Review: Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

 

I have finally tackled this chonking beast! It took me two weeks reading with my eyes while listening to it on audio at 2.3 times speed. I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars and enjoyed most of it besides the racial slurs and slavery. I remember growing up and my grandma always watching the movie and then in school learning that it was a book. Thankfully I didn't have to read this in school because I would have failed immediately.

I feel that this is a pretty well known story. It's about Scarlett O'Hara and she grows up during the civil war and she is from a well known family. What I didn't know is that the whole book she would be pining for one man till the very end. She gets married three different times which was frowned upon back in the old days and she does not give a flying fuck what anyone thinks of her. She secretly care what those closest to her think, but overall she was a self centered brat. The one thing that I applaud her on was getting into business with her two lumber mills because she refused to rely on her second husband to keep her fed because he refused to get his money from people who owed him. 

Library Haul and Currently Reading// Sunday Post #68

 

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

This post is being posted so late but at least it's up and I feel productive. I feel that I have to share my progress on my summer reading challenge because I posted my entire 24 book TBR in my top ten tuesday post last week and I am so excited to get to the books and update ya'll with my progress. If ya'll haven't read that post, go here.

I have finished a book off of that TBR and that was Gone With the Wind. It took me two weeks to read it and I have it a 3 out of 5 stars. I know the book is very problematic with the slavery and racism. But there is no denying that Scarlett O Hara was a badass. Of course she was the worst when it came to people and a decent human being but she took care of her business. She became a business woman and did not give a flying fuck who didn't approve, she refused to go hungry again.

After that I picked up my first Lucy Score book Pretend You're Mine and I read the whole book in a little over 24 hours. I was obsessed. I am a sucker for any military romance and if you have any recommendations, please leave them in the comments. I did not want to put this book down for any reason. My kids and husband were the biggest distractions and I let them know it. I told them that my responsibility of cooking was about to be nonexistent because I did not want to stop reading. I ended up cooking and going back to the book. I got laughed at but it showed my hubby that I was obsessed because the day I finished it, we went shopping and he bought me my own copy. Sadly books 2 and 3 were not in store.

Since finishing that, I have read a couple pages from my next read The Catcher in the Rye. And that leads us into the library haul. I have a stack of classics that I wanted to get to this month but Gone With the Wind took most of the month, and I wanted to have a good classic list update for my year 3 classic club challenge update. Anyways here are the books that I will be reading this week and next month.

I hope everyone has an amazing week.

BLOGTOUR: The Nasty by John Lees and Adam Cahoon

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE NASTY: The Complete Series by John Lees & Adam Cahoon Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: THE NASTY: The Complete Series

Authors: John Lees & Adam Cahoon (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: May 28, 2024

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats:  Paperback, eBook

Pages: 200

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/THE-NASTY-The-Complete-Series

The Ring meets Empire Records in THE NASTY, a coming-of-age horror story splattered with dark comedy, as a group of horror movie-loving teens bites off more than they can handle when the most sought-after video nasty ever slips through their fingers, and they are forced to film their own video nasty slasher movie – where evil, screams, and nightmares bleed into reality

Keep telling yourself: “IT’S ONLY A MOVIE!!!
Isn't it?

Scotland, 1994.
Eighteen-year-old Graeme “Thumper” Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favorite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his friends and fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” — films so scary they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn.
But it’s only a movie, right?
It’s all just imaginary, isn’t it?

The Nasty is a story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR! Become a bonafide member of The Murder Club: pick up this book!

For fans of Stranger Things, Stand By Me, IT, The Monster Squad, Donnie Darko,Empire Records, My Best Friend’s Exorcism and other books by Grady Hendrix, fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, Little Monsters (Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen), The Closet (James Tynion IV), The Me You Love in the Dark (Skottie Young & Jorge Corona), Giant Days, Afterlife With Archie, Killadelphia (Rodney Barnes & Jason Shawn Alexander), and Proctor Valley Road.

