirdness of my mind. So I warn you before you dive in that
I’m not the sainest of people. And yet, weirdly enough I think me actually
sainer than most. But don’t all us crazied think that?
Okay, we start
with my shelves, and the books that I buy....
This isn’t any
weirder I think than anyone else does (yeah, I’m crossing my fingers like a
bitch whose hoping the pregnancy test comes back negative)
First of all I
have two shelves, this you already know (if you have been reading for a couple
of month) I have a YA shelf and an adult’s shelf (see normal)
Nothing weird
about that, is there? No, not at all. Its’ not until you get into my computer
that you see where it all comes together.
I have two files
for my books. The first is a list of all the books that I have bought in
alphabetical order... which is perfectly fine, right, we all need to know what
we already have or who’s to say we won’t get something twice.
Jennifer
Armintrout
|
A vampire’s Penance,
|
A
|
Ilsa
J. Bick
|
Ashes,
|
YA
|
Libba
Bray
|
Beauty Queen,
|
YA
|
Kristin
Cashore
|
(seven kingdom tri)
Graceling, Fire, Bitterblue
|
YA
|
Rachel
Caine
|
(Morganville Vampire series) Glass Houses, the Dead Girls
dance, ...
|
YA
|
P.
C. & Kristin Cast
|
(House of Night
series) Marked,
Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted, Burned, Awaken, Destined,
Neferet’s
Curse,
|
YA
|
Cassandra
Clare
|
(Mortal Instrument series) City of Bones, City of Ashes,
City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire,
|
YA
|
Stephanie
Chong
|
Where Demons fear to
tread,
|
A
|
Kresley
Cole
(immortal after dark
series)
|
A
hunger like no other, No rest for the wicked, wicked deeds in a winter’s
night, dark needs at night’s edge, dark desire after dusk, kiss of a demon
king, pleasure
of a dark prince, demon from the dark, dreams of a dark warrior, Lothaire,
|
A
|
Andrea
Cremer
|
(night Shade) Nightshade, Wolfsbane, Bloodrose,
|
YA
|
Jordan
Dane
|
In the Arms of Stone
Angels,
|
YA
|
And so on,
really, I have 3 pages... this is the man one, I have an OLD
SCHOOL one and SMUT which
is all the romances that don’t stay on my shelf. I also have a list of the
books that I have taken off my shelf and the ones that never made it there, you
know, library books, borrowed, that sort of crap. Got to keep a record so you
know what you’ve read and don’t read it again. right?
This is an easy
system to follow: the names are alphabeticalised by their last names. Series, the books I have, the book that are
next to come—they haven’t out, or having hit Australian shelves yet. Waiting on in
different style, or size, the ones I’m never going to get. Then, like
you can see, the age range they fit into. Easy.
Then I have
another file. It’s Reviews &
Information.....
Young Adult
|
Adult
|
||
1
|
Seven Kingdom
tri (2)
|
Heart of
Darkness
|
1
|
2
|
House of Night (8)
|
Kiss of
Midnight*
|
2
|
3
|
immortal
|
Midnight
Daughter*
|
3
|
4
|
The Mortal Instrument
(3)
|
Anita Blake,
Vampire hunter (19)
|
4
|
5
|
Vampire Beach (3/6)
|
Sookie
Stackhouse (10-1)
|
5
|
6
|
Hush, hush
*
|
Shadow of a
vampire
|
6
|
7
|
Evernight
(4) *
|
Dark-Hunter
(18)
|
7
|
8
|
Fallen*
|
Blood Trinity
|
8
|
9
|
Infinity
|
Century
Werewolf (3-1)
|
9
|
10
|
Moorehawke tri (3)
|
Greywalker
|
10
|
11
|
Wicked Lovely
(5)*
|
Wings of Night
(4/7)
|
11
|
12
|
Twilight
(4)*
|
Lords of the Underworld
(4-1-5)
|
12
|
13
|
Vampire Academy
(4)
|
Sins of the Heart
|
13
|
14
|
Harry Potter
(7)
|
Black Dagger
Brotherhood (8)
|
14
|
15
|
Immortal (series)
*
|
Bullet *
|
15
|
16
|
Intertwined*
|
Lover Unleashed
|
16
|
17
|
Night World (3/9-1)
|
The Darkest Secret
(21/4)
|
17
|
Again this is a
so on, and so on, being that I’m up to 40 on the YA side and 59 on the Adult
side, the numbers are so when we get into the actual review part of my doings
and into the individual reviews I have written the numbers let’s me see where I
actually read them and the dates (those this was down well before I have my new
system of reviewing so it’s a little bit of a mute, but it also lets me see
where I am—not really, like I said, it was a before thing I just haven’t
stopped.)
