The Lost Girls!

Omg I just finished The Lost Girls by Heather Young! It may have taken me forever to get my hands on it from the library but once I did I couldn't put it down. I read it in two days, mainly while I was at work so if you think about it I read it in 8 hours. Seeing as I only work four hours a day. I never would have guessed that is was the authors debut novel. It was gripping for sure, I knew that a little girl went missing but you have to read the whole book to figure out what happened. It is told from two perspectives, Lucy and her great-niece Justine. It is also told while Lucy was remembering her past while Justine is trying to deal with her future. When it starts Lucy has passed and given her house to Justine. Justine sees this a chance to start again with her two young daughters and to get away from her boyfriend. As the story progresses we learn about Lucy as a young girl when she would come to the summer house on the lake with her two sisters and parents. I won't spoil the ending but there are some underlying issues with the sisters and father. Meanwhile Justine has to contend with her mother and her boyfriend who have both found her. The boyfriend tries to get her to come back to him saying that she needs him and he can't live without her. In the end, Justine finds out what happened to her other great aunt Emily ( the missing little girl) and also finds her own footing and place in the world without her mother and crazy boyfriend. I definitely did not see some of the twists coming in this book that's for sure, and they didn't come until the very end where the author tied up the loose ends very nicely. I definitely recommend this book, and I would like to add it to my library collection as well.
I am getting ready to start In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. I have previously read The Woman in Cabin 10 by her and I really loved it a lot. This was her debut novel and I hope it is as good as her second book. I did some research and she will be having a new novel come out in late July this year I am anticipating this as well. I also heard that Reese Witherspoon will be directing the movie that is going to be based on the book, I can not wait for it!

New Hair, New You

I once heard that if a woman cuts her hair she is changing her life. I am not changing my life but I did cut my hair...OFF! I cut off about 8 inches and it feels so light and healthy again. I miss my long hair but when its long and thick it gives me really bad migraines and that is not going to work for me. I guess I also am changing my life I started using our treadmill again, I know that I need to get healthy and walking is a way to start. I hope to go from walking to running. I will go slow as to not over do it but some encouragement would help. I know I can do this!
I have a complaint about the library I think that if no one is reading a certain book whether it is considered new I should get to check it out, but no I can only check out one new one at a time, Hello I have a TBR list growing and they are putting a kink in my mojo lol.
I recently started reading the Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris, and so far it follows pretty closely to the True Blood TV Series ( which I have watched every season).
I finished reading All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, and let me tell you that is one book that I want to own so that I can go back and read it again, and then again from the end to the beginning. I know that doesn't make sense but the author tells the story backwards. From day 15 to day 1. This book is about a  breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young girls ten years apart told in reverse. Nic is back in her hometown to tie up loose ends with her sick father but while she is there old memories float back to her about her best friend that went missing from a county fair ten years prior. Then within days of her return another girl goes missing.  Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago. I won't lie at some times in the book I was confused because it was told backwards, but then when you get to the next chapter you realize what's going on the day before. Like I said I want to own the book so that I can read it again and then read it from day one to day 15.
I have checked out The Lost Girls by Heather Young, In a Dark , Dark Wood by Ruth Ware and Wicked Games by Lisa Jackson from the Library.
Is it bad that I have my list of books to check out when I return these already wrote up?
I know most people can read more than one book at a time but I am one of the special ones that can. I am reading Homecoming by Rob Aspinall on my tablet too. I don't know how but I don't get my books mixed up. My best friend told me I have got to get a hobby lol but I like this one, it keeps my mind active and gives me something productive to do. I am keeping a running tab of the books that I have read so far this year and I will post that soon. I have read seven books so far this January.

What I've been up too..

