Alexandra’s Blog
Waiting on Wednesday: Furyborn
This book doesn’t come out for a while, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Furyborn is the first book in Claire Legrand’s newest trilogy. Title: Furyborn Series: The Empirium Trilog...
Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter TBR
Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who don’t know, the Top Ten Tuesday Tag is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: TOP TEN BOOKS ON MY WINTER TBR 10. Wolf Road – Be...
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Review
Every once in a while you come across a book that was clearly written just for you. I’m a sucker for Victorian Era inspired fiction, especially if it’s witty. After looking for recommendat...
WEEKLY WATCH LIST – NOVEMBER 24TH 2017
Check out the videos that Chelsey and I watched this week. Can you guess which one was our favourite… it involves a saxophone. So here goes nothing: Check out Cracked Support Nerdwriter Support ...
WEEKLY WATCH LIST – NOVEMBER 17TH 2017
It’s been a while since Chelsey and I have been able to sit down and watch some youtube videos, it means we have quite a large backlog to work our way through. So here goes nothing: Check out Cr...
Weekly Watch List – September 15th 2017
The carnival season is finally over and our video watching hiatus is over. Chelsey and I had a mountain of videos to catch up on, so instead of posting all of them I thought I would just share a few o...
Top Five Favourite Books from Book Con 2017
This week for Top Five Wednesday Alexandra finally coughs up her top five books that she got at book con. You know only a few months late.
Waiting on Wednesday: The Empress
The Empress is the sequel to last year’s The Diabolic, which I loved. A lot. The thing is, I thought The Diabolic was a stand alone novel. It turns out it is the first book in a trilogy. Who wou...
The Bechdel Cast – Twilight
Alexandra talks about one of her favourite podcasts: The Bechdel Cast and shares their hilarious coverage of the first Twilight film.
Waiting on Wednesday: The Book of Dust
Philip Pullman has been talking about returning to Lyra’s world for a long time now. Instead of offering a sequel to his original His Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman is giving them The Book of D...
Con Bravo 2017
This past weekend Chelsey and I went to Con Bravo, our favourite three day celebration of everything geek and internet related. Our day started when we met up at the Starbucks in the Sheraton Hotel...
Weekly Watch List: August 4th 2017
What did we watch this week after filming a book review? Let me show you. As per usual a lot of video essays on a range of subjects. This week I introduced Chelsey to a Wisecrack show she had never se...
Weekly Watch List: July 27th 2017
Time for this week’s watch list! This week has a lot of video essays and surprisingly few Comicon trailers. We mostly watched those as they hit the internet over the weekend. [youtube https://ww...
Waiting on Wednesday: Before the Devil Breaks You
Before the Devil Breaks You is the third book in Libba Bray’s Diviners Quartet. A paranormal series taking place in the roaring twenties. This series has everything: awesome characters, creepy g...
We’re Going to Con Bravo!
Con Bravo is a 3-Day celebration of YouTube, Gaming, and Geek Culture! It’s been a highlight of our summer for the past seven years. I look forward to the panels, the cosplay and just being surr...