Happy Halloween!

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

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Saturday Snippet: I Know a Secret

She does.

But her sociopathy is so NOT a secret.

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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

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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.

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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

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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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