My Bookish Life

   Hello everybody! How are you all? I hope all of you are having a nice night. I have felt rough but, I actually had a good day .        As you all know in my Bookopolly game this month I landed on the readathon space . Well to fill that prompt I decided to participate in Hypeathon this month. If you haven't  heard of Hypeathon it's a month long readathon where you read a book that has a ton of hype. I think I stretched it a little with my book pick because the book I picked has hype because it's about an ongoing news story but, I have been wanting to read this book for awhile. Title: Filthy Rich : The Billionaire's Sex Scandal Authors: James Patterson, John Connolly with Tim Malloy  Genre : True Crime  Pages: 280 Rating : 5 stars Synopsis: Jeffery Epstein rose from humble orgins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite.  A college dropout with an instinct for numbers-and for people- Epstein amassed his wealth through ...

      Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a good Christmas! I had a great one myself! The kiddo has went to bed and things are winding down so I thought I would try to post a book review tonight! Title: Tell-All Author : Chuck Palahniuk  Genre : Fiction Pages: It was an audio book Rating : 1 star Synopsis:  Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard –inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat  name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless  send-up of Lillian Hellman ’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter –ish narrator is Hazie Coogan , who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie”  Kenton —veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentle...

               I wanted to take a minute tonight to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas! I know I'm looking forward to tomorrow! It will be my kiddos second Christmas tomorrow! My husband is going to make a special breakfast tomorrow and we are going to let the kiddo open his presents . I'm excited and I can't wait!           I hope all of you enjoy tomorrow and get to have tons of fun with your own families! It's  been a rough year because of Covid so we all deserve a little merriment joy ! Merry Christmas everybody!  Blog Update:             I have finished listening to the audio version of Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk.  Depending on how things go I may be able to post a review for it tomorrow.  I have started reading Filthy Rich: The Billionaires Sex Scandal by James Patterson and I think I'm about halfway through it roughly so a review for it will be up so...

            Hello everybody! How are you all doing tonight ? I hope you all are having a goodnight ! I'm having a pretty good time tonight !            I finally finished Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. I want to hopefully get this review up tonight . Let's just go ahead and get started shall we!  Title: Good Omens Authors : Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman Genre: Fantasy  Pages: 491 Rating: 4 stars         Synopsis: People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?      You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. ...

                          Hello everybody ! How are you all doing ? I hope you all are doing great . It's been busy for me . It's getting close to Christmas so it's been very busy with my family.              However, I did tell you all my top 10 books of the year would be out this week so I'm finally publishing that article! I will admit that this years list has been hard for me to make . I had a very hard time deciding what books to put on the list and in what order to do it . So to decide some of that I had a tournament in my mind at least that consisted of the best books I've read this year.              This article took over a week to put together so I hope you all enjoy this top 10 ! For the record #1 and #2 are interchangeable . This list is counting down from #10 to #1 and does include honorable mentions . Here we go lets do this !    ...

                Hello guys ! How are all of you? I hope you are having a good day! I have been very busy today. I had to finish making my husbands Christmas present which I think he is going to love and the shirt I'm going to be wearing to see the Christmas lights , and the parade, and to Christmas dinner. The shirt turned out super cute I think ! So now that I have all of that done I can come and post the reading stats article I told you all about yesterday. I think there was a lot to cover this year so if you are interested this read may take a minute. So without further delay lets get to them!  Reading Stats For The Year: Books Read: 40 Genres Read : 9 Horror: 6 Biography: 5 Fiction: 5 Non-fiction: 5 Fantasy: 6 Graphic Novel: 9 Young Adult: 1 Classic: 2 Children's :1 (yes I've read more to my kiddo I'm just talking about books for my blog here) Pages Read: 12,482   Books that were gifted to me that I read : 5 ( Good Omens was gif...

                                Hello everybody! How are you all this afternoon? I hope you guys are good.  I have had a busy day that could've been better honestly. With that being said I'm finally done with everything so I want to get this book review up for you all!             Title: Guitar World Presents: Rock In Peace      Author: Guitar World      Genre: Non-fiction      Pages : 159     Rating: 3 stars      Synopsis: Guitar World pays tribute to some of music's greatest guitarists.     My thoughts on the book: I think this book was ok . I liked it. If you like reading about music and it's history you may like this too. It's only 159 pages so it's not a long read either. I will warn you that some very bad things happened to some of these people so it can be some what dark. It's just s...

