Tome Thursday: Gilded Rose

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm finally back.

 

Well, it's a relative term, as I'm still working to get rid of the rather persistent cough that's currently trying to keep my life absolutely miserable, but I at least don't feel like I need to sleep all the time and do nothing else anymore.

 

That said, it's time to get right down to business.

 

And what better way than with a book that stole my heart just before the seasonal cold did?

 

I swear I occasionally trip and fall face-first into a book collection from an author that I ought to have known long before this, but only discovered now, and end up loving them to bits.

 

Emma Hamm is an author like that, and I'm DEFINITELY reading just about anything and everything of hers I can get my grubby little hands on ASAP.

 

For tonight, though, I'm focusing on just the one book, which is a re-telling, conveniently enough.

 

Let's looks at Gilded Rose.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Hotel Transylvania 3 Summer Vacation

"It's party time!"

Hello everyone!

I have a confession to make. 

Now that my Turkish soap opera/drama has wrapped up, I don't know what to do with myself in the evenings.

I know, it's ridiculous.

But I DID have time to actually focus on movies this weekend seeing as CBS had a bit of a break and there was nothing to watch on television for a couple of nights.

I didn't feel like going into anything too dramatic or too over-the-top however, and eventually felt the need for something light and funny and airy. And while I enjoyed the first movie of this installment, the second one kind of left me hanging, so I was sceptical about going in for the third.

Turns out, however, that I needn't have worried.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation was awesome.

Talkie Tuesday: Dracula Untold

"Sometimes, the world doesn't need another hero.
Sometimes, what it needs is a monster."

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another movie blog, although my backlog of movies that I have yet to see hasn't gotten any shorter yet, despite all my attempts to do so. 

I just keep getting distracted!

Whether it's because of Dancing with the Stars or because Outlander has just premiered again (season two, woohoo!), I almost never have time to actually watch a movie for two hours straight unless something drastic happens. This is one of the many reasons why I'm usually pretty content once shows end for the summer break between seasons, because at least then I can pick up the slack and watch everything I missed out on during the rest of the year.

But the movie I'll be talking about tonight is actually one that I really, truly should have seen at least a year ago, and never got to it. I finally managed to do so though and I can honestly say that I enjoyed it, regardless of a lot of negative criticism that's rolling around the world wide web.

I'm talking about Dracula Untold.