Month: March 2017

Monthly Round-Up! March 2017

Posted March 31, 2017 by Charlotte in Monthly Round-up! / 0 Comments

Monthly feature, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. This round up March 2017. So I seem to have set a realistic reading goal this year. As so far I have managed to be one whole book ahead! Whoop whoop! I have got to take an achievement when I see it and this is definitely one of them. I always find it easier to read at the beginning of the year. Like I have more time or something. And then towards the end of the year I always feel like I’m running out of time. It probably also helps that I’m rereading some of my favourite books so I am just flying through them. Does anyone else do this? Currently reading: Reviews: Blog Tours: Through the Letterbox: Challenges: As per usual I’m participating in the Goodreads Challenge. For Movie Musical Challenge I watched: So what do you think of my round-up March 2017? What have you read this month? Let me know in the comments below! […]

Movie Musical Challenge: Guys and Dolls

Posted March 29, 2017 by Charlotte in Movie Musical Challenge! / 0 Comments

For this Movie Musical Challenge I’m using the AFI’s 25 Best Musicals List to try and work my way through. The challenge is throughout the year and once watched I’ll put my thoughts up on the blog. The third movie for the challenge is Guys and Dolls (1955), starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Having watched this last year as part of my 2016 Musical Challenge I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to watch this musical all over again. Yes I loved the music and the stylised dancing. All the songs in this show are pretty catchy, including ‘A Bushel and a Peck’, ‘ Luck Be a Lady’ and ‘Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat’. And I thought that the casting was pretty perfect, Vivan Blain is perfect as Adelaide, and paired with Frank Sinatra as Nathan the duo are unstoppable. But it is Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons, for me, as Sky and Sarah who steal the show. Theirs is a relationship I actually root for, and enjoyed more than Adelaide and Nathan, I wish there had been more of Sky and Sarah. I loved […]

Film Review: Mother’s Day

Posted March 26, 2017 by Charlotte in Film Review / 2 Comments

Mother’s Day directed by Released on 10 June 2016 Genres: Rom Com Feature Length: 1 hour and 58 mins Format: DVD Buy on Amazon Rating: Mother’s Day draws close, a group of seemingly unconnected people in Atlanta come to terms with the relationships they have with their mothers. Sandy (Jennifer Aniston) is a divorced mother of two boys whose ex-husband has recently remarried a younger woman named Tina (Shay Mitchell). Miranda (Julia Roberts) is an accomplished writer who gave up her only child, Kristin (Britt Robertson), for adoption at birth. But as a grown-up Kristin prepares herself for marriage, she begins to contemplate the missing part in her life and is encouraged by her friend, Jesse (Kate Hudson), to go out and find her mother. Meanwhile, Jesse and Gabi, who never see their mother, are surprised by their parents when they come to visit and must come to terms with their failing relationship. Review: Seeing as it is Mother’s Day it seemed appropriate to review this little film. And despite all the negative reviews this film has received this isn’t […]

Review: Blood Upon the Sand by Bradley P. Beaulieu

Posted March 24, 2017 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.With Blood Upon the Sand by Bradley P. Beaulieu Series: The Song of the Shattered Sands #2 Published by Gollancz on February 9th 2017 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 660 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Çeda, now a Blade Maiden in service to the kings of Sharakhai, trains as one of their elite warriors, gleaning secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She knows the dark history of the asirim—that hundreds of years ago they were enslaved to the kings against their will—but when she bonds with them as a Maiden, chaining them to her, she feels their pain as if her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but with the power of the gods compelling them, they find the yokes around their necks unbreakable. Çeda could become the champion they’ve been waiting for, but the need to tread carefully has never been greater. After […]

Movie Musical Challenge: West Side Story

Posted March 22, 2017 by Charlotte in Movie Musical Challenge! / 0 Comments

For this Movie Musical Challenge I’m using the AFI’s 25 Best Musicals List to try and work my way through. The challenge is throughout the year and once watched I’ll put my thoughts up on the blog. So the second movie for the challenge is West Side Story (1961), starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris. I reviewed this last year as part of my 2016 Movie Musical Challenge. And if I am being honest my opinion of this musical has not changed. It is a classic, moving and beautiful, a hypnotic musical that shows that the world is a stage. Again the gritty undertone of the musical hits home. As this retelling of a musical west side Romeo and Juliet focuses on gang warfare, racial dispute and crime. Despite the mesmerising dancing and delicious songs. ‘Tonight’, ‘America’ and ‘I Feel Pretty’ are still my three favourite songs in this musical but each song shows off the talent and skills of the cast and story, while keeping the whimsical nature of a classic musical. This was an atmospheric […]

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