                   Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a good morning . I'm taking a break from house stuff today but I wanted to get my December TBR published. I think I will also take some time today to start figuring out my reading stats for the year and my top 10 books of the year so those will be post you all can look forward to seeing on this blog. So lets get started with this Bookopoly round!                       Ok so my game piece is still on the space where I stopped last time just so you know. My first roll is a 10.          That landed me on Chance. The chance cards are cards that have both good and bad reading prompts on them. The stack is about 50/50 so that's why it's called Chance. So lets see what kind I draw!      I drew a good one! Favorite Genre means I get to pick a book from one of my favorite genres . I know it's...

         Hello everybody! I hope you all have had a good day so far. I have got all my other work done and now I'm back with my November Reading Wrap Up. I didn't get very many different books read this month but, I hope you guys enjoy it anyway.      1. Title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie         Author: Disney         Genre: Children's         Pages: 46         Rating: 2.5 stars       My thoughts on the book: This is one I read to my kiddo. We had fun reading it together but, I really didn't like the story. I thought it felt shallow. If you want a heartfelt children's story pick a different one.                     2. Title : The Dark Tower The Gunslinger: The Journey Begins                Author: Stephen King, Robin Furth             ...

      Hello everybody! How are you guys? I hope you all are having a nice morning. I have a very busy day ahead of me that's for sure. I finally finished my reread of the Dark Tower series so I'm here with a review of the last book. Rereading it took me 1 whole month because that thing is like 843 pages long! That being said it's well worth the time and effort! So let's get to the review!                             Title: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower                 Author: Stephen King                 Genre: Fantasy, Western, Horror, Sci-fi                 Pages: 843                 Rating: 5 stars         Synopsis: The journey ends here this is the last book in the series. Roland's ka-tet is in danger. Susannah/Mia ha...

          Hello everybody! How are you all? I hope you all are having a good night . I'm on page 337 out of 834 pages of my Dark Tower VII reread but I finished this graphic novel and want to review it . I think I will be finished with the Dark Tower VII soon though.  So lets do this. Title: The Dark Tower The Gunslinger : The Journey Begins  Author: Stephen King , Robin Firth, Peter David Genre: Graphic Novel Pages: 160 roughly Rating : 5 stars Synopsis: Twelve years have passed since the fateful Battle of Jericho Hill and the fall of the gunslingers. Since the Affiliation's resistance against John Farson became little more than a faint memory. Since the friends that stood by young Roland Deschain burned to ash in the Good Man's razing of Gilead. But Roland survived...and now he stalks the desert, hunting the spectral Man in Black in his quest for the Dark Tower. My thoughts on the book: I loved this adaptation of this part of the story. I pretty...

           Hello everybody! How are you all doing tonight? I'm still in the middle of reading The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King but, I did finish the book I picked for my children's book roll on bookopoly. So I am here with another book review !  Title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie Author: Disney Genre: Children's Pages: 46 Rating: 2.5 stars Synopsis: Little Roo tries to find the much feared Heffalump and ends up learning a lesson about friendship. My thoughts on the book: Ok so my kiddo and I read this together and that was fun. He seemed to really enjoy it. However, as a story I didn't enjoy it to much.     I found the story to be lacking and hollow. I'll admit when I like a children's book but, this story just felt shallow. There are a lot of Pooh Bear books I think are cute but not this one.      If you want a heartfelt story to read to your kiddo I would look elsewhere. That's not this book. It has nice illustrations but that's...

                    Hello everybody! How are you all doing? I hope you are all having a good day. Mine has been really good so far. I went to the gym this morning and I feel really good like I've been killing it today. The kiddo is asleep so I thought I would post my November TBR and show you guys the surprise I have been telling you all I was going to debut on my blog this month!          Ok so I'm no longer really doing a TBR jar I got tired of it and decided I wanted to change things up. Instead of that , I'm now going to be playing a game called Bookopoly every month. My TBR jar isn't completely going away it does have a space on the board so you will see it again eventually. How this game works is each board space is a different reading prompt/category and I have to pick a book that fits the prompt/category of the space I land on . Also, if I role doubles or land on add a book I role twice instead of once . ...