Talkie Tuesday: Game of Thrones

Hello everyone!

So it's been ages, or so I feel, since I've last seen an actual movie and talked about it in Tuesday's segment, but I can't help it! There's just SO MUCH going on with TV shows I'm catching up to, it's ridiculous. I mean, I'm still working my way through the Tudors, then there were some others I haven't been able to see yet, and certain ones have just started their summer run (I'm looking at you, Teen Wolf). 

How am I supposed to watch movies then?!  

I don't, I suppose. And I would like to point out at this particular line of the blog that anyone who hasn't yet seen the last season of Game of Thrones should probably stop reading right about now. And I mean it, because there are going to be spoilers, and I don't want you all to come barging and being all WE HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET.

Go watch it, then come back, and we can discuss!

Saturday Snippet (2)

Hello everyone!

Guess what??

My cousin and his beautiful lady-love got married yesterday!

Hence the lateness of this blog post. Let's just say weddings take their toll on people haha, but it was such a lovely ceremony, the venue was perfect, and not even the rain could keep our spirits down!

It's a surreal feeling for me to think about my cousin as a married man; I mean, we grew up together and now it's all just hitting home! It's one of those 'oh snap' moments you get in life from time to time, I think.

I wish the both of them all the best, everything they could ever hope for, and a lot of dreams to follow!

xx

Tome Thursday: The Heroes of Olympus

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a book series blog post this week again! To be honest, I'm reading so many books it's getting difficult to pick one that I want to talk about ... which is definitely a sign that I should probably focus on one book at a time, huh? Maybe I'll even listen to my own advice this time haha.

Anyway, this week, I'm going to talk about the other Rick Riordan series which follows his first as a direct sequel, (the first being Percy Jackson and the Olympians, of course), picking up pretty much right after we left our characters the first time around, plus a couple of months in.: The Heroes of Olympus.

First off, let me say that while I might not have enjoyed these particular books as much as the first five, I still liked the general idea for the whole plot, and the fact that we got to revisit with some old favourites from Olympians. Some of the new characters were also very nice additions to the cast (whereas some, I could have done without). But enough dawdling!

Talkie Tuesday: The Tudors (season 2)

Hello everyone!

And I'm back, with yet another Tudors review. One would think that I've had enough after the one I did for the first season, but nope, one would be wrong!

Can you tell I've been watching Game of Thrones recently and that Jagen H'Ghar is probably one of the best characters ever? 

Anyway.

My friend Maegan definitely has a say in this, obviously, considering she seems to have liked the review I did on the first season, and she asked that I continue with these until I'm done with the show! Which basically means two down after this, and two more to get through!

But then, when you get to look at Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Henry Cavill on screen, I don't think anyone would really complain, now, would they?

Saturday Snippet (1)

Happy Saturday everyone!

I'm currently in the process of catching up with TV shows that I just didn't have the time for during regular show seasons (and let's be honest, watching these can be a full-time occupation!) and I figured I might as well start this new category off with a bang.

I'm starting Game of Thrones season 5 (two episodes in) and I remembered this beautiful thing I think I found somewhere on Tumblr or Facebook ... in any event, it ISN'T mine, and I'm only sharing!

THE KING IN THE NORTH!

xx

Saturday Snippets!

Hello everyone!

To whoever is reading this blog - if anyone - I've decided to add another blog post per week into the mix, though this one is going to be a lot more easygoing and just an all-around, me being goofy kind of thing. 

It's going to be called 'Saturday Snippets', as you can see from the title, and it'll be pretty much what it says: little this and that from whatever I find interesing at the time, maybe pictures, maybe quotes, maybe a bit on what I'm doing writing-wise or something of the sort. Who knows, maybe I'll even post bits and pieces of my own fanfiction work on here on Saturday nights!

Hopefully you'll enjoy these, I know I'll like poking about some more ^^

xx

Tome Thursday: A Night To Remember

Hello everyone!

I'm still reading too many books at a time, and revisiting some old books that I really, really love but have been around for a while, although granted I've found one that I'm definitely going to be devouring as soon as I get my hands on a copy. I'll tell you all about it later, however, as today's blog post is dedicated to a book which I had ran across by complete accident when I was a teenager, and didn't quite understand at the time of the first read. Now, however, things have changed and I'm definitely more grown up than I was ten years or so ago, and I've been in the mood currently, so I revisited it.

I'm talking about Walter Lord's 'A Night To Remember'.

For some inexplicable reason, I've been in a Titanic phase for a while now, and so I went back to our personal 'library' (no other word for the amoung of books at the house) and dug through it to find the old book which is falling apart at the seams,and the crispness of the paper makes you think it might have actually been written way back when the ship first sank. In my language, it's titled 'Titanic', and not a direct translation of the novel's actual calling. But despite the age of the translation, the message it gives out is still crystal clear.

