A Collector's Dream: A Record of My Vinyl: A Collector's Catalog

A Record of My Vinyl: A Collector's Catalog is a unique guide/journal that provides record collectors with useful information as well as a way to properly catalog their vinyl collection. The book includes a few pages that talk about how to care for your vinyl and how to grade your vinyl.

Much of the journal is made up of pages where you can collect information about each record that you own. The entries allow you to add the artist, album, label, catalog number, country, year, grade and liner notes. At the top of each page you can also assign a category to the group. If you are missing something from your collection, the back pages are for listing your most-wanted vinyl titles. These pages are perforated so you can remove them so you can refer to them when you vinyl hunting.

The best part about this journal is the cover. It is made to look like it has a record on it, but it goes a step further to have the raised grooves on it just like real vinyl. It is a high quality journal that any record collector would want to have to complement their collection.

You can check out more information on this title and on the author.

*I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

NaNoWriMo 2015 Has Begun

Let's just start off with good news: last year I won NaNoWriMo. The bad news? I tried and failed to capture the process with a Vine video a day. It didn't go how I planned. Maybe if I would have had a full-time camera person and production team, I would have got what I wanted out of it. Oh well. Moving on...

This year, I'm going to chronicle the process by doing what I do best: writing. I'll be keeping and posting a NaNo journal to go along with this year's project. Yes, that's more writing--I'll be typing away morning, afternoon and night. So be it.

Without further delay, here are the first two entries for NaNoWriMo '15: Embarking on a Journey to Greatness (I'll work on the title...)



November 1:
I didn't start writing a word on this novel (Small Town American Life) until almost four in the afternoon. I thought the time change would provide me an extra hour of writing, but it just provided me with an extra hour of procrastination. And then there was the whole DVD fiasco. I post this on Twitter:

Why does #NaNoWriMo always fall on the same day as my annual DVD shelf rearrangement? 😄 #seriousstuff #notstalling

— Terri Deno (@TerriDeno) November 1, 2015

And I was serious. I like things the way I like things. I haven't bought a new DVD in eight months, but there was a bunch of rearranging and trading of furniture in the house this weekend, so with a new shelf comes a new way to organize the DVDs. And yes, I may have made this too much of a priority over the writing, but the writing still emerged.

I had to give up the luxury of using my computer for those first 683 words. I used the netbook and wrote directly into an email because I just had to stream a movie from TCM on my laptop. Had to. Tomorrow, things will be better. I'll be able to catch up.

It's frightening to be behind on Day 1.



November 2:
I have a tag line! Since I have some writing buddies for NaNo this year, I thought I would actually fill out all of the info on my novel's NaNo page.  Here's what I have:

 One summer. Six people. What really goes on behind closed doors in small town America?

I thought about posting an excerpt too, but since I drop an f-bomb in the first 500 words, I'm not sure about that. What I am sure of is that I hit 3396. Yeah, that's right. All caught up and then some on Day 2!

How sad am I about Colbert?? I think it's a shame that the Democrats wouldn't put him on the ballot in SC. I mean, this could have truly been a revolution in the election. I'm not saying that Colbert had a chance, I'm just saying that by doing this, he was showing a younger generation about how all this works. And he got a lot of people interested in voting as well. But sadly, there will be no President Colbert (of South Carolina) in 2008. Oh well. Now I have to find a new candidate to support.


I finished Dispatches from the Edge. It was a total mind-blower. Not only was it good writing, but it had a purpose and didn't beat you over the head with it, like some non-fiction titles do. Of course now I feel like I'm wasting my life by not going out and seeing all the suffering in the world compared to my little problems. Though, it has inspired me to write more eloquent prose when I write personal things instead of writing journal entries that still sound like a 14 year old wrote it. Right now, I only write decent, mature things on this blog... and trust me, this also sounds like a 14 year old writing. But trust me, I'm pulling out of awkward phase (I hope!).