My Bookish Life

     Hello and how are you all doing? I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. Mine was pretty good. My house exchanged gifts this morning and then the three of us went to my in-laws for lunch and another gift exchange . The food was really good and we all had fun. After that we came home and rested a little bit and my husband put a prime rib on the smoker for our Christmas dinner and the kiddo and I went to my mom's for a gift exchange. Pretty much my whole family came so that was fun! I ended the day by reading a Blue's Clues Christmas story to my kiddo which was really nice!      Now, the day is ending and I'm relaxing so I want to post a book review that I have been meaning to post for a few days now. I have me some almond milk and I want to talk books ! Let's do this! Title: Gwendy's Button Box Authors: Stephen King & Richard Chizmar Genre: YA Pages: 171 Rating: 5 stars! Synopsis: There are three ways up to Castle View from the town Castle Rock: Route...

    Hello and how are you guys? I'm doing good I hope you all are too. I'm enjoying a day off from work so I want to get caught up on my blog and kiddo and I might go for a walk later because it looks like it's going to be a nice day. For now though, I want to talk about books some !  Title: Sleeping Beauties Authors : Stephen King and Owen King Genre: Graphic Novel Pages: 128 Rating: 2.5 stars Synopsis: A bizarre sleeping sickness, known as Aurora, has fallen over the world, and the strangest thing of all is it's only affecting women. In the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; calling herself Eve and she leaves a trail of carnage behind her. More mysteriously, she is the only woman who can sleep and not get the sickness. My thoughts on the book: Surprisingly this isn't my favorite book I have read this month despite it being by my favorite author. I just wasn't really feeling it at all. That being said it was only 128 pages so...

          Hello and how are you guys? I hope you all had a good day . Mine was pretty good. Kiddo and I had a bit of a day out. We went to the bookstore and we got a cookie. Then we picked out Christmas ornaments. It was all pretty fun ! Then we all went to my mother-in-laws for dinner and to a gas station called Buc-ee's . That place was huge it had at least 100 gas pumps! So I had a pretty fun day !      Now I want to work on my blog some before I have to go back to work tomorrow. I'm chilling out trying to relax and have fun for a bit . So let's do this !         Title: Preacher Book 6 : On Earth As It Is In Heaven  Author: Garth Ennis  Pages: 379 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: In this final installment of Preacher , Jesse Custer make amend with hi girlfriend Tulip. Then seeks revenge against his former friend Cassidy , He does this because of the things Cassidy did to Tulip when he thought Jesse was dead.  Most of...

         Hello and how are you guys? I hope you are all having a good day! I'm having a pretty nice day off. Mostly, I have been resting at the house. We have just finished lunch and now I want to do some work on my blog for a minute.       So we are nearing the end of the year so it's time for a yearly reading stats post! I know it's not exactly the end of the year so I know these stats want be accurate for the whole year . Whatever I read between now and the 1st of January just really want count for anything except my goodreads challenge I guess. So let's breakdown my reading year!         Stats: Books Read: 36 Pages Read: 10,211 Genres Read: 9 Average Rating: 4.02 I think  Number of Books Read Per Genre: YA: 3 Graphic Novel:8 Horror: 9 Non-Fiction: 7 Fantasy: 5 Poetry: 1 Manga: 1 Fiction: 2 Children's (read for blog): 1 Goodreads Challenge: Not completed yet I'm at 36 out 40 .     That's it for this ...

     Hello ! How are you guys? I hope you are all doing good. My husband and I took our kiddo to the Christmas Parade last night and that was really fun. It was pretty cute! The kiddo had a really good rime! After that I read a Christmas story to my kiddo when we got home before going to bed!       I have to work today bur, before I go in I want to work on my blog some. I have had breakfast and I'm drinking my coffee so I'm ready to do this! Let's get started! Title: Preacher; Small Town Blues Book 5 Author: Garth Ennis Artist: Steve Dillon Genre: Graphic Novel Pages: 364 Rating : 5 stars Synopsis:  Preacher Jesse Custer's dark journey to find God  , accompanied by his gun-toting girlfriend  Tulip and Irish vampire buddy, continues as Jesse becomes the sheriff of a small but troubled Texas town. After doing some soul searching he decides it's time to continue his quest to find God and hold him accountable for his actions . But before he can c...

       Hi you guys! I hope you had a good day! My day was pretty good . I did some cleaning but, other than that I mostly rested and did some reading and diamond painting. Yes, I love to do crafts too! However I did tell you guys I would be back with my December TBR so here we go!       Firstly , it being the end of the year I kinda just want to pick some easy reads. Partly because I recently read two roughly 500 page books. Also partly because I have some serious non-fiction reads planned for next month. So yeah I just want to chill for a minute and not read anything huge. In fact I'm mostly reading graphic novels this month.      So the following is my TBR for the coming month. 1. Title : Preacher Book Five: Small Town Blues Author: Garth Ennis Genre: Graphic Novel Pages : 366   I really want to finish my Preacher re-read this month . I love the comic series . It's just crazy fun and a blast to read. I almost have this one co...

         Hello how have you guys been? I hope you all have been good. I know it's been a bit since I have talked to you all but, my work has been super crazy because of the holidays. So that's what's been happening there. I do hope to get a lot of work done on my blog soon though.        Now though, I have finally finished Little Heaven by Nick Cutter and I want to do a review on it . So, I'm doing that this morning. I have my coffee and I'm ready so lets do this! Title: Little Heaven Author: Nick Cutter Genre: Horror/Sci-fi Pages: 475 Rating: 3 stars Synopsis: A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew who may have been taken against his will to a backwoods New Mexico settlement called Little Heaven. Shortly after they arrive things turn ominous. Stirrings in the woods over the tree tops - the brooding shape of a monolith  known as the Black Rock casts a terrible pall...