Authors and Books

As promised this is my post about some of my personal favorite authors and the book/books of their's that I have so far read.

First, the series' that would make the very top of my list would be...



-the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

(Also: The Tales of Beedle the Bard)

-the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

*Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn

(Also: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner)

- the House of Night series by PC Cast and Kristen Cast

*Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted, Burned.. (to be continued)

-the Old Kingdom/Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix

*Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen

(Also: Across the Wall)

-the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver

*Wolf Brother, Spirit Walker, Soul Eater, Outcast, Oath Breaker, and Ghost Hunter (Which somehow I still have yet to read!!)

-the Skinjacker trilogy by Neal Shusterman

*Everlost, Everwild.. (to be continued)

-Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness

*The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and The Answer, and Monsters of Men (out in September in the US!!)



I'd say those are my top fav's. Harry Potter is a classic and I grew up watching the movies and love Harry's magical world I sometimes want to live in.

Twilight is about vampires and it's a romance and different. 'Nuff said.


The House of Night is also about vampires, but it shows it from the POV of a normal teen girl, and it shows things that interest me (meaning the religion aspect, if you well).



The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen trilogy is amazingly written and it's that fantasy story I love as well as unique.

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is also about things that interest me a lot (the whole story itself- the clans, the nature, the 'life style' I guess) and it has that twist to it that keeps you hooked.

Skinjacker's is by the first author I ever dubbed 'my favorite author' other than JK Rowling, so obviously I had to read it. Its so different from a lot of the things I've read. I don't know if you'd even call it fantasy or what. But the characters are relatable and the storyline is great.

Lastly, Chaos Walking I can say I did NOT expect much from at all (terrible, I know). It seemed interesting so I gave it a try and got an amazing plot that, like the above stories, is much different from a lot of thigns I've read in it's own way. It sucked me right in.

I could go on and on about not only these series, but many other's I have read. But I'm going to try to keep this short. So let's move onto stand-alone novels. (I'll probably publish a page with titles of books I've read and enjoyed for anyone who would actually see it and want to know.)



The few of stand alone novels are (while trying to give you different types of books instead of all fantasy :P)..

-Unwind by Neal Shusterman

-Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

-Immortal by Rachel Caine, Kristen Cast, Cluadia Grey, Cynthia L. Smith, Richelle Mead, Nacy Holder, and Tanith Lee (coll. of short stories)

-The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

-The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore

-How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

-Killing Me Softly by Nikki French

Okay. I hope that gives you a look at the different kinds of books but that are still come of my favorites. (Like I said- instead of just fantasy.) All of these books are suspenseful, thrilling, suprising, sad, happy, and just all around greatly written. If you want a great read, any of the above (series or stand alone novel) would be a great read.

All of these authors do a great job of pulling you right into the world of their character's right with them.

If you want a straight fantasy book I'd try the Old Kingdom trilogy.
If you want romance I'd try Immortal or Killing Me Softly.
If you want a more teen vampire book I'd try Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side.
If you want an action-y book I'd try Unwind.

But really these are all some of my favorite reads. The authors are great!

Killer Headache

Its been coming and going over the past two days and an upset stomach. Ugh. How fun for me!



Thankfully, I have my little guardian angel to keep me company. Her name is Minnie and shes thirteen year old tabby. Sweet as can be and very talkitive, shes been with me since I was three. :)




She had a brother, named Mickey of course, but we only have her now. (We also had Kally- a calico- and Moris- we aren't sure what type of cat he was because my aunt [who we got him from] didn't know. Just a long haired grey kitty.)

But she really does act like my little guardian angel. <3

So, while going through all this crap just to get that picture (I had to e-mail it from my phone, than edit it and whatnot) I found out the oil spill is officially stopped! Isn't that a miracle?

They don't know if it will hold, but for now it is appearently working. I can't believe it even happened in the first place let alone went on for 80 some days! It is abslolutely ridiculous. But I don't feel like ranting so we'll leave it at that. ;)

Appearently it went on for 85 days, and spilled up to 184 million gallons of oil into our beloved oceans. That's terribly sad. I can't imagine the clean up involved in something this size. The enviorment is really going to sufer for this one. All those animals, probably killed.. Its just terrible. :(

I really don't like mosquitos. This isn't as random as it may sound. ;P
I was outside last night until about 11 o'clock an got bit all over and they were hugee spots. This morning when I woke up they were way smaller, but ugh. I even got bit twice under my left eye and it is soree.

Especially since I hit that exact spot earlier- that was a painful and funny moment. I know- "Funny? Didn't you just say 'painful' in the same sentence?"
But I have to admit it was funny and I felt idiotic that it even happened.
Oh well.

I'm wondering if this site started in 2007, because I finally glanced through some other blogs earlier and the earliest back any went was '07.

I think it may storm again. I don't think it has rained so much in summer ever. No matter where I was living. Speaking of moving- who moves a lot? Ohhh!
Do you know what I just realized?

