Jobs, books, and the occasional nap.

I'm on a job hunt again, and it is the worst, man.

It'd be nice if I didn't have to get a job in the first place, and I could just roll around in piles of money. It'd be like that one song, Billionaire, "And toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it!" I would so do that, I'd make it rain money and then dance underneath it.

But alas! It has been decided that I shall be humble and struggle instead. Awwriiiiiight.

I have a lot of fees coming up 'cause I'm taking a skiing class and I totally want to go to Australia during the summer. That's expensive stuff! With things a bit hard at home, it's time to pull up my sleeves and find a job here in Provo.

Looking online proved to be of no help, as most of the listings online wanted hours in the morning. Cool beans, but no such luck - next semester, I have class every day at 9 AM and usually go until about 2 PM. So that's not gonna happen. My best chances are probably either going to be getting a job in the food court in the Wilk, finding something at the MTC, or being a TA for a professor.

The search continues next week.
May luck be with me.

Next item of business!

My Book Hall of Fame!

I was asked by a couple of friends to compile a Book Hall of Fame - a list of books that I would recommend to those who have a hunger for good literature. So, being the book nerd that I am, I happily agreed. This list will probably continue to build as I grow older, but for now, here is a list of books that I would eagerly recommend to anyone.

Bolded books are the ones that I especially recommend.

- The entire Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- Cry of the Icemark, Blade of Fire, Last Battle of the Icemark - Stuart Hill (They're called the Icemark Chronicles, but each book can stand on its own as its own story, so I tend to list them separately)
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw (a wonderful historical fiction, and possibly the book that I would list as my favorite.)
- Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, The Princess Tales - Gail Carson Levine
- Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I have a fascination with Sherlock Holmes, I'll admit it)
- A Cry in the Night, All Around the Town, Nighttime Is My Time, Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark (several good mystery-type novels, and fascinating stories. She has many good books, I just happen to like these.)
- Looking Glass Wars, Seeing Redd, ArchEnemy - Frank Beddor (a series with a dark twist on the Alice in Wonderland story, highly imaginative and fantastic)
- Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde (very light, easy to read story that has somehow captured my heart)
- Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (I hesitate to call it a trilogy but I'm not sure what other name there is for it. Epic saga? Ahaha.)
- The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Tricksters, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens - Tamora Pierce (Surprisingly, all of these are not single books, but separate series! Tamora Pierce is fantastic that way. I highly recommend all of them, even if The Immortals is my favorite of her series.)
- The Clone Republic, Rogue Clone, The Clone Alliance, The Clone Elite, The Clone Betrayal - Steven L. Kent (This is a series but I'm not sure if I can call it "the Clone series." I've typed "clone" so many times now that the word looks strange to me. Anyway. These are science fiction and while I wasn't into science fiction until my later years, I did like these.)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (This book is massive and very philosophical. But I like it.)
- Life Expectancy, Strangers - Dean Koontz (Weird books. I like them anyway. I would actually recommend Dean Koontz as an author in general, his books are often strange but I usually like them, even if I can't come up with many examples.)
- The Giver Trilogy - Lois Lowry
- The Heir Trilogy - Cinda Williams Chima

I think I really like trilogies or something. This list turned out fairly small, but I know the reason, haha.

I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of books in my life. When I was in middle school, I used to check out three books, go home and read them, and bring them back the next day so I could check out three more. Yeah, I was a serious reader.

I've read almost every Goosebumps book that has ever lined the shelves, I've read the entire Animorphs series, I've read the entire Work and the Glory series, I've even found interest in a few mangas from time to time. Because of this, I have so many books swimming around in my head that I often can't recall very many specific books, especially because a lot of them are pretty mediocre. Generation Dead is an example, I disliked that book.

I'm probably forgetting a few, but these are the ones that have stuck with me. And once I have time in my life again, I already have more books on my list to read that I will storm a library for. I guess we'll see what happens. But for now, these are the books that I would recommend to most people.

In other news, I just spent about 15 minutes trying to find a good book that I once read. But unfortunately, Google cannot help me if I search something like, "book about a man who can predict when something bad is going to happen and tries to stop it and ends up with a girl following him around while he is generally hardcore." Shoot.

ANYWAY.
Once day I will make this a more complete list, but eh. These are all FANTASTIC books, in my not-so-expert opinion.


Aaand did I have anything else to talk about? Probably not. Today, I'm going out to collect leaves so I can finish my Nature Experience project for Biology. Not fun.

On the plus side, Thanksgiving weekend after that! Abooyah! I'm going to Colorado with my roommate and meeting her family, which sounds like a boyfriend/girlfriend thing but hey, her mom invited me, so let the 8-hour drive begin!


Sadie's over and out.