Owning a Personal Bookstore, or what happens when Courtney starts cleaning on a Saturday night.

For those who know me, they know that I like Harry Potter and Twilight.

For those who know me well, they know that I also have Jane Austen in my book collection, and that Counte of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books of all time.

For those who know me best (the select few), they know my favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, and that I also own manga... in more than one language.

But the true extent of my book collection is unknown to anyone, including myself.... until right now.

So, tonight, on a Saturday, whilst cleaning my room (gasp at that please), I decided to go through my books to see what I should get rid of and to keep... and I figured out that I own a version of Beowulf. I was overly shocked, and felt the need to figure out the EXACT extent of my book collection.

Ready to find out? Because I just dumped three bookcases onto my bed and I'm ready to figure out what's here (yeah, don't ask why I decided to put this on my blog, but here ya go!). :)

Courtney's Official Book Collection as of January 15, 2011
*excluding textbooks and magazines!

A Challenge for the Actor ---- Uta Hagen*
Famous American Plays of the 1950s
How to Audtion for TV, Movies, Commercials, Plays, Musicals*
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting*
Schaum's College Chemistry*
Datine for Dummies*
Molecular & Cell Biology for Dummies
Genetics for Dummies
Chemistry for Dummies
The Forensic Casebook
Helter Skelter ---- Vincent Bugliosi*
The Giant Book of Unsolved Crimes*
The Cases that Haunt Us ---- John Douglas*
Cracking Cases ---- Dr. Henry C Lee*
Cracking More Cases ---- Dr. Henry C Lee*
JonBenet ---- Steven Thomas*
The Death of Innocence ---- John & Patsy Ramsey*
Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? ---- Cyril Wecht*
By Sara Shepard (the PLL series):

1. Pretty Little Liars
2. Flawless
3. Perfect
4. Unbelievable
5. Wicked
6. Killer
7. Heartless
8. Wanted

By Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse novels):

1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas

Masquerade ---- Melissa de la Cruz*
By L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries series):

1. The Awakening and the Struggle
2. The Fury and Dark Reunion
3. The Return: Vol. 1 Nightfall

Twilight Director's Notebook*
By Stephenie Meyer (Twilight Series):

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. Breaking Dawn

By Lynne Ewing (Daughters of the Moon Series):

1. Goddess of the Night*
2. The Sacrifice*
3. Moon Demon*
4. The Talisman*
5. The Becoming*

By J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter Series!):

1. The Sorcerer's Stone
2. The Chamber of Secrets (Hardback and Paperback*)
3. The Goblet of Fire
4. The Order of the Phoenix (paperback)
5. The Half-Blood Prince
6. The Deathly Hallows

The Fellowship of the Rings ---- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers ---- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Perks of Being a Wallflower ---- Stephen Chbosky
Dear John ---- Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook ---- Nicholas Sparks
He's Just Not that Into You ---- Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
By Meg Cabot:

1. The Princess Diaries
2. Princess in Waiting
3. Princess in the Spotlight
4. All-American Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl ---- Anne Frank
Diary of a Teenage Girl: My Name is Chloe ---- Melody Carlson*
Diary of a Teenage Girl: Sold Out ---- Melody Carlson*
Degrees of Guilt: Miranda and Tyrone's stories ---- Melody Carlson*
Knocked out by my Nunga-Nungas ---- Louise Rennison*
How to Stay Christian in College ---- J. Budziszewski*
Everything you Need to Know Before College ---- Matthew Paul Turner*
Harry Potter and the Bible ---- Richard Abanes*
Born to Fly ---- Shane Osborn*
Mandie and the Shipboard Mystery --- Lois Gladys Leppard*
Come Here Often? (Dating Guide) ---- Christopher Hudson et al*
Revelation for Teens ---- Daymond R. Duck
Butterfly Kisses ---- Bob Carlisle
A Friend.... ---- SPS Studios*
The Raising of a President ---- Doug Wead
Smallville: Strange Visitors ---- Roger Stern*
The Client ---- John Grisham*
she said Yes ---- Misty Bernall*
Bleachers ---- John Grisham*
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ---- Mark Twain
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda ---- Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald <3
Emma ---- Jane Austen
Benjamin Franklin, the Autobiography
Ethan Frome ---- Edith WHarton
This Side of Paradise ---- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass ---- autobiography
The Fountainhead ---- Ayn Rand
Leaves of Grass ---- Walt Whitman <3
The Great Gatsby ---- F. Scott Fitzgerald
the Beautiful and Damned ---- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice ---- Jane Austen
The Coquette ---- Hannah W. Foster
The Scarlet Letter ---- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Utopia ---- Thomas More
Persuasion ---- Jane Austen
The Jungle ---- Upton Sinclair
the Other Boleyn Girl ---- Philippa Gregory
Beowulf: a New Telling ---- Robert Nye
The Inferno ---- Dante Alighieri
Babylon Revisited & Other Stories ---- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Save me the Waltz ---- Zelda Fitzgerald
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass ---- Lewis Carroll
Little Women ---- Laurie Lawlor
The Count of Monte Cristo ---- Alexandre Dumas
The Canterbury Tales ---- Geoffrey Chaucer
Blue Smoke ---- Nora Roberts
Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust ---- Jacob Boas*
Rachel Smiles ---- Darrell Scott*
Wolf Star ---- Tanith Lee*
Wolf Queen ---- Tanith Lee*
Sweep ---- Cate Tiernan*
Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell ---- Debra Waterhouse
The Pilgrim's Progress ---- John Bunyan*
Manga:*

