Popcorn Corner: A Royal Christmas (2014)

A Royal Christmas ou Natal na Realeza (2014)
Tempo: 1h30min
Direção: Alex Zamm
Elenco: Jane Seymour, Lacey Chabert, Stephen Hagan
Gênero: Romance, Comedia, Natal, Hallmark



Um impasse complexo gira em torno da realeza: Príncipe Leopold, herdeiro do trono de Cordinia, sonha em se casar com a jovem e bela Emily Taylor, uma humilde costureira da Filadélfia por quem é perdidamente apaixonado. Mas a mãe de Leopold, a rainha Isadora, tem outros planos para seu filho, e eles não incluem em nada Emily.





A Royal Christmas é exatamente o que parece ser: um clichê fofo sobre um romance entre uma plebeu que encontrou seu príncipe (literalmente). A história em nenhum momento é original com um roteiro batido desde a surpresa ao descobrir que seu namorado é um príncipe, a mãe malvada que não aceita uma plebeia como nora e a ex-namorada que não é nem um pouco sutil nas suas investidas, mas ela atende ao que se pede: entreter o público.

A história me lembrou muito O diário de uma princesa, desde o pequeno país na Europa que ninguém tinha ouvido falar, até mesmo ao romance surpresa da rainha, o que me agradou bastante já que amo os livros e os filmes, a falta de originalidade nesse filme me fez lembrar do meu afeto por essa historia me fazendo ficar mais investida nesse romance.

O romance em si foi muito gostoso de acompanhar, não foi um super ship, nível OTP de meu Deus preciso que eles fiquem juntos, mas gostei e torci para o casal. Uma coisa que me surpreendeu positivamente foi quão engraçado esse filme é, geralmente comedias românticas não são lá muito engraçadas, mas nesse filme vários momentos foram de rir alto ou pelo menos sorrir.

Super recomendo esse filme para quem gosta de comedias românticas e quer algo divertido, para sentar e assistir, também é ótimo de assistir perto do Natal, já que a história se passa no natal.

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August TBR

For this second semester I want to really dig in my own books and make a significant dent on my TBR. I just organized my Kobo TBR on goodreads to help me focus on those books and also, my  physical TBR is always growing because I buy books but keep not reading them! This is insane and I need to change this behavior along this new semester.

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord - since I read The Start of me and you I've been wanting to read all of Lord's books so I want to get to this one ASAP
Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally - I read two books of this series so far and one I loved, the other not so much, but I still want to try the others!
A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kodi Keplinger -  read and loved The DUFF so now it's time to catch up to her other titles

The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima - I love the first two books of this series but keep putting off finishing it
Where She Went by Gayle Forman - I started this one last year but it was so meh but I hate DNF books so I want to give it a fair shot
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - I have this for a while now and it's out of my comfort  zone, so I'm ready to try it out!

That's it for me, tell me in the comments what is in YOUR August TBR.

PopCorn Corner: Parks and Recreation - Season 4

Parks and Recreation - Season 4 (2011 - 2012)
Created by Greg Daniels & Michael Schur
Episodes: 24
Runtime: 22 min.
Genre: Comedy

The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

This season is centered around the campaign to make Leslie Knope the first council woman of Pawne, there is a lot of ups and downs for the whole cast to face during it and I liked how they didn't make this easy on Leslie. She is a clear good choice for this city, for her unconditional love and her hard work on the Parks department but of course in politics things are just black and white.

Some of the things that I most liked was the start of April's character arc, so far she was a stereotypical moody teenager but she has grow through the seasons and is finally ready to start looking out for what she cares for, it's good to see her growing in the Parks department and to follow her through this journey.

Ben's character also has some things to face, without spoiling anything he has do decide what are his priorities and I loved seeing him come the other way better. His relationship with Leslie also passes through some serious tribulations during this season and there is some of my favorite episodes because of it, like this one

So yeah, not everything is good but they grow because of it and come the other way better and stronger, I love them so much in case you still haven't noticed it.

I really enjoyed re-watching this season, it has some of my favorite episodes in it and I think is definitely a high on the Parks and Recreation story.

Verdict: 8 out of 10 stars

Who Wore It Best: Fragile Like Us by Sara Barnard

Fragile Like Us is in my July TBR and it's being released on the US on July 18, so I was looking it up on Goodreads and this book already has a lot of different editions and some pretty covers, I thought I would share with you.

UK

My personal favorite, it comes with a different title too, I still don't know which one fits the book better but both are about being broken and fragile so almost the same thing. Anyway, I think this golden details will look gorgeous on my shelf.

Zoella Book Club

According to GR this is an special edition of the Zoella Book Club and oh my god, it's ugly af, so bright it hurts my eyes, I think that I'll have a headache if I keep looking at it

French

Well, this is a bit more simplistic and it's pretty but it doesn't really stands out between all the other covers in a bookstore, still between the covers of this book in particular this is my second favorite.

Spanish

I still haven't read it, so I don't know if a beach has an important meaning for the story but I honestly don't care, I don't want this cover in my bookshelf, weird legs in a weird angle at the beach, no thank you.

Danish

This one is... Okay, if a bit creepy, it seems like a super depressing book and in contrast with the Spanish cover that is like beach, sun and legs is really weird and hard to say which one fits the book best.

German

I didn't like the fonts or the color scheme of this one, it makes the cover seems really juvenile and more into the younger spectrum of YA and more fluffy looking than the synopses seems to be.

Estonian

This reminds me of the first try of the Shatter Me series, and I was really happy when they decided to redesign that cover so yeah, not a favorite. 

