Tome Thursday: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I'm once again in a Rick Riordan kind of mood, which should be no surprise at this point.

 

Actually I'm in this kind of mood a lot, I guess.

 

Riordan writes the types of books I enjoy reading to turn my brain off and just enjoy the story, the characters and the humour, and I have to admit that it's nice to revisit them every once in a while.

 

I've been making my way through the Olympians series a little while ago and then let the rest of the books just sit there, but then last week I was like, you know what? Why the heck not.

 

Which was why I ended up picking up the Heroes of Olympus one more time.

 

Despite the fact I have mixed feelings about the sequel series, I still enjoy the story as a whole.

 

And then of course, if you're reading the main stories, you have to read the companion books as well, which brings me to this week's subject.

 

I suppose I've waited long enough to get this going, so here we are: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes are up next!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Hercules

 

"What is the measure of a true hero?"

 

Hello everyone!

 

This week I'm once again straying just a little, as I haven't poked at Disney in a bit and figured, why not?

 

Besides, my Youtube algorithm kept suggesting videos from this movie for me and I couldn't resist any longer, not when Hades looked like the funniest thing since that TikTok video of a hamster or gerbil dancing with a water bottle haha!

 

Disney has been on a roll with live action remakes of its cartoons, most of which reached a fever popularity pitch in the nineties, or at the very least some of the best were released then.

 

Somehow or other, I never considered this one for viewing pleasure, however.

 

I'm not sure why.

 

I mean, it has Greek mythology (adjusted), Danny DeVito (perfect) and it surprised me with the sardonic, often dry sense of humour that you can see right off the bat from the trailer as well.

 

I'm talking, of course, about Hercules.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Hercules

Hello everyone!

So last year (yes, for real), I noticed that there were two Hercules movies coming out within the span of a couple of months: The Legend of Hercules (starring Kellan Lutz) and Hercules (starring Dwayne Johnson). The Legend was the first one I sat down to watch, but then I had to wait a bit before I could get to Hercules, since I went to the seaside for a month during the summer period, and then sort of forgot about it. Oops. Anyway, I finally got around to watching the second one too! So this review will sort of be a comparison of the two movies, and also a general recap of them both. As you can probably tell, both of them obviously deal with the Greek hero who was rumoured to be the son of Zeus, named to please the goddess Hera, but she was generally pissed off that her hubby dear had another bastard brat on Earth, and decided she wanted to do away with him. How's that for family love? And we thought the Mikaelsons had it rough ...