Review of gut splitting hilarity

I didn't get a chance to read her first one but if it's anything like this I'll be buying it very soon! 

She takes a simple life of book and creates a whirlwind of emotions that make you laugh out loud at every turn of the page. 

No matter who you are you can easily see yourself somewhere along the pages. 

Highly recommended

I recieved this book free from bloggingforbooks.org for a fair and honest review. 

Even though the book came in with the cover smashed (which drives me insane) I got over it as soon as I started reading. 

5 out of 5 stars 

A walk in the woods

This is one of those books that I actually watched the movie first & I have to say I don't mind the changes that were made. 
This is not normally a book that I read but I found myself unable to put it down. I also have to say I found that hiking the AT may not be for me. 

I would recommend this book even if you are not into hiking there are a lot of facts about the trail & environmental issues that you would find interesting! 

4 out of 5 stars

I recieved this books free from blogging for books for a fair & honest review. 

5 in 5 for every season review

I don't watch the chew too often so I had to be told 5 in 5 was actually a segment on the show but I do love Michael Symon and the first thing I noticed was that it was relatively easy ingredients. 

This book will be different for my reviewing. I am doing a general one now then each season I will update it so stay tuned! 

Coming soon

I have 2 reviews coming soon so stayed tune!!!

The little paris bookshop & The library at Mt. Char

I have been away from the computer for a long time so I will get them to you ASAP! 

The Fold- Peter Clines

I have to admit that I was in a rush when I chose this book for my next review. With a quick skim of the description it sounded like something I would enjoy and it did not disappoint. 

It's about interdimensional travel that will quickly make you think of Stargate. Obviously the author thought so too as he makes a reference to it in chapter 2 I believe stating how the lead on the project hated the reference. As I continued to read I viewed it as the movies Stargate and The One put together. 

The story has every Sci-Fi thing you would expect from something called The Fold. Dimensional travel, Star Trek references, bug people, dragon & even men in black types. All things a true sci-fi'er wants & needs is delivered. 

Mike is a genius with the IQ of 180 who refuses to follow the stereotypical type for  a profession instead choosing to teach high school English. His name Mike is actually a nickname for Mycroft. Mycroft Holmes in literature was the older & smarter brother of Sherlock but most day he wasted his talents unlike Sherlock who was all about the show. 

Add to it that Mike also has a photographic memory that his "ants" bring out for him when he needs it. 

Reggie is one of Mike's oldest friends & has been trying for almost two decades to recruit him into DARPA. 

Finally he is tricked into taking this assignment that involves something called the Albuquerque Door that let's a traveler be somewhere within seconds. 

The people on the project need more funding but refuse to show any findings to the board so Reggie sends in Mike to report. The people are full of secrets & view Mike as the enemy with his photographic memory refusing to tell him anything about how the made the door work. 

Soon Mike sees some of the travelers come back slightly different & sets out to find out the secrets they are hidding. 

Ultimately the book deals with what happens when you mess with things you don't understand & the ego's that go along with it. 

I give it 4/5 stars. 

I recieved this book free from bloggingforbooks.org for a honest review. 

The Room Jonas Karlsson

A roller coaster of emotion is what you will get when you pick up this book. It is worth a read from anyone who works in the corporate world. 

I'll raise a glass to that!

As a whiskey drinker this book automatically grabbed my attention. 

I have always been a Jack Daniel's girl-calling him my true boyfriend being he was the longest relationship I've had lol- but I have tasted other whiskey's as well. 

Whiskey and bourbon are the same but as the saying goes "all whiskey's are bourbon but not all bourbon are whiskey"

I found this book highly intoxicating, yes pun intended, just for the fact of learning more about the inception of whiskey. 

Go to any liquor store and you will see a multitude of whiskey on the shelf. So many brands and now so many flavores to choose from! And you stand silently as your eyes boggle back and forth trying to choose. I'll take them all, oh wait I am broke so that won't work. 

As I read through the pages each section showing the design work that each label has gone through was interesting to me but to see the struggle that the whiskey distillers had gone through just to stay afloat was dizzing to the mind. I don't think I could have made it through prohibition! 

Each section also ends with the drinks of the area so you also get recipes. 

Even reading about the many distillers and the generations of them found me enticed. 