US

Now, the US edition, I like the colors, but I'm not a particular fan of models on covers, specially with the faces showing, also this font is trying to do something but ain't working.

Which one is your favorite

Who Wore It Best

UK

Zoella Book Club

French

Spanish

Danish

German

Estonian

US

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July TBR

I want to give myself more free space to choose what to read this month because I'm going to have a week off FINALLY SOME FREE TIME TO READ AND WATCH NETFLIX AND I CAN'T WAIT, seriously I'm so tired and I need this break.

My most anticipated read:

Changes in Latitudes by Jen Malone

To be published on July 25, 2017 by HarperTeen

Jen Malone, author of teen novels Wanderlost and Map to the Stars, will take readers to the high seas—literally—in this contemporary YA novel about a girl facing the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, a new romance, and self-discovery while sailing down the Pacific coast. 

After concluding that her is to blame for her parents’ recent divorce, Cassandra McClure is hoping to stay as far away from her as possible. With a summer of freedom right around the corner, it shouldn’t be too hard. But when a forty-foot sailboat appears in her driveway and her mom announces that Cassie and her brother Drew will be accompanying her on a four-month sailing trip down to Mexico, Cassie’s plans for the summer go, quite literally, overboard. 

Once the three set sail, tensions quickly rise. So meeting Jonah—a gorgeous, whip-smart deckhand—is an unexpected bright spot on an otherwise dim horizon. Though she tries to keep him at a distance—considering the upheaval of her home life—their chemistry is impossible to ignore, and Cassie soon finds herself questioning everything: Should she go for it with Jonah? Can she forgive her mom? Will home ever feel the same? With life’s unpredictable tides working against her, Cassie must decide whether to swim against them, or dive right in.

I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski

Waste of Space by Gina Damico

The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

Fragile Like Us by Sara Barnard

PopCorn Corner: Parks and Recreation - Season 3

Parks and Recreation - Season 3 (2011)
Created by Greg Daniels & Michael Schur
Episodes: 16
Runtime: 22 min.
Genre: Comedy

The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

I feel like this is the season were everything falls into place and we finally reach the potential Parks and Rec had since season 1. For me season 3 through 7 is some of the best seasons of comedy shows out there, and I love it very much, it's usually where I start my re-watches too.

This is the first full season with Chris and Ben, so we get to know them pretty well. Chris, specially in this season isn't my favorite character, he's extremely positive and is terrible at delivering bad news, which is a give when you work with cities that are on the verge of being bankrupted, so I wasn't really a fan of how he always threw the bad news to Ben but overtime (and re-watches) he has become a better character for me, still not a favorite but I feel like I understand him more and his relationship with Ben.

Ben is one of my favorite characters of the show, probably my favorite after Leslie but it's hard to tell, he is sarcastic and has a sense of humor that is just like mine, I always love when he talks about something nerdy like Game of Thrones or Star Trek. His relationship with Leslie also progress in this season, at first they sort of hate each other, at least she does, them they start to respectfully fight each other and oh my god, this was so good, until they admit their feelings and finally get together and I WAS SO HAPPY.

So yeah, I highly recommend you watch this series if you like comedies or really just good tv shows.

Verditc: 7 out of 10 stars

Who Wore It Best: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Hey guys, today the Who Wore It Best is about The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, I really wanted to do one about this book because ALL of its covers are so pretty! I have one that I adore, but I honestly want to buy a thousand more editions, even in languages that I can't read, just for the covers. 

Let's take a look in some of the covers that I separated...

US Hardcover

This one was the original I think publication cover, it's the first edition on the US, I have this cover in a pocket paperback edition and it's gorgeous, from the details on the front to the spine, everything in this color schme of black, white and red is so beautiful and I love it.

US Paperback

This is a cover that had a lot of different editions from what I looked up, there is some that there is no circus in it, or the people are in white and not gray, some have a blurb, some not, so there is some variations but I this was the one with best quality to post here, I like it but I still prefer the one with only the circus.

Spanish

I don't know from which country this cover is, but it's in Spanish, it's honestly my least favorite cover for this book, I liked that they added color but the head of that woman is just so big, why did they choose this perspective. 

Russian

I really liked this take on the cover, is very different from the other ones and the color scheme is much more lively and colorful, but it does make it seem more like a straight out romance novel than this book actually is

Japanese

I really loved this one, is probably my second favorite and I would love to have this edition on my shelves even thought I wouldn't understand a thing, I love this blue and how the little dots seems to be starts and lights illuminating the whole cover.

Vintage Classics

I think this is a special edition of the book, I don't know but oh my God, this cover is gorgeous, my favorite definitely, it fits the whole atmosphere of the circus and it shows the two main characters without overtake anything, I just love it.

Indonesian 

Another one of my favorites, I loved the addition of gold to the color scheme, it gives the cover a whole new face while still having the main elements of the circus and the characters in it.

Russian Redesign, I think

I gathered that this one is also a Russian edition, I don't know if it's the first one, if it's from another country that also speaks Russian, I don't know, sorry, but oh my this is really different from the other designs too! I think the faces were a bit meh for me, but I like the way the title is done as if it's a cosmos.

There are a ton of other covers, and a lot of countries have different editions but these one were the ones that caught my attention and that stood out from the other designs, now tell me bellow which one is your personal favorite

Who Wore It Best

US Hardcover

US Paperback

Spanish

Russian

Japanese

Vintage Classics

Indonesian

Russian Redesign

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