Saturday Snippet: Celebration

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Tome Thursday: Star Wars Hachette

Hello everyone!

This week's book blog post is a bit of a cheat, all things considered, but I didn't want to just not post anything since I will be out and about most of the day. I wanted to give you guys SOMETHING.

So I remembered that I'd read a very short book, more novella really, or a sort of children's version of a story, a couple of days back.

Once again I seem to be on a Star Wars binge as I've discovered The Clone Vars novelization, and I have to say it's the very first novelization so far that I want to have as a physical copy. Karen Traviss really seems to understand the characters well, she gives scenes time to breathe, and doesn't just tell the readers, she sort of shows them, too.

What I didn't know prior to reading Traviss' book (which I am right now) was that another one I had, in French, was basically the same thing - only condensed!

The Biblioteque Verte version has the Clone Wars animation cover, and even though it's French, I could absolutely see and feel all the puns thrown back and forth between the characters.

Talkie Tuesday: Hello, It's Me

"You never know where love might strike."

Hello everyone!

Back with a movie review and, you guessed it, it's another Hallmark channel one.

I know, I know.

I'm starting to get boring over here. I can't help it though!

Hallmark does punch out some really good movies that you and your whole family can enjoy, and recently I noticed that a couple of different channels here have been airing them.

I don't watch everything they serve me - for one, it'd be too many, and two, not every one of them is good, sadly! - but I DO watch a fair amount of them, and I recently ran into an old favourite which I'd watched, but never reviewed on here.

Well, I stand corrected!

Hello, It's Me isn't quite your typical Hallmark channel production.

Saturday Snippet: Floods

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Tome Thursday: Kenobi

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to a galaxy far, far away!

I'll admit that I sometimes need to take minor breaks in between reading genres, because on occasion they can become too much. This is what happened with my interest in the Star Wars books franchise, because I had pretty much gobbled down at least four or five books in a row, and then felt like I needed a bit of a breather.

So that was what I did.

And eventually picked up the one book I was probably, almost THE most excited about.

Okay it's a toss between this one and the one about Padmé. They're pretty much my favourite characters from the entire saga.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character that links both the Prequel and the Original trilogies, the bridge we need to understand just what happened and how things connect. Sure the villains are also there - but it's Kenobi that a lot of people connect with the most.

So the book titled directly after him is obviously a must-read.

Talkie Tuesday: Sailing into Love

"Dreams change. So do plans."

Hello everyone!

I am back with a Hallmark movie binge.

Every once in a while, I think to myself that I should have one of these. Sadly, Hallmark doesn't always produce the perfect films, but then again they aren't the only ones at fault for that.

Mostly, however, you can count on at least being able to turn your mind off for an hour and a half to two hours and just think about what's happening on your screen rather than what's going on inside your head. And admittedly, it's almost always funny.

With the closing of the season for When Calls the Heart, I saw a comment somewhere about Chris McNally, the actor portraying one of the new men in town, and that he was quite the sweetheart in his other roles.

Of course, I had to investigate. 

I was pleasantly surprised.

I've so far seen him in two movies (and plan on seeing more) and apparently in Lucifer though I don't remember that! But without further ado, ahoy, mateys! Sailing into Love is sailing onto the blog.

Saturday Snippet: Flirting with Death

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Tome Thursday: The Werewolf's Virgin Vampire

Hello everyone!

So last week I somehow forgot that I had a trilogy of books to finish off with the last one.

I'm not exactly sure how it happened, other than I think I was just so into Term Limits that I really WANTED to review it on here, but I'm back to my usual routine and I do actually have quite a few other books I want to talk about on here, and plans for how to continue through summer (and what to read, most importantly!).

When you read as much as I do and as many eclectic choices as I do (let's be real, there's nothing quite regular when you bounce from crime to romance to psychological thriller to comedy) you need to have some sort of plan, eventually.

I've been flying by the seat of my pants for a while but I'm probably going to actually concentrate now, especially with the summer vacation that's coming up!

But before I do any of that, it's time to do a little bit of a review on here and wrap up this trilogy with a nice bow and a smile.

Riley Rivers has a thing when it comes to supernatural, and The Werewolf's Virgin Vampire was no exception.

Talkie Tuesda: Avengers Infinity War

"We're in the endgame now ..."

Hello everyone!

Back with a movie blog and believe it or not I'm typing this one up at 6 am.

Why?

Because summer, that's why.

Summer has FINALLY hit the country but that means that temperatures are all over the place, aka super high and then some, which also means I either have to turn the AC on if I don't want to melt, or I simply don't go on the computer except early in the morning and then after the sun dips again late afternoon.

Unless something happens that ABSOLUTELY needs my presence online, I think I'll stick with not going online at all.

That being said, it IS time for a movie review, and why not continue along in the Marvel vein?

Heard about a Gauntlet running around? Let's look at Infinity War and see how the Avengers do.

Saturday Snippet: Vigor

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Tome Thursday: Term Limits

Hello everyone!

Summer is FINALLY here!

It's slated to get even hotter here than it is right now, and let me tell you, as much as this means a little bit of ingenuity with regards to being on the computer in a room that resembles a sauna without AC running, it's high time. We've had a rough going of it in May when we'd normally already be jamming in our daisy dukes, but May went on holiday and stuck us with a prolonged April instead.

So now, with June in the picture, it's FINALLY WARM.

I had such a fun time the other day when I went into town (on foot) and ended up perspiring because it was hot, and not because I was wearing too many layers to battle the cold outside and then melting once I got into an over-warm shop.

With high temperatures also come high stakes, at least in books if nothing else, and tonight is definitely no exception, but rather the norm for this rule!

Vince Flynn is probably one of my all-time favourite suspense authors, and I really need to sit down and read through his entire Mitch Rapp book series. But since I'm probably going to leave that one for the summer holidays, I picked something else for tonight.

A stand-alone of his, called Term Limits.

Talkie Tuesday: Captain Marvel

"Highter, further, faster, baby."

Hello everyone!

Back with a movie review after sort of cheating last week with the television show Blood & Treasure (which, by the way, airs a new episode tonight, so make sure you tune in!). And this time it's an ACTUAL movie review.

As in, I'm going back to my roots.

As in, I'm going back to Marvel.

For those of you who don't yet know, I'm an avid Marvel fan; I started watching the so-called Infinity Saga waaay back sometime in Phase one (not quite in the beginning, but I think I started with Thor or Hulk (might have been the one with Eric Bana) and worked my way up) and haven't looked back since.

I've loved most of the movies in the saga, with only rare exceptions, and I'm STOKED to see what follows after Endgame!

No, I haven't seen Endgame yet. I had three consecutive Marvel movie nights and needed a minor break. 

Tonight's blog post is all about Captain Marvel.

Saturday Snippet: Captain Marvel

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