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Introducing: Movie Musical Challenge 2017

Posted January 30, 2017 by Charlotte in Challenges, Movie Musical Challenge! / 2 Comments
Introducing: Movie Musical Challenge 2017

Last Year I participated in Bookish Whimsy Movie Musical Challenge. This year I’ve decided to do another Movie Musical Challenge 2017. This time the 25 AFI’s Greatest Musicals of all Times!The Challenge is 25 Musicals in 12 months. Which should be really easy. Fingers crossed. Some of these I have already seen. But in honour of the challenge I am watching them ALL OVER AGAIN. Fingers crossed that this year I can watch a whole load of musicals. The Plan: I’m not going to watch these movies in any particular order, but each one I watch I will review. The plan is to watch at least two a month. Warp up in December where I will reorder the top 25 into my own list of top 25.   The AFI’s Top 25 Movie Musical List: Singin’ in the Rain (1952) West Side Story (1961) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Sound of Music (1965) Cabaret (1972) Mary Poppins (1964) A Star Is Born (1954) My Fair Lady (1964) An American in Paris (1951) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) The […]

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Introducing: Movie Musical Challenge!

Posted January 25, 2016 by Charlotte in Challenges, Movie Musical Challenge! / 2 Comments
Introducing: Movie Musical Challenge!

Welcome to my first Movie Musical Challenge. I love musicals and so what better way, or what better excuse to watch musicals, than to set a challenge for the year, the challenge is run by Bookish Whimsy and anyone can join. Over the year I’m aiming to watch the 15 musicals below. I’m not watching them in any particular order but I do plan to review each musical as I watch them. And if you want to link back to my reviews you can on this page. I picked these particular musicals as they are a small selection of the ones I’ve yet to see.  I’m not watching them in any particular order but I do plan to review each musical as I watch them. 1. Oklahoma (1955) 2. South Pacific (1958) 3. Kiss Me Kate (1953) 4. White Christmas (1954) 5. Easter Parade (1948) 6. The Gay Divorcee (1934) 7. High Society (1956) 8. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 9. West Side Story (1961) 10. Chicago (2002) 11. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 12. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 13. Guys […]

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Introducing: New Feature – Book vs. Film

Posted September 12, 2015 by Charlotte in Book vs. Film / 6 Comments

I’ve been meaning to add this feature to my blog for ages. And now is the time for Book vs Film. Having not quite had the summer I’d planned, I’ve finally got back to where I wanted to be, and hopefully (fingers crossed) writing this post will get my butt in gear and force me to write the posts I’ve been meaning to write for the last three months. It all sounds a bit ominous doesn’t it? The point of this post is to explain a bit about what I want to do in this feature. I know I know, it sounds a bit obvious and it is in the title… but… I also wanted to say why I’m  introducing films to this blog. I love watching movies, and it is pretty much part of my Saturday routine to sit down with the family and watch a film of some sort. Even if there is moaning from the father about it being another rom-com or musical. But I have him well trained and other films do appear (so don’t fret!). We always discuss […]

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Introducing: The Netgalley Challenge!

Posted September 5, 2015 by Charlotte in Challenges, Paperback Summer / 1 Comment
Introducing: The Netgalley Challenge!

So I signed up for the Netgalley Challenge  run by Sophie and Suze and can be followed via twitter on the challenge hashtag! Their challenge is simple – to read as many netgalley books as possible in the September and the first two weeks of October. Simple really. Recommended Feedback to Approval Ratio is at least 80%. Yours is 74%. I currently have 76 books to read on netgalley, and I have a 74% feedback rating. My aim is to get over 80%  I think its better to set a percentage target rather than a number of books read target, as we can see from Paperback Summer Challenge I didn’t succeed in completing that goal, falling ten books short. If my calculations are correct, then I need to read 18 books to reach my target of 80% and as I want to be above 80% I need to read a minimum of 20 books! So I better get started! And if you want to see how I am fairing with this challenge then you can check back here and see how many books I have actually […]

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