My Bookish Life

          Hello everybody! It's the last day of May so I thought I would go ahead and post my Reading Wrap Up for the month. I think I done pretty decently,  there was only one book on my TBR list that I didn't get to. So let's get started with the breakdown.      The first book I finished this month was  Def Leppard by Willy McGilly. I didn't like this book really.  It seemed like it was a cash grab and some of the facts weren't accurate.         Genre: Biography       Pages: 32       Rating: 1 star      After that I read Wizard and Glass : The Dark Tower IV by Stephen King. I loved this one! It's really dense with amazing world building! It took a long time to reread it but it was well worth it !  Genre: Western, Romance, Fantasy, Horror  Pages: 699 Rating: 5 stars      The third book I finished this m...

Title: Titanic A Very Peculiar History  Author: Jim Pipe Genre: Non-fiction Pages: 121 Rating: 3.5 stars Synopsis: From what escaping passengers tried to take to whether we'll ever succeed in raising the wreck, this Very Peculiar History commemorates the Titanic . It delves into the human stories of this tragedy , along with the background on the ships incredible engineering and design.   Thoughts on this book: Ok I do wish I could have got hold of vcd a physical copy because there is stuff in it that was not in my Kindle edition. Other than that though I did like the book and think it was ok. It did keep my attention for one.      I like the fact that I learned a few things I didn't know about the Titanic.  For example I didn't know that some passengers thought it was possibly an explosion that actually caused the ship to sink and not the actual iceberg.  I also learned a fact I didn't know about the Titanic movie that stars Leonardo ...

Title: Scoop The Poop   Author: Meredith  Masony  Genre: Non-fiction Pages : 161 Rating: 4 stars Synopsis: I woke up this morning in a zombie state. I struggled to get the kids off to school. I talked myself into getting ready for work. I packed lunches, checked back packs, planned crock pot meals, and wished to be somewhere else. Yes , that's right. I wished I was somewhere other than my kitchen listening to my children fight over the last pack of fruit snacks. I dreamt about a life that was less stressful and more enjoyable. These thoughts made me cry on the way to drop off my kids at school. These thoughts made me feel like I was a terrible person. These thoughts made me feel like I was the worst Mother on the planet.      I was ashamed to have these thoughts. I felt like I was failing at life. I was overworked, under appreciated and dreaming of wanting more. Why wasn't I happy? Life seemed to be a chronic shit storm and I was the imbeci...

Title: Wizard and Glass : The Dark Tower IV Author: Stephen King Genre: Western, Fantasy, Romance  Pages: 699  Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Oy find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas , one that has been ravaged by a super flu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace , they hear the squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence is almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long ago and a seaside town named Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old ka-tet mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who- with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn's Grapefru...

Title: Def Leppard   Author: Willy McGilly Genre: Biography     Pages: 32 Rating: 1 star Synopsis: Def Leppard's rise to platinum status rock super-stars may have appeared to be the classic over-night rags-to-riches fairy tale but in fact is the result of six years solid graft and rugged determination.        In this book author Willy McGilly traces the band's emergence from their hometown of Sheffield,  deep in the heart of industrial England,  on the crest of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal to their jet-set lifestyle of today ; from their earliest recording of the now legendary 'Getcha Rocks Off' EP to the multi-million smash hit album,  'Pyromania'. My thoughts in the book: I'm going to be honest I hated it. For one thing it couldn't keep my attention and I found it boring. Also if you look things up you can find out that some of the "facts" in this weren't exactly true.      I think that the a...

      Hello ! I hope everybody is having an awesome day! Mine has been busy but pretty good.             I actually bought some books off Amazon here recently so I thought I would do a book haul post. It's not a big one but I'm  happy with them . I'm really looking forward to reading them.        Book 1 : Scoop The Poop: Pick Your Battles by Meredith Masony  Why I bought it : Meredith Masony is my favorite momtuber,  comedian,  Facebook personality right now. Her and her friend Tiffany also do a podcast called Take It Or Leave It and it's on the website www.filterfreeparents.com. This book is actually on this months TBR and I'm really looking forward to reading this one because I like her parenting advice plus it's probably really funny! Book 2: If It Bleeds by Stephen King Why I bought the book: In case you can't tell by looking at my blog Stephen King is my favorite author and so when...

          Hello everybody! While I'm doing my laundry I thought I would go ahead and post a new segment that I  want to do. I think it will be once a month and what I want to do is try making food from books (not cook books) . After that I make a post about it and give you guys the recipe and review how it turned out.         So with all that being said over the weekend I made the first recipe . I am reading the book Wizard and Glass by Stephen King which part of The Dark Tower series and I found a recipe for Gunslinger burritos from the Dark Tower series. So I decided that was going to be the first book recipe I tried.      Ingredients: 8 ounces venison,  backstrap, or other lean game meat. You can substitute this. I just used a steak. 19 pinches (1 tsp salt) 1 tbsp lard or other animal fat 1/4 cup wild onion or two green onions 1 tsp wild garlic or 1 clove regular garlic minced 1 cup porcini or chanterel...

         Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a good day ! I'm finally back with my May TBR ! Also, yes I found a not so frequently used back ground. Sorry folks I haven't had many options with the shelter in place orders we had going on.          The first book I'm reading this month is Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. I have already started on it . It's part of my Dark Tower series reread.       The second book I will be reading this month is a book called Scoop The Poop and it's by Meredith Masony. It's not in the picture because I ordered it off Amazon and it hasn't got here yet but it's supposed to be here Tuesday. If you haven't heard of Meredith Masony just look her up on Facebook or YouTube she is my favorite mom comedian on Facebook.  Her page is called That's Inappropriate.         After that I'm continuing my summer concert spotlight series. This time I will b...

         Hello everybody! I'm finally back! This time I'm here with my April Reading Wrap Up. I didn't finish my whole TBR this month but, I'm ok with that because it's been a stressful month. With that being said let's get to the wrap up!  1. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager Genre: Horror Pages: 368 Rating: 4 stars     My thoughts on the book: For me it read like an 80s horror movie and I absolutely loved that! It may be one of my favorite books of the year we will have to wait and see how that goes. If happen to like stuff like 80s horror movie you will probably love Lock Every Door by Riley Sager. This was the first book I had read by this author and I for sure want to check out more of there books. 2. This Is Going To Hurt: Music , Photography,  and Life Through The Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx Pages: 2,247 Genre: Bio, Photography,  art , self-help Rating: 4 stars My thoughts on the book: I loved the photograp...

Title: Along Came A Spider Author: James Patterson Pages: 502 Genre: Fiction  Rating: 3.5        Synopsis: A missing little girl named Maggie Rose  ... A family brutally murdered in the projects of Washington,  D.C. ... the thrill killing of an elementary school teacher ... A psychotic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that even the FBI, Secret Service, and the police can't outsmart him- even after he has been captured .     My thoughts on the book: I thought it was alright.  Some parts were really intense which I liked. It could be a little scary at some points too.        Gary Murphy/Soneji is one the creepiest book characters I have read about recently.  The twist with him is very interesting and I didn't see that one coming.  He is certainly a crazy frightening character.          I also liked Alex Cross. He seemed pretty realistically written to me. It d...