1. Mars - 9
2. Kodocha - 2
3. Kodocha - 5
4. Kodocha - 7
5. Chobits - 4
6. Chobits - 7 French
7. Love Hina - 6 French

Disney Beauty and the Beast Children's Book
The Rainbow Fish ---- Marcus Pfister
All for Pie, Pie for All ---- David Martin
At Risk ---- Patricia Cornwell*
The 10 Commandments of Dating ---- Ben Young & Sam Adams*
Dirty Faith ---- Audio Adrenaline <3
more e-mail from God for Teens ---- Claire & Curt Cloninger*
Spanish-English Dictionary (word)
TI-84 Instruction Book
Revolution in the Head: Beatles & the Sixties ---- Ian Macdonald
Behind the Music ---- devotional
Le Petit Prince ---- Antoine de Saint-Exupery French
My Personal Promise Bible for teens*
A Young Woman After God's Own Heart ---- Elizabeth George*
Way to Live: Christian Practices for Teens*
Let Me Be a Woman ---- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion & Purity ---- Elisabeth Elliot
The Dateable Rules ---- Justin Lookadoo/Hayley DiMarco*
I Kissed Dating Goodbye ---- Joshua Harris*
Boy Meets Girl ---- Joshua Harris*
Crazy Love ---- Francis Chan
Eat Smart, Walk Strong ---- Leslie Sansone
Looking Good from the Inside Out ---- Tammy Bennett*
Lose it for Life for Teens ---- Stephen Arterburn*
the Dorm Room Diet ---- Daphne Oz*
the Smart Student's Guide to Healthy Living ---- MJ Smith*
Making the Cut ---- Jillian Michaels
Captivating ---- John & Stasi Eldredge <3
Extreme Faith ---- Tim Baker*
Being a Teen ---- Diane Mastromarino*
A Sheperd Looks at Psalm 23 ---- Phillip Keller*
WDW 4 Teens By Teens ---- Kim & Leigh Wiley*
the Daria Diaries ---- Anne D. Bernstein
The Little, Brown Reader ---- Marcia Stubbs
Live Like a Jesus Freak ---- dcTalk*
Bad Girls of the Bible ---- Liz Curtis Higgs*
Really Bad Girls of the Bible ---- Liz Curtis Higgs*
The Case for Christ ---- Lee Strobel*
I Don't Mean to be Rude, but... ---- Simon Cowell :)
CCSA Book of Poetry 2002 - 2003 ---- my 8th grade class! lol.
CCSA Yearbooks: 2003, 2004, 2007
Disney Solos for Flutes
God of Wonders, Modern Worship Collection
Super Hits of 2002 for Tenor Sax
Pop Hits for Tenor Sax
The Real Story of the Night Before Christmas, the play
Accent on Achievement Book 1, alto sax
Hymns for the Master for Flute
Praise & Worship for Flute
Jazz & Blues for tenor sax
Hymns for the Master for Alto Sax
Praise & Worship for Alto Sax
Quest for Camelot for Alto Sax
Hits for Two for Tenor Sax
My Heart will Go On, and other hits, for Alto Sax
Accent on Achievement Book 2, alto sax
Piano/Vocal/Guitar Musical/Broadway Books:

1. Hero the rock Opera
2. Mary Poppins
3. Grease
4. Beauty and the Beast

Disney Fake Book


okay, wow. That took me 2 hours to do... in case anyone was wondering. Any books with an * behind them mean that I'm getting rid of them (they're currently in a huge pile on my rug, whilst every other book is put back neatly on the bookshelf! Go me!).

