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My Bookish Life Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt: Music , Photography , and Life Through The Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

Title: This Is Going To Hurt: Music, Photography,  and Life Through The Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx Author: Nikki Sixx  Genre: Art, Biography,  Photography,  Self Help (maybe)  Pages: 2233 Rating: 3.5 or 4 stars     Summary: This Is Gonna Hurt is music, photography and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal band Motley Crue and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries.  A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs,  This Is Going To Hurt is an arresting,  deeply personal look through the eyes of a real rock star at a stark , post-addiction world.     My thoughts on the book: This is another book I read to highlight the musicians involved with the concert I'm being optimistic that I'm still going to get to go see this August.  Even though I can only give it a 3.5 or a 4 this was an interesting read. I would say that it actually blended a few different genres.   First off it's somewhat of a biography.

My Bookish Life Book Review: Lock Every Door

Title: Lock Every Door Author:Riley Sager Genre:  Horror Pages: 368 Rating: 4 stars       Synopsis: No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment . No disturbing other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's  new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew , one of Manhattan's most high-profile  and mysterious buildings.  Recently heartbroken and just plain broke , Jules is taken in by the splendor of he surroundings and accepts the terms,  ready to leave her past life behind.       That leads her towards searching for truths about the disappearances of people and to do that she has to dig into the Bartholomew's past and into the secrets that have been kept within it's walls.  What she discovers puts Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer,  expose the buildings hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her status as a temporary resident becomes permanent.  My thoughts on th

My Bookish Life: April TBR

    Hello everybody! I hope you all are having a good day ! It's April 1st so I thought I would go ahead and post my April TBR. So lets get started. 1. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager    I also wanted to participate in hypeathon this month and this will be a good book to use for it . I have been looking forward to reading it for a long time because I have heard it's really good. I'm  so excited I actually started reading it yesterday. 2. Along Came A Spider by James Patterson       I want to try to knock this book out during hypeathon too. It's one of James Patterson's most talked about books so it fits the requirements for hypeathon. Plus,  it's been on my TBR for the longest. 3. This Is Going To Hurt: Music, Photography,  and Life Through The Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx      This is a continuation of the spotlight series I'm doing for the concert I'm hopefully still going to be getting to go