Tome Thursday: Where Trust Lies

Hello everyone!

I've been so busy these past couple of days I almost forgot I'm supposed to throw a book blog up tonight. Let me tell you, this whole daylight saving time threw me for a loop because I'm consistently bad at trying to stay awake long or even just getting out of bed in the morning. They should absolutely just erase this from existence. Why do we need it again?!

I'm reading quite a bunch of things at the moment, mostly because I can't really stick to one book only - yeah, tell me about it - and I've also been trying to watch some movies I'm behind with, which isn't quite working either.

But.

I luckily have some stuff to fall back on when desperate times call for desperate measures, and of course one of these are my book reviews from when I was actually doing them diligently enough back in the day.

So because I needed something fairly easygoing, I picked Where Trust Lies.

Talkie Tuesday: Flatley's Lord of the Dance

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had fun over this holiday weekend (and that the Easter Bunny left you lots of chocolates to devour later)! 

I'm back with blogging this week and of course, the first thing I'm going to do is the one blog post that escaped me seven days ago because of everything that's currently happening around the world (let's be honest and say that everything's important, becaise it IS). Of course I have movies lined up to watch (as I always do), but I get distracted by TV shows, or in this case, with something random I happen to see and want to take a closer look at.

In this case, I'm looking at Irish dancing.

I have been a sort of fan of this for a while now, because every once in a while, the name Michael Flatley appears in our capital city of Ljubljana, because he and his tour group make a pit stop here to perform. Unfortunately, however, I never got to see it live.

So luckily for me, I had the chance to at least watch it instead of a movie one night!

Happy Easter!

I hope you all get lots of Easter Eggs and enjoy the holiday!

xx
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Shadowhunters

This week is just all sorts of crazy for me, so unfortunately I'll have to skip Thursday's blog post too.

Never fear! Next week, I'm back to business after Easter holidays.

But I do have this little announcement that I've started reading The Mortal Instruments now. Just finished the first book, and well, I can't wait for next week's Shadowhunter's ep.

Malec <3

xx
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Brussels

I was originally going to do a regular Tuesday blog post, but decided against it.

In lieu of the Brussels attacks, I feel like it would be inappropriate for me to talk about how much I enjoyed watching something. There is nothing remotely enjoyable about these attacks, and I sincerely hope that this doesn't boil over entirely.

Pray for Brussels. Pray for Paris. Pray for Ankara. Pray for the world.

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Saturday Snippet: Flowers

Hello everyone!

This is going to be a slight rant post. Because, it's spring. Or turning spring-y.

And that means flowers.

I hate flowers.

Don't misunderstand me: they look pretty and they smell wonderfully. But I've been surrounded by HEAPS of them since early childhood, because both my grandmothers had ... bunches. My one still-living still has them. My DAD has turned into a flower-freak for some reason.

And by the time I'm done helping trudge these back and forth, who do you think gets to water them through the summer months?

If you're thinking Donald Trump, you're wrong.

My rebellion is that I don't have flowers in my room, or on my window, and while not vocal about how much I'm not into planting/sowing/water/etc., I turn quiet and disinterested enough that the cold vibes get picked up on.

So please, for the love of all that's holy, don't bring me potted plants. Ever. Bouquets are fine since eventually, those flowers die.

Pots are going to fly right back at heads though.

Sincerely.

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Tome Thursday: The Venetian Contract

Hello everyone!

Ugh these last two days have been somewhere between horrible and barely tolerable; I've been working off a headache that was trying to turn into a full-blown migraine, and it was so NOT fun. I don't usually get these since I attempt to stay hydrated and get away from the computer as much as I can, but for some reason (I suspect something though) this has just been impossible and I've only very recently (like, maybe a few hours ago) started feeling more like a human being again.

Enough so, at any rate, to try and get a blog post up, considering it's Thursday! I kept getting distracted throughout the day by self-medicating the headache, giggling over Shadowhunters and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. comedic lines, and listening to very low-tuned music.

Apparently, it helped (plus I took painkillers).

So now I'm fit enough for the time being to type this up and hopefully it's going to make some sense somewhere, otherwise ... well, otherwise I'm in trouble aren't I?

Tonight I'll talk about a historic fiction book, The Venetian Contract.

Talkie Tuesday: Taken

"I will find you. And I will kill you."

Hello everyone!

I'm usually fairly okay with keeping up with movies - when I put my mind to it. And then one thing happens, or the other, and I end up forgetting ALL about the movies, which means they pile up behind me like some sort of downtown rush hour traffic jam. 

