Saturday Snippet: Happy New Year

xx

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Tome Thursday: A Royal Christmas Princess

Hello everyone!

This will be my last Christmas-related review as we move towards the new year, since afterwards in January I plan to get some other things out from under my belt.

First, however, I should probably see whether or not I can actually get my e-reader working again, but I'm pretty much afraid it's bitten it, kicked the bucket, and everything else that goes along those lines. Which means I may need a new one after almost four years of pretty much constant use, but it's a bummer because it went just before Christmas!

In any event, however, tonight's book has definitely been read before AND technically I could probably read everything on my computer as well, so I sort of refreshed my memory of it.

Of course it's another Christmas romance. Also, it has a kingdom, a would-be prince, and an American along the lines of Mia from Princess Diaries.

I'm talking about A Royal Christmas Princess by Scarlet Wilson.

Talkie Tuesday: When Calls the Heart Christmas Wishing Tree

"Maybe miracles do happen."

Hello everyone!

Hope you've all had a very merry Christmas, and that there's an even better New Year on the way!

Last year around this time, I watched and then blogged about the When Calls the Heart Christmas special. So when news broke that this year would ALSO mark another two-hour episode (or one hour and a half sans commercials) for the Hallmark Channel's hit series, well, I couldn't just ignore it now, could I?

The answer to that would be no, especially since I absolutely LOVE the Canadian West saga by Janette Oke which this show is based off on. Of course there are quite a few changes (and even the Return to Canadian West books aren't exactly the same) but that doesn't mean I haven't fallen in love with the show, because I have. There's something about stories from the frontier, from a different time, when life seemed to be simpler in a lot of ways, that always gets me going.

So here we go, another year almost done, another Christmas episode to review, which means that without further ado we are moving directly into When Calls the Heart: The Christmas Wishing Tree!

Saturday Snippet: Home Alone

No Christmas without this!

Happy holidays :-)

xx

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Tome Thursday: Wishing on a Star

Hello everyone!

It'll be after Christmas when I write for this blog again, so I figured I'd pick an extra special Christmas story to write about in this one, because why else would I even put in the effort? Plus, considering I find it as amazing as the previous books that came before this short-short story, well, I couldn't resist.

If you haven't yet realized, I'm talking about another wonderful read from under the pen (or keyboard) of Serenity Woods.

I have to say that, as far as contemporary authors go, I may have found my absolute favourite in terms of realistic, down-to-Earth and drama-free characters, and pretty amazing storylines as far as everything goes!

The one I'm currently talking about, or will be as soon as I stop babbling in this intro (and keeping a gimlet eye on my Kobo e-reader at the same time) is Wishing on a Star, which is a special short story in the Three Wise Men universe, only available to Ms Woods' subscribers, but it's just too cute not to write about!

Talkie Tuesday: Crown for Christmas

"The fact is, you had me at 'sewing kit'."

Hello everyone!

Not too long to go until Christmas anymore! 

Which is why I'm reviewing another really good Christmas movie tonight. Or, well, I suppose some people will say it's not actually good, or that it's too cheesy or whatever, but believe me, I'm quite picky when it comes to my Christmas movies. After all, you can't always get it right (as I keep on proving to myself when I try something and fail miserably fast-forwarding through it all).

Of course, yet again this one came on recommendation from a good friend of mine, and again she was right there with me via Skype while I watched it, because I'm lucky like that.

And truth be told I needed a good hit because of some of the absolutely terrible misses I had over the last couple of days. Like, seriously, three out of three Christmas movies were just plain BAD, and that's saying something considering they're supposedly the most watched!

But anyway, enough of my blabbering. Let's get on with the show, which is Crown for Christmas.

Saturday Snippet: Christmas Lights

xx

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Tome Thursday: Christmas at the Castle

Hello everyone!

Back again with another Christmas-themed book, and this time I'm picking one that made me feel a whole lot happier than a ton of different same theme-inspired movies have so far.

Christmas at the Castle was free on Kobo for a limited time and I managed to snag it, luckily, so that I could read through it and decide for myself whether it's something I'd want to rehash again in the near future.

