SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book at Everyone Loves a Sinner

Everyone Loves a Sinner hosts SAINT SANGUINUS as the featured Book of the Day, wrapping up my month-long blog tour hosted by Bewitching Book Tours. 


Thanks to all who joined me for the journey!


Special thanks to Roxanne Rhoads, Tara MacDonald and Shawna Romkey for all your support.

2012 Movie Madness Challenge - June Report

Time for my fifth status report for the Movie Madness Challenge.


Here is my code for the films:


New to me - N
Repeat viewing - R


I'll also be including how I viewed the films:


DVD
VHS (yes, we have a lot of those, and a VCR)
Network TV
Pay TV
Internet
In theatre

Game of Thrones season 2
Pay TV
N

My iz budushchego (We Are From the Future)
Internet
N


I watched this Russian time travel film on You Tube without any subtitles. I did pretty well! My Russian is getting better and better.


Here's the link if anyone else is so inclined:


We Are From the Future


It follows a group of modern 20-something jaded Saint Petersburg residents who dig on old WWII battlegrounds for military memorabilia, which they sell on the black market.


One of the group is a Neo Nazi thug, who tries to use an unearthed skull for target practice. This sets up the time travel portal for this group of young men to meet the men whose grave they just disturbed.


Really enjoyed it. My interest in actor Daniil Strakhov led me to this one, as it is leading me to many excellent projects.

Snow White and The Huntsman
Theatre
N

The Borgias season 2
Network TV
N

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter
Theatre
N




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Total movies for June - 5


Total movies for 2012 - 43


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Seven films away from Movie Fanatic status.

Believe it or not, I'm re-watching the Russian historical drama Bednaya Nastya (Poor Nastya) now that I've discovered the fully-subtitled version on Viki.com.

My husband and I are gobbling up this show like starving maniacs. What I love most about it: the good guys don't have to be shiny, although the bad guys don't show too many Save-the-Cat moments to make them more agreeable. In this show, even the good guys do things that truly shock the viewer, and then have to pay a karmic price for their wrongdoing. It's awesome.

Brad and I watch one episode per day, which tends to eat up my movie-watching time, but I'm having too much fun in Imperial Russia.

Just want to say a massive shout-out to subtitler Agatha for helping me to understand what they were saying! *kiss kiss kiss*

25 Movies: Movie Newbie


50 Movies: Movie Fanatic


75 Movies: Movie Critic


100+ Movies: Movie Master

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed at Books, Books and More Books, and is the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer / 5 on Friday - Set 125

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed on Friday the 29th at Books, Books and More Books.

It's also the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer.

Meanwhile...

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Happy Canada Day weekend to all of my fellow Canadian bloggers and readers!

To celebrate, here are five Canadian chanteuses to get this party started.

1 - In Perfect Dreams (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues soundtrack) - k d lang 

2 - Possession - Sarah McLachlan

3 - Basement Apartment - Sarah Harmer

4 - Chances - Jill Barber

5 - All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado 

I'm blogging at The Popculturedivas

I'm blogging over at The Popculturedivas today, where I share my admiration for Russian-born director Timur Bekmambetov as I look forward to seeing his latest release, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

I'm guest blogging at Black Hippie Chick's Take on Books & The World

I'm guesting over at Black Hippie Chick's Take on Books & The World.

5 on Friday - Set 124

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Remember my set last month where I shared the exciting adventure of acupuncture-induced detoxing?

Well...I'm back at it again. All for a good cause, but I think I need a little Leon Redbone to cheer me up.

1 - Seduced

2 - My Little Grass Shack - with Ringo Starr

3 - Mama's Got a Baby Te Na Na

4 - Ditty-Wah-Ditty

5 - Ain't Misbehaving and Big Time Woman - with Jonathan Dorn 

CLICK HERE to watch video clip

I'm interviewed at Books, Books, the Magical Fruit today

I'm interviewed over at Books, Books, the Magical Fruit today, where I chat about which section of the bookstore I race towards first, why I have a Russian phrasebook in my purse and where I describe my very first 'novel' written when I was in grade five.