My Bookish Life

     Hello and how are you guys? I hope you are all having a good morning . Mine has been good but, it's going to get busy later. It's a work day and I also have a ton of stuff I have to do. For now, I have my coffee and I want to get this review posted so lets get to it! Title: We Have Always Lived In The Castle Author: Shirley Jackson Genre: YA/Horror Pages: 146 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am 18 years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I have . I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagnet, and Amanita Phalloides , the death cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead. My thoughts on the book: This was a fast and easy read and I actually really liked this one. I can see why it's a classic! Thi

                     Hello you guys and gals ! How are all of you doing? I'm doing pretty good . I had a fun day out with my kiddo . We did some shopping for a trip and got lunch . It was a fun day.        Now, I want to do some writing for my blog . Which by the way I'm sorry it's taking me longer to get reviews up but, that's because I got a job recently. However, I'm using the money to do things I want to do with my life so there is that. Preacher is one of my favorite comics so hopefully this will be a good review for you guys. With all that being said let's get to this review!   Title: Preacher Book Two: Proud American's Author: Garth Ennis Artist: Steve Dillon Genre: Graphic Novel Pages: 368 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: In this volume Jesse Custer, along with his girlfriend Tulip and their Irish vampire friend Cassidy, head west to a party of Babylonian proportions. Then Jesse flies to France to rescue Cassidy from the clutches of religious fanatics. His

    Hello everyone! How are you guys? I hope you are all having a good day. My day was pretty good. My kiddo and I went to the Farmers Market and we had tons of fun. I was able to buy some fresh vegetables, hot salsa, and some really good honey!       Now I'm home , and I want to work on my blog some. I just finished reading The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett . So, lets get this review started.        Title: The Light Fantastic Author: Terry Pratchett  Genre: Fantasy  Pages: 277 Rating: 3.5 stars Synopsis: Only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision . Unfortunately the hero the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world. My thoughts on the book: This was a decent read. Terry Pratchett was a really good writer. His Disc World series is very vibrant and easy to picture.    Terry Pratchett was also hilarious! I love his sense of humor! There were several laugh out loud moments in this book! I

      Hello, everybody! How have you all been ? I hope you all have had a good day. I have had a pretty good day myself . I took the kiddo shopping and got him new fall clothes and did some Christmas shopping.  Then kiddo and I went walking and he watched me exercise. I have my house stuff done so now I want to post my August TBR!    I'm going to start with some books that are on here just because I really want to read them and then I will play my Bookopolly game for the other picks. I hope this turns out to be a decent variety of books! I'm excited to see what my whole TBR is going to be.    #1. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett , this is one that's on this TBR just because I really want to read it. I have been meaning to get to it for the longest time and I just haven't .  I finally started reading it two days ago.      2. Preacher Book 2 by Garth Ennis, I finally started my reread of this series last month and I wish to continue it this month! I love this series

       Good evening everybody! I hope you all had a good day I had a pretty nice and relaxing day with my family . It was pretty fun ! We went to the park and had dinner with my in-laws. Now however, I want to finish the rest of the blog work I wanted to do today. So now it's time for my monthly Reading Wrap Up!  #1. Title: We Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin Genre: fiction Pages: 108 Rating: 4 stars The first book I finished reading in July was We by Yevgeny Zamayatin. It's a fictional book about the citizens of the totalitarian society OneState. They live out lives devoid of passion and creativity until one of them, Droid-503, discovers he has a soul. Looking back on this book it has stuck with me and I think I liked it more than I thought I did so I think I have to upgrade the books rating to 4 stars. #2. Title# Preacher: Gone To Texas  Author: Garth Ennis Genre: Graphic Novel Pages: 160 Rating: 5 stars! After reading We, I read Preacher : Gone To Texas by Garth Ennis. This was a re

   Hello and how are you all doing? I am pretty good myself . I hope you all are doing good. It's been awhile since I talked to you all but, I have been really busy. However, I have a little bit of time to myself this morning so I want to do some of the blog work I have been trying to do . So let's get this review started shall we?  Title: Halo: The Fall of Reach  Author: Eric Nylund Genre: Fantasy Pages: 340  Rating: 3 stars Synopsis: As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on  Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior , the lone Spartan survivor of another legendary battle ... the desperate take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo- the fall of the planet Reach.    While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains - the planet Reach. Practically on Earth's doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another , higher priori