So, little info,
above the darker orange line, all the numbers that are bracketed are the number
of books in the series that I have read. Under the line it’s the date in which
I read them. Easy to follow. The blue is the books that have been reviewed on
my blog, so I can keep track of my back tracking. And the star is the books I
no longer have on my shelf due to whatever reason.
Under this is the
books that I haven’t read yet...
Hayes: Shadowglass
Larsson: girl with the
dragon tattoo
Shiegoski: the Fallen 2
Richardson: Poltergiest
& Vanished
Millar: Lonely
werewolf girl & cures of...her
Hamilton: Blood Noir
Kenyon: One Silent
night & Dream-hunter Showalter:
seduce
the Darkness
Donald: Haunted Heart
|
This one has them
all in it, and you see how they are the colour of the reviewed on blog books?
Well that’s so I can just cut and paste—we don’t want to waste time now, do we?
This list is nearly a page long at the moment, and has the book name and the
authors last name, so I know what’s actually what (some books have the same
name but are completely different).
Under this...
!2011
|
2011
|
2012
|
2013
|
2014
|
153
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
April
|
May
|
June
|
July
|
Aug
|
Sept
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
9
|
6
|
9
|
4
|
8
|
7
|
11
|
12
|
Yeah, I don’t
read all that much, and this is actually a new feature of mine, I can’t
remember why I decided I wanted to do it, but now that I have... actually I
think it was more so do with how much money I spend on books, and all that crap
and being that I was counting I thought I might as well have something to show
for it. So yeah. The top, if you can’t understand, is how many I read in the
year, the first one up there is everything I have read, and still I think I’m
missing a lot, many, I counted off the top thing in this file. The second line,
is how many I read in the month, and to be honest I’m actually a little
surprised with how many I have read. Sad, but oh, so true.
(*above, procrastination
in its seen form*)
Under this is my
review platelet, so that they are all the same and have the same information....
Quote
(00) (read: 00/aaa/00)
Heading
Prod dets
...series,
book
Pub:
Author:
Cat:
Format: paperback (mid); 00 pp w/ 00
chapters
Whose:
Age Range:
Synopsis
...
my Thoughts (review)
...
Series
...
☼☼☼
|
Excerpt
...
|
And that’s it.
For that file.
Then I have my
review file, which is set out a lot differently than before, mostly because
when I started (and this was well before I started blogging, so the whole doing
review things was not new to me. only the outlay). Now, each author has their
own page (or whatever it’s actually called) with all the books they have
written on them. And they are filed in the file with the last name first so
that they are in order.
-
[1] the ones left behind
- [2] in the
box
- A, Short
story books
- Armintrout,
Jennifer
- Bick,
Ilsa J
- Bray,
Libba
- Caine,
Rachel
You get the
picture....? If not, then you are never going to get me. Just so you know.
I’m so
interesting this way. The sad thing is that I like everything to match up on my
book shelf. I hate when they have large books after I have the collection of
middle size and small. I know when something missing off my shelf, even the
ones that just sit in a pile.
This is the
reason that I haven’t gotten City of Fallen Angels because it’s still in the
large form—and thanks to the Australian public, and the fact that apparently we
like large books with large print, like where all a bunch of old ladies who
don’t want to wear our reading glasses (sorry if you’re the type that likes
that larger print, it’s really annoying to me. I like my paperback to be that
middle size—I can deal with both large and small, but prefer. I also like
paperbacks to hardcovers, there’s just something about a hardback that makes
you not want to ruin the spin. Who the hell cares about paperback, honestly, I
think it’s better when they are damaged than clean, sorta shows how much you
like the books, its also an easy way to find out which ones you have read when
you have a heap of books but not that great a light, (happens when I want to
read a new Immortal After Dark series, there’s so many there and I haven’t read
them all)
Anyway, so that’s
what it’s like inside my mind when I’m doing something that’s about the books
that I have bought. I’m thinking because this one is so long that I won’t go on
about the books I write but it’s similar, because I actually like the layout of
the ones I bought.
Stuff it, I’ll
show you. Least this way we have it all...
The list is
first, it’s own...
