Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

On Tuesday April 7, 2009 the new Jim Butcher book 'Turn Coat' came out. An event that I had been looking forward to for months, but I was also a teeny, tiny bit nervous, could book #11 in the Harry Dresden series possibly be as good as the others?

As luck would have it I had to work Tuesday morning so I asked G. to pick the book up for me and then bring it by so I could see it (obsessed? maybe) which he very kindly did. Nice, pretty, shiny book. 418 pages. So I get home from work and ready to start reading, unfortunately I didn't get to cuz I had to do the mommy thing first. Grrr, the sacrifices I make for my kids. Finally after a few hours I was able to start reading and I gotta say, you know your getting into something good when you find a quote as beautiful as this:

"Clouds of emotion were interspersed with the flickering campfire sparks of ideas. Heavy flowing streams of deep thought rolled slowly beneath blazing, dancing gems of joy. The muck of negative emotions clung to surfaces, staining them darker, while fragile bubbles of dreams floated blissfully toward kaleidoscope stars." pgs. 21-22

From that to:

"Try to imagine the stench of rotten meat. Imagine the languid, arrhythmic pulsing of a corpse filled with maggots. Imagine the scent of stale body odor mixed with mildew, the sound of nails screeching across a chalkboard, the taste of rotten milk, and the flavor of spoiled fruit.
Now imagine that your eyes can experience those things, all at once, in excruciating detail." pg 22

Here's another favorite.

"There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt." pg. 27

Dang, time to get ready for work. I'll have to come back to this later, there are still about 10 quotes I want to get down here.

Declaration

Declaration - noun - the act of declaring; announcement.

When I was in my early teenage years I used to write down all the quotes from books that I liked on post it notes and stick them on my closet. Then my family moved and I tore down all the quotes and threw them away, a decision I regret to this day.
A couple years ago I started saving all the quotes I liked from books and occasionally movies and keeping them in my computer, which worked pretty well, until my computer imploded and since not everything was backed up (yes, yes, I know better, no lecture please) I lost all my quotes from the last 2 years as well as several book lists and whole bunches of other stuff. Not a happy camper.
So now we are onto the third incarnation of me saving quotes, well I guess fourth because I also have a treasured notebook with quotes, which in theory will get transferred over here as well.

I chose the title of this, my blog for 2 reasons.

1.The 200 books part- I was keeping track of the books I read last year, but alas due to back problems and moving the count got off. I keep telling myself that I am going to go back through the 3 different lists and figure out just exactly how many books I read...right, thats gonna happen...but 200 I think is pretty close.

2.The etc part- I also am a lover of music and occasionally movies so I will be keeping track of those here as well.

So anyway, this will be my compilation of quotes and things that I like and my chance to ramle about all the books ect. that I love since everyone I know gets tired of listening to me. :)