Week 58 (+29) I love trees I really do, I just love imagination in the palm of my hand more.

58

-The number 58 was commonly associated with misfortune in many civilizations native to either Central America or Southern America. Due to their beliefs in the original 58 sins, the number came to symbolize curses and ill-luck. Aztec oracles supposedly stumbled across the number an unnaturally high number of times before disaster fell. One famous recording of this, though largely discredited as mere folktale, concerned the oracle of Moctezuma II, who allegedly counted 58 pieces of gold scattered before a sacrificial pit the day prior to the arrival of Hernan Cortés.


You know you have a love of books when you start piling them up before you even got to the end of the one you are currently reading and that is just the tip of the list (long long list).

As of late many of the books I've been looking into I've found via the "Fantasy Book Critic" blog on Blogger. Very cool site and great reviews.

Just wanted to share my list here. lol. Not only because I think they are neat books but because I always seem to be loosing my lists.

YA:

-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
-Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
-Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins



Adult:

Stephen King:
-Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King

Max Brooks (Zombie books)
-World War Z : An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
-The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead -

by Max Brooks


-Blacksad vol. 1, 3

-Maus vol. 1-2

Hellboy volumes:
-6. Hellboy: Strange Places (April 2006)
-7. Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others (November 2007)
-8. Hellboy: Darkness Calls (May 2008)
-9. Hellboy: Wild Hunt (March 2010) *YAY!*
-10. Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others (June 2010) *wimper*


Sword of Truth:

-Wizard's First Rule (book 1) XX-got-XX
-Stone of Tears (book 2) XX-got-XX
-Blood of the Fold (book 3) XX-got-XX
-Temple of the Winds (book 4)
-Soul of the Fire (book 5)
-Faith of the Fallen (book 6)
-The Pillars of Creation (book 7)
-Naked Empire (book 8)
-Chainfire (book 9)
-Phantom (book 10)
-Confessor (book 11)

Dresden Files:

-Death Masks (book 5)
-Blood Rites (book 6)
-Dead Beat (book 7)
-Proven Guilty (book 8)
-White Night (book 9)
-Small Favor (book 10)
-Turn Coat (book 11)
-Changes 2010 April 6 (<-- hard cover release date PB TBA)
-Side Jobs 2010 November 11 (<-- hard cover release date PB TBA)

-"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach xxgotxx
-"River of Gods" by Ian McDonald
-"The Shack" by William P. Young




Emily Gee
-Thief With No Shadow
-The Laurentine Spy
-The Sentinel Mage (Feb. 2011)

-Blue and Gold by K. J. Parker

-Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

(there are 5 or 6 books in the series)

-Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett

-The Magicians is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman

-Feed (2002) is a dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T.

(Matthew Tobin) Anderson


-Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick (TBA April 1st '11)

-Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell
-Scar Night (The Deepgate Codex book 1) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)
-Iron Angel (The Deepgate Codex book 2) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)
-God of Clocks (The Deepgate Codex book 3) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)

-What Time Forgets: The Daughters of Ard Creggan by K. E. Redmond

-A Devil in the Details by K.A. Stewart

-Malazan Book of the Fallen Series (1-10) by Steven Erikson

-Dante's Journey by JC Marino



Great sounding books from looking on Amazon (UK)
-Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes
-Black Halo (Aeons Gate 2) (second book) by Sam Sykes (TBA)

-The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
-The Last Four Things (book 2) by Paul Hoffman (TBA)

-Shadows's Son by Jon Sprunk
-Shadow's Lure (Shadow 2) (book 2) by Jon Sprunk (TBA)

-Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (TBA)

-Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan
"The Viking King Authun leads his men on a raid against an Anglo-Saxon village. Men and women are killed indiscriminately but Authun demands that no child be touched. He is acting on prophecy. A prophecy that tells him that the Saxons have stolen a child from the Gods. If Authun, in turn, takes the child and raises him as an heir, the child will lead his people to glory. But Authun discovers not one child, but twin baby boys. Ensuring that his faithful warriors, witnesses to what has happened, die during the raid Authun takes the children and their mother home, back to the witches who live on the troll wall. And he places his destiny in their hands. And so begins a stunning multi-volume fantasy epic that will take a werewolf from his beginnings as the heir to a brutal Viking king, down through the ages. It is a journey that will see him hunt for his lost love through centuries and lives, and see the endless battle between the wolf, Odin and Loki - the eternal trickster - spill over into countless bloody conflicts from our history, and over into our lives. This is the myth of the werewolf as it has never been told before and marks the beginning of an extraordinary new fantasy series from Gollancz." *drools* Sounds like a awesome book! :D
-Fenrir by M.D. Lachlan (TBA)

-Nights of Villjamur (Legends of the Red Sun) by Mark Charan Newton
-City of Ruin (Legends of the Red Sun 2) by Mark Charan Newton
-The Book of Transformations (Red Sun by Mark Charan Newton (TBA)

Ugh can't find the post....

