Tome Thursday: The Ocean Between Us

 

Hello everyone!

 

More books to be had, all around, especially if you're a member of BookSirens.

 

Which is where, naturally, I picked up tonight's choice.

 

Okay, I'll admit, it was initially the cover that got me, making me stick long enough to read the premise for the story, and once I did - and got some technical issues out of the way - there was nothing stopping me from devouring this book in two sittings.

 

Two sittings, one day, give or take. That's pretty good, right?

 

ANYWAY, this one is for Greek mythology lovers. So brush up on those skillz and polish that knowledge, because there's definitely going to be stuff in here that will tickle your fancy.

 

Plus on top of that, it's a bit of a mix-and-match with The Little Mermaid, so I mean, what's not to like?!?

 

Mermaids, princes, curses, Greek gods ... sounds like a regular ole Thursday.

 

Cate Rowan's The Ocean Between Us makes a splash!

 

Saturday Snippet: THIS IS SPARTA!

xx

*video not mine

Talkie Tuesday: Troy

"Honour the gods, love your women, and defend your country!"

Hello everyone!

Time for yet annother movie review and since we're doing a history streak, let's go to the last that aired on one of our channels here (well, ok, technically the last one was The Last Samurai, but since I've already done that review, I'm counting this as last).

Troy is another one of those oldies-goldies in the sense that Hollywood doesn't (or almost doesn't) generally produce movies that are beyond 90 minutes long anymore. I don't know why - probably has something to do with the fact that audiences have become pretty spoiled. If they don't get what they believe they paid for in an hour or so, they think they've been cheated. Whatever happened to patience is a virtue?

Troy is around 160 minutes (the cinematic cut that is) of pure movie joy if that's what you came to watch, which, if you bought a ticked back in 2004, you did.

I do have to make a disclaimer here, however: if you went to see it for Brad Pitt, good for you, you can have at that reason. Me, I prefer some Eric Bana.

So let's dig in, shall we?