Talkie Tuesday: Robin Hood 2010

"Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions."

Hello everyone!

I seem to be doing these backwards.

If you recall, some time ago, I made a post concerning the 2018 version of the Robin Hood movie, which could have very easily not been done and if you don't watch it you're not missing out on anything in terms of actual Robin Hood.

Then this weekend, one of our channels decided to do a re-run of the 2010 version, and I said to myself, you know what? For the heck of it, why not.

There's a bunch of other versions out there after all, and I should note that Prince of Thieves pretty much gets re-runs almost as frequently as a sitcom, so mostly once a week, and that movie should be the next in line if I don't find any other in-between the Robin Hoods.

The there's still at the very least the cartoon AND the parody that was made, so, you know, this is the franchise that never dies. I think only Spider-man got more re-makes!

So Robin Hood, circa 2010, here we go!

Saturday Snippet: Costumes and ... uggs?

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xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Queen Move

Hello everyone!

This week on 'which book did she pick up from her TBR pile' we go along to a very random one I saw because I subscribe to this newsletter from a different author.

Yeah, sometimes that's how it happens!

I signed up for the Caldwell Courier Journal by J. R. Ward when she first announced it, and one of the sections she does there is reading, or a book club of some sort, which was how I stumbled over tonight's book of choice.

I'd never, up until this point, read anything by Kennedy Ryan, which is a shame since I really like her writing style from what I've seen so far. 

Just means I'll be picking up more books by her in the future!

For tonight, however, let+s just focus on the one I ended up reading through pretty much in one sitting. Occasionally, I know what's best for me and make sure that I don't overdo it, but sometimes I also can't help myself.

Queen Move was one of those that grabs you and doesn't let go easily.

Talkie Tuesday: Timeless Love

"Most of the time, your heart and your mind are saying the same things.

Just in different ways."

Hello everyone!

I know, I know, I really SHOULD get out of my Hallmark movies binge and into something else. I promise that I'm doing it for next week!

This week was too good to pass up though.

I'd seen the title for this movie rolling around on the list I have, but I never wasted much attention on it until I actually took a bit more interest into who was playing the lead roles.

Rachel Skarsten is one of those actresses you just NEED in your life.

I'd seen her before in Lost Girl, but then of course she went on to play Elizabeth I in Reign, that secretary in 50 Shades of Grey, and most recently Alice in Batwoman.

The woman has skillz, lemme tell you.

So it's no wonder that I fell REALLY hard for this movie of hers, Timeless Love.

Saturday Snippet: Roswell, New Mexico

Season 2 may be over, but the feelings live!

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Clay's Hope

Hello everyone!

As promised last week I'm back with a review on the mirror image of the book we talked about that time.

If you remember, I'd fallen off the deep end and into the world of werewolves and very unspecified supernatural humans who seem to be able to either see the life force of others or make predictions or stuff like that.

It's one of those things that you either roll with, or you never get the hang of it I think.

Me?

I totally rolled with it.

I'm fine with paranormal and supernatural so long as there's some sort of arc to the storytelling, and this one was a kind of Beauty and the Beast one at that. And we all know how we feel about it!

So now we've heard all about what Beauty thought.

It's time to take a look at Beast in Clay's Hope.

Talkie Tuesday: A Man for Every Month

"It's not about them - it's about you."

Hello everyone!

Yes, I'm still on the Hallmark movie binge. I promise I'm getting to some of the other things I have waiting to be watched and observed, but for the time being, Hallmark's rolling motion of movie premieres has been slowed a bit because of the situation at hand, so it's slightly easier to keep track of them and to watch them as they're released.

That, and I honestly just want to give my brain a rest every once in a while.

Especially with all the spectacular happenings on the shows still running at the moment!

We're headed into an actual drought soon when the summer shows end and the autumn ones won't even begin yet since who knows how they're going to shoot now, which means I'll have plenty of time to play catch-up.

But before I can play catch-up, I have to play 'find the movie'.

A Man for Every Month, to be precise.

Saturday Snippet: A Man For Every Month

Actually worth a watch, it's kind of quirky!

Review incoming 😉

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Hope(less)

Hello everyone!

Today I'm bringing you something a little bit different, or at least different to what I've been reading recently.

It's been a while since I found a really good supernatural book that I'd actually enjoy to the point where I'd want to immediately gobble down the rest of the series; usually what'll happen is that I'll like the first book, but it won't hold my interest all that much that I'd want to devote more time to the subsequent ones.

Not with this.

I picked this one up at random, I think BookBub suggested it to me and the first in the series was free at the time, so I was like sure, why not.

I don't often like YA books, not anymore at least, because I think I've just outgrown them, and most feature a heroine who runs off at the first sight of problems when all you want to do is shake her and tell her to JUST. COMMUNICATE.

This one wasn't like that, which is probably part of the allure here.

Are you ready for this? Better have some hope, because Hope(less) is up next.

Talkie Tuesday: Nature of Love

"There's nothing more beautiful in the world than a heart that's changing."

Hello everyone!

As I've now exhausted my Outlander binge and the Disney one I went on, it's time to go back to reality and just pick up random movies that I think might be fun to watch.

Of course, naturally this means Hallmark is going to come into play.

How could it not?

I tend to watch more of their movies than any others, honestly, because they help me turn my mind off, let it recharge, and along the way I might even find something or other worth my interest! You never know really.

Although granted, I may also run into movies that really don't work for me, that usually only happens every once in a while.

This weekend's pick aired as part of Hallmark channel's Spring Fling, and has been released a couple of weeks ago, but I only just got to it. Billed on IMDB as Love & Glamping, although it was marketed as Nature of Love, this is the story of how a city girl goes - you guessed it - glamping!

Saturday Snippet: Queen of the Rodeo

Current song.

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Dakota and the American Dream

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a slightly different book review this week, in terms of I don't think I would have picked this one out on my own, or it's unlikely I would have.

But I was very kindly approached by the author, Sameer Garach, and he asked me to read it and write an honest review about it, so how could I refuse?

Answer: I couldn't.

Also the title sounded like something that could potentially be quite intriguing, but I will say I almost never read the back of the book, or the Goodreads blurb, before reading the book proper. I do read them, occasionally, especially if it's a contemporary kind of book, but mostly I sort of just skim through and then dig into the book proper.

So while I knew SOME of what this one was all about, I certainly had no clue as to the actual content, which I think is the proper way to read something. 

After all, if you consider the ones you read at school, one of the favourite questions a teacher will ask when presenting a book is 'What do you think this book will be about? What's on the cover?' etc.

Now without further ado, let's jump right into Dakota and the American Dream.

Talkie Tuesday: Frozen II

"Step into your power."

Hello everyone!

So after about half a week of back and forth over whether or not there would be a blog post, I'm FINALLY back.

Unfortunately I sometimes suffer from headaches which occur because I either a) haven't been drinking enough water; b) haven't slept enough; or c) I've spent too much time staring at a book or screen.

I think it might have been a combination of all three of these, coupled with the fact that I had friends over on Friday on top of already not sleeping well. I felt the headache beginning while still happily playing Cluedo, but it wasn't until Saturday that it blew into epic proportions. Not quite a migraine, but definitely painful enough!

Here I am, finally, with the promised movie review which should have gone up a whole lot earlier!

And yet, better late than never, right?

For this week's blog post, we're going right back into the cold, so hopefully you've bundled up again.

Show yourself, Frozen II.