Well from what I recall it was thus:

-8-12 books
-3 new bands and 2 new CDs from thus bands
-learn plus size yoga
-go to 1 or was it 2 concerts

...some other stuff that I for the life can't recall and can't find the frakken list grrrrr.


So from what I can recall off the top of my head here is what I done thus far:

-7 books: Dresden Files 1-4, The Sword of Truth 1-3.
LOVE LOVE LUUUUUUV the SoT series! Don't want to really read House of Leaves for the ONTDcreepy book club that I was looking forward to reading after looking it up but, dang the SoT series just has a grab on my imagination and I can't wait to pick up the 4th book "Temple of the Winds" and continue on the adventure with Richard, Kahlan, Zed and the rest. Love both the Dresden Files and the SoT series so I've very glad that I found them!

-Oh wow so many new bands lets see if I can list them?
Just Jack (1 CD)
Grizzly Bear (1 CD)
Daniel Merriweather (1 CD)
Lost on Propose
Gears of the Apparatus (1 CD via mp3s)
Pillar (3 CD)
Swimming With Dolphins (1 CD)
Flogging Molly (took them for a spin 1 CD)
MC Frontalot (1 CD + mp3s)
Jamie's Elsewhere
Keane
Dead by Sunrise

I not sure if this is all of them or if for example Just Jack was just before I set the list of goals. I really thought this was going to be the hardest goal to meet. Odd huh. I have had not really gone outside the mainstream alt-rock much before this other then a song here or there as my fav genre and sound was alt-rock. Don't get me wrong I had a eclectic taste in musci before but it has gotten so much more eclectic this year. (For example Craig always found it surprising that I like MoTab Mormon Tabernacle choir and I don't find it odd at all. It is the hymns that I grew up on and they are beautiful. I always find it interesting to see what kinda of people outside the Mormon faith also enjoy their singing beside us Mormons, even this Jack one XD) When you are lucky to pick up a CD every month or so (2 if you go used like ebay or half.com) then you gotta be careful what you buy and have a good idea if you are going to like the rest of the CD or risk a big stinker where you wished you just bought the one or two songs you liked on iTunes or amazon. So I'm happy that I've stummbled through many way into some songs that sent me digging on the web for more info and free things from the bands to listen to.

Great places to find music and info are as fallows:
-http://www.wikipedia.org/ (info is a plus)
-http://www.aimini.net/ (free songs)
-http://www.youtube.com/ (free listen and song bands link downloads)
-http://www.myspace.com/ (a band's myspace)
-http://www.facebook.com/ (a band's facebook)
-http://bandcamp.com/ (lots of great indie bands here with free/$0.99 songs)
-http://www.google.com/ (try googling for a band site for info, downloads and stores)

And as always shop around for great prices on CDs:
-http://www.half.ebay.com/ (always check the seller's rating and go with the best rating you can)
-iTunes, amazon, etc.
-chain stores; FYE, Bestbuy, barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc.

I really really enjoy music. If you love poetry and writing and the abstract imagery that is wonderful in writing how can you not enjoy music?

-I've always wanted to learn to do yoga and from my searches of the web I knew that there was yoga for almost everyone. After I hunted down a book and got it it was just a matter of stretching into a flabby pretzel. Not a pretty sight but very enjoyable I must say. Do what you want in life and don't let size or other such trivial matters get in your way. Plus size yoga books and DVDs are out there so go try it.

-Went to the Owl City concert that was in Salt Lake just a lil while ago. It was a blast and only the second I've been to. I have ticket's to their next one and I hope that Plain White T's make it back out to Utah like they said that they where going to at the concert last Oct.





I know it looks like I was just being a spendy person but in reality it was just trying to do things that I have not done before and try new bits of life.

So All-in-all I think that my fun, silly goals are coming along nicely.