  Its been a week already and it's just Thursday! I have cooked all week and the white trash sliders that I made were not on my to make again list at all. They tasted like cheese dip on a bun. But the breakfast casserole is definitely to be made again, its even good as breakfast the next day. Tonight is the grilled chicken and crock pot potatoes. I hope they turn out good, I left them cooking in the crockpot while I came to work.
  I  excited about tomorrow, I am chopping my hair off. I need to its getting too heavy and giving me headaches worse than ever. I usually only cut my hair once a year lol, and usually in January. I will post a before and after picture later.
 I have read three books since last time. Luckiest Girl Alive, Most Likely to Die and We Were Liars.
 Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll was better than I expected. I had a lot of reservations going into it because of all the hype about it. I wont lie it took me a bit to get into it. It didn't pull me in with the first few pages like most books do. I kept on reading because I can't start a book and then not finish it. I did like how the backstory played into the story. I wont lie I didn't really care for the main character based on her present self, I mean I understand why she reinvented herself but to think that having material things would make you feel better about yourself and make you feel important is just lying to yourself. I liked to how she finally got to tell her story. I wouldn't have wanted to be friends with the people that she wanted as friends I mean they seemed so shallow. I never expected the book to be about a school shooting and they made me realize that it happens more than we think, and the reasons are just as simple as someone bullied me so I am going to go shoot up my school in retaliation. I recommend this book for many reasons. One: just know that you cant run from your past and try to reinvent yourself, if always comes back to bite you in the booty. Two: having material things will not make you a better person than someone else. Three: if you feel bullied please talk to someone and get help. I was not disappointed with this book I am happy to say!
  Most Likely to Die by Lisa Jackson was a wild ride! I like how it was told from three friends perspective about what happened that night 20 years ago. I like how it all is resolved at their reunion  and in the end they all end up with a person better than they were after in school. I never saw the ending coming, I had already picked who I thought the killer was and I was totally off base. I can see why she did it. When I say that it was told from three perspectives; I mean three different authors wrote the book, I think that's what made it so good. You got to sample three different authors style of writing while trying to figure who is killing all the girls that associated with the boy that was murdered at the Valentines Dance in High School. It kind of made me want to go find some books wrote by the two other authors. I will definitely be reading more of Lisa Jackson, she does suspense very well!  
  We Were Liars by E. Lockhart was a mystery from the beginning! I wont give any spoilers because that would give the whole book away. This book is a bout a family that spends their summers together on the island. Its about a being rich, bribery, lying, hiding the past, love, sacrifice, forgiving, and good intentions gone wrong. I think you will either love or hate this book. I wasn't sure about it when I started reading but as I kept going I started to figure some things out. I can say that I didn't like the sisters in the book, and the grandpa was a racist old turd! In the end it all made sense and you have to read it to find out things. the blurb on the back tells you nothing about the book. And if you do read it and someone asks how it was or how it ended LIE, so that they have to read it too.
  I am starting How To Hang a Witch by Adriana Mathers. Its a New York Times Bestseller and soon to be made into a movie, so I feel I need to read it before I see it. Its about the Salem Witch Trials and I have always been interested in them. I can't wait to read this book.

Ready for the Weekend!

Whoa it has been a busy week and at the same time it hasn't been at all, if that makes sense at all. I guess its because the news keeps saying that we are getting a lot of snow and ice and all that jazz and in reality we probably wont get anything. I would be okay with that considering that I work on Saturdays now, I have to be able to drive in said weather.
   I get to cook next week at the house and I had to decide on a menu and that is an awful task let me tell you, but I did it. we are going to have tortilla wraps and  pasta salad, slow cooker chicken crack, breakfast casserole, white trash sliders, grilled chicken and slow cooker potatoes, BLT's and tuna salad wraps. I will include the recipes and pictures in the bottom of this post. I like to have a picture of what I am supposed to be cooking so I have a reference lol. Also I like to have a picture because if it doesn't look good I don't want to cook it.  The pasta salad is a recipe that my mom use to make for my dad when I was little. Its so good, you can make a batch and eat on it for days; the longer it sits in the dressing the better it gets too!
   So I have finished Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I don't know what to say. I had to sit it aside and think about the ending once I was done. The way the author wove everything together was perfect and simple at the same time. I never saw the ending the way it was I had my mind made up about who did it and boy was I wrong. I guess it goes to show you, you never really know who your true friends are and why they ones that try to be your friends do just that; try to be your friend. About the book: Kate is interrupted at work; where she is a lawyer who is never at home,  by a call to say that her daughter Amelia has been suspended from prep school, for cheating on a English paper which is her best and favorite subject. Amelia is a perfect student and never does anything wrong.  As she arrives to take her home she is greeted by sirens wailing and ambulance lights blazing. The cops and the headmistress tells her that her daughter has jumped off the roof. And so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia's private world. But did Amelia jump? When Kate starts to get text messages from an anonymous person, she starts to look in to her daughters life from the outside in. She goes through all her social media and we find out many things about Amelia as the book goes through her perspective, her mothers, and Facebook status's, and an awful blog about the students of the prep school. We find out about the people in her life and some of it was surprising to me. I mean I didn't see some of the twists coming at all. I definitely recommend this book. It kind of had a Pretty Little Liars feel to it, maybe that's why I liked it as much as I did.
   I am getting ready to start reading Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll. I am excited about this book because they said it was an instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller. I hope I am not let down with all they hype they have attached to it.

