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 117, Ple

    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 the main characters from the story converge at The Alamo for

         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 reading update! Feel free to share your stats in the com

     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 continue down that path,

       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 completely read and will probably post a review tomor

         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. Paranoia and distrust grips