So, what can be taken from this "little" experiment? Hmm.... I did a research paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald in 11th grade, and one on JonBenet Ramsey in 12th... I haven't gotten rid of a single book since freshman year of highschool.... I bought a lot of the AP English books because I liked them.... I have a really odd range when it comes to reading books.... that, after all of that, I never counted the numerical amount of books I have. Oops. haha.

Well, there ya have it. I'm gonna go switch my laundry now, get a glass of water, and then go on to work on some more of my room before I do some math homework! :)


on a side note (kinda), responses on this so far:

Me: *sends picture of bed to Jason*
Jason: I'm gonna come book shopping in your bedroom now. Wow.

Jenni: OMG r u crazy. The books are going to rise up and rule the world!

<3

30 day challenge!

SO hi. I started a blog on my weight watchers site (yay two blogs), and really really liked the idea... so I figured I would use it on here two....
It's a 30-day Blog challenge (I found it here: http://community.weightwatchers.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?threadID=1250288 ), and it's suppose to help start a blog and find yourself etc for weight loss (woohoo).
so..

Day 1- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself.

How recent can you get than a Christmas picture, right? The guy I'm seeing took this of me at the Holiday party for the law firm I work at, week 1 of weight watchers. Love the dress, HATE the full frontal photo (thus why the side one is here haha).


Now for facts...
1. I'm less than 2 months away from being 22, and am tired of looking the way that I look (aka ----> that).
 
2. I am on the verge of being in a relationship with an awesome guy (one who watches Glee and texts me about it! YAYY), and am completely happy about it. We've been seeing each other for 2 months, the 1st month being the friend/dating stage, then the second month being the serious stage... tonight's our first Christmas type of ordeal (woohoo again).
 
3. I work 2 jobs, and am currently typing this up at one of them (which has a comfy chair and my own desk... aka not Depot).
 
4. I am an Elementary Education major and working towards my bachelors degree.
 
5. I just made Dean's List with said major. Yeah... I'm really happy. :D
 
6. I have an obsession with the brand Aerie, which makes women's undergarments (geared towards the twenty-somes), workout clothes, pjays, shirts, winter wear, and cosmetics. It's my love and I can easily spend about $100 there every time I walk in the door...
 
7. I also have an obsession with cute office supplies, especially post-it notes, and my office desk (and bulletin board) are COVERED in different colors... I got a bunch for Christmas, and cannot wait to add them to the array.
 
8. I'm starting to learn how to cook... and bake both. Very very slowly, but I'm working on it. Last week, I made (with the help of the gentleman mentioned in #2) Chicken Cordon Bleu... and it was OH SO DELICIOUS. Like Siriusly. omg. wonderful. And I love making Red Velvet Cake as well... besides that, uhh, I can burn chocolate really well. As I said, working on it.
 
9. I love pretty dresses. But I can only wear 1 style, which has to be an A-line (think of a ball gown) skirt, and usually needs a halter with it. I like the poofs lol. My goal for losing weight is to be able to wear pretty dresses and skirts much more often than I do now (hooray for self concious).
 
10. I'm very picky with my style... I hate prints, and will not wear them... especially if they look like triangles because they make me look bigger. (gross)
 
11. My favorite story is Beauty and the Beast... for Christmas, I got 9 items regarding said movie.... a Lenox Belle, a Snowbabies Belle, a Jim Shore Belle/Beast, two reusable shopping bags, a Belle bell ornament, a Children's book with the story, the DVD, and a scarf (that I have yet to figure out how to work). I'm a happy Courtney.
 
12. I love to read and I go through books like there's no tomorrow... currently working on the Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged, so it's 117 chapters), it should take me a little haha. I started it 2 days ago, and am about 150 pages in.
 
13. I love ribbons. They're wonderful accessories for the hair... if cut long enough.
 
14. I love bright colors, except if I have to wear them. I feel that bright colors are better to be looked at... for instance, my favorite color is lime green, but you are seriously mistaken if you think you will catch me in a shirt that color.... dark green, yes, lime green? hell to the no.
 
15. I am a die-hard Philly sports fan... and am going to go watch the Eagles kick ass tonight with my guy at Buffalo Wild Wings, and am extremely excited about the prospect of it all.
 
 
 
 
So yeah, now let's see if I'm any good at this whole updating EVERY day thing, shall we? :)