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Saturday, 25 July 2020
Thursday, 23 July 2020
Tome Thursday: The Legend of Lady MacLaoch
Hello everyone!
With the weather having changed (FINALLY) to something a little more manageable in the sense that it's not two hundred degrees outside every time I stick my nose out, I finally feel like I can actually function normally again.
I mean, I like summer, don't get me wrong, but I also like it when it doesn't try to roast me on the spot like it's been trying to do.
But then of course the downside here is that we may not GET any more real summer from now on, which is a bit of a bummer.
You can't have it all!
But maybe you CAN if you're descendant of some ancient Scottish clan or Viking-inspired seafarers, because then you just MIGHT stumble over a curse that's been hanging over someone's head for generations, you CAN try to lift it, and end up living your happily ever after!
Sounds like something you might read more about?
Then I encourage you to pick up The Legend of Lady MacLaoch. It's got all of the above, and more!
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Talkie Tuesday: Armageddon
"The dreams of an entire planet are focused tonight on those fourteen brave souls traveling into the heavens."
Hello everyone!
So yesterday I was debating which movie I should review on here when I walked down into our living room and there was my mother, turning the TV on, telling me that there was a movie we all love somewhere on one of the channels.
Naturally it turned out to be probably my favourite disaster movie of all time.
We kind of missed out on most of the prep time for the story itself - aka what happens BEFORE they get all the action going - but considering we clocked in right around the time they were going to be slingshot-ing around the moon, I think we pretty much nailed it.
If you haven't figured out what I'm talking about from that Road Runner reference alone, let me enlighten you.
It has Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, along with pretty much what you'd call a stellar all-star cast nowadays, it features a big ass rock trying to destroy the Earth, and if you've ever seen Aerosmith's most viewed music video, you also know that you don't wanna miss a thing.
Figured it out yet?
Saturday, 18 July 2020
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Tome Thursday: A Knight to Remember
Hello everyone!
I am, once again, back with yet another Hermione Moon book - or should I say yet another FANTASTIC Hermione Moon book.
Because I'm loving this series. I really am.
To bits and beyond, because COME ON. Arthur and Gwen? How could you NOT love them??
If you haven't been paying attention to this blog, I'm sure you may have noticed the books as they were being published. And if not, well, this is an ideal chance to catch up, since we're headed into some pretty interesting territory now!
You thought this was going to be an easygoing, cozy witch mystery, did you?
I did too.
And then Hermione Moon went and turned everything on its head with this last book she just released, which I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of.
So be sure to pay attention, because A Knight to Remember is a book you can't afford to miss!
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Talkie Tuesday: Big Miracle
"We're going to help free the whales."
Hello everyone!
In continuing with the tone I set last Thursday, I'm coming to you with something slightly different tonight, or at the very least different to what most of the movies I review are about.
Most of them are pretty funny, light-hearted, fluffy sort of peaces that occasionally put in some action sequences or have something funny for us to laugh about, but I've realized I apparently don't often watch biographies or things like that.
True stories, and inspired by true stories, are rare for me because I generally watch things to forget about the real world, and to turn my mind off from it.
Every once in a while, however, there's something that you just HAVE to see.
When it's all about whales, then you DEFINITELY have to see it.
Big Miracle is just one of those things. You can't not. That's all I'm going to say on the matter before diving right in!
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Tome Thursday: Tre Volte No
Hello everyone!
I have something slightly different for you today.
After taking it up a notch with my Tuesday blog post, I'm going in and keeping it extra real with this one tonight, because every once in a while I reach for a book that's slightly different from anything else I've read.
It also usually covers some sort of war aspect, too.
I've done a couple of these on the blog since I started, but I do feel like I should maybe do a few more as well, given that this is a topic that should never be forgotten, ever.
And one of the best ways to do it is if you know specific authors who write magnificent books about it.
Boris Pahor, one of my fellow countrymen, is one of them.
God bless him for his long, fruitful life. He has a collection of books mostly dealing with World War II era in the Trieste region, and I've read a number of them already.
Tre Volte No is just another in a long, long line.
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Tome Thursday: Queen's Peril
Hello everyone!
Wouldn't you know it, I'm back with another story from the galaxy far, far away.
You didn't think I'd left it ALL behind, did you?
I was only waiting for another awesome release.
A lot of people will argue (and do argue actually) that the post-Disney era is garbage, and I respectfully disagree with that. At least this post-Disney era gives us books focusing on some of the characters we've been dying to hear more about!
Plus I read books not by the era they were published in, but by what interests me at the time.
And a book about Padmé Amidala is ALWAYS going to win my good graces.
When it was announced that E.K. Johnston would be writing a prequel, or basically just another Padmé story, I was beyond thrilled.
Because character-driven stories like Queen's Peril are what we need.
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