Turns out, it is!

See, romance books fall in different categories for me - the ones I absolutely love despite the cheesiness, ones I can't stand after I read them, and the third one is books I can't even bring myself to finish. Gotta love it when I have options, right?

Anyway, this was a fun, easy kind of read that didn't break my brain while I was at it, and so here we go with Melissa McClone's third book in her Ever After series, Christmas at the Castle!

Talkie Tuesday: A Christmas Prince

"Failures plant the seed for greater successes down the road."

Hello everyone!

Dang, I haven't been blown away yet! And I'm not talking figuratively here. We've been having some INSANE winds in my country since yesterday, and to tell the truth when I drove do my PT and back this morning the town looked like the Tasmanian Devil rocked through it, dumped his dirty laundry, and hustled out (not to mention our Christmas tree toppled over in the town square). 

The winds are set to abate today, however (they're saying it's some sort of freak African/Mediterranean thing that came out of the south following the coast), but then we're slated to get more snow.

Which basically means that we've had temperatures in the toasty area for the past two days, in the freezing corner before that, and we're going back to deep freeze.

So, you know, if you can't beat the weather, you snuggle down and watch Christmas movies. Especially if you're encouraged to do so by one of your best friends, who then proceeds to be amused by your running commentary throughout the film.

This Tuesday's review pick: A Christmas Prince.

Saturday Snippet: Christmas Tree(s)

In our house, there's a few of these.

xx

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Tome Thursday: A Very English Christmas

Hello everyone!

As indicated previously in the week with my Tuesday blog post, this month it's ALL about the holiday season - with movies and books alike!

Which means I needed to find something neat for my starter post, and what better way to begin than to turn to some of my favourite authors?

I had the pick between Serenity Woods, Keira Andrews and Noelle Adams, but I went with Ms Andrews because I've very recently finished another one of her works, not that I'll be talking about that book just yet. It'll have to wait until January 2018, but I can promise you, it made me cry, so you KNOW it's good.

As for this blog post, however, I did in fact pick an Andrews book for obvious reasons, and luckily for me there are a few of hers to choose from for the season.

I chose A Very English Christmas, featuring Isaac and David from her gay Amish storyline, I was delighted to revisit them even if I have yet to finish the actual series. Oops ...

Talkie Tuesday: Magical Christmas Ornaments

"There's always magic at Christmas."

Hello everyone!

December is finally, officially, here, and that means that most of the regular TV shows are airing their midseason finales and taking a break over the upcoming holidays. 

This also means that the air turns freezingly cold and I need to make sure I start my car every once in a while if I'm not planning big drives anywhere, but equally it means some really cool bed linen is coming into our stores.

Okay I'm totally rambling.

What it MEANS is Christmas is just around the corner and I can now officially break out all those Christmas stories I've been hoarding up on. And the movies! I've decided my December blogs will be ALL about Christmas so if there are any Grinches or Scrooges out there you might as well come back in January.

So to start us off in style, I dug up Hallmark channel's movie list and watched Magical Christmas Ornaments.

Synopsis Saturday: Crisis on Earth-X

"Oh you've GOT to be kidding me."

Hello everyone!

As promised back on Tuesday, here's my contribution to all the different reviews rolling around online about this week's MASSIVE, four-episode cross-over event that the CW gave to the fans with a little help from DC. 

Then again, the mothership, aka Arrow, has probably been aiming for this kind of thing since its premiere six years ago.

Boy, was it action-packed!

Also at times fluffy, adorable, hilarious, OMG-inspiring, and above all uncontrollably fun.

I'm sure this has been said many times before and at different spots, but when it comes to working together and bringing a show-stopper to their audience, the cast and crew of each of the four shows (Arrow, Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl) really bring their A-game to make sure no nook and cranny is left unexplored.

Of course only Americans would come up with the idea of Nazis for enemies #1, but oh well.

Crisis on Earth-X, here we go!

Tome Thursday: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Hello everyone!

Boy, what a week!

