Talkie Tuesday: The Princess and the Pirate

 

"Long live Sandokan!" 

 

Hello everyone!

 

Boy, do I have a treat for you tonight.

 

An oldie but a goldie, so to speak.

 

Every once in a while I lean into the nostalgia factor and vibes here on this blog, especially and particularly because I tend to like diving into it myself personally as well.

 

So that's what I did with tonight's movie choice.

 

I also find it incredibly pointed to be talking about a movie from the nineties that was actually really good in comparison to some modern stuff circulating nowadays, while we all talk about Nolan's upcoming Odyssey, which looks ... well, the scope sure looks epic, but the individual details aren't what reaches the OG Troy, even a little bit.

 

We'll see about that, eventually.

 

God knows what that's going to look like. 

 

For now we're headed into the land of piracy once more, with The Princess and the Pirate!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Sandokan

 

"We protect what is ours. We fight for what was taken from us."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Happy New Year!

 

I hope that your entry into 2026 was calm enough, and that it's treated you well so far. I know for my part that I'd have LOVED if I could have spent a little more time at home - I got super lazy over the four days off I had LOL!

 

Then I went back to work yesterday and my entire body protested.

 

Such is life.

 

BUT.

 

That said, we are back to blogging on a semi-regular schedule, bby! And I have a special treat for you all with this first post of the year.

 

Because sometimes, tigers get to walk on two legs, and this one's handsome as sin to boot.

 

Introducing: Sandokan!

 

Tome Thursday: Bloody Black

 

Hello everyone!

 

Or, perhaps I should be saying, ahoy, maties!

 

LOL

 

Either way, whichever greeting you choose, tonight's book is an absolutely DELICIOUS feast of a novel.

 

And I say that as someone who was incredibly, beyond wonderfully lucky to be chosen for the BETA READ of this.

 

Not an ARC, the way you usually see me blabber on about on this blog, but the beta version, which is one step before even an ARC goes out.

 

Listen.

 

I don't really know how it happened. I mean, I do, but I also don't, if you know what I mean? I'm just a voracious reader from one of the smallest countries in the world, practically under the rock for some of the behemoths fighting over air space nowadays. And yet here I am.

 

Which means, you lot get to take this journey with me tonight, so grab your swords, put on your hats, and let's lift the Jolly Roger way up high with Bloody Black!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides

 

"It's not the destination so much as the journey, they say." 

Hello everyone!

And, for the last time, welcome to the Caribbean!

Considering this has taken me absolutely forever, one would think that the fact I'm FINALLY done with this series comes as a sort of relief.

And it does.

It also, conveniently, makes me want to just watch them all again one after another, because truth be told these are some of the best movies that have ever been made, in my personal opinion.

Yours may differ, naturally, but let's be real.

Who of us hasn't wanted to see the next adventure of one Captain Jack Sparrow?!

Hopefully - fingers crossed - we might even get more of them in the future, because that would be awesome. But until then, we only have the old faithfuls to lean back on.

So sails up and oars in, mateys; we're sailing On Stranger Tides tonight.

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest

 

"Do you fear death?" 

Hello everyone!

Hot on the heels of last week's explosive introduction into our newest obsession (or, old-newest, considering these movies are all going for their two decade mark), it's time to have a look at just what happens when big corporations start meddling in little townships.

Oh yeah, that's basically all it's about in this one, really.

Well, that and a vast expansion of the world that suddenly becomes much, much bigger and grander than what we previously imagined.

Pirates of the Caribbean sail on the high seas once more, but this time they need to be wary of multiple things at once.

Betrayal abounds, and people seem to fall in lust left, right and center, and by GOODNESS but the sanest people you'd think should know what they're doing are actually the biggest idiots at the same time.

So without further ado, let's make sure we don't end up in bone cages.

Dead Man's Chest is a-thumpin', and the Locker awaits!

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

 

"Begun by blood - by blood undone."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So a while ago - and this was REALLY a while ago lol - I kind of started my reviews into this particular franchise but never got round to finishing the entire thing.

 

Why?

 

No one knows. It's a mystery!

 

Anyway, this year during vacation I decided I was going to have a little watch party and refresh my memory about all this stuff, and while I didn't get to finish with the last movie quite yet (because I ran out of time and real life is unfortunately a thing) I DO plan on going through number five again as soon as humanly possible.

 

Until then, however, I can probably work on my collection right here on this blog.

 

Because not only do I NOT have the entire thing, I only have numbers three and five and the others are nowhere to be seen.

 

So without further ado, let's start at the very beginning which, as the song goes, is a very good place to start. Rum, ahoy! The Curse of the Black Pearl needs explaining.

