Talkie Tuesday: Beyond the Northern Lights

 

"You can make the impossible possible."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome to the final installment of our journey following Niko the little reindeer.

 

Well, I say final, but of course I have no idea if the studio that made the current trilogy has any plans on further sequels, which, after seeing this movie, I honestly think could very easily happen.

 

I mean, Niko's just transitioning from childhood to adolescence, he's still got WAYS to go before he can actually call himself an adult.

 

That means there's still PLENTY of time for him to have a bunch of other adventures, not to mention mishaps, along the way.

 

But I digress.

 

For tonight, we're not talking about the future or what-ifs, because we're going to be talking about the here and now.

 

Which is the third, and - currently - final movie, Beyond the Northern Lights!

 

Tome Thursday: Velvet Thorns

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the blog.

 

I know I unfortunately had to take a mini break this past Tuesday, but that's because real life just CONSPIRED against me, and I spent most of my time either at work, or sleeping off being work-tired.

 

Here I am now though, with a pretty banger of a book that literally JUST released.

 

Like, it released yesterday.

 

I can't be any more on the nose about it than that.

 

Lea Rose has quickly shot right up to my favourite authors list with Where We Burn, and I'm now determined to read her other books as well because, hello, when you find an author you really like, that's what you do.

 

I'll slowly but surely collect them all on here for your reviewing pleasure while I'm at it.

 

So without further ado, to tonight's book of choice: Velvet Thorns.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Agneepath

 

"To gain something, you have to give up something to the path of fire."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to yet another Hrithik Roshan movie, back from what I consider to be his golden days of cinema when he was practically booking roles left, right and center, and mostly all of them shot him further into stardom.

 

Not that I blame anyone.

 

I mean just LOOK at the man!

 

Ahem.

 

Tonight's movie of choice is one I'd had on my list to watch for a very long time, but somehow never really sat down to it until I had a few days off at the start of autumn here and could muster both time AND energy to sit this through.

 

These ole Bollywood movies ... three hours! My body just can't anymore lol. 

 

Without further ado, we're going to walk right down the path of fire with the goat, Roshan, in Agneepath.

 

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!

 

Tome Thursday: Lover Reborn

Hello everyone!

Time for yet another book blog and, as this spring seems to be in the sign of them, I have been re-reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood novels from the beginning (although yes, I have started them prior to spring; even I can't read that fast!). Right about now I'm at a pause around numbers ten and eleven, which for any book series is a whole lot, actually.

Thinking about it, I need to dig really hard to try and remember any other which would have been so successful with an original series to come to these high numbers and still continue to write.

But that aside, I mostly stick ith these books because they're a very good, entertaining and relaxing read. Do they have drama? Of course. They also have a whole lot of romance and subplots that mean you have to keep your wits about you and keep track of what's happening through the whole four or five hundred pages, but that's the magic of book reading anyway.

I've done quite a number of J. R. Ward reviews at this point and I just keep coming back, which does mean that eventually I'll have them all bagged up nicely, with tags to go along.

I'm definitely looking forward to that day!

In the meantime, let's jump right in to Lover Reborn.

Talkie Tuesday: The Count of Monte Cristo

"How did I escape? With difficulty.
How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

Hello everyone!

This week is going to be a bit Alexandre Dumas-coloured, if I do say so myself. I've been meaning to do something of the sort for a LONG time, but unfortunately, other things kept on happening and distracting me, this included but not limited to Rick Riordan and his books popping in and out of my reading list.

Yeah, I should probably dial down on the whole Jack the Sword quotations, right?

Anyway.

A while ago (this being now a long while ago) I decided, for some reason, to sit down and read The Count of Monte Cristo from beginning to end. As luck would have it, this took a bit (that thing is HUGE).

As luck would ALSO have it, in the meantime they aired the movie adaptation on television, though I had to double back and watch it later on as well because ... let's face it, I missed the whole beginning.

With that in mind, let's launch into our Monte Cristo-themed week!