This coming year- my junior year, *squeeel*- will be the first year EVER that I will have gone to the same school for more than two years in a row! There was kindergarten and first at one school, second and third at another, forth and fifth at yet another, sixth and most of seventh at ANOTHER (all but about two weeks at this school), the last SIX weeks of seventh and eight at another school (I was mad I had to go so much longer when I switched, it sucked), and now ninth and tenth at one school.

Next year, unless something changes (which actually- there was multiple problems going on with my house over the past few months) I'll go to the same school for more than two years! Woohoo. It is a miracle. :P

The show I'm now watching (I changed the channel to a show called "Monsters Inside Me") is totally gross. I've watched it before and continue to watch it sometimes, even though its completely gross. I'm not sure why I watch it. I have a really strong stomach, at least.

I'm not afraid of bugs, sharks, spiders, the dark, heights, the boogeyman, faries, or mustard- but parasites do honestly freak me out. The idea of having one, anyways.

This blog has changed subject about 20 different times now.

Hmm.. Our water randomly shut off earlier. No idea why. My mom was all "don't flush the toilet unless you have to" or whatever. Well, needless to say a few hours later I forgot and flushed the toilet. Of course I remembered right after I did it. All I could do was say "crap" and "whoops". But then I thought "hey, maybe it's back on." So, after I'd already turned out the light and started to leave, I reached over and turned on the faucest and what do you know!

The water was back on. I know- this is a very amazing story. The moments of Samantha's broing life are so intriguing.

I'll stop blabbing your eyes out (I can't really blab your ears off, now can I? Seeing as you are reading this and not listening to it.).

I think I'll post about authors next as well as whatever comes to mind. Oh and the very long time it took to finish this my headache went away! Woohoo. :D
(At least for now- I think the heat in my room is giving me a headache. Even though its not really hot at all. But now that my fan has been off for a while it feels like its starting to come back. Great. Short lived happiness.)

Writer, Reader, and Friend,
Samantha-Aniwaya<3

Hope

This is a really short post.. I just have one question.

Why do we hope for something we know isn't going to happen and can't? Why do we spend time daydreaming about the impossible?

I suppose some of it just shows the faith in humanity. But I still wonder why I spend time day dreaming about something that can't happen and having some weird, small hope that it could still be possible. It irritates me, honestly. I feel ridiculous knowing I somehow hope for it when it's not going to happen.
*Sigh*

Writer, Reader, and Friend,
Sammy-Aniwaya <3

Birthday number thirty-nine.

Ughh. I'm trying to go through and get a good amount of editing done on Life Living In A Hotel but all this other stuff keeps sidetracking me! Ugh I hate editing. It just takes too long.

Wouldn't it be just awesome if there was an Editing Fairy? When ever your writing was finished, you just called upon the Editing Fairy. She would show up, magically know how to make it perfect, and kazam! There's a perfectly edited piece of work written by you.

Look, here she is. The magical Editing Fairy.

Ain't she just peeeeerfect?

Ain't.. I can't decide if that's a word that should just suddenly dissapear or if it doesn't bother me.

Anyway. Back to my point. Wanting to work on everything at once just does not work for me. How do you decide what to do? I guess the best answer is whatever needs done first.

Well. I'm going to eat some chinese and do a bit of outlining then get back to editing, I guess. (Yumm, the chinese is really goood. :D)

By the way, today is my father's birthday. Happy 39th to him! Old man.. hehe, just kidding.

You know there are four birthday's in July in my family (some of them anyway). And in my immediate family, my sister,out of the four of us, is the only one not born in July. Psh, what an outcast! Just kidding Barbie Girl, if you happen to be reading this (she knows I'm not really kidding ;P).

Outcast.. makes me think of an amazing book series. Maybe I'll blog about it laters.

Writer, Reader, and Friend,

Sammy-Aniwaya<3

Raining Cats and Dogs..

There is no particular reason why that's the name of this post. Even though it actually was storming earlier. Just out of the blue. It was weird, actually.

Anywho. This is my first post! *Claps furiously* Yay for first posts!
(I think just about everybody mentions that it is their first post when making the first post. How cliche. (; )

Well. For my first post I'm wondering about outlines. How do people go about writing their outlines for a novel? What does it look like? Whats the bases for it? Do you make it extremely detailed? Like down to lines that may be said, motions made, etc.?

I think creating a very good outline for my books would help get them written faster. Last night I suddenly felt very lacking in the progress area on my writing's. Probably because I did a lot of comparing of myself to somebody who somehow writes so much it's insane. Probably because I don't make myself at least write a single paragraph everyday. Spending more time working on my novels might possibly help. :P

Well, people who may happen to come across my amazingly short and boring first post, if you are a writer, how do you specifically go about making outlines?

PS. Does anybody know how to set a signiture for each future post? Thanks!

Writer, Reader, and Friend,
Samantha-Aniwaya<3