Initial Thoughts: Seemed a bit tame compared to some of the historical romances I've dabbled with, but honestly, I mostly adored Daphne's three older brothers in the book. I don't think I particularly took to Daphne and Simon's relationship as much as I did in the TV adaptation, but I did enjoy them as characters [...]
It's been quite the year, to have disappeared from blogging and reading for such a long time. I wish I could blame it all on the crazy that's been happening worldwide and thensome, but I also did a lot of moving this year, so for a few weeks, I didn't even have any of my [...]
With the success of The Witcher as an adaptation and an upcoming Netflix adaptation of Bardugo's Grisha series (which I am still squeeing over, by the way), as well as a number of other adaptations from books--with middling to decent success--I've been a bit more hopeful with future attempts at telling the story on a TV or [...]
Initial Thoughts: The last two stories made the entire collection for me. I think this was where things really lead up to the beginning of the series. "Sword of Destiny" and "Something More" were hands down my favorite. SWORD OF DESTINY by Andrzej Sapkowski, David French (Translator) Orbit Books, December 2015 High fantasy, short stories [...]
You know, by this point I would have done something baking-wise considering Game of Thrones is about to wrap up with its final season, but seeing my track record of "hahahahahaha when do I have the time to do any of this", I decided maybe I'll save a few commemorative bakes for the next few weeks. So [...]