Storm Wilde, Soul
Stealer series
|
Killing Time, Buzz
Kill,
|
YAt
|
Para/roma/dystopian
|
Wraths of the Underworld
|
Limbo,
b2, b3,
b4, b5,
b6, b7,
(b8?)
|
A
|
--
|
[name pending]
|
{single}
|
YA
|
|
Wolf-Fights
|
{single}
|
YAt
|
Horror
|
Bloody Lust
|
{single}
|
A
|
Fantasy
|
Human Monsters
|
Let
them Hunt, Let them Run,
|
A
|
Crime/horr
|
Old Magic
|
{single}
|
YA
|
Fantasy
|
Stolen Witch’s
series
|
6 stories, 3 books
|
MG
|
|
Dead World tri
|
Rustling Branches,
Frozen World, Whistling
Ice
|
A
|
Par/rom/fan
|
Tales of Phoebe, undeader
|
Nothing for Nothing,
*
|
A
|
Par/rom/cri
|
Chronicles of Willow Moore
|
Becoming Me,
|
YAt
|
Par fiction
|
TragicTeen
collection
|
Life
Just Sucks that Way, Don’t Forget, Hush It, book,
Face in the Mirror,
|
YA
|
Comp
Novellas
|
comp.
|
Banning Me,
|
--
|
novella
|
Undeaders
|
Hidden Prophecy,
Delicate Secrets,
|
YA
|
?
|
Vampire Tri
|
Eternally, Love.
Everlasting, Love. Quixotic, Love.
|
A
|
Erotica
|
This one is a
little different from the last mostly because, well, it’s not as simple, is it?
first we have the names of the series that we will find them in (this is
actually the bottom of my list, the top has teen-hunt, this world that world,
the big series) the blue is the proposals I have put on my blog already, just
so I know without having to work hard at finding out. The second column is the
books in each place, if there is one. The purple are the ones in world the
black one are the ones I have finished. It also have the age range I want them
in so that I don’t fuck that up, and where I want them to end up, though like
the names this will most likely change.
The little ‘t’
where the YA sits are the ones that I want to be transition novel, or that’s
what I want it to be, and honestly I think it’s probably going to by my area. I
seem to do better (own opinion) when I can swear and talk adult stuff but there
isn’t any actual sex, lots of tension, but I’m not so sure I can do that one.
We’ll see, I guess.
Under this is a
list of the short storied that I have written, or more so the ones that I have
blogged—not that there are any I have left that weren’t blogged (well, not
true, but you and I’m not ready to put what I have left on the blog, maybe in
the next couple of years, but, well, they...yeah. so....
A chained vampire
|
A
|
Para, roma
|
|||
old short
|
Bloody Lust
|
A
|
|||
Hunted
|
YA
|
Horror
|
|||
Old/half
|
Blood flow
|
Smaller stones
|
A
|
PR
|
|
Old
|
Labour pains
|
Smaller stones
|
A
|
PR
|
|
Old
|
Mating Season
|
Smaller stones
|
A
|
PR
|
|
Bitch Blog
|
Storm Wilde,
soul
|
YAt
|
|||
Due Dec ?
|
Raised in Hell
|
YAt
|
|||
Seeking Eden
|
|||||
Under that is
what you have in Planning 2012-2013. The list of books that I need to finishes
in the next couple of years.
I have, in this
same file. A Behind the scenes, the
books and what I was thinking and why I was writing them. All that crap. But they
have kinda turned into the proposals I have written for you all, so it’s became
something of nothing, but the ones I have already started are much more
detailed.
I have the file
of Blogs, which is everything about
the my blog and all that crap. I also have a finished file, but that hasn’t anything in it yet, and wont until I’m
up to a point where I will be publishing the thing. And I also have Need Printing, which is self explanatory.
The main part of
my USB (which holds everything): there’s, A EYE ONLY, KNOWLEDGE LEARNT, SERIES,
SINGLE STORIES, TALES FOR MY KIDS, TRILOGY OR COLLECTIONS.
That’s it,
really, and everything fits all in there. Not that I’m in the habit of making
of starting anymore novels, if I get new Ideas they become short stories. Because
I can’t, no won’t, put my effort into another big thing at the moment.
Anyway, that’s
it, thanks for sticking it out with me. I know it wasn’t all that interesting,
I don’t believe that I’m wired and yet I hope I am. How boring would my life be
if I wasn’t...?
This is it.
Thanks again.
Later
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