Talkie Tuesday: An Unexpected Journey EXTENDED EDITION

Hello everyone!

So I'm a Tolkien fan. As in, big time Tolkien fan. My cousin introduced me to the Lord of the Rings books about ... wow, it must already be fifteen years now! Gosh, time flies. Anyway, yes, she introduced me to it, and there have been a lot of interesting LOTR versus Harry Potter discussions in our family since then.

When the news spread that they were making movies from the book, I was beyond thrilled. By that point, my hardcore obsession was starting (like, covering my whole four walls in LOTR posters obsession), and since I was a teenager, there were crushes too (just not Orlando Bloom, sorry). 

And then the news hit that they would be making The Hobbit into a movie, too!

As anyone who has followed updates on this, you'll know that the development process went from one movie, to two, and then to three, making the thing a trilogy. Now, I disagree with the length of it - despite some fantastic sequences, I might add - but generally speaking it really could have been done in much less time. Still, I enjoyed the first one, and after a very kind friend of mine gifted me with the extended version, I couldn't wait to watch it.

Tome Thursday: Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Hello everyone!

It's back to the drawing board with books, although this week my reading section looks like someone blew a tornado through the shelves. I'm honestly reading a couple of books at the same time, jumping back and forth, and I'll be talking about a trilogy of them next week, but for the moment, it's all between Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus, a book about Titanic's last night, one about the mutineers of the Bounty, and I'm still slowly going through Conn Iggulden's Trinity. 

Yes, I should quite probably try and focus on one book at a time, but I've never been able to do that. I'm all over the place.

Speaking of Rick Riordan, however, I've recently reread his series as I wait for the publication of his new book concerning Norse gods (which will probably be as awesome as the rest of them), and I was reminded just why I prefer the Olympians one more than the Heroes.

Talkie Tuesday: The Tudors (season 1)

Hello everyone!

So last week, I talked about how I was watching a TV show and needed to finish it before I would write about it. I can now happily confirm that I've watched the full first season of The Tudors, and after a break during which I finished Hawaii Five-0 season 5 (yes, yes this isn't a blog post about THAT, but I recommend it. It's SO. GOOD.) I plan on starting season two.  

So, the Tudors is an older show which has already finished, as most of you probably already know (if not, you just learned). It ran for four seasons, with ten episodes in three seasons and eight in one. Since it ran between 2007 and 2010 (or was it 2011?), you're probably all wondering the same thing:

how come I'm talking about this now?

Well, here it goes: my friend Maegan and I were talking at one point, and one thing led to the other, which eventually led to Henry Cavill. This went on to the Tudors, and the conversation suddenly turned into something like this:

Maegan: It's my favourite show ever, I rewatch episodes so much.

Me: I'm almost ashamed to admit that I've never watched it from start to finish, just random eps.

Maegan: WHAT?

Me: Um ... I've never seen the Tudors, strictly speaking?

Maegan: BLASPHEMY! WE MUST CHANGE THIS!

Haha, okay, it wasn't EXACTLY like that. But we DID decide that, for my home schooling project titled 'How to make sure you DEFINITELY watch The Tudors', Maegan and I decided to watch the show together.

Tome Thursday: Ross Poldark

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a book review again since it's Thursday, and honestly, I've been so into a couple of series at the moment that it's difficult to pinpoint one single book out of them to talk about! But I figure you don't want to read about series anymore at the moment, seeing as I'm cheating on my other blog entries with them, haha! Ergo, I figured I'd go to a book that's the beginning of a series, but I haven't actually read any of the others yet, so it's a safe bet that I'll only talk about this one.

Now, I didn't even know these books existed, first and foremost. And then I saw a promo video on Facebook about a new BBC series titled 'Poldark', a revival of an old one from the seventies and eighties. 

My thoughts? Well, generally I didn't have any until Aidan Turner popped up on the screen, and I swear my eyes just went somewhere between O.O and *.* (For those of you who don't know, Aidan played Kili in The Hobbit trilogy, among other roles).

Talkie Tuesday: Tanked

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So this week, I think I might be cheating a little bit again, and it was a hard decision to pick between two shows that I'm currently in the process of watching. In the end though, I figured I should probably finish the first season of one before I talk about it (even though it's older and people have mostly seen if already) and focus on this one first.  

Then again, I might just have decided on it because it's hilarious, and everyone needs a little laugh here and there.

Many of my friends might actually think me certifiable at this point, considering the fact that, in all honesty ... well, I'd think so too if I didn't know the show, wasn't watching it, and someone told me they liked it.

I'm talking about Tanked.