Booktastic Nerd

After being so sick for the last month and a half I have decided with a heavy heart that I am not going to post a TBR for the month of April. This is mostly while I continue to recover from Covid. I am suffering from some long term affects of Covid-19. This is a sucky time in my life but I am hoping to still get the opportunity to read a little this month.

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher 5 out of 5 Stars 5 Stars: Absolutely Loved It! A Favorite! A Recommendation to Anyone! A Re-Read At Anytime! Synopsis: The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager. With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the sc...

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher 5 out of 5 Stars 5 Stars: Absolutely Loved It! A Favorite! A Recommendation to Anyone! A Re-Read At Anytime! Synopsis: In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. “But it isn’t all sweetness and light sabres.” Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It’s an incredible tale – from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. My Review: These are my honest thoughts and feelings...

Let's talk about this adorable movie! If you have not seen this movie I highly recommend this. The kids approve of this movie completely and honestly there's one scene that I just think makes the movie. I died laughing when I saw this and couldn't stop. So the synopsis of the movie is this: After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.  And let's face it if you look at the face on that movie cover then you know that that guy is anything that you would think of for a normal bull. He's sweet, adorable, and let's face it he's the best flower child there is. This starts off with our sweet faced bull being bullied by the other bulls in the pen. A sadness happens and I won't discuss it incase you haven't seen the movie yet. Eventually Ferdinand finds his way to Nina. Such a sweet sweet littl...

Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Book Three in the Illuminae Files Goodreads Star Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Average Rating: 4.55 Started Reading: 09/12/19 - 10/3/19 Pages: 618 Publication Date: March 13, 2018 Illuminae Star Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Gemina Star Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Trilogy Overall Rating: 15 out of 15 Stars Rating for Overall explained: I decided since this was a trilogy I was just going to add up all the stars and since it was five out of five for each it was therefore fifteen out of fifteen total stars. So if I read a six book series then it would be blank out of thirty stars. I hope that explains it well. Synopsis: Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven mon...

Gemina by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Book 2 of 3 Page Count: 659 Published: October 18, 2016 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Synopsis: Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed. The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault. Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion. When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a...

This challenge seems to be fairly easy. Oh who am I kidding this challenge is very easy if I am being completely honest. This is a challenge where you read during the four different seasons. I'm trying to honestly remember to post this challenge just the week before it happens unless I'm in need of post then the max it'll come up is one month. I'm trying to keep things simple and updated during all of this. I'll be posting as much as I can to update and that may mean that multiple blogs may be posted during the week other than my once three times a week. I am hoping that this will also encourage everyone to read during these challenges as well. So the dates for the Spring Season will begin March 20th and last through June 20th.  That's a good three months of reading and if I'm still reading five books a month then I should get at least 10 books in. Now normally I would post the books that I'll be reading during this time I can't exactly sa...