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The Spunkiest Of All: Hercules’ Megara

Disney’s Hercules is a 1997 film bastardising Hercules’ famous trials and adding conflict by changing pretty much everything Hercules ever did and was. Can you tell I’m jaded? For a start, Heracles is his Greek name, and as the other characters in the film are called by their Greek names (Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hephaestus, HermesContinue reading “The Spunkiest Of All: Hercules’ Megara”

Foreign Cover Friday: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Foreign Cover Friday is a weekly meme hosted by The Reading Fever, where foreign covers of the books we know and love are spotlighted and discussed. To join, either pick your favourite foreign cover, or pick many foreign covers, and start discussing! This week I’ve had a look at the books I’ve read recently andContinue reading “Foreign Cover Friday: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead”

Esmeralda, The Heroine of Smouldering Sensuality

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Disney’s thirty-fourth animated feature film and focuses on the story of Quasimodo, a hunchbacked and deformed bellringer living in the Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s based (dare I say loosely? The endings are completely different – it’s Disney, after all) on the book by Victor Hugo (who also wrote LesContinue reading “Esmeralda, The Heroine of Smouldering Sensuality”

They Googled WHAT?!

On Twitter I regularly tweet the spam I get here on my blog. I’ve decided to do a post about some of the weird search terms that have led people here as well. Sometimes I just think to myself, ‘They Google WHAT?!’ Perverted Disney – I wish I was making this crap up snow whiteContinue reading “They Googled WHAT?!”

Foreign Cover Friday: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Foreign Cover Friday is a weekly meme hosted by The Reading Fever, where foreign covers of the books we know and love are spotlighted and discussed. To join, either pick your favourite foreign cover, or pick many foreign covers, and start discussing! This week we’re going with a book that I only gave three starsContinue reading “Foreign Cover Friday: The Forest of Hands and Teeth”