Talkie Tuesday: The Mummy

 

"No harm ever came from reading a book."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm back!

 

And I have a wonderful movie for you tonight.

 

This is for all of us who've seen this one so many times it's basically like the air we breathe, who reference quotes from it in our daily lives or just to have great fun, and of course, who look forward to watching it AGAIN just as soon as we possibly can.

 

There are some movies you can watch over and over again without so much as blinking an eye.

 

Some that stay with you no matter where you go or what you do.

 

Tonight's choice is among them, possibly in the top category, because honestly, what could be better than the hot sands of Egypt, a rugged explorer, and mummies?!?

 

Nothing, that's what (or, not a lot)!

 

So arm yourselves and bring your cats - we're stepping right into The Mummy.

 

Synopsis Saturday: Son of Ishtar

 

Hello everyone!

 

So as promised in my Thursday brief, I'm now finally finished with the first book in the historical series I'd picked up a while ago but never actually got around to reading right away.

 

Then, around the start of this week, I saw a tweet by the book author about the next installment in the series, and I thought to myself.

 

Did I not actually read those?

 

That sent me on the hunt through my e-library, and lo and behold, the first two books were sitting there, right as rain, and completely untouched.

 

I figured that was a bit of an insult, considering, and so I opened up the first one so that I might actually read through it and then decide whether or not it might be worth continuing on with the rest of the series, which, admittedly, is always a daunting task.

 

But I needn't have worried one bit.

 

Because Gordon Doherty delivers - and Son of Ishtar is one explosive beginning!

 

Nefertiti (Booktober)

 

"The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power."

 

 

 

Rahotep is a detective, under orders from his exalted ruler himself. If you think that sounds fairly normal for a book, I should add that said exalted ruler is the Pharaoh, and our detective lives in Ancient Egypt. Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead brings forth a stunning mystery set smack-dab in the middle of the desert. What has happened to the most beautiful woman in all the land, right before an important festival? And just like in modern times, the detective works under a tight deadline, except this one is deadlier than any of ours could ever be. Find the Queen - and save your family.

 

 

 

  

She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the construction of a magnificent new capital. The priests are stunned by the abrupt forfeiture of their traditional wealth and influence; the people resent the loss of their gods—and the army is enraged by the growing turbulence around them. Then, just days before the festival that will celebrate the new capital, Nefertiti vanishes ...

(from Goodreads)

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*image not mine

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