The Orphaned Anything's

An “I'm up, what more do you want from me?” sticker hideously controls the back of Ayden Kosacov’s bedroom door. In his mind what started as a joke is slowly becoming his "glorious and underrated mantra".

Ayden Kosacov is alive, and that is about all you can say. In the throws of a mundane and jejune life Ayden is slowly coming to the realization that if all his world is a stage than he wouldn’t care if he did or did not miss the final scenes. Through an almost "accidental" suicide attempt and the recovery that soon follows, Ayden learns that there is more to living than just being alive. Finding his way through diverse experiences and people he comes to terms with God, his family, and finally himself.

The synopsis for Stephen Christian's 2008 memoir. It is the story of a 'lesser known' and his journey to finding that there is more to living than being alive.

It is written in an odd, un-punctuated way... which I, personally found difficult to get my head around. The read leaves you thinking.

Christian wrote a track list to go along with reading the novel...

• Doves - "Black and White Town (from the album Some Cities)
• The Stills - "Gender Bombs" (from the album Logic Will Break Your Heart)
• Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (from the album Transatlanticism)
• Rogue Wave - "Love's Lost Guarantee" (from the album Descended Like Vultures)
• Sigur Rós - "Starálfur" (from the album Hvarf/Heim)
• Damien Rice - "Blower's Daughter" (from the album O)
• The Innocence Mission - "Happy Birthday" (from the album We Walked in Song)
• Rachel's - "Family Portrait" (from the album Music for Egon Schiele)
• Bloc Party - "Kreuzberg" (from the album A Weekend in the City)
• Animal Collective - "Did You See the Words" (from the album Feels)
• Codeseven - "Roped and Tied" (from the album Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds)
• Blonde Redhead - "Elephant Woman" (from the album Misery Is a Butterfly)
• The Sea and Cake - "Sporting Life" (from the album The Fawn)
• Feist - "Brandy Alexander" (from the album The Reminder)
• Radiohead - "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows)
• Ryan Adams - "Two" (from the album Easy Tiger)
• Nico - "These Days" (from the album Chelsea Girl)