Tome Thursday: City of the Beasts

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the book side of this blog, where we pick and choose books that either suit a niche to a T, or we strike out into the wild and try to figure out what kind of chaos we just walked into.

 

Tonight's choice is an OLD one.

 

Like, at least twenty years old.

 

I first read these books when I was about the age of the protagonists within them, so I suppose I definitely felt a certain way about the story as a whole, but now that I'm older, I wanted to sit down and have another go at them to see just what, if anything, I might see differently.

 

... Also, I just wanted to go back into some awesome writing.

 

Without further ado, let's just hop straight into it, shall we?

 

Make sure you've got your passport and you've gotten all your shots, because we're headed down the Amazon river and meeting some very, very indigenous peoples.

 

Then we're swerving right into City of the Beasts.

 

Rings of Power: Adar

 

"If Sauron has indeed returned, the Southlands are but the beginning."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Alright, alright.

 

So I said initially I wasn't going to do this.

 

I changed my mind. I'm allowed!

 

And also, a few of my friends have said they'd really love to keep on reading these weekly dissertations of mine which are no more and no less than me just spinning yarn about my thoughts, really.

 

Which means here we are, and here we will stay until the season ends.

 

Last week may have been an introduction that blew hot and cold, but this week brought us something a little more tight in terms of writing, and some answers to the mysteries we're being introduced to.

 

Hopefully Prime continues in this vein, because we're headed to the halfway point of the season, so some answers are welcome!

 

The Rings of Power episode, Adar, at the very least gives us some of them.

 

Saturday Snippet: Rings of Power Impressions

 

Thus far ... unconvinced. We proceed.

 

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Saturday Snippet: The Lord of the Rings POSTERS!

 

I can't wait for September!

(Pssst ... click on the image to be taken to the hi-res versions.)

 

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Saturday Snippet: The Lord of the Rings TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT!

 

Enter, RINGS OF POWER!

September 2, 2022.

 

I can't wait!

 

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Talkie Tuesday: The Wheel of Time

 

"There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time."

 

Hello everyone!

 

You know, I'm proud of myself.

I'm actually NOT as late to this shindig as I normally would be!

I mean, I'm still kinda late, but it's not six months or so late, only a month instead. This is an achievement as far as I'm concerned.

Considering the fact that we tend to not get these shows all that early to begin with (certainly not as early as our US or Canadian counterparts) I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out. And I mean, it's catchy to look at, and has a second season already (currently) filming.

What more could you even want?

So without further ado I'm going to stop spinning yarn, and start weaving the One Power instead.

The Wheel of Time, show edition, is up for debate.

 

Saturday Snippet: Wheel of Time OFFICIAL TRAILER

 

Woop!

 

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*video not mine

Tome Thursday: She's Too Young

Hello everyone!

This week's book of choice is slightly different in terms of both content and length, because I was honestly surprised when I opened it to see it's not even one hundred (reading) pages long. That's something you don't usually get to see when you sit down with any kind of book, so it was intriguing enough to begin with.

Also, the title caught me.

And then I was redirected to the author's site, and I read her explanation about the book, and I was thoroughly hooked, but not in a bad way.

See, Jessa Kane's 'She's Too Young' is a book describing a relationship between a seventeen-year-old high school student, and a thirty-year-old powerful magnate. If this isn't your cup of tea (and for many people it wouldn't be), stop reading this review right here and right now, and you'll be fine. You can even go off and spout how I'm supporting something horrible and terrible, if you want.

That's okay. As Ms Kane says - we all have the right to make our own choices about what we do and don't like, or do and don't read, in this case.

Under the line, though, is my review of 'She's Too Young'.