Sunday Post #105

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 
I am also linking The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz where bloggers discuss what they are reading and other bookish topics.

Life

Tomorrow I have to start teaching online again. It's difficult and I am not comfortable using a webcam yet. On top of that, the government and people start talking about having us teach one or two weeks longer instead of starting Summer break when it should. I have been working non-stop and this feels awful. 

Blog and books

I finished Before the Devil Breaks You which was really good. I haven't read a a lot this week because I started to feel stressed about work again.

This week I posted 30 TV shows I recommend, so check it out if you don't know what to watch next.

Movies and TV Shows

I have been watching Peaky Blinders with my father, which I am enjoying.

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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30 TV Show recommendations

As you know, I love reading but I also love watching films and TV shows. I wanted to share some of my favourite shows you can binge during this lockdown period.

I added where you can watch most shows on this list, but be aware that this is based on what you can watch on the streaming sites in Belgium. I don't know if you will be able to watch this in your country.

Lucifer (Netflix)

I have been watching this show since it first started and I still really enjoy it. It's often crazy but so addictive.

This show is about the devil, Lucifer, who comes to earth and assists a female detective to solve crimes. 

Love 020 (Youtube)

This Chinese show is about two gamers who eventually fall in love.

La Casa de Papel (Netflix)

Also known as Money Heist, is a Spanish show about a group of criminals who decide to rob a bank. It's brilliant and incredibly addictive!

Peaky Blinders (Netflix)

I'm currently watching this show together with my father. It's about a family of gangsters who try to extend their territory. It's often quite violent but the characters are so intriguing. My favourite character is probably Polly.

Victoria

This show is about the life of Queen Victoria. I watched the third season during quarantine and while it's not my favourite season, I still really enjoy this show. It's comparable to The Crown (which I love as well) but it's a bit more action-packed.

The Durrells

This show is about a British family that decides to move to Corfu. The characters are entertaining and the landscapes are beautiful.

Lovesick (Netflix)

This show is about Dylan and his group of friends and their relationships. I watched this in the beginning of March and I couldn't get enough of it.

Are You Human? (Netflix)

This is a Korean drama about Nam Shin, an heir to a corporate conglomerate. He is poisoned and falls into a coma, so his scientist mother creates an artificial intelligence robot to take his place. This science-fiction story is very entertaining and romantic. One of my favourite Korean dramas. I highly recommend this one.

W (Netflix)

This is another of my favourite Korean dramas. 
Oh Yeon Joo is a doctor and is suddenly kidnapped and covered in blood. She ended up in the comic book written by her father. The story and the characters start to change and intertwine with reality after this event. It's very action-packed and romantic which makes this show very addictive.

The Good Place (Netflix)

This is a fun show four characters who have died and now live in The Good Place.
It's one of my favourite Netflix comedy shows.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Netflix)

This is an incredibly funny show in which a group of police officers solve crimes.

Timeless (Netflix)

The main characters have to travel through time to stop a criminal who stole a time machine and attempts to change the past.

Grace and Frankie (Netflix)

This is a fun comedy about two women whose husbands fell in love with each other and decide to divorce their wives.

Parks and Recreation (Amazon Prime)

From the creators of The Office. Do you really need to know more?

I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix)

This is a show about a girl who develops powers and doesn't really know what to do with it. It strongly reminded me of Carrie and Stranger Things.

Las Chicas del Cable (Netflix)

This is a Spanish show set in the 1920s about a group of girls working in the national telephone company. Mystery, intrigue, drama and romance ensue.

His Dark Materials 

An adaptation of the books, I read them years ago and don't remember everything but I truly enjoyed this series.

Happy Valley 

This is a very gritty police drama. I can't recommend this one enough.

The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

I adore the characters in this one! It's based on a comic series with the same name.

Chernobyl

This show is based on true events and is portrayed very realistically. My favourite show of last year.

Fleabag (Amazon Prime)

This is a brilliant comedy-drama about the life of a woman, known as Fleabag. It's very entertaining. Season two is definitely my favourite.

Miranda

I love British shows like Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and Are You Being Served. Miranda is a more recent show but still incredibly funny. The love interest is played by Tom Ellis, the actor who is also known for the title role in Lucifer.

Broadchurch

This is a British crime drama starring David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Jodie Whittaker. A boy is found murdered on the beach and this is how the small community deals with the loss and the search for the killer.

Community (Netflix)

This comedy is about a group of students taking Spanish classes. I watched this show while I was studying Spanish at university so I had great fun watching this one!

The End of the F***ing World (Netflix)

This is a wonderfully weird show. James and Alyssa decide to go on a road trip to find her father. James believes he is a psychopath and wants to kill something bigger than animals. 

Lost in Austen

This is inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The main character ends up in the story and starts changing things.

Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix)

This is a horror-comedy show about two married realtors, Sheila and Joel, and their teenage daughter, who are living a quiet life in Santa Clarita. Things suddenly change when Sheila is turned into a zombie.

Godless (Netflix)

Feminist cowboys! Or should I say cowgirls? I can't recommend this one enough!

Sense8 (Netflix)

This is a science-fiction series about eight strangers around the world that are suddenly connected. This is a gem which you really have to watch!


North and South

This is one of my favourite BBC series based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. If you like Pride and Prejudice, definitely watch this show as well! Or read the book!

