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My Bookish Life : July Reading Wrap Up

       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...

My Bookish Life Book Review : We

           Hello and how are you all doing? I hope everybody is having a good day. Mine has been good but busy. I had to work earlier and then clean house. Now the kiddo is preoccupied with some toys so, I want to work on my blog while he is doing that. I have already finished one book this month so lets get to this review shall we. Title : We  Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin Genre: Fiction Pages : 108 Rating: 3 stars     Synopsis: In a glass in-closed city of absolute straight lines , ruled over by the all powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity- until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.  My thought's on the book: This one was an ok read. It wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be but, it wasn't bad at all. As a matter of fact most of it is really well written.  A lot of the descriptions in th...