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YOU AND ME ON VACATION

 Hey Bookworms, Find a new and enthralling romantic comedy to stick your nose into that is based on a Netflix movie called People We Meet On Vacation. It's a fast-paced, modern work of art that brings up complicated emotions that blurs the lines between friendship and the fantasy of being more than friends. Travelling and hiding feelings about your best friend while taking the iconic Summer Trip every year.  It's filled with love, laughter, heartbreak/heartache. You'll be engrossed in reading the fictional drama in this compelling, award-winning controversial masterpiece between the complexities of being in the permanent friend-zone and wanting to be in the head over heels, madly in love sinking ship that the main female lead Poppy is constantly jumping on and off when she's in the presence of the irresistable male protagonist Alex.  This book will give you the feels. Get ready to grab a box of tissues as you're sobbing along with the character Poppy as you enter th...

PACHINKO

 Hey Bookworms,  Wanting to add a book to your T.B.R (To Be Read) lists? Dive into a great literary masterpiece that will have you glued to the pages of the book. You'll have your nose buried so deep in this book because you can't put it down for even a second. You'll be absorbed in it until you can't even put it down and miss doing some of the mundane tasks in life like housework or praying. It's written by an incredible author who is bringing back the nostalgia of being in Korea and Japan in the 1900's.  This cultural novel was written by a Korean-American author called Min Jin. It's about love, sacrifice, suffering, being poor and trying to find some sense of happiness in life while being labelled as a 'yakuza.' This critically acclaimed masterpiece is full of heartbreak, death, unlawful incarceration. You want the characters to get some type of success, but they fall into the trap of ruin and war. The book is split up into three different parts t...

MOANA- LIVE ACTION MOVIE ON DISNEY PLUS

 Hey Binge-watchers, Wanna have a movie night? Get all cozy under the warm quilted blankets and throws. Slide into your loungewear/PJ's and watch Moana. It's a live action version of the animated movie that we all love and have watched billions of times. It is a twist on the award-winning Disney movie, but has different scenes and some of the dialogue is not the same in the live action movie.  It's about Moana trying to sail across the vast ocean to find a solution to keep her island alive. She meets the aloof, cool, one-of-a=kind, shape-shifting demigod Maui and they help each other to become heroes in the eyes of humans and her people. They overcome daring and dangerous obstacles to get to the goddess tafiti and restore her heart so they can save the islands from dying.  This movie will have you sitting at the edge of your seat while you hold your breath to see if they defeat the lava monster Takah and escape from a shallow crab who likes shiny things. The songs will ha...

WIZARDS BEYOND WAVERLY PLACE SEASON 1-3

 Hey Binge-watchers, This is a total throwback to Disney Channel, when you used to watch Wizards of Waverly Place back in the day. Dive into this continuation of the show as it features the next generation of Russo kids. Sink into the world of Magic, teaching young wizards and facing evil forces that threaten to ruin a young powerful wizard while she's adjusting to the mortal world and has to conceal her identity as a wizard.  This show will make you sit on the edge of your seats while you're laughing at all the funny scenes in the show. It'll make you sit at the edge of your seats in anticipation at the dark forces that threaten to drain her powers and create rifts between her and Justin. It will make you feel sad at some parts as she's wrestling with the idea of getting close to the Russo's and how she can be part of a family without knowing where she came from and how she's going to connect with Roman and Milo, who have to live with her.  I'd rate this sh...

COVEN ACADEMY- LIMITED SERIES ON DISNEY PLUS

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Want to find a short and easy watch filled with the darkness of the supernatural world? Hop over to Disney Plus and check out this show called Coven Academy. It's a school for young witches and warlocks to learn about their powers and how to use their powers to combat evil forces in the magical world. Some of them are protected and they know nothing about the supernatural world having lived a boring mundane life for so long.  It's a supernatural coming of age dramedy that focuses on these teenage witches and warlocks to learn how to control their powers and fight evil forces, vampires, and other supernatural territories that have creatures that hate them. It's an easy watch as the episodes are really short. Meet Briar Roberts, who doesn't have a clue about the supernatural world. She's thrown into this world without a warning and doesn't have a choice but to form friendships and find her sisters in a coven and accept the dangers, thrills, r...

DOUBTING AND DISBELIEF

 Hey Book-Geeks and TV-Nerds,  Building up the brickwork of finally being who you are is figuring out where you wanna be rooted outside of the mould of perfection. You're oozing with that awesome, unfiltered easy-going, calm vibe, until the questions and doubt hits you like a slow moving unsuspecting punch to the gut. That red-hot simmering anger that you buried away underneath the darkness that comes with it resurfaces like molten hot lava firing up the balled up rage that isn't you. You hide the exploding elastic band of seething impatience underneath a calm serene lake of being super relaxed most of the time until the classic act of being questioned kicks in like you've been caught red-handed digging the trench of trouble that you weren't even standing near. The shovel wasn't in your hand, yet you are in the metaphorical hotseat of answering a million and one questions that you can answer and those one's you don't know how to answer and they leave you abs...

THE ARTFUL DODGER SEASON 1 AND 2- DISNEY PLUS

 Hey Binge-Watchers,  Scrolling through Disney Plus, and not finding anything interesting to watch? Sit back and relax against those recliners and watch The Artful Dodger. Based on the iconic character The Artful Dodger from Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist. It's a historical adventure wrapped into a period drama in 1850's colonial Australia. His character as Dodger is known to be a nimble-fingered pick-pocket, but he's trying to redeem himself by being an honest surgeon in the colony of Port Victory.  Meet Jack Dawkins (Dodger) who's played by Thomas Brodie Sangster, he's a respected surgeon, but what happens when his mentor and surrogate father Norbert Fagin (David Thawlis) come to the colony and interrupt his ex-convict life by ruining his peaceful life with the thrill of scheming and thievery?  He faces gambling debts that are held over his head as leverage by the looming despair of having his surgeon hands being cut off, which is a perfect opportunity of Fagin...