Books for Breakfast

   Okay I have officially finished the JonBenet Ramsey book, and I personally think that Pasty, the mother, did it and John, the father, helped to cover it up. A lot of the evidence leads back to her. The writing of the ransom note, the fiber on the black tape, the fingerprints on the bowl of pineapple and the fact that she was wearing the same thing from the night before, giving the impression that she never went to sleep. And for a former beauty queen herself I don't see her wearing the same thing two days in a row. I think that she did it because she was jealous of her daughter. The reason I think that the father helped to cover it up was because, after the police got there to address the kidnapping, he was unaccounted for, for an hour. During that time he went looking through out the house and ended up in the basement and found the body. Before he left he was freaking out like any normal person would do when their child is missing, when he returned from the basement he was very quiet and didn't say or show any emotion. Seeing that he was having some issues with what was going on the officer on the scene told him and a friend to go check the house over and see if anything was missing or out of place. He went directly to the basement and into the small room that would have been hard for anyone to find unless you knew it was there and "found" the body of six year old JonBenet. He carried it upstairs and laid her on the floor. From there is where the case starts to get botched. Almost everyone in the house touched the body so any clues to who had done it was tampered with. Soon after more officers got there the Ramsey's left. From the beginning the case was screwed over. There was no official statements given by the Ramsey's and their lawyers were not cooperating the police. The author of the book was a detective on the case, and to hear him say it he knew the case was in trouble as soon as he got placed on the case. I like the way he went through everything. The book made me mad though because of all the high ranking police officials were not doing their jobs, they didn't take anything into serious consideration. The handwriting analysis was just fluffed off and never look at again even though it was pin pointed back to Patsy Ramsey. Towards the end of the book you read that the case was never going to see the inside of a court room, it was not going to be heard in front of a grand jury, because they didn't have the evidence. The author knows that this was wrong and felt that they were not going to find justice for the six year old JonBenet and he knew this would be his last case. He would put down his badge and never pick it up again. In the end the case of JonBenet wouldn't make it to trial and no one would know what
happened to the six year old beauty queen who had her life ahead of her.
   So I have a list of books that I am excited about coming out this year:
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho
The Escape by C.L Taylor
Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito
Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Teacher by Katerina Diamond
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
  

Blog Challenge Day 1: 15 Interesting Facts About Me



1. I love the smell of old musty, greasy garages.
2. I love the sounds of thunderstorms
3. I have a bad habit of chewing the inside of my jaws, its an anxiety thing
4. I am a big daddy's girl
5. I have an Elementary Education Teaching Degree
6. I always have a book with me
7. I was born in the wrong generation, I have a  hippie soul by heart
8. I have to have a planner every January
9. I flip to my birthday month in the calendar to see what picture I get
10. I love jumping in a big pile of leaves
11. I have an obsession with nail polish
12. I could live off tacos
13.I have an irrational fear of failing or being rejected
14. I pick the polish off my nails when I get nervous
15. I like my hair pulled when I have a headache it releases the tension.

Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year! There is nothing new about me though I will still be the same. I use to always make a New Years Resolution but I never followed them through. So this year I decided to just be me. I will work on things that need to worked on but I will do it for me not for anyone else.
    So I went to the library last week and checked out two books. Ten by Gretchen McNeil. The cover says Ten Teens, Three Days, and One Killer. I mean with that cover who wouldn't want to read it. I wont lie I read this book in one day. It's 309 pages but it pulls you in from the beginning I think. Its about two friends named Meg and Minnie. They get invited to a house party on the island. What should have been a great three day house party full of boys, drinking and luxury turns into a nightmare when they watch a DVD about Vengeance being mine. Then all hell breaks out. As you read you learn why those specific teens were invited. You also start to try and figure out the killer and you want to assume that every one is. I mean the clues are spilled out in a steady pace so it keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing. Like I said I started it at noon the day I checked it out and had it read by 7pm that night. It was hard to put down. I think the reason I liked it as much as I did; it reminded me of I Know What You Did Last Summer and  Scream. It gave the background on why who was there; was there. The closer I got to the ending I started getting anxious about who the killer was and why they were killing everyone off. I definitely recommend this book.
    I also checked out JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation from the Leading Detective on the Case Steve Thomas with Don Davis. This year marks the 20th anniversary of JonBenet Ramsey's Death. I was nine when it happened. I only remember a little bit about it seeing as I was only nine years old. On December 25th 1996 JonBenet Ramsey went to sleep and never woke up. I am almost half way through this book and I already feel confident enough to say that it was either the parents themselves that murdered their child or they paid someone off to murder their child. I mean yes the police have botched the case from the  beginning  but everything points to them. I mean if I were a parent of a missing child I would be freaking the hell out. I would be crying or screaming or looking frantically around the house. They did nothing. They had the ransom note and it said that they would be called on the next day about the release of their daughter. When that call didn't come in they didn't freak out or anything. It was like they knew no one was going to call them, because they killed her. I mean how can you call yourself with the police in the same room with you. They haven't helped the police in any way, even though they give interviews saying that they are helping in any way possible. Whatever!?! They won't grant the police an interview so they can give their official statement. As soon as it happened they left without even giving the  police a warning of them leaving nor did they get permission to leave. They never called to ask how the investigation was going or if the police had any leads, even though when they did talk they accused everyone the could think of, of killing their child; the nanny, the old nanny, the housekeeper and her husband, the neighbors and even their close friends. Like I said I am only halfway through this book. I am hoping it gives an answer of who would want to take the life of a promising six year old away and why would they do it.
    How did I spend the last day of Winter Break you ask? Why I built the Lego Fire station that the boys got for Christmas. It took me a max of an hour and about twenty minutes before Bryson had if destroyed lol...oh well he got to play with it and so did Emmett. They are using the Lego pieces as trash for Bryson's trash truck now so its a win -win.