She’s alive! An update

Posted 15 March, 2021 by Lianne in Website / 1 Comment

Hello world! I’m still here, lol.

Well, I mean, I haven’t fully fallen the face of the earth as this blog may suggest–I am active on Instagram–but I have been terribly busy. I’m in my final semester of my RN programme (at long last!) so it’s been crazy busy navigating my preceptor’s schedule with my own schedule on top of other schoolwork, a project I’m spearheading at work, this ongoing pandemic, and so forth. Hectic, right?

I do hope to get back to blogging at some capacity once the semester is over (to keep me sane as I study for the NCLEX). I have been reading when I have a moment to spare–and indeed I started off 2021 reading a bit more than I had towards the end of 2020 (which was madness personified, I tell you). I just hope I’ve remembered enough from the books I’ve read to type up some decent reviews (you’d think I’d made proper notes with all these notebooks I have. But nope, lol. We’re going to whing this, hahaha).

Until the next post, stay safe and if you’re over at Instagram, drop me a line 🙂

Movie: Outlaw King

Posted 15 October, 2020 by Lianne in Entertainment / 1 Comment

A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish ‘Outlaw King’ Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.

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I’ve sort of had this movie in my radar since hearing about it before TIFF a few years ago. Never had gone to TIFF of course but the movie always sort of lingered somewhere in my brain. Found out a while ago that it was streaming on Netflix and here we are 🙂

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Movie: Priest

Posted 15 October, 2020 by Lianne in Entertainment / 0 Comments

A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.

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I remember hearing that this movie was being adapted from a manwha by the same title and thought it was cool that Paul Bettany was headlining the movie (he rarely gets a lead role, I find, which is strange because he’s a good actor). I had no idea what to watch on Netflix one time and ended up choosing this flick, lol.

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Movie: Tenet

Posted 8 October, 2020 by Lianne in Entertainment / 1 Comment

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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This is the first movie I’ve seen in theatres since the lockdown. It’s an interesting experience–you have to reserve, you choose your seats. We watched the movie in the mid-afternoon so there was barely anyone in the theatre–maybe 7 of us, tops. So yeah, we chose to watch Christopher Nolan’s latest flick.

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Review: Magic Lessons

Posted 6 October, 2020 by Lianne in Books / 0 Comments

Magic Lessons
By: Alice Hoffman
Format/Source: Advanced reading copy courtesy of Simon & Schuster CA (Netgalley)

We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in The Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began … with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the ‘Unnamed Arts’. Maria has a gift for them – a gift that may well prove her undoing.

When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Love is the only thing that matters

I enjoyed Practical Magic (review), which I was first introduced to by the movie. I haven’t read the sequel as I tend to be wary of sequels of beloved books written years after the fact. But I was curious about this prequel so in my forays in NetGalley I requested and was approved an eARC of the book. This book will be released on 06 October 2020.

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