First off, that cross-over event - Crisis on Earth-X was absolutely spectacularly AMAZING over Monday and Tuesday (or, in my case, with a bit of a delay, on Tuesday and Wednesday). My reveiw of this will be coming on Saturday since I bumped the Talkie Tuesday for just this purpose. After the fun with the Dominators last year (which I was reminded of, very kindly, by my Facebook memories) this year was off-the-charts insane, in all good ways!

But back to books.

I've seriously been reading like some sort of machine on this end, moving through reading slumps like a pro by picking up oldies-goldies, and then of course there was the massive autumn Book Depository order I placed not too long ago.

Once it arrived, can we say happy camper?

Among those books I ordered was the one I'm reviewing tonight: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods.

Crisis on Earth-X!

In favour of this week's cross-over, the review will come on Saturday!

xx

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Saturday Snippet: Drizella

That moment when you realize this is the best character in the OUAT reboot.

xx

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Tome Thursday: Arctic Fire

Hello everyone!

Okay, full-on confession time: since DIVA's streaming of Christmas movies, I've been literally itching to have at it with my collection of Christmas books.

Yes, I've been making a collection. 

It's really bad this year, to be honest. I started making this when it only just hit autumn and the first freebies were going out, but then figured, why not?? And added some more of these. I'm still waiting to find a good copy of a new Woods book in her holiday romances, but apart from that I've also stumbled across a few new writers I want to check out some more.

I mean, I do have at least three book bundles with a minimum of FIFTEEN stories in each. Not full-length novels, of course, but you get what I'm saying.

At the very least, however, tonight's review won't be Christmas-y yet. Because Keira Andrews can absolutely write a romance taking place in the middle of nowhere frozen wasteland that makes you THINK Christmas - but doesn't actually happen then. Arctic Fire is just what the doctor ordered when the hills start painting themselves white.

Talkie Tuesday: The Great Wall

"Kill the Queen - or we all die."

Hello everyone!

I'm making quite a dent in my movie reviews, I've noticed, looking at the ones still waiting on the to be reviewed pile, which makes me quite happy. Plus, I still have a ton of them waiting in the to be watched pile so I'm not even remotely worried about running out of material! 

Plus, I've just come to a decision.

As DIVA, or the European version of Hallmark Channel, has been channelling its inner-Christmas Elf since November 6th, I will be doing Christmas movie reviews as soon as December hits. Who knows? I may gather enough of them to be able to do both Tuesday AND Saturday blog posts as reviews!

But anyway.

The movie I picked for tonight is one of Matt Damon's recent ones where, post-Bourne, we try to envision him as something other than a CIA agent gone rogue. The Great Wall might have a lot to show in terms of entertainment, but whether or not it actually delivers anything else ... I'll leave that up to you guys.

Saturday Snippet: Remember

xx

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Tome Thursday: Kiss and Make Up

Hello everyone!

Trying to pick a book to write about is becoming a bit of a test for me on this end, considering I'm currently in a funk where I keep going back and re-reading stuff I've either already written about or at the very least I've mentioned it somewhere, so new books just ... have to wait.

This does mean I sometimes have to dig a little bit deeper, not that I mind, considering the results are usually pretty fantastic for all it's worth.

And of course, when in doubt, the one thing I can be absolutely sure of is that Serenity Woods will have a fantastic book ready for me, one I haven't yet read, and one that will keep me smiling for a long while after I've put it down.

So here I am tonight with one more from one of my favourite authors of all time, only this one was really more of a shot in the dark for me in terms of why I picked it up (I mean, okay, it's in New Zealand, it's got a handsome Kiwi guy, what more do I need, right?). I can't honestly remember, although maybe it was free in e-form. Who knows?

In any event, let's get into Kiss and Make Up.

Talkie Tuesday: Return of Xander Cage

"I live for this shit."

Hello everyone!

I'm on a Vin Diesel binge it would seem, but I remember that moment when I accidentally saw the trailer for the new Xander Cage movie and thought it looked awesome.

I never got the chance to see the first one in theatre, because, duh, it was years ago and at the time I was not necessarily considered as someone who COULD go to the movies with friends (aka, you know when parents step in with their authority ... yeah, that). This time though, it was Vin Diesel on the big screen in something else but Fast Dom!

