My Bookish Life

       Hello and how are you all doing? I hope you are having a good day. My day has been alright. I have mostly just been at the house cleaning. So yeah nothing has really happened today.    My husband is cooking dinner and while he cooks dinner I want to try to finish my blog work for the weekend. I am going to get a drink and then I will be starting on this. I hope I can make it a good one. Title: Milk & Honey Author: Rupi Kaur Genre: Poetry Pages: 208 Rating: 2 stars Synopsis: Milk & Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femineity. My thought's on the book: Ok this is probably going to be controversial but, I didn't love this book. I know it gets a lot of good reviews but, this one just didn't grab me. I was disappointed in that too because I really thought it had potential because it sounded good.   To be honest I think her words fell flat. That lead to writing th...

   Hello and how are you all doing today? I hope all of you are having a good day. I am having a pretty good day so far. My husband and I went out and had some fun early this morning. We just spent the morning out in town which I enjoyed!   Now I want to do some blogging. I know it's been a while since I done any and I am hoping I can get it all caught up this weekend. I actually have a couple of book reviews to do. So, it's going to be a jam packed weekend!    With that being said let's get this started! I think this first one will be a good one because the book was really interesting! So, I hope you all enjoy the read! Title: The Radium Girls Author: Kate Moore Genre: Non-fiction Pages: 352 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Amidist the excitement of the early 20th century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials for troops overseas using glow in the dark paint that contained radium. They were well paid and considered themselves lucky...

       Hello and how are you all doing today? I hope everybody is having a good day! I am having a pretty good day so far! We all went and had dinner at my mother-in-law's. So that was really nice!    Now I want to do this book review. I think this will be a quick one too for reasons that you will see. I think it's gonna be fun though because you all aren't to used to me giving this type of review. I got my drink so lets do this! Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald  Genre: Fiction Pages: 180 Rating: 1 star Synopsis: The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, and lavish parties in Long Island during the roaring 20s'.  My thoughts on the book: The Great Gatsby = The Great Bore!! I hated it ! I thought it would be a quick read because it's just 180 pages. No those were some of the longest dullest 180 pages ever!  I just couldn't get into it at all. I really wanted to like it beca...

   Hello and how are you guys? I hope you all are having a happy 4th of July! My husband is smoking some ribs and a pork shoulder for dinner tonight and we are going to watch some fireworks and have a few drinks so we will be having fun! I guess it's fitting that I'm also reviewing Takedown by Brad Thor today because the 4th of July is also when the story in this Scot Harvath novel takes place.     I'm having a drink and I really want to talk about this book! I hope this review turns out good because I really liked the book. This might be one of the best Scot Harvath novels I've read so far! I'm having fun so lets get to this review! Title: Takedown Author: Brad Thor Genre: Action/Thriller Pages: 416 Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: In the aftermath of a fourth of July terrorist bombing that has destroyed all the bridges and tunnels leading out of Manhattan, an elite cadre of highly trained Middle Eastern soldiers performs a methodical search to locate a man who holds ...

       Hello and how are you guys? I hope you are all doing good! I've had a pretty good weekend so far. My husband and I went on a date yesterday and that was really nice! We went to this new cantina that's in town and they had really good food!         Now this morning I'm relaxing and I want to talk books with you guys! I'm about to make some coffee and then I will be ready to rock this review. Alright I'm back with my coffee so let's do this!  Title: The Maid Author: Nita Prose Pages: 304 Genre: Thriller/Mystery Rating: 3 stars Synopsis: Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and has trouble reading other peoples intentions. Her Gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules for Molly to live by. Since Gran died a few months ago 25-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. She throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique char...

   Hello and how are you guys? I hope you all are having a good day. I know it's been awhile since I have talked to you guys but it's been super crazy here. I just haven't had the time to do everything I have been wanting to do I'll be honest.       So I want to try to do this book review and hope it still turns out good because it's been a minute since I've read the book now. I have my coffee and I think this is the only chance I'm going to get to do this today so lets do this. That plus I want to try to have a good time! Title: The Swiss Family Robinson Author: Johann David Wyss Genre: fiction Pages: 328 Rating: 3 stars Synopsis: The Robinson's leave their home in Switzerland planning to settle half a world away. But things don't turn out as they expected. The sole survivors of a terrible shipwreck, they wash ashore to learn that the danger has only just begun. Their new world will test their courage, cleverness, endurance and faith as they struggl...

      Hello! I hope you all are having a good day! My day has been pretty good so far! We have had a really fun weekend. My husband and I had a date day yesterday and we went to a new ramen shop. That was an interesting experience because I had never been to a ramen shop before. The food and drinks were good and I had fun! We also did some shopping which was fun!  We are just chilling at the house today. My husband is cooking some ribs on the smoker which will be really good for dinner. While I have some free time I decided I wanted to post my TBR for this month. It's pretty long but, I'm going to try to get it done! The first book I am reading this month is The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. I'm reading it as part of The Ultimate Reading Challenge. My husband picked it to help me fill a prompt. It's pretty good so far! Next I'm going to be reading The Maid by Nita Prose. It's the book pick for our up-and-coming book club meeting so I really need to...