Talkie Tuesday: The Greatest Showman

"Everyone's got an act."

Hello everyone!

As stated above - we all have acts. Whether it's for our parents, for our friends, or for our co-workers, we tend to put on a different face and work our personality just a little so that we fit in better.

But what if you don't fit in?

What if, when all the odds are stacked against you, someone walks through the door to offer you a helping hand, and gives you something to actually look forward to?

This is a universal sort of theme that permeates tonight's movie of choice, but there's a whole plethora of others that just keep popping back up no matter how hard you may try to ignore them. That's what a good movie does, anyway.

If you haven't figured out just what I seem to be talking about, you might be living under a rock, friend.

It's time for The Greatest Showman.

Sunday Snippet: Eurovision 2018

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Tome Thursday: Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Hello everyone!

So every once in a while I'll pick up a book which has somehow or other been deemed inappropriate, scandalous, or, you know, it may even have been forbidden at some point or other.

I mean, The Da Vinci Code is certainly on that list!

But then again, other times I'm going to go back to re-read some things and remember there are other books connected to whatever it is I'm reading, which means that I'll be on the hunt to track down these other sources.

This was what happened to me with tonight's book of choice.

I was never one of those people who would fall so completely into a legend or story that I'd be doing my own research, but just before my parents took a short trip I asked my dad to dig up a book I'd remembered seeing lying about at some point, but books in our house tend to grow legs and clatter everywhere you can imagine.

My father being the amazing man that he is went and actually unearthed this book from under a couple of tires and out of a box. I'm talking about Holy Blood, Holy Grail, of course.

Talkie Tuesday: Geostorm

"Someone has weaponized Dutch Boy."

Hello everyone!

My movie section is once again looking up as I'm finally moving into slightly newer movies as opposed to flicks that are two or three years old (or more at that!). 

It also doesn't help that I keep getting distracted, like with Without a Trace or Unforgettable.

I know, I have issues.

But every once in a while I will also stumble upon newer, recent movies that I really feel like watching, and of course you'll be able to find a disaster one among them. Because let's face it, ain't nothing better for the crowd than going to see the world travelling to hell in a hand basket.

This was also very true about the movie chosen for tonight's blog.

I'm talking about Gerard Butler's survival flick, Geostorm.

Saturday Snippet: McGarrett

McGarrett being ... well, McGarrett.

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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.

Talkie Tuesday: Spiderman Homecoming

"If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it."

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another movie review, and I have to admit that I might be on a bit of a Marvel binge.

I mean, come on, Infinity War just opened in theatres and it is EXPLOSIVE!

Makes me want to go back to Iron Man and watch it all from the beginning again. That would be a movie marathon to remember.

Instead, however, I picked the one presentation-movie from Phase Three that I hadn't gotten to yet (next to Black Panther) and sat down to watch it sometime last week. It's one of those things that just happens to me, I try to keep on track and end up falling woefully behind.

There's literally nothing like trying to catch up to the Marvel Express.

I'm talking about Spiderman: Homecoming.