PRAISE FOR THE NASTY:
Horror Comics To Watch For in 2023 - Fangoria

“There is no other title I have been more excited about than this because it is a love letter to horror while tackling the conservatism we are seeing rise in pop culture today..." - Fangoria

“The Nasty is a bloody valentine to slashers and the outsiders who love them.”– AIPT

“The Nasty is a love letter to slasher flicks and a generation of kids who loved them. Tender, funny, surprising, endearing, with an emerging horrific twist. We had Faces of Death as the taboo underground horror tape that was whispered about but it wasn't cursed. The Nasty takes a fun nostalgic trip down memory lane and elevates it to a new level of horror. – Lotusland Comics

About John Lees:

John Lees is an award-winning comic book writer from Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for his work on acclaimed horror series AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE, with artist Iain Laurie, and hard-boiled Glasgow crime saga SINK, drawn by frequent collaborator Alex Cormack. Currently, Lees is the co-creator and writer of THE NASTY from Vault Comics. John's other credits include superhero drama THE STANDARD, serial killer thriller OXYMORON: THE LOVELIEST NIGHTMARE, psychedelic nightmare quest QUILTE, and a story for TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES UNIVERSE. His latest projects are MOUNTAINHEAD, a snow-
swept thriller from IDW Publishing, working with artist Ryan Lee, and HOTELL, a horror anthology series from AWA Upshot, featuring artist Dalibor Talajic.

Newsletter subscription: www.deep-ender.johnleescomics.com.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/johnlees

 

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About Adam Cahoon:

Tuffs, Origin House: Spa and Retreat, and Anomaly, as well as his design work with Second Rocket Comics. His other credits include the fan comic Silver Surfer Grey, and the forth-coming I Was A Teenage Ghost Rider. He has design work as well as short comics in the forthcoming books Everything Is Different Now from Justin Richards, Morsels by J Donahue, and Dead Blood by DB Andry.

Website | Twitter | Instagram

 

 

Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive finished copies of THE NASTY: The Complete Series, US Only.

Ends June25th, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

5/27/2024	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt/IG Post
5/28/2024	The Momma Spot	Excerpt
5/29/2024	@darkfantasyreviews	Excerpt
5/30/2024	Fire and Ice Reads	Excerpt/IG Post
5/31/2024	Sadie's Spotlight	Interview Adam Cahoon/IG Post
6/1/2024	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt

Week Two:

6/2/2024	@thepagelady	IG Review
6/3/2024	GryffindorBookishnerd	IG Review
6/4/2024	Comic Book Yeti	Interview John Lees/X Post
6/5/2024	Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer	Review/IG Post
6/6/2024	@evergirl200	IG Review
6/7/2024	@stargirls.magical.tale	IG Review
6/8/2024	@sparks_books	IG Review

Week Three:

6/9/2024	Books and Zebras	IG Review
6/10/2024	The Book Critic	Review/IG Post
6/11/2024	FUONLYKNEW	Review
6/12/2024	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
6/13/2024	nerdophiles	Review
6/14/2024	Brandi Danielle Davis	IG Review/TikTok Post
6/15/2024	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

Week Four:

6/16/2024	@enthuse_reader	IG Review/TikTok Post
6/17/2024	@dana.loves.books	IG Review/TikTok Post
6/18/2024	@jaimes_mystical_library	IG Review
6/19/2024	jlreadstoperpetuity	IG Review/TikTok Post
6/20/2024	Two Points of Interest	Review/IG Post
6/21/2024	Lifestyle of Me	Review

Top Ten Tuesday: Summer 2024 TBR

 

 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

This weeks topic is an easy one because I have made a TBR for the summer challenge that the 52 book club is doing. It is olympics themed and I am excited, so instead of ten, I am going to share all 24 books that I hope to get to for the rest of June, July and August. If anyone wants to buddy read with me, I would love to. Just hit me up on Goodreads or my Instagram.

1. Set in Paris:

2. Flame on the cover:

3. Go for Gold:

4. 100M sprints: short story collection

5. Longjump: audiobook 15+ hours long

6. Steeplechase: character is a spiritual leader

7. Boxing: strong opening hook

8. Wrestling: a heavy read

9. Fencing: dialogue with wity banter

10. Balance Beam: finding balance in life

11. Uneven Bars: series with uneven number of books

12. Rings: jewelry on the cover

13. Synchronized Diving: sports romance

14. Water Polo: book that made a splash

15. Butterfly: plot featuring butterfly effect

16. Road Cycling: time period without modern transportation

17. Team Pursuit: featuring a group of friends

18. Cross Country: related to the word Endurance

19. Handball: author shares last name with an olympian

20. Volleyball: set in country that wins 2024 gold in volleyball

obviously wont know until August

21. Football/ Soccer: double letter word in title

22. Four Olympic Rings Colors on the cover:

23. Author who hasn't released book in 4 years:

24. Memoir/ Biography about olympian

Review: A Soldier's Revenge by Matthew Dunn

 

