Musing Monday 8/15/16

Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

I am having so much trouble with my reading goals this year again. I feel bad about it but I am trying not to because reading is supposed to be fun. I still love books, I adore them and I want to read but my time gets taken up by other things. Between a hectic work schedule, busy home life and the need to crochet for some zen time. I am sure at some point I will take more advantage of my kindle reading to me more then I could at least read more while I crochet. I think part of the problem is I don’t like the robotic voice my kindle reads to me in. I should see if perhaps one of the new kindles has a better text to speech option. That might help.

Teaser Tuesday 8/2/16

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along with Teaser Tuesday! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Musing Monday 8/2/16

Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

Thanks to something on Facebook I decided to pick up an old favorite book. It was the top book the year I was born (1983 goodness I feel old) and I have to say I am happy to pick it up again.

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Musing Monday 7/25/16

Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What’s your most favorite “chunky” book? (over 500 pages)

This is a tough one for me because I like a lot of “chunky” books. From classics to more modern chunkers. I think if I had to pick one right this second it would be Caesars women. It is the 4th book in the Masters of Rome series and a very good one.

“His victories were legend — in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his beloved daughter on the alter of ambition. He burned for the cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar’s women all knew — and feared — his power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his fate.”

Now I want to read it again, lol but I will probably read Antony & Cleopatra first..which is another huge book.

Book Review: The Martian (The Martian #1) by Andy Weir

A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man’s struggle to survive.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate the planet while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded on Mars’ surface, completely alone, with no way to signal Earth that he’s alive. And even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone years before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, Mark won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark’s not ready to quit. Armed with nothing but his ingenuity and his engineering skills—and a gallows sense of humor that proves to be his greatest source of strength–he embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive, using his botany expertise to grow food and even hatching a mad plan to contact NASA back on Earth.

As he overcomes one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next, Mark begins to let himself believe he might make it off the planet alive.

But Mars has plenty of surprises in store for him yet.

Grounded in real, present-day science from the first page to the last, yet propelled by a brilliantly ingenious plot that surprises the reader again and again, The Martian is a truly remarkable thriller: an impossible-to-put-down suspense novel that manages to read like a real-life survival tale.

I decided to read the Martian, because the movie got my attention and as those who know me know, I like to read the book before I watch the film. This book was fantastic and I don’t usually go for these kind of space odyssey books. The main character Mark Watney is such a hoot you can’t help but love him and root for him and hope that he gets out of the situation that he is in. Can you imagine how much mental strength let alone the rest that it takes in order to live and survive on Mars completely alone? No one to talk to, no human interaction at all. It is a wonder that he did not fully lose his mind. He did a little bit of course, but that is to be perfectly expected.

This book really is enjoyable. Now if you do not like a whole lot of very well explained scientific data you may not like this book. As much as I loved the book I can admit that occasionally I wanted to have a little bit of a snooze fest during these parts. However, everything else about this book was a win for me. If you have seen the movie and want more read the book. If you haven’t seen the movie still read the book because it is a truly amazing story.

My Gemstone Rating:

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Musing Monday 7/11/16

Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Name a book that was turned into a movie, and completely desecrated (in your opinion)

The golden compass. I mean do I really need to say anything more then that? Did you see what they did to it? I was really excited when they first announced it and then I saw it and it was perhaps the biggest let down on the planet. I have never watched the film again beyond that first time. I probably never will.

Of course this makes me also think about the Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned thing that was turned into a movie. I was so upset about that one that they were cramming two books into one movie I have never even bothered to see it. I refuse to see it. You can’t skip the Vampire Lestat and you can’t cram two books together like that. You just can’t.

Happy Treason Day!!!!

No really Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday America and Captain America. Even if we did commit treason to get where we are today. This is one of my favorite Holidays and not for the reasons many people enjoy it. Oh sure I enjoy the fireworks and BBQ as much as the next gal, but I enjoy the history behind it. I am fascinated with reading books about the revolution. One of my favorites so far has been this fantastic book Revolutionary. Still a review I agree with!

So enjoy the day! Think about the history and the people who continue to defend us and have a little bit of fun!

JasonIssacs

Booking through Thursday 6/30/16


This one is Hosted at the Booking through Thursday Blog.

Do you write in your books? Highlight? In all books or just things like college textbooks?

No I don’t. Not in any book at all. Not in a text book not in any book. I just I can’t I see it as marring the book. I may put post its in the book with notes about things I need to remember or reference later. That is as far as I will go. I know there are many people who go ahead and write or highlight in books but the idea of it always makes me cringe.

I am not even kidding one of my loved ones once purposely sat and highlighted in a book just to watch me twitch, he thought it was very funny. I on the other hand was ready to grab the book from him and run away with it before he could cause it anymore harm.

Booking through Thursday 6/23/16


This one is Hosted at the Booking through Thursday Blog.

Do you own fewer books than you used to? More?

Or do you find the quantity in your library stays pretty much the same from year to year?

(And yes, digital and audio books DO count.)

Well if we are counting digital books then I have way more then I used to. My hard copy books tend to stay about the same because I have the same space for them. Sometimes it jumps up a bit when I clear some space, but with how much I have been focused on yarn and crochet that has not happened as much. My digital library however, well there is no spacial limits on that right? So I have a lot and I keep getting more. I can’t help myself. I especially love the text to speech function on my current Fire. Seems to make it easier to do my favorite thing, multi tasking.

Musing Monday 6/20/16

Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What made you fall in love with reading?

The stories and the worlds that books took me too. For as long as I can remember I have always loved reading. My parents started me on some of the classics like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and I just took off from there. Like all kids, I read hop on pop and other such simple books when I was tiny but I did not stay satisfied with them for long. I wanted bigger books and more exotic stories, along with the enjoyment of comics sometimes as well. I spent many a happy summer reading a collection of comic strips in a book from the library, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs were favorites, still are really.

My love of reading really is that simple, I love a good story. I love living in a world that is apart from mine. I feel the saying you see on meme’s all over the internet these days is true, those who don’t read only live one life. Those who do read can live thousands. A good book will always transport me into it and I feel as if I am walking right along side the characters of the book, living the journey with them whatever may come. It is one of my deepest hopes that I never lose that joy, that I never lose that passion and ability to be transported into another world and live an entirely different life for the span of time it takes me to read the book.

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