All and all I have to say that this book has renewed my passion for checking up on some of my past loves including Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, and Maker's Mark just to name a few, but if any of you out there are holding onto a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle's and are looking to share it you will be my new best friend! I am also quite curious to try this High West Whiskey which has blended both bourbon & rye! 

I have other whiskey loves but they are not American & so are not included in this book or this review so time to move on. 

The one thing I will do is have a cigar & whiskey party. Have everyone bring their favorites and enjoy. 

I know my whiskey friends amoung me will highly enjoy this book! 

I received this book free from blogging for books.org for an honest review and I will be buying some as gifts for others! 

The marauders review

A modern day pirate story that deals with the aftermath of Katrina & the BP oil spill. 

Lindquest a one armed man who makes his living, what little is left, by shrimping. He supplements his income by taking a metal detector & selling what he finds which angers the locals claiming he is selling this from the aftermath of Katrina but he is after the big treasure of the pirate John Lafetti. 

In his encounters he crosses a vicious twin pot growing brothers & still has to deal with Grimes who is the associate from BP trying to get the shrimpers to sign a settlement deal but Grimes has a past with these people which gets in the way. 

I received this book free from blogging for books for a fair & honest review

Review of The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones

I felt this book was good but longer than necessary. For the first half I loved it but then it seemed to drag on making me feel like I was reading the same thing over and over again. 

The story is about a free slave who finds herself in Spain. Even though she is free and has papers to say so she does everything that others told her to do. 

Then she is found by a Gypsy man who hears her sing & he brings her into the gypsy world where she quickly becomes friends with his granddaughter Miligros. 

Just when she feels at home the gypsies are rounded up and thrown into jails leaving Caridad on her own. 

The second half of the book concentrats on the struggle between the Garcia & Vega family and how everything unfolds after Miligros is promised to Pedro Garcia in marriage in what she thinks is hope for the families but the Garcia's see it as getting power over the Vega's. 

I have never wanted a character to die as much as Pedro Garcia & felt I was reading just to get to that point. 

I received this book free in exchange for an honest review from blogging for books. 

Updates

For some reason my reading has suddenly taking me longer. I am on the book that was suppose to end January. I only have 70 pages left so look for my January review books in the up coming weeks! 

Updates for 2015 reading challenge!

So I have decided that instead of reviewing my books for this challenge every time I finish one that I will review all my books for the previous month in one blog. 

So for January I will review them at the beginning of February!

The only exception will be when I am reviewing one of them from my blogging for books which the next book will be The Barefoot Queen & I will be starting it the first week in Febuary. 

Happy Reading my Bookworms! 

A bit of my childhood comes back

I absolutely loved the choose your own adventure books when I was growing up. I even pick some of them up now, at least the adult ones, the last being a zombie one which did not  pan out well for me but I loved it. 
I also love Neil Patrick Harris so combine the two and you are in for one hell of a ride that you can go back to time & time again. 

I received this book free from blogging for books for an honest review. 

2015 reading challenge!

I'm doing this! Have 1 book crossed off already starting on the second! Keep it here for all the reviews. I have finished Child 44 & will be reviewing it in the next week when I get a minute. Just know I scored it 5 out of 5 stars!!

Review

It's the new year and like everyone else I've made my resolutions. One being to finally get my house uncluttered! 

I had seen this book pop up on my bloggingforbooks site but it would not open for me to review. 

I waited & waited until the one day it finally did & I snapped it up right during the holidays! 

Perfect I thought. I can go through my house throw away the obvious stuff while I wait for the book to grace my doorstep. 

Well I did not go through my house because it was the holidays & I was busy but no matter once I did get the book I would know where to start. 

So imagine my disappointment to find that the book read like an autobiography and not a how to. 

I came away feeling like I read a book about a woman with OCD that liked to throw away other people shit. 

As a book lover I cringed (she said I would, at least that part was right) at the fact that she wanted you to throw all your books on the floor & only keep the ones that "sparked joy". They all spark joy that is why they are there! 

If I went by her spark joy theory on clothing I would be walking around naked constantly because I would have none left. 

Although I found the majority of the book unhelpful I did find some other parts helpful and may implement them in my decluttering practices. 

For this reason I choose to split the stars down the middle 2.5 out of 5.

I am curious if any of you have already read the book and what your thoughts were? 

I received this book free from bloggingforbooks.org for a fair and honest review.