Book Haul

My post have been super sporadic lately and I actually considered closing down my blog but I miss posting. I am going to try to keep posting more often but life is crazy right now. 

I went to the library yesterday and picked up a ton of books and I noticed I had forgotten to post my last few hauls so I decided to make one big haul.

Borrowed from the Library

Second Life by S.J Watson (audiobook)

Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong 

Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen (audiobook)

Boomerang by Noelle August

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham (audiobook)

Missoula by Jon Krakauer (audiobook)

I Was Here by Gayle Forman (audiobook)

Go Set A Watchmen by Harper Lee

The Magicians by Lev Grossman (audiobook)

The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford 

When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

Black Dawn, White Raven By Elizabeth Wein

An Ember in The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

The Song of Roland by Michel Rabagliati

 A Tale of the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (audiobook)

Borrowed from a friend

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

 

Gifted

End of Days by Susan Ee

What did you get in your mailbox?

August Wrap Up

I have been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately which has helped me read a lot. 

Books I Own: 14
Borrowed: 2
Audiobooks: 5
Total: 16

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf 

Stir- Fry by Emma Donoghue
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
She Comes Undone by Wally Lamb 
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly 
Jessica Darling It List 2 by Megan McCafferty 
Honey and Clover Vol 3 by Chica Umino 
Go Set A Watchmen by Harper Lee
World After by Susan Ee
After Dark by Haruki Murakami 
Perfect Fifths by Jessica Darling 
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand 
This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky 

Review of Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

Title:  Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Author: Neil Patrick Harris
Source: Borrowed from the library
Series: Standalone
Rating: 5/5









Goodreads Summary:
Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?

Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life, you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.

I am a huge Neil Patrick Harris fan. I loved him on How I Met Your Mother and I have been a fan ever since. I listened to this book on audiobook and he narrates the book and has his husband David Burka also comes in once in awhile. 

I loved learning about his family and how he became an actor. He starts in his childhood and works his way to present day where he and his partner are parents to twins.  He is unabashed and honest about how he came out as a gay actor and how he worried what it would do for his career.  His love for his children, Gideon and Harper and for his partner David is heart warming. 

This book made me laugh out loud and at times made me incredibly sad. I loved this book.

July Wrap Up

Books I own: 5
Borrowed: 5
Audiobook: 3
Total: 10

How to Tell Your Cat is Plotting to Kill you by Matthew Inman
The Martian by Andy Weir
Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire 
Beautiful Redemption by Jamie McGuire
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate 
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett 
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly 
What If? : Serious Scientific Questions to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

August TBR

I am keeping this month short again, but I am slowly getting back into a normal reading schedule.

To Read List

These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf (Life of a book addict list)

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 
She Comes Undone by Wally Lamb (Life of a book addict list/ big book)