Queen of Books

Sunday, 14 August 2016

Weekly Update: 8/8 - 8/14

I have decided to start doing a weekly post called weekly recap where I update you on my life, reading and watching. Plus any posts I have done or will do.

This week was my birthday week so I will have a birthday haul next week. I also mostly just chilled at home and didn't do much this past week. I did have a lot more time to post though. But I was also in a little bit of a reading slump so I didn't read all the books that I had planned to. But I finished one ARC so I feel proud of myself.

I have also been watching a ton of Olympics lately which is always fun! And I have been preparing for school.

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Book Tag #1: Olympics Book Tag

It’s time for the Summer Olympics! I have been watching the Olympics since the opening ceremony. My favorite events to watch are swimming and gymnastics. I saw this book tag floating around and then found out it was started on Shannon’s blog, It Starts at Midnight. All the graphics in this tag are Shannon’s.

I knew right away that I was going to love this book. And I really did. It is such an amazing retelling.

This is one of the only road trip books that I have read so I just decided to use it for this question. I also really enjoyed this one.

Shatter Me is one of the only books where I actually like both of the love interests. This is a very rare occurance. I usually lean more towards one than the other.

This book, unfortunantly, really confused me. It is a Middle Grade which I ended up rating about three crowns because it was good but really confusing.

I enjoyed this book. I rated it about 3.5 or 4 Crowns. And it was set in summer!

These two have a ton of fighting and bloodshed. Come on, don't the covers give that away?

I wouldn't say that this one has a lot of plot twists but it has one major one.

These two both made me really sad. I cried after reading both of these. :(

The first half of this book bored me to tears but it picked up after that.

This book was the first one I thought of. There are tons of animals.

I had to read this for school and I hated it so so much. So, obviously, it was a struggle to finish it. If I had chosen it on my own, I would have DNF'd it.

I am going with the generic one. Harry, Ron and Hermione have the greatest friendship ever in my opinion.

This is the only book that I can think of. It features fencing which I now know is an olympic sport.

I'm not going to tag anyone. All of you are welcome to do it, and if you do, link it back. All images belong to their respective owners.

Saturday, 13 August 2016

Movie Review #6: Star Trek Beyond

Finally, I am getting another movie review up. I am such a bad person in terms of promising reviews and then never giving them. I saw Star Trek Beyond last week and I really enjoyed it so here is my review. This is also mostly spoiler free.

Title: Star Trek Beyond
Director: Justin Lin
Rating: PG-13
My Rating: 5 Crowns
Release Date: July 22, 2016

This movie relates a lot to the previous two movies so if you haven't seen those, it may be a good idea to see them or read up on them before seeing this one.

Star Trek is one of my favorite movie franchises so it isn't really a surprise that I highly enjoyed this movie.

PLOT

Star Trek Beyond picks up three years into The Enterprise's 5-year-mission. The cast of The Enterprise are starting to become restless and ready for home. The mission has brought out the best in some of the crew, and the worst in some of the others. Then when Captain Kirk agrees to rescue the crew of a stranded ship, they are attacked and crash land onto a mysterious world where they have to figure out what is going on and how to escape.

This was a really exciting movie, that reminded me a lot of the originals. I liked how we got to know a lot more about the characters and their personalities. The previous two movies didn't show them as much. I also liked how we got to see more of the world.

The story kept me on the edge of my seat and I was smiling and laughing throughout most of it. This was also probably my favorite out of the three movies that have come out. I also liked how this movie explored more of the characters relationships with each other. Such as, Chekov and Jim got to spend more time together in this one. Bones and Spock also had hilarious moments together.

ACTORS/CHARACTERS

Chris Pine plays Jim Kirk who is the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Fun fact, I have an obsession with Chris Pine, but can you blame me? Chris Pine is wonderful as Jim Kirk, he's got the character down to perfection.

Zachary Quinto plays Spock. Spock is hilarious even when he really doesn't mean to. He brings a lot to the crew and he is really smart. I really enjoyed seeing his interactions with the other characters develop.

Karl Urban plays Leonard McCoy or better known as Bones. Bones is by far my favorite character because he is just so funny. He is the one who makes the sarcastic remarks. And sometimes the remarks are just plain rude but they come out so funny so it doesn't seem too mean. Bones is also unique and I really liked how he got more screen time in this one.

Zoe Saldana plays Uhura who is such a strong female character. I really liked seeing her on the screen and liked that she had a more prominent role in this one.

Simon Pegg plays Scotty. Scotty has always said some really funny things but had a much more prominent role in this one as well.

John Cho plays Sulu who got a lot more screen time in this movie as well. We got to see that he had a family which I thought was rather sweet. We also got to see him participate more than the last movie.

Anton Yelchin plays Chekov. It's so sad that this is the last time we will ever see him playing Chekov. I really liked his role in this movie and am so happy that he also got more screen time. I also really love Chekov and he is probably my second favorite character.

Sofia Boutella plays Jaylah who is the new character. I really liked her character and was so happy that she wasn't a love interest for Kirk. Oh and some of her lines were so funny. One of my favorites was of her describing a piece of music she liked, "I like the beat and the shouting."

FIGHTING

Would this be a Star Trek movie if there was no fighting? Obviously, there was a lot of fighting. One of the best scenes in my opinion was when they played the loud music while flying. It was such a good scene and well done.

ROMANCE

There isn't that much romance in this. Except for the romance between Uhura and Spock which is pretty cute.

I was actually really happy that the new character,

CONTENT FOR OLDER VIEWERS ONLY?

This movie is rated PG-13 for a reason. There is mild swearing and a lot of violence/fighting so I would recommend you go with an older person if you are under thirteen.

This movie is one of my new favorites and I highly recommend the Star Trek movies!