Have you watched these shows or can you recommend others? Leave your thoughts down below!

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Sunday Post #104

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 
I am also linking The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz where bloggers discuss what they are reading and other bookish topics.

Life

I enjoyed not having to work this week and being able to read more. I wish all weeks could be like this :)

Blog and books

This week I shared my March wrap up and book haul. I'm contemplating writing a blog post on TV shows I recommend to binge. Let me know if that interests you.

I finished Lair of Dreams this week and I'm currently reading Before the Devil Breaks You which I'm enjoying more than the former.

Movies and TV Shows

This week I watched another wonderful Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbor Totoro, and Peaky Blinders, of which I have to catch up on several seasons though.

Tonight I watched Parasite, which was fantastic. I highly recommend that film.

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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Stacking the Shelves: March 2020 Book Haul

Stacking the Shelves is a meme co-hosted by Reading Reality and Tynga's Reviews (the image above belongs to these blogs too). Each week bloggers share the books they got.

I purchased most of my new books this year in March. 

These are the books I got last month:

1. House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas 

2. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

3. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

4. A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

7. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez 

8. My Fake Rake (Union of the Rakes #1) by Eva Leigh

9. The Highwayman (Victorian Rebels #1) by Kerrigan Byrne

10. Bad Saint (All The Pretty Things #1) by Monica James 

11. The King of Crows (The Diviners #4) by Libba Bray

Which books did you recently get? Have you read any of the books mentioned above or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts down below!


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March 2020 Wrap Up

Here is my March wrap up. It was quite a difficult month for everyone I believe, but I still managed to read some books and webtoons.

Before all the Corona madness started I discovered Webtoon and I read a lot of comics on the app. I highly recommend them all! I added the Webtoon descriptions, so you can read a summary of the plot.

1. Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe

This is a stunning Hades and Persephone retelling. I love the artwork. 5 stars!

Witness what the gods do…after dark. The friendships and the lies, the gossip and the wild parties, and of course, forbidden love. Because it turns out, the gods aren’t so different from us after all, especially when it comes to their problems. Stylish and immersive, this is one of mythology’s greatest stories -- The Taking of Persephone -- as it’s never been told before.

2. True beauty by Yaongyi

After binge-watching beauty videos online, a shy, comic book fan masters the art of make-up, then sees her social standing skyrocket as she becomes her school’s prettiest pretty girl literally overnight. 4 stars!

3. Let's Play by Mongié

She’s young, single and about to achieve her dream of creating incredible videogames. But then life throws her a one-two punch: a popular streamer gives her first game a scathing review. Even worse she finds out that same troublesome critic is now her new neighbor! A funny, sexy and all-too-real story about gaming, memes and social anxiety. Come for the plot, stay for the doggo. 5 stars!

4. SubZero by Junepurrr

What would you sacrifice to save your family? How far would you go to protect your people? For Clove, the last princess of a near-extinct Dragon clan, the answer is the unthinkable: MARRY your greatest sworn enemy in an effort to bring peace to your land. 
5 stars!


5. Midnight Poppy Land by Lilydusk

After making a grisly discovery in the countryside, a small town book editor’s life gets entangled with a young Mafia lord and his intimidating bodyguard...even as every step she takes draws her deeper into the dangerous underworld of the city. 5 stars!

6. Asuras Bride by Lilydusk

On her way to an arranged marriage, a haughty princess is ambushed and held captive by bandits until she is rescued by a tired, hungry and pissed off soldier. 4 stars!

7. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig 

I'm enjoying YA stories less and less, this was good but not really my cup of tea anymore. 3 stars. (I haven't read Ninth House yet)

8. House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

Loved this one! 5 stars!

9. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez

4 stars. Not sure when I will continue because these volumes are really expensive.

What did you read recently?
Have you read any of these books or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts and recommendations down below!

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Sunday Post #103

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 
I am also linking The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz where bloggers discuss what they are reading and other bookish topics.

Life

After an awful week I'm happy to finally have a break. I'm hoping to read a lot and relax. We'll see how that goes.

Blog and books

I'm currently still reading Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray and I also read the first volume of Locke and Key this week.

Movies and TV Shows

This week I watched the third season of Victoria, I love period dramas! I also watched Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Loved both of them and reread Diana Wynne Jones' book, which I enjoyed as well. I'm hoping to watch more Studio Ghibli this month, which one should I watch next?

I just finished watching The Report and I recommend this film as well.

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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Can't Wait Wednesday: Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett

 Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting On Wednesday hosted at Breaking the Spine.

In this coming-of-age romance perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, scandal and romance collide when an ambitious teen returns to her hometown only to have her plans interrupted after falling for the town’s “bad boy”—a.k.a. her childhood best friend.

Sometimes to find the good, you have to embrace the bad.

Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it’s not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there.

What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie. But everything changes after a disastrous pool party, and a poorly executed act of revenge lands Josie in some big-time trouble—with Lucky unexpectedly taking the blame.

Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, and that the good boy she once knew now has a dark sense of humor and a smile that makes her heart race. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is… 

-- Goodreads.com description --

I have read and enjoyed two books by this author, so I'm hopeful I will like this one as well.

Expected publication date: May 5th

Which books are you excited to read? Recommendations are always welcome!

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