Tome Thursday: The Station

Hello everyone!

Okay.

So there's something about this particular trope that keeps drawing me back.

I don't even really know WHAT it is, only that, if you find the right authors, it can be absolutely amazing to read.

And Keira Andrews is one of those smashing authors you just love to pick up.

I loaded a number of her books onto my new e-reader but haven't YET managed to read the lot of them. Sadly, life apparently wants to have some claim on my reading hours. Still, I did in fact nibble through one that had been sitting on my to-read shelf for a while, and if it's not the highly anticipated Test of Valor - I'm sorry!

I'm getting there, I promise.

But the book I'll be talking about tonight is titled The Station.

Talkie Tuesday: Deepwater Horizon

"I'll call you back, I'll call you back ..."

Hello everyone!

So.

It's back to my little notebook with reviews, since I haven't had the chance to actually watch something a little more current (I blame our country's Dancing with the Stars for eating up so much of my free time!). But hey, it's all good! I still have things to chew through. 

And of course one of the first I pick up is the one that made me curse, shiver, tear up, and outright bawl at my computer screen at the time when I put it on.

See every once in a while, I'll torture myself with some sort of 'based on a true story' movie.

You know, like I did with In the Heart of the Sea or Everest.

Usually, I have nightmares after, which I think may be the point.

Tonight's movie is definitely one of those. It's called Deepwater Horizon, after all.

Saturday Snippet: Kobo

Happy birthday to me :)

xx

*image not mine

Tome Thursday: Bloodline

Hello everyone!

Oh.

My.

GOD.

Can you believe it? I FINISHED THIS BOOK!

I'm not exaggerating when I tell you this one had a similar fate as it's predecessor, aka sitting there on my shelf all abandoned and neglected with a bookmark stuck about halfway through. It's testimony to the fact that I really, really hate leaving things unfinished that I went back and chewed through the rest of the book.

Which, technically speaking, did all happen within two or so days in the end.

Once I sit down to something, there's no telling with what kind of vengeance I'll do it!

Of course if you'll recall, I just always seem to have this kind of problem with the series in general. And what series, do you ask?

Why, Wars of the Roses, of course. And the book is called Bloodline.

Talkie Tuesday: Black Beauty

"Good people make good horses."

Hello everyone!

While listening to the rain fall outside I decided that I was going to review a movie that's incredibly near and dear to my heart. And I mean it's one of those where I will bawl my eyes out regardless if I've only just seen it, haven't seen it for years, or am watching it then and there.

There's something about a movie that talks about horses which always gets me.

Probably because horses just so happen to be my favourite animals.

And of course there's the little fact that black horses, especially, are the ones that get my heart racing.

What?

I admit it, at least!

And as to the movie I'll be talking about tonight, it's over twenty years old, but still amazing. I'm talking about Black Beauty.

Saturday Snippet: Royal Wedding

May they be happy!

xx

*image not mine

Tome Thursday: Black Beauty

Hello everyone!

It's time to take a bit of a trip into the past. Well, at least I am.

Whenever I'm feeling down about something or just not at one hundred percent where I should be, I have a couple of ways to get a little boost and end up back in my happy place. If I'm really short on time I'll put on a tune that really gets me going, but if I can make some luxury choices, well.

I'll either put on a REALLY good episode of a television show I like (that depends entirely on my mood at the time) or I'll pick up a good book.

A lot of the times it'll be The Lord of the Rings (because reasons), but some days I just need a different kind of pick-me-up.

Very recently, I was digging around my shelves to find the one book that probably spawned my love for black horses. Yes, that's a thing, and no, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I'm talking, of course, of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.