And it was rewarding.

People are judging by the fact that everything else seemed to be overshadowed by the big names attached to the film, but me, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I mean, come on, I don't watch Fast and Furious for the reality! Same goes for the XXX movies.

So, without further ado, let's go see what Diesel blew up in XXX Return of Xander Cage.

Talkie Saturday: The Last Witch Hunter

"Do you know what it's like to live forever?"

Hello everyone!

So since this past Tuesday was Halloween I figured I'd give up on trying to post something on my blog not connected to it, but I'd completely forgotten about this movie which has been sitting in my little sheep notebook for a while now. 

Of course, had I taken five seconds of my time and noticed Vin Diesel on the cover of the DVD, I might have remembered better.

The Last Witch Hunter isn't the kind of movie that I imagine great, global masses would rave about as they do with some other Diesel films in existence, but as for me I loved it. Whether it was because we got to see Sir Diesel in something else besides him riding or dying in fast cars jumping over submarines, or because Elijah Wood cured my inner wish for seeing more Frodo Baggins, I can't say.

What I can certainly admit to, though, is that I enjoyed the time I spent watching Diesel's character run around on screen as the unstoppable force of nature he always is.

I mean, come on; we all knew this was gonna be a street fight!

Tome Thursday: Origin

Hello everyone!

I think ... no, I'm fairly sure that I've never before reviewed one of Dan Brown's books on my blog.

Let me do a quick search to double-check.

I have not.

BUT I do have the review for the movie Inferno, which is the latest in the Robert Langdon series with Tom Hanks in the titular role, so I'm going to be including the link to that one at the very bottom of this page. And maybe someday I'll be bored enough to actually reread the lot of the books and review them one by one. That job alone would give me food for these posts for two solid months!

Anyway.

Origin, the subject of tonight's post, is the absolute latest of Brown's novels and it once again features professor Robert Langdon doing what he usually does best: solving puzzles people left behind for him.

In this case, we're once again dealing with the Church.

Happy Halloween!

If you're late, you may be unable to park ;)

xx

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Saturday Snippet: I Know a Secret

She does.

But her sociopathy is so NOT a secret.

xx

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Tome Thursday: Daughter of the Earth and Sky

Hello everyone!

Back with another book review tonight, and once again I've fallen down the rabbit hole of Greek mythology. This happens to me every once in a while - if I'm not traipsing around Middle Earth then I'm going to be running from Cyclopses and giants with Percy Jackson.

Or, in this case, I will be learning a whole new deal about Greek gods in modern world from Kaitlin Bevis.

A while ago, I reviewed the first in her Daughters of Zeus book series, Persephone, and I do have to admit that the first one was a little so-so in my opinion. As it turns out, the second didn't exactly make it to my favourite books list, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the story at all. It just means I'm working my way through this and am going to, eventually, see light at the end of the tunnel.

Still, considering it IS about Greek gods, you know I'm going to be reading to the very end. There's just nothing that can stop me on that account, after all.

So without further ado, let's check in with our book review of the week, shall we? Daughter of the Earth and Sky, by Kaitlin Bevis.

Talkie Tuesday: Outlander's A. Malcolm

"It's always been forever for me, Sassenach."

Hello everyone!

Okay, okay, I'll admit - whenever I run into something particularly interesting or worthy of my fangirl moments, I usually end up writing it for my blog. 

Which does, sadly, interfere with my movie recap schedule, but luckily for me I somehow manage!

This week I would have been totally content in reviewing something or other movie-related, but truth be told that went right out the window when I remembered that there were two weeks of Droughtlander and the latest episode dropped this Sunday.

Scotland, you say? Eighteenth century, with a handsome printer with a hint of rebel?

Count me in!

Also, a lot of people are on the fence about the season so far, and especially about this episode, so I thought I'd add my own two cents into the mixing bowl. Outlander's A. Malcolm covered some bases and left others open for exploration, but let's see what happened, shall we?

Saturday Snippet: Power Nap

xx

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Tome Thursday: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Hello everyone!