Continuing this series that I started mainly because I owned book 4. This is book 6 and the second to last book in the series and sadly this one was just not what I wanted. The end of book 5 had the best ending with Will Cochrans team being brutally murdered in their own homes, so I was expecting him to be getting his revenge for their deaths in this. Sadly that was not the case as this installment starts off with Will waking up in a hotel room bloody with a dead woman in the bath tub. His DN is everywhere and he goes on the run. 

We get POV's from detectives on the case, the guy who is behind the whole thing to get revenge on Cochran and we also get POVs from CIA who call Cochran a dog because he is no longer useful and that the government is his master who kicked him out into the cold. These chapters just rubbed me the wrong way because it is the perfect summarization of governments not giving a damn about the people who fight to protect us and when it comes time to protect them, they just get told no, you are not worth it.

I was also very pissed at Cochran because even after he knows that the murder has become public and that he is wanted, he is still showing his face in public and running. He just digs himself a bigger hole which just boggles my mind that he was this bad ass assassin and soldier that he would be making these dumbass decisions like taking hostages.

Also the whole New York scene at the end showing up in a chinese restaurant just to jump off a bridge to fake your own death was just dumb. I am hoping that book 7 is better and that this series will end off on a good note. I was going to read the two books that come before book three and book four, but this installment has made me lose interest and I am only interested in finishing this series. 

Summer Vacation// Sunday Post #67

 

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Long time, no talk. I haven't done a Sunday Post in two months. There has been a lot going on but not a lot going on. Work, school work, paying bills, gardening, summer school, and swimming. Since our school year ended on May 6th, I have had anxiety about how the summer would be. There is so much I have wanted to get done and to do, that I am having trouble focusing on one thing and then I stress out about doing something and not doing other stuff that needs to be done. 

The past two summers I babysat and since I am no longer doing that because I do not need that stress and drama back in my life. I feel that I have too much time and to little time. We are a month into summer vacation and August 5th will be here before I know it and we will be starting another school year. 

All that to say is that I am enjoying my time and relaxing and trying to catch up on sleep, but my brain just wont shut up and I want to get stuff done. I am a walking contradiction.

Started reading Gone With The Wind on Wednesday and I am a little over 100 pages in and enjoying it so far or just the courting and frolicking between the families. I am so into Bridgerton at the moment and it is giving me Bridgerton vibes. 

Review: Daughter by Kate McLaughlin

 

I am so behind on my Netgalley reads. My approval rating is so atrocious and I got this copy from the read shelf in 2021. I need to buckle down on all of the books on my to read shelf. I gave this a three star rating. At first, I was really enjoying this because thrillers go by really fast for me because I can't put the damn thing down. That was the case for me, but we follow a high school student who is so into boys and partying and smoking pot. She is annoyed with her mom because her mom is paranoid and won't let her do anything or go anywhere.

One day, Scarlet is on her way home from school with a friend and they chill at the house while smoking more pot and then an FBI agent knocks on the door and asks to speak with her. He tells her that she is the daughter of a man kown as the Gentleman killer. Her whole past comes out and her mom reveals everything. 

Scarlet's dad is requesting to see her on his death bed because he is dying of pancreatic cancer and he will only reveal the names of the rest of his victims to her. This book is one massive party, serial killer meeting with dear old dad and hanging with friends while trying to stay away from paparazzi and crazed fans and angry and grievinf family/friends.

There was a point where I actually thought that the dad had been framed and that the FBI agent was the true killer, but the dad was just gross. He would play with Scarlet and her mind with every meeting. He would see himself in her with every snappy comeback or string of cusswords she threw at him. He was a really sick individual because he was into necrophilia and that was mentioned constantly. He named his daughter after his first victim which is more disturbing.

The ending was beyond fucked up and it still left me with questions. And it also lost another star because the ending just was not satisfying.