Progress this Year

I hate to admit it but I have only read 3 books this year! 3! I fail as a bookworm. 

Heres what we have so far this year: 

Beautiful Burn by Jamie McGuire 

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon 

Seven Up by Janet Evanovich 

One of them was a re-read. 

Ugh. 

I got this. I can potentially break that 10 book mark this year.

Like the little engine that could, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" 

Wowzza

I give up so quickly blogging. I've tried doing this so many times. But the ADD kicks and other things absorb my life and things get pushed to the wayside. Its not that I don't like writing, I really do. I miss it actually.

But I've never really been one to stick to something. I give up so easily on things. But I'm going to try my darnedest to not let that happen.

What other things deem me nerdy? What else have I been doing? Simple I've been making things! I crochet. I know that sounds very old grandma-y of me but I find it really relaxing and it allows me to zone out and binge watch Netflix, which is another of my nerdy things. I have a tendency to binge watch entire tv shows that are on there. Once I start I can't help it!!

Heres what I've watched in its entirety:
Gilmore Girls
Archer
The League
Bob's Burgers
Sons of Anarchy (I'm so sad about this one)
Vikings
Outlander (EEEK!)
Game of Thrones

What I'm currently watching:
Grey's Anatomy
Shameless
Peaky Blinders

I'm sure I'm missing some that I have watched in its entirety but hey girls brain isn't working so great these days.

TV, Reading and Crocheting are a great distraction for me. I like being able to zone out and read or watch tv and not worry for that little bit about what is going on around me or in the world (can tell I don't have children can't you?).

Wish me the best of luck I'm off to read!

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Rating: 3.5, rounded to 4
Published: 1990
Setting: Twin Mills 


Jeffery Magee has a normal childhood, two parents that love him and a home to go to every night. That is until that is ripped from him in a blink of an eye. Jeffery is now an orphan with no where to go and craving for a place to call a home. Maniac as he's soon called by the people of Twin Mills, doesn't see boundaries and and friends people on both sides of Twin Mills, the whites and the blacks. Its a chance meeting though of two different people that change his life forever.

I thought this was a great book for a younger audience. I can see why it won the Newberry. This isn't a book that I knew about as a child but I think that my future children will definietly read it. It teaches a good lesson, that there is no difference in skin color, that people are people and live the same way regardless of how they look.

Nicholas Nickleby Challenge

As this is an excruciatingly long book, I'm going to do reviews after each section, or every few chapters. I'm hoping to get this done by the end of the summer, as I am only going to read a few chapters at a time and hope and pray I get through it.

WISH ME LUCK!

**Update 7/2/14**

I've given up already. This is just one Dickens that I don't think I will get to this point in my life. Maybe if it comes up again later in life. But who has time to read books that they don't like? This isn't high school anymore :D 

The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin

The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
4 stars
Published: 2010
Setting: London, England; England; Newport

Cora Cash is described as the richest girl in the New World. And with all that money she can have anything she wants, except a title of royalty. It's when she is of age and ready to take a husband that her mother ships her off to England to do just that, find her a title.

Cora literally falls in the lap of Ivo Maltravers, a duke, while horseback riding. She hopes this is what she ever wanted but it is the title worth it in the end?

I thought this book was good. I like historical fiction and thought that this one was easy to follow with all the different characters. Overall, I would recommend this to someone that wants a light read and not something to heavy this is the one for you.

One year to the day

Odd enough, I just had a thought 'I haven't blogged in a long time!!' Well folks I logged in and sure enough, its been one year to the day since I've posted last.

The question lies, why did I stop. Simple, Life got in the way! I've been busy with life but I'm going to try my damndest to blog more often. Even if it is just a brief post before work. I'm going to spend some time to update the books that I've read in the last year. Wish me luck!

The Magician by Micheal Scott

The Magician by Micheal Scott
3 stars
Published: 2008
Setting: Paris, France

This book is the second book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. Twins, Sophie and Josh are on the run from Dr. Dee, the English Magican that wants to bring the Dark Elders back to this world from their shadow realms. Dee has enlisted the help of Niccolo Machiavelli in capturing the twins and their accomplices while they are on the run in Paris. Little to their dismay, they are out smarted again and they have gotten away again.

I liked this book series. I like this simplicity of it, it reads quickly and is easy to understand. I'm for sure going to finish this series, and would recommend this one to anyone that likes a quick read as well as one that has some adventure and action in it.