My Bookish Life

  Good morning everybody! I'm going to try to put together my December TBR before my day gets really busy. So here goes going to draw two picks from the TBR jar.          So these are the two I picked out of the jar.              So adding the two I picked out of the jar makes my December TBR as follows.                December : TBR 1. The Rise of The Fourth Reich by  Jim Marrs 2. Sleep Writer by Keith Robinson 3. The Man Who Wouldn't Stand by  Jacob  M. Appel 4. The Drawing of The Three : Dark Tower II by Stephen King 5. 2nd Chance by James Patterson 6. London by Frank Tayell       Seeing it all laid out like this I'm thinking that is a huge TBR! All I can say is I will do the best I can to get it all read. Hopefully it can be done!        I plan on finishing the book by Jim Marrs first because it's l...

  November is almost over so I thought I would go ahead and post my reading wrap up. My reading month was not so good this time. I did not complete my TBR this time. I think some of the books bogged me down actually.    The first book I read this month was Homebody by Joanna Gaines. I didn't like it that much. It was like reading a magazine. I expected more from the book.                    Rating: I think I gave it 1.5 stars                   Pages: 340             The second book I read this month was  77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz. This is one of the books I think bogged me down this month. I found it to be monotonous and repetitive. I got to within 50 pages of the end and I just didn't care enough to finish it. Rating : 2.5 Pages: roughly 430 My third book I read this month was The Gunslinger: Dark Tower ...

        I have a little down time so I'm going to try to get this list started. Here is how it's going to go these are just books I read this year not all of them were published this year. I'm going to start at number 6 and countdown to number 1. I am not including rereads on this list.Also, honestly my number 1&2 are interchangeable and I had a very hard time picking one over the other. Without further ado lets get started! Number 6: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Genre : Non-fiction      Rating: 3 stars  Synopsis:  When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996 , he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion . As he turned to begin his long , dangerous decent from 29,028 feet , twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet l...

Happy Thanksgiving ! I really hope the picture can be read by everybody . Hopefully I will be posting a book review and my top six books of the year next week but, I wanted to go ahead and tell you all Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a wonderful time with your families!

         Since this year is coming to a close I wanted to go ahead and post my reading stats for the year. Plus, we have a holiday coming up so I didn't know if I would have another opportunity to put together everything involved in this post. It took me a good while to figure all this out last night so I hope you all enjoy reading it.              Reading Stats For The Year: Fiction: 3 YA: 3 Non-fiction: 5 Graphic Novel: 15 Horror: 4 Bio: 2 Vintage: 1 Fantasy: 1 Cookbook: 1 Genre Read The Most: Graphic Novel Total Genres Read: 9 Total Books Read : roughly 35 Total Pages Read: around 7,007 Goodreads Goal Completed: Oh yes definitely Books I Physically Owned: 26 Books I borrowed from the library: 5 Books I bought on Kindle: 4 Average rating : around 3.5   Hopefully sometime next week I will be able to post what my top 6 favorite books of the year were. I just have more a few more pictures I need...

         Title: 50 Shades of Chicken           Author: FL Fowler          Genre: cookbook           Pages: 158           Rating: 3 stars       Synopsis: "This isn't just about getting me hot till my juices run clear, and then a little rest. There's pulling, jerking, stuffing, trussing... He promises we will start out slow, with wine and a good oiling... Holy crap."    So begins the initiation of a young free-range chicken at the hands of a mysterious, domineering cook. This spoof-in-a-cookbook makes dinner a turn-on with 50 recipes that will enthrall you.     My thoughts on the book: I just finished 50 Shades of Chicken earlier today. I have to say the book is really funny . I laughed out loud several times while reading this! It was light hearted and fun to read.    Several of the recipes in the book...

          Title: The Gunslinger : Dark Tower 1           Author: Stephen King           Genre: Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, western           (I think it combines a lot of genres).            Pages: 300      Rating: 5 stars        So I finished my reread of The Gunslinger : Dark Tower 1 last night. I absolutely love this series. My favorite character of the series in general is Eddie Dean , and he may be my favorite Stephen King character in general, but he isn't in this part of the series. I think my favorite character from this part is probably Roland. He is just such an intense character.       The Gunslinger is a very immersive reading experience. I love the universe that Mr. King has created that involves pretty much all of his books. In case you all didn't know this the vast majority of his books d...