Happy New Year

Hello Book Friends,

Welcome to the first post of 2012!  I'm very excited for this year especially in the reading sense, there are so many great books coming out, I just don't know where to start.

Today I put up a couple of videos, a January To Be Read or TBR pile, a my favorites of 2011 and a review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

I also finished reading Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo tonight.  Youtube and Goodreads review coming shortly.  

So off to a good start with finishing 2 books this week. 
I've decided to do two challenges this year, one is a the Goodreads challenge you set for yourself and I set up to read 55 books.  I shouldn't have a problem with this and if I read more than that, excellent!  I am also doing the Big Book Challenge on Goodreads.  It's keeping track of any books that you read that are over 400 pages.  So that's it for me for this year, I don't want to get distracted by trying to meet too many goals because there are so many great books that I would like to read this year, that I don't want to have to push some aside because I won't meet my goals if I read them. 

Here is what I am starting now : John Belushi is Dead.  SUPER PSYCHED about reading this one!

Merry Christmas

Hey book fanatics,

Just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing.  I'm doing great, got alot of great books for Christmas and some excellent gift cards to Barnes and Noble, so I'm very happy about that.  I will have a book haul coming up for you soon.  I'm not making any videos at the moment, kind of taking a little Christmas vacation from filming and enjoying my time off from work and doing some reading.  Have no fear though I will be back very soon and filming again.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and an exciting, happy and healthy New Year!

Last Book Haul of 2011

Hi Everyone,


Well as of right now I've made it to over 400 subscribers on Youtube!  Lets hope it stays that way :)

Here is my last book of of 2011

Where are my subscribers going?

Ok so every day I lose a subscriber on my Youtube page.   I have to ask, What Kind of Crap is That?  did I do something?   Do I smell?  Well even if I did you couldn't smell me through the computer ;) Seriously, I know it has something to do with the new youtube, but its very confusing because I am getting all these emails about people and new subscribers and then guess what when I look at my page there is another one less.  Sheesh!

Well anyway....I had to go to BN today to pick up some Christmas presents and I picked up another book for myself, you know a little Merry Christmas to me present.  So that will also be featured in my upcoming haul. 

I'm really excited for Christmas, I hope that everyone likes what I have gotten for them.  I got my husband a book but it is not one that I would want to read.  I on the other hand am getting nothing but books, movies and giftcards because that is what I asked for.  SWEET!!  I will have some money in January to buy all the wonderfully delicious books coming out.  Now, where can I go to buy some time to read them all?

My books were delivered!

Woo Hoo my books finally came.  So I will have another book haul for you this coming week with atleast 5 books!  I'm really excited for them, but don't I get excited for all books?  So I should be posting that some time over the weekend. 

I'm also reading The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson.  It has taken a little bit to get into but now I am really into it and enjoying it alot.  I'm half way through and I anticipate being able to finish it tonight.

Are you reading any Christmas books this season?  Or have you read any already?  If so let me know what you have read and if you enjoyed it.

Review : The Future of Us by Jay Asher

I enjoyed this book a lot due to the fact that I was the same age as these teens in 1996 which is when the story takes place. I was able to relate to that time and what they were into and that was one of the major reasons that I enjoyed this book as much as I did.

I thought the concept was very good and I was excited to read it, however when I got close to the end I realized this book was going in the exact direction that I though it would. There was no surprise or a ha moment for me. That was a downer to me, it was totally predictable and I didn't feel like the message was very strongly executed as well. Although it was predictable and some parts were a little wishy washy, I did enjoy reading it and I didn't feel like I wanted to stop reading. I did want to get to the end and see the final outcome.

As I said I think a major thumbs up for me in this book is that I could relate to the main characters because I was living through the same things they did in 1997, however if I was a bit younger and some of the technology, music and events of that time were foreign to me, I am not sure that I would have liked it as much.

Book Haul