Talkie Tuesday: Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special

 

"Hey, you, it's younger you;
When you're standing on the stars,
Just don't forget who you are ..."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm finally back after the insanity that was Easter - I mean, I love the holiday, don't get me wrong, and it's a great chance to spend some quality time with family, but, in all seriousness ...

 

It's exhausting.

 

LOL.

 

Plus, when you're working at the bakery, you're guaranteed to lose at least part of your marbles over the three days leading up to it.

 

Thankfully this is now over, we have plenty frozen goodies, and it's now time to finally just get back on the grind and do what needs to be done!

 

In this case, that would be the blogs of course.

 

So without further ado - we're celebrating tonight. 

 

We get the best of both world, baby, with the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special.

 

Tome Thursday: Knight's Fire

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to tonight's blog post.

 

I was incredibly lucky to be chosen for an ARC of this book, and, honestly? I really, really hope more people pick it up.

 

It's not just the fact that the writer writes SO GOOD (which, she does, believe me), but it's the story she tells.

 

The stories she's already told.

 

I have to go back and read the previous two books in the series, as, of course, I literally stumbled into it at the end LOL, or middle, really, but that'll come in time.

 

Tonight, we'll be talking about number three in the series.

 

And yes, you can actually read it without needing to have read the first two, which is a rarity these days. Normally, authors will say you can, but by the time you get to it, you realize nope, you have no clue. This one isn't like that.

 

So sharpen those swords, and let's get on with Knight's Fire.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Lady and the Tramp

 

"And they call it bella notte ..."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to tonight's blog post.

 

As you can see, I've moved away from Bollywood yet again (though you can always count on the fact I'll get back to it at some point, my list of movies that I still haven't watched is long, but distinguished haha). This time though, I've gone in the opposite direction and right into the golden era of animation.

 

Aka, the Walt Disney one.

 

Say what you want about the man - and opinions are certainly divided - but his company knew how to make movies back in the day.

 

They didn't even need to be all that complicated either, as we're about to witness.

 

All you really needed was a couple of protagonists, a very realistic situation, and boom you had a story.

 

Even if the main characters were dogs - or possibly BECAUSE of that.

 

We're heading back to the 1950s in Lady and the Tramp.

 

Tome Thursday: The Death Ring Mystery

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to our deliciously steampunk-y and fun world of ghost talkers!

 

Yep, you read that bit right.

 

We covered the FULL series by Byrd Nash before on this blog, but we've now spun out to the spin-off that she's releasing at the moment.

 

I say this even as the latest release, the third in the row, is supposed to hit shelves on March 24.

 

Mark those calendars, people!

 

Lots of bookish stuff is happening then.

 

But before we get to THAT, we have to first chew our way through this little mystery.

 

And boy, it's one of those ridiculously FUN ones.

 

Buckle up, don't put any strange rings on your fingers, and let's take a look at what's happening in The Death Ring Mystery.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Avatar

 

"I see you."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the blog.

 

This week, we're taking a little break from Bollywood so that I can backtrack to some other favourites I have.

 

To be honest, I'm actually going to be diving into Disney again pretty soon, if I'm looking at some of my scribbled notes correctly, er, reading them I mean, though it does look like chicken scratch.

 

But before that, we have to go back.

 

And I mean, WAY back.

 

Seventeen years back, to be exact, which is ... something. Then again, the LOTR trilogy is hitting those 20 year milestones, and I'm sitting here like WUUUUUT.

 

Without further ado, let's go back in time, back into space, and back into sci-fi, bby!

 

There's more than one movie now but, back then, it was only the one Avatar.

 

Tome Thursday: Captivated by Dominik

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome.

 

Welcome back to the world of Sziveria, the post-apocalyptic situation people find themselves in when they read Sarah Westill's novels.

 

If you've been following me on this blog for a bit, then you'll know I've pretty much devoured every single Gen-Heirs book that's come out from under her pen, or, keyboard I suppose.

 

Because despite the fact that I stumbled into the world completely by accident, thinking it was going to be more romance than adventure, I ended up falling head-over-heels, and literally scrambling to get copies of the books as they were releasing.

 

My next goal this year is to grab them all so I have them ready at a moment's notice and sitting pretty on my shelves! So, you know, challenge accepted haha.

 

But until then, I'll just be reading the e-book versions.

 

And the new series is now hard-launched into orbit, so here we go.

 

Welcome back to Sziveria, and to the Ralston clan, with Captivated by Dominik!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

 

"Love is friendship." 

 

Hello everyone!

 

Yes, I'm still in my Bollywood era.

 

No, I don't particularly care if this bothers anyone.

 

I'm finding it hard to get back into any other movie because these ones are just so entertaining for the most part, and also visually stunning! To say nothing of the acting chops on these stars, DUH.

 

So I'm slowly working my way through the list I've accumulated on Netflix so that I can confidently say I've seen everything that needs seeing.

 

Which does of course mean I VERY often run into none others than Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, who seem to have been everywhere in an era of Hindi cinema that people look back on with fondness and nostalgia.

 

I mean, they even got a statue in the UK not too long ago! Talk about history.

 

Without further ado, let's hop right into tonight's installment, then, titled Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.