After a long while I'm back with another Rick Riordan appreciation, er, blog post. The last one I posted was roughly in summer last year when I reviewed the first of his Trials of Apollo series (which reminds me that I should probably review his second one in that trilogy soon), but then I kind of fell off the Riordan map, even though I continued reading his books.

Namely, I was taken in by this Norse mythology series the author launched.

It's title is, as you can see on top of this blog post: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard.

Sounds familiar?

You're right. There's another Chase running around Riordan's books, and her name is Annabeth, aka Wise Girl, aka Percy Jackson's girlfriend.

Magnus and Annabeth are cousins, and that DOES come into play in the books. Mostly though it just adds to the hilarity of all the situations these kids find themselves in, including but not limited to saving the world, often twice. Who's counting?

So below, you'll find a record-sharp recap of the entire trilogy. And all this while I'm reading Dan Brown's new novel, Origin!

Talkie Tuesday: King Arthur Legend of the Sword

"You're no longer a myth. You're starting to mean something."

Hello everyone!

It's another Tuesday and time for another movie review. They just keep on coming, don't they? I mean, regardless of the fact that it's been a while now since I've felt the need to absolutely HAVE to see a movie so I can review it, since ... I have a bunch of them still waiting to go. 

Yeah.

But anyway, this current one I'll be doing came as a recommendation from a very good friend of mine. I never intended to watch it - Guy Ritchie is one of those directors I have a love-hate relationship with. And by this, I mean that I genuinely love the stories he usually tries to sell on the big screen, but I hate the adaptations.

For instance, the Sherlock movies were so not my cup of tea. 

Which was why when I first saw the trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, I thought to myself - this looks amazing, but it has Jude Law in there and some weird magic and King Arthur looks wonky ... it has to be Ritchie.

Let me tell you, however - my friend convinced me. And I'm so glad she did.

Saturday Snippet: Chris Vance

The British version of Lt. Com. Steve McGarrett.

xx

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Tome Thursday: White House

Hello everyone!

This Thursday's blog post will be a little bit different in the sense that I'm not going to be talking about one book only. The thing is, I could easily stretch this into two blog posts - and then two weeks of course - but there isn't that much to discuss in terms of both plotline and the wow factor (though there IS plenty of both, still) for that.

In any event, I decided to just throw both books of the double in here and see where the chips fall.

I had encountered Katy Evans before, way before, when her book Real somehow landed in my hands, and I sort of liked her writing style back then. I went ahead afterwards and continued with Mine and Remy, although later, while waiting for the fourth in this series, it sort of fell off my radar and I kind of forgot about it.

Until a very random day a week (or two, no more than that) ago when her name popped up again, this time in connection with a different book altogether.

So, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Mr. President and Commander-in-Chief, of the White House series.

Talkie Tuesday: Independence Day Resurgence

"On behalf of the people of Earth: happy Fourth of July."

Hello everyone!

This Tuesday I'm finally back with a regular movie review, and I picked a slightly older one for this post, although 'older' is certainly a subjective term. 

In better words, it just isn't recent, and that's that.

But of course once the first trailers started coming in and I even realized there would be a sequel to the highly amusing and pretty awesome Independence Day where I laugh, continuously, whenever Will Smith has to drag the dread-lock alien across the desert after welcoming it to Earth, I was on the edge of my seat.

Especially as it was announced old favourites would be making a comeback to the big screen, although sadly sans Smith. I can't remember what the reasons for his decline were at the time, but we WOULD get his son, at least. Movie-wise that is.

So how about I stop jabbering and start talking about Independence Day: Resurgence instead?

Saturday Snippet: Family

xx

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Tome Thursday: Persuading Spring

Hello everyone!

The weather has been amazingly fine this week which has certainly contributed to my almost perpetual good mood, so I've been out and about and getting things done, mostly.

I suppose making sure I can do some more damage on BookDepository is one of those things, right?

Right.

Anyway, I'm back with another Serenity Woods book, but this time I feel extra accomplished because it's the LAST of her Four Seasons series, which brings the total up to four and makes me feel special since I managed to actually write the lot out up here. Aren't I neat?

