Talkie Tuesday: Outlaw King

 

"No more chivalry. Now we fight like wolves."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Tonight's choice has been floating around for a while.

 

And honestly, I had EVERY intention of watching it just as soon as I could, and then ... then, IDK what happened.

 

But on a random whim this past weekend, I finally flicked through the Netflix movie library to unearth this one, though I have to admit that I didn't even remember the correct title, accidentally landing on The King first before I bounced to this.

 

In my defense, there's a lot of kings running around the silver screen! LOL.

 

Without further ado, let's travel back in time to Scotland - ah, bonnie Scotland.

 

We'll be having a look at a failed rebellion, a successful one, wondering where Mel Gibson went off to, and plenty other subjects while also trying to discover why we need a full frontal nude shot that makes about zero sense, all wrapped in one movie package.

 

Which movie, you ask? And I answer: Outlaw King.

 

Tome Thursday: The Raider

Hello everyone!

It's Thursday and for once I actually had more than one book to choose from when it came to picking for this blog post.

I know: shocker!

This is because I've been reading up on some of my old favourites and catching up on actual physical books. If you'll recall, after I got my Kobo, I tended to read most everything in e-format, because it was simply easier and a lot more practical. If, say, I was heading on vacation, all I had to do was slip the e-reader into my purse and away we went.

Now though, the magic of paging through a tome is back, and I've been catching up on some series that have been woefully ignored before. One of them being Monica McCarty's Highland Guard, which I began, came somewhere around halfway, and then stopped.

I have the good luck that my mother reads the same series. So I snatched The Raider while she was away.

Tome Thursday: The Chief

Hello everyone!

With Outlander out and about (and did you SEE the new EW cover for the upcoming second season? I swooned, for real, it's not even funny!), the Scotland mania has certainly made its way around the globe, although I can't really remember how I got my hands on these particular books that I'm going to talk about. Or well, some of them at least, because from what I understand there will be twelve of them altogether, and I'm ... well, am I even halfway through? No not yet, I think I'm on number five at the moment, haven't started yet.

Basically, for whatever reason, I found myself a copy of Monica McCarty's books about warriors from the Highlands, who, as opposed to their 'civilized' Lowlands brethren, usually come in packages of big, built like the Hulk, and devilishly handsome.

I'm actually beginning to wonder just where on Earth these photographers who do the cover shoots find all these muscled men!

Anyway, I only later realized, when talking to my mother about this particular book, that they're being translated into Slovene, and we're obviously building that collection. But I don't exactly know what started me on this series, only that I did, and The Chief is the first of the books.