Showing posts with label dan stevens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dan stevens. Show all posts

Monday, 21 October 2019

Nemesis (Booktober)


"Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everlasting stream."



 
What is Booktober without the Queen of Mystery? If you want a good, quality murder, pick up any Agatha Christie book and you're bound to get just that. For my pick I chose one from her Miss Marple series, potentially my favourite with the willy old bird, Nemesis. The story of retracing the steps to an old, old crime - and finding the truth about what happened to a young girl who just wanted to love and be loved in return - is both harrowing and enchanting at once. Christie has a way with words that few authors have since managed to achieve.

But that doesn't mean you won't scratch your head as you read!



In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intruguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime - the ultimate crime - murder. It seems someone is adamant that past evils remain buried ...
(from Goodreads)

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*image not mine

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Talkie Tuesday: The Man Who Invented Christmas

"Bah, humbug!"


Hello everyone!

Okay. OKAY. 

I know what you're thinking.

The weather ouside is FINALLY starting to warm up, the sun's shining, the birds are tweeting around, and here she is, watching Christmas movies.

In my defense, I watched this one just as the tail end of the last snowmageddon rushed through our town.

So really, there's no excuse not to post the review, right? Right.

Anyway, I was sold on the movie when I saw the trailer, which was a while ago, so The Man Who Invented Christmas was on my watch list in any event.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Talkie Tuesday: Downton Abbey (season 1)

"I am a caretaker, not an owner."


Hello everyone!

Alright, so. Once again, this Tuesday blog is going to be a bit different, as it will not, in fact, be about a movie of any kind. And there really is a perfectly simple explanation for that. 

That is, more or less.

See for a time now, one of my best friends has been badgering me (gently, of course) to start watching Downton Abbey. The thing was, with all the regular shows in season, and everything else I generally watch in between, I just never found the time. More accurately, I never made it, really.

Then a few weeks back, I finally decided to bite the bullet, for one thing because I hate not being able to deliver, and for another because I had been told, in no uncertain terms, that Dan Stevens is pretty wonderful in this show.

Dan Stevens? THE Dan Stevens, aka the Beast?

Scuse me while I find the popcorn and get my groove on.

Ahem. So, finally capitulating, I managed to run through the first season of the show since then, and boy, am I thankful for the constant persuasion!

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Talkie Tuesday: Beauty and the Beast

"Tale as old as time ..."


Hello everyone!

Finally, Tuesday arrived so that I can sit down and properly get this going. And can you notice that I've been excited for this blog post since the moment I sat down in cinema to watch the movie? 

If you haven't figured it out by now, this post will undoubtedly make it all clear to you.

Now.

Beauty and the Beast, the Disney cartoon version, that is (and never did I think I'd have to make sure people knew what I was talking about ...) is my all-time favourite Disney movie. That wasn't made spectacularly clear to me prior to seeing the live-action movie, however, which is a shame. I was unsure about which princess I preferred, what storyline was the most awesome, but then, last Friday, as the first orchestral notes started and all the hair on my arms stood up straight, I just knew.

Obviously, my parents were already well aware of that fact.

Duh, said my father, that was the first ever Disney cartoon we got you and you saw as a kid when you were four or five years old. That kind of thing sticks with you forever.

Parental wisdom ...

But, without further ado, my review of the live-action Beauty and the Beast!