If you recall, the seasons we covered went summer, autumn, winter, and now finally spring, which confused me to begin with since, you know, usually people start with spring.

But after reading Persuading Spring I can't help but agree with the succession. Spring, and new beginnings, is the perfect place to finish.

In Memoriam

Las Vegas, Marseille, Quebec City, ...

We will never forget.

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Saturday Snippet: Friends, again

xx

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Tome Thursday: Bewitching Winter

Hello everyone!

As I settle back into my usual routine and work on blog posts, I swear I keep getting distracted by all that I come across. It can be another book, a TV show, a movie, you name it, I'll probably turn all ADD and go OH LOOK!

This is what happened to me today, as I continue on with the After Cilmeri series and I can't seem to put the first proper book of it down. I mean, I get it, it's time travel, it's Wales in the Middle Ages which is another one of those tempting things, but I'll also admit the book has flaws, so why did I have to literally pry myself away from it to write this post?!

Who knows.

It's the same with Agatha Christie's Marple series - the show had to switch actresses halfway through and the new one isn't quite the same as the original, and yet I find myself rolling around the bed laughing like an idiot each episode I watch.

But I thoroughly digress. This blog post is about a book - continuing with Serenity Woods again, it's the third in her Four Seasons saga, Bewitching Winter.

Talkie Tuesday: Assassin's Creed

"Your destiny is in your blood.

Your blood is not your own. It belongs to the Creed."

Hello everyone!

A regular movie review for you this week, and I picked one of the newer ones I watched, though even this one couldn't exactly be called BRAND NEW, either.

That is to say, I picked it because I very recently watched a trailer for another movie entirely and the wordplay reminded me of this one. But I can't help myself - I accidentally stumbled across Dylan O'Brien and his trailer, saw a glimpse of David Suchet in it, and watched until the very end to try and figure out why, specifically, all these names and happenings are so familiar to me.

Of course then it turned out to be American Assassin, which, for those who don't know, is the first in the series of Mitch Rapp novels written by the deceased Vince Flynn.

At which point, I squealed.

I'm not ashamed to admit it! But that being said, I will share my endless enthusiasm for Mitch Rapp at a latter point, as right now we have a movie to review. Namely, Assassin's Creed.

Snippet: Friends

xx

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Tome Thursday: Daughter of Time

Hello everyone!

It's Thursday and time for another book review.

This week, I went back in time - no, not literally, of course. Although wouldn't it be neat if someone did in fact figure it out? I'd probably totally go and visit, but staying there would be a bit of a catch. Unless, of course, someone invented some sort of machine that not only went back in time, but went into an alternate reality, because then you can bet all you own that I'd be off to Middle Earth before you could say Frodo Baggins.

Ahem.

My time-travelling episode came from picking up book one in a series I didn't realize I would end up liking, but it sounded like something to will away the time, so I thought to myself, why not.

See, I'm kind of wary of time travelling books, mostly because I've read Outlander, and nothing so far has been able to quite compare.

Daughter of Time by Sarah Woodbury, though, comes quite close.

Talkie Tuesday: Champions

What else is there to say this week?

#Champions #Eurobasket2017 

xx

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Saturday Snippet: Rafiki

xx

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Tome Thursday: Tempting Autumn

Hello everyone!

Back with another book review this week, and I also have to say I have FINALLY figured out how to schedule my blog posts.

I know, I know, where have I been living all this time, right?

Well, unfortunately, I don't usually have to think about scheduling in any event because I'm right by the computer in the evenings and I can press the 'publish' button without any kind of problem. But when I'm off with my friends or doing something else, then things might get a little bit difficult, so I tested it this Tuesday and TA-DA! It works!

I feel like a kid on Christmas morning haha!

Now on to what I'll be talking about here, which is another book by Serenity Woods, this one titled Tempting Autumn, the second in Ms Woods' Four Seasons series. 

And since it's basically autumn now, what better way to commemorate it?

Talkie Tuesday: Underworld Blood Wars

"There is no beginning, there is no end. There is only becoming."

Hello everyone!

So, alright. I kind of messed up with the whole 'I'm going to switch my Tuesday and Saturday posts' last week. 