 

Tome Thursday: Walk the Plank

 

Hello everyone!

 

So just as I prepare to head to the seaside for vacation, I always make sure that the books I have on my reading list get cleared off before I do so, seeing as I don't feel like dragging all of them with me when I don't have to.

 

This is one of them!

 

It's the third in the batch of books I nabbed off BookSirens that one time, and I have to say that it was incredibly enjoyable, just as the first two.

 

But then I mean, pirates, right?

 

Nothing beats pirates in the middle of summer!

 

Especially when paired up with vampires for some reason or another ... that kind of thing sounds completely absurd when you think about it, but when you actually want to read it, you find it works out, somehow.

 

I don't know how, but it does. Marilyn Barr's Walk the Plank is up next, and hopefully you enjoy it.

 

Tome Thursday: The Belle of Eden

 

Hello everyone!

 

Hopefully you're all doing well in these rather difficult times, and that if nothing else you've found some books that have been able to help you pass the time, get by, etc.

 

Being the reader that I am, I've certainly had no issue finding what I wanted, though I will admit that sometimes the 'what I want' turns out to be 'am I actually sure this is what I want?'.

 

Tonight's book is an example of that, because while the premise sounded like something I would enjoy, the actual execution of the book I picked wasn't something that I was all that fond of, and I figure I should try and explain myself in this review if I possibly can.

 

Especially since I finished this one before my Booktober started.

 

I'm still playing catchup, yessir. But hey, it's one of the fun things about reading, am I right?

 

So without further ado, let's get right into it, as swashbuckling adventure and pirates lurk around the corner.

 

Sofia Ashford's Belle of Eden awaits.

 

Saturday Snippet: Sea Shanties

 

My new favourite thing. Give it a listen!

It's such a fun soundtrack with catch tunes.

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Guns of Liberty

Hello everyone!

I'm returning this week with another one of the ARCs I was lucky enough to get from BookSirens, a site where authors and readers come together for a mutual exchange.

I've talked about it a little bit in one of my previous posts, but I feel like I should mention it again because it's honestly SO amazing.

You have this online library, right, which is COMPLETELY FREE, and you can sign up, then start picking out the copies you'd like to read. The only thing you have to keep in mind are the deadlines, because you do get a to-read date with each of the books you choose, but in most cases the average for this is about 90 days.

That's a full three months to read between 200 to 400 pages, which is a pretty fair deal.

You can find anything on there, from contemporary to paranormal, and I've honestly been pretty lucky in my choices so far. Out of the lot I chose, I've only been on the fence about one, and tonight's book isn't that unfortunate soul.

No, tonight, we head out to sea ... or better, air.

Guns of Liberty by Jamie Mauchline is up next.

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean Salazar's Revenge

"Dead men tell no tales."

Hello everyone!

I'm excited for this blog post. Can you tell? I haven't been this excited about a post since Beauty and the Beast, and prior to that not for a while. Normally, I like whatever it is I'm typing about - obviously or I wouldn't be writing about it in the first place - but some stuff does get my attention a lot more than others. 

Like, for instance, Pirates of the Caribbean.

I haven't been in the Pirates' mood in a while, certainly not for a bit before AXN decided to put the first four movies of the franchise into its regular programming, which then meant that, every time you tuned in to that channel, one of them was playing at some point or other.

I'm not complaining.

I also did a blog post about At World's End a while ago, and I'll link that one at the bottom.

But last week was my birthday, and to treat myself, I (and my girl friends) went to see the fifth installment of the series, Dead Men Tell No Tales, or as it's alternately known, Salazar's Revenge.

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End

"Hoist the colours!"

Hello everyone!

Or should I say arrrrr? 

These past two weekends, AXN decided to premiere Pirates of the Caribbean, introducing the first four movies into its regular program, which delighted me to no end because, one, these movies are amazing, and two, you can never, and I mean never, have enough of Captain Jack Sparrow.

Now to be frank, me and Johnny don't really go well together. I admire him for certain of his roles - but definitely not all - and I will admit I can see the appeal he has for women.

Sadly, not for me.

That being said, however, I thoroughly enjoy his portrayal of Jack, and without the iconic character these movies would certainly not be as successful as they are today. And while it's been on choppy seas since the first trilogy, Jack saved the day and prevented the subsequent movie from being a complete disaster, despite the fact that there were very few original characters who returned for the telling.

And as I'm definitely in the pirate vein just before Easter, and also because this year marks its tenth anniversary, I figured to myself: whyever not? Why shouldn't I do a blog post about the third (and at the time final) Pirates movie, At World's End?