Tome Thursday: The Station

Hello everyone!

Okay.

So there's something about this particular trope that keeps drawing me back.

I don't even really know WHAT it is, only that, if you find the right authors, it can be absolutely amazing to read.

And Keira Andrews is one of those smashing authors you just love to pick up.

I loaded a number of her books onto my new e-reader but haven't YET managed to read the lot of them. Sadly, life apparently wants to have some claim on my reading hours. Still, I did in fact nibble through one that had been sitting on my to-read shelf for a while, and if it's not the highly anticipated Test of Valor - I'm sorry!

I'm getting there, I promise.

But the book I'll be talking about tonight is titled The Station.

Talkie Tuesday: Deepwater Horizon

"I'll call you back, I'll call you back ..."

Hello everyone!

So.

It's back to my little notebook with reviews, since I haven't had the chance to actually watch something a little more current (I blame our country's Dancing with the Stars for eating up so much of my free time!). But hey, it's all good! I still have things to chew through. 

And of course one of the first I pick up is the one that made me curse, shiver, tear up, and outright bawl at my computer screen at the time when I put it on.

See every once in a while, I'll torture myself with some sort of 'based on a true story' movie.

You know, like I did with In the Heart of the Sea or Everest.

Usually, I have nightmares after, which I think may be the point.

Tonight's movie is definitely one of those. It's called Deepwater Horizon, after all.

Saturday Snippet: Kobo

Happy birthday to me :)

xx

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Tome Thursday: Bloodline

Hello everyone!

Oh.

My.

GOD.

Can you believe it? I FINISHED THIS BOOK!

I'm not exaggerating when I tell you this one had a similar fate as it's predecessor, aka sitting there on my shelf all abandoned and neglected with a bookmark stuck about halfway through. It's testimony to the fact that I really, really hate leaving things unfinished that I went back and chewed through the rest of the book.

Which, technically speaking, did all happen within two or so days in the end.

Once I sit down to something, there's no telling with what kind of vengeance I'll do it!

Of course if you'll recall, I just always seem to have this kind of problem with the series in general. And what series, do you ask?

Why, Wars of the Roses, of course. And the book is called Bloodline.

Talkie Tuesday: Black Beauty

"Good people make good horses."

Hello everyone!

While listening to the rain fall outside I decided that I was going to review a movie that's incredibly near and dear to my heart. And I mean it's one of those where I will bawl my eyes out regardless if I've only just seen it, haven't seen it for years, or am watching it then and there.

There's something about a movie that talks about horses which always gets me.

Probably because horses just so happen to be my favourite animals.

And of course there's the little fact that black horses, especially, are the ones that get my heart racing.

What?

I admit it, at least!

And as to the movie I'll be talking about tonight, it's over twenty years old, but still amazing. I'm talking about Black Beauty.

Saturday Snippet: Royal Wedding

May they be happy!

xx

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Tome Thursday: Black Beauty

Hello everyone!

It's time to take a bit of a trip into the past. Well, at least I am.

Whenever I'm feeling down about something or just not at one hundred percent where I should be, I have a couple of ways to get a little boost and end up back in my happy place. If I'm really short on time I'll put on a tune that really gets me going, but if I can make some luxury choices, well.

I'll either put on a REALLY good episode of a television show I like (that depends entirely on my mood at the time) or I'll pick up a good book.

A lot of the times it'll be The Lord of the Rings (because reasons), but some days I just need a different kind of pick-me-up.

Very recently, I was digging around my shelves to find the one book that probably spawned my love for black horses. Yes, that's a thing, and no, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I'm talking, of course, of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.

Talkie Tuesday: The Greatest Showman

"Everyone's got an act."

Hello everyone!

As stated above - we all have acts. Whether it's for our parents, for our friends, or for our co-workers, we tend to put on a different face and work our personality just a little so that we fit in better.

But what if you don't fit in?

What if, when all the odds are stacked against you, someone walks through the door to offer you a helping hand, and gives you something to actually look forward to?

This is a universal sort of theme that permeates tonight's movie of choice, but there's a whole plethora of others that just keep popping back up no matter how hard you may try to ignore them. That's what a good movie does, anyway.

If you haven't figured out just what I seem to be talking about, you might be living under a rock, friend.

It's time for The Greatest Showman.

Sunday Snippet: Eurovision 2018

xx

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Tome Thursday: Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Hello everyone!

So every once in a while I'll pick up a book which has somehow or other been deemed inappropriate, scandalous, or, you know, it may even have been forbidden at some point or other.

I mean, The Da Vinci Code is certainly on that list!

But then again, other times I'm going to go back to re-read some things and remember there are other books connected to whatever it is I'm reading, which means that I'll be on the hunt to track down these other sources.

This was what happened to me with tonight's book of choice.

I was never one of those people who would fall so completely into a legend or story that I'd be doing my own research, but just before my parents took a short trip I asked my dad to dig up a book I'd remembered seeing lying about at some point, but books in our house tend to grow legs and clatter everywhere you can imagine.

My father being the amazing man that he is went and actually unearthed this book from under a couple of tires and out of a box. I'm talking about Holy Blood, Holy Grail, of course.

Talkie Tuesday: Geostorm

"Someone has weaponized Dutch Boy."

Hello everyone!

My movie section is once again looking up as I'm finally moving into slightly newer movies as opposed to flicks that are two or three years old (or more at that!). 

It also doesn't help that I keep getting distracted, like with Without a Trace or Unforgettable.

I know, I have issues.

But every once in a while I will also stumble upon newer, recent movies that I really feel like watching, and of course you'll be able to find a disaster one among them. Because let's face it, ain't nothing better for the crowd than going to see the world travelling to hell in a hand basket.

This was also very true about the movie chosen for tonight's blog.

I'm talking about Gerard Butler's survival flick, Geostorm.

Saturday Snippet: McGarrett

McGarrett being ... well, McGarrett.

xx

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Tome Thursday: The Raider

Hello everyone!

It's Thursday and for once I actually had more than one book to choose from when it came to picking for this blog post.

I know: shocker!

This is because I've been reading up on some of my old favourites and catching up on actual physical books. If you'll recall, after I got my Kobo, I tended to read most everything in e-format, because it was simply easier and a lot more practical. If, say, I was heading on vacation, all I had to do was slip the e-reader into my purse and away we went.

Now though, the magic of paging through a tome is back, and I've been catching up on some series that have been woefully ignored before. One of them being Monica McCarty's Highland Guard, which I began, came somewhere around halfway, and then stopped.

I have the good luck that my mother reads the same series. So I snatched The Raider while she was away.

Talkie Tuesday: Spiderman Homecoming

"If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it."

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another movie review, and I have to admit that I might be on a bit of a Marvel binge.

I mean, come on, Infinity War just opened in theatres and it is EXPLOSIVE!

Makes me want to go back to Iron Man and watch it all from the beginning again. That would be a movie marathon to remember.

Instead, however, I picked the one presentation-movie from Phase Three that I hadn't gotten to yet (next to Black Panther) and sat down to watch it sometime last week. It's one of those things that just happens to me, I try to keep on track and end up falling woefully behind.

There's literally nothing like trying to catch up to the Marvel Express.

I'm talking about Spiderman: Homecoming.