I'm not even joking.

I have probably a number going closer to ten movies that are just waiting, begging to be considered as the movie of the day, but I just can't get to them with the backlog I have going on!

Among these is the trilogy of Taken movies, although granted I was late on this whole Taken train bandwagon to begin with, because for some reason I just never found the time to sit down properly and watch them. Of course, then came the time of summer, beach vacations and loads of free time (with no internet), so they sort of ended up on the list.

Luckily, as they were certainly amusing.

Saturday Snippet: Sherlock!

Hello everyone!

STOP THE TRAFFIC. STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING. STOP EVERYTHING.

Sherlock season 4 just got a release date!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, January 2017 is the month when our favourite sleuth will come back to 221B Baker Street and entertain us once again with his marvelous deductions!

So wake me up when it's January, okay? 'Kay.

xx

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Tome Thursday: The Sword of Shannara

Hello everyone!

Back to books for this Thursday and I'm going against the promise I made myself a while ago again. Yeah, I'm a real professional with that, apparently! :P

The thing is, trying to clear out my impossible backlog of reviews to make room for new ones means I have to eventually touch these books as well even though I STILL haven't read the last one in the trilogy. 

I'm a bad person.

No, really, I am.

But I feel like, after grinding my teeth through three of Brook's novels, I'm going to grow old or at least grow grey hair before I managed to plod through number three, and I really am NOT looking forward to it.

Time for some positive affirmations and then I can jump right in!

But first, let me talk about The Sword of Shannara.

Talkie Tuesday: Diana

"Somewhere beyond right and wrong is a garden. I will meet you there."

Hello everyone!

It's back to biographical movies this week after our little interlude with the Academy Awards last Tuesday (for the blog post I typed about it, you can click on the link here). As I said when I typed about Grace of Monaco, I have a thing for these kinds of movies. 

I don't really know why.

But I do know some of my favourites are from this genre, including The Butler and The Imitation game, for one, and let's not go into Titanic or The King's Speech or something.

I just have a soft spot for these kind of biopics as they call them, and I tend to watch a number of them each year as I discover them. I have a few waiting on the list still, but for tonight I'm going to go through my backlog of reviews and dig out one that I SHOULD have watched way back when in 2015 while I was at the seaside singing Kumbaya and drinking cocktails.

Ahem.

I didn't do either of that, really. Well, not much anyway. And I also didn't watch Diana until very, very recently, regardless that it's three years old by now.

Sunday Snippet: Silent Queen

Hello everyone!

So today's blog post SHOULD have gone up yesterday ... but it didn't happen. Oops.

Unfortunately I was a little busy shuttling family members around and just making sure that everyone had everything, not to mention it was friends night last night! Blogging was sort of put on a backburner, but I figured I could throw a short note up today before I leave yet again.

Silent Queen was officially released on March 4th! Make sure you grab a copy so that you'll be prepped for when Theta makes its appearance.

You won't regret it.

xx
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Tome Thursday: Silent Queen

Hello everyone!

I am SO excited for this blog post, you have no idea!

So a while ago, I sort of accidentally stumbled over Lizzy Ford's book 'Omega', because I think it popped up in my suggestions list on Goodreads. I may be wrong, but I think that was the case. In any event, however, I initially got it because it had an intriguing premise (Greek Gods in the modern world? An Oracle? Sign me up!), and I'd just been coming off a Percy Jackson high.

Yeah, you can probably see some resemblance there.

So I got the book and I put it aside for a bit since I was reading a lot of different things at the time, but then after I finished Percy Jackson for who knows what number of times, I was still itching for more Greek.

That was when I picked up the book, and I have to say, I haven't looked back since; I'm pretty much devouring any Lizzy Ford book I can get my hands on!

Talkie Tuesday: 88th Academy Awards

"And the Oscar goes to ..."

Hello everyone!

This week, I'm postponing my regular movie review post in favour of the 88th Academy Awards. I was surprised that we actually had, not a live broadcast, but we had a rerun the next day here on one of our stations! 

I do recall that at some point in the past we actually had live broadcasts too, but that started at like, 2 or 3 am and I doubt too many people actually got up in the middle of the night to watch.

As it happened, this rerun started at like 11 pm itself so I honestly didn't bother watching on television - especially since we have this nasty tendency to put in a million commercial, so without those the broadcast is roughly three hours long, but WITH them? Yeah, good luck getting under three and a half hour. With my luck, it would have been four.

I watched it online, which was a whole lot more elegant, all things considered.