I'll admit, it completely slipped my mind and also, with the rain we've been having (nothing even remotely close to Irma or what's happening to our neighbours in Croatia, however) it's been kind of difficult to focus on anything specific, outside of just slowly regrouping and gathering all the things I may need in the coming weeks.

Anyway, I'm back with a proper movie review this week, and I've chosen one of the older ones for the time being (or well, semi-old really) as opposed to the newer I'd watched while away at the seaside. I'll do one of those next week though!

Moving to the actual theme of this week, I picked Underworld: Blood Wars because I have an affinity for these vampire movies, mostly because I thoroughly enjoyed the first, humoured the second, loved the prequel, and had a love-hate relationship with the Awakening one.

I put all that aside for Blood Wars, however, because THIS was a proper Underworld movie.

Sunday Snippet: Murder in Mesopotamia

xx

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Tome Thursday: Seducing Summer

Hello everyone!

Finally back on my usual blog posting routine, sort of, and I return with another set of goodies! I got the boxed set of Serenity Woods' Four Seasons a long time ago but never actually sat down to read through the books until very recently, so I decided I'd write up the reviews as I go along.

After all, as I've said before, Ms Woods is one of those people whom I usually turn to when it comes to needing a healthy dose of real life romance stories that don't leave me tearing my hair out.

Of course, there can always be hit-and-misses - I had one with Kathryn Shay the other day and I usually LOVE her books, as well - but I have yet to be disappointed in Ms Woods, something I'm profoundly thankful for seeing as I truly need this kind of pick-me-up occasionally.

So, without further ado, allow me to introduce you to the first of the four books - and it's actually fairly fitting that, as we say goodbye to summer here, I'd be talking about that season with the chosen book.

Seducing Summer, after all, rings a bell somewhere.

Talkie Tuesday ... oops

Hello everyone!

I've been busy just cleaning and unpacking and getting back into the usual routine I have here at home since arriving from the seaside and my late vacation, so I decided not to force this Tuesday's blog post but just to enjoy the day, and write something up by Saturday!

Hopefully this won't deter anyone from reading.

xx

Saturday Snippet: Storm

xx

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Tome Thursday: The Lord of the Rings, pt. 2

I finished this yesterday and bawled my eyes out.

Again.

Yes, I'm one of those.

xx
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Game of Thrones: The Dragon and the Wolf

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Well, we made it. Yet another season over and we all still seem to be standing. Okay, sadly, Thoros isn't with us anymore, and lamentably we said bye-bye to a lot of nameless extras who happened to tag along in just the right places to be conveniently killed, but you know what I mean. 

We're almost at the hail Mary for this show!

Game of Thrones has consistently delivered, despite perhaps not having the exact political bangs going on as it did while Martin was still actively participating and the episodes were based off his actual books. Which, to be perfectly honest, is not the show's fault. The producers can't be expected to wait FOREVER until the guy finally decides how he's going to untangle the mess he created for himself.

Also, he's still around, you know, giving commentary. It's not like it's not approved.

But in any event, The Dragon and the Wolf was an episode EVERYONE looked forward to - and pretty much everyone was stoked about by the time it ended.

Saturday Snippet: Late Vacation, pt. 2

xx
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Tome Thursday: The Lord of the Rings

I'm honestly just detoxing and doing a lot of: sleeping, eating, reading, sleeping, not necessarily in that order, so I don't have a book review to go up today. I probably won't until I get back home.

But I'm doing my annual Lord of the Rings summer read instead, so here you go <3 

xx

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Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Even at the seaside, I can't resist the lure that is Game of Thrones. I mean, come on, who could?

Definitely not me. 

Besides, there's something incredibly poetic about watching a big-ass dragon torch anything and everything in front of him while I'm sitting on the large terrace listening to the sea on the beach not too far away.

But I digress.

The penultimate episode of the season left us with one big-ass WHAT just as the episode ended (and you can see I love the term big-ass; I'll be using it a lot when it comes to the dragons, sorry-not-sorry!), but also with a sense of ... hey, guy ain't fooling around no more.

Beyond the Wall promised a lot - and delivered.