 #CurrentlyWatching style post soon 😀 I’d love to read your take on whatever you decide to make it about!
Thanks! I’m hoping to do a #currentlywatching style post soon as I’ve watched some great shows that I want to share with everyone. So hopefully you’ll see one pop up in the next week or so.
And yeah, I totally get it! I can read more books, but lately it’s just really come down to lack of energy. Also, I have these highs where I just want to read ALL the books and then lows where I need breaks from reading altogether.
Oh gosh, I’m tooootally with you on how quickly time seems to fly by the older you get. It’s almost a little bit frightening, and I keep trying to find ways to slow it down 😉 I hope you like Cinder! I read it for the first time last month and absolutely love it.
I hope I like it too! I’ve seen so many good things about it but wasn’t particularly interested in picking it up, but as it was on sale I couldn’t resist.
I have Under the Pendulum Sun on my shelves. That cover!
I’m sorry to hear both your hamsters passed away. Hugs.
I knoooooowwww. Isn’t it beautiful? The author of the book attends one of the conventions I go to every year so that’s when I heard of it and I’ve been desperate to get my hands on a copy ever since.
I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Educated!
I was conflicted too, and felt in the minority there since it got such completely glowing reviews seemingly everywhere else. Excited to hear your thoughts!
Totally get it. It was a complicated one. but I’m so happy to hear my review helped you pick something to read!
These last few months have been going so fast! You had an amazing month though by the looks of it.
I did! I hadn’t realized how much I managed to read so it was a nice surprise.
Thank you Marie ❤ I hope you have a wonderful April too.
Love this women’s history bingo! I’ve always wanted to try one of the bingos that are always floating around, but I get too nervous about not completing them. I need to pick up Gemina soon. I wasn’t a fan of Illuminae (gave it two stars), but I still want to try to give the series another chance. I am really looking forward to reading Starfish. I love Kindle e-book sales! I always take advantage of those when I can.
You totally should! It’s ok to not finish. I only covered 3-4 squares on the Yule Bingo Harry Potter themed one I did during December but it really encouraged me to pick up some books which maybe I wouldn’t have considered otherwise and they’re so fun.
Tribal1870 Entertainment/Keezy is thrilled to announce the release of the debut single from Keezy titled "Love Charm".
"Love Charm" is a love inspired song, Afro-pop and a guitaired themed song by an afro inspired artist Keezy featuring Mskill and a guitarist Chyke who teamed to craft out this melodious love inspired song which was produced by an Afrocentric producer Notimix. The stipulated single which is set to drop on September 20th 2019 will be available on all digital platforms. The Artist who is set to drop his 2nd studio single late in November 2019 is eager to pollute the global music scene.
The artist Keezy is a Lagos based but from the East. Keezy is still an undergraduate in one of the eastern Nigerian University. He drops a featured single "Love Charm" which embodies the Afro-pop Culture of the Nigerian Music.Is The ‘Purge’ Franchise The New ‘Saw’?
Our addiction to horror is a confusing one. On one side, the genre posies us to relate to its victims, setting us up to mimic the fear they’re portraying onscreen. But while we’re living through that adrenaline rush, we also watch horror for those gruesome, gory kills.  Horror has always helped to sate our weird societal need for bloodlust. This is a long-winded way of saying I get why the Saw franchise and The Purge movies are box office gold.
The first Saw was a disturbing, innovative, and surprisingly bloodless examination of the boundaries people are willing to push to stay alive. However, the movie’s many, many sequels (there are seven Saw movies. SEVEN.) permanently altered its reputation. Now when you think of Saw, gore and screaming come to mind. The franchise as a whole is essentially a 10-hour torture porn saga. All that being said, I see the franchise’s merits just as I see the merits of its spiritual sequel, The Purge franchise.
The Purge movies follow a society where it is legal to do anything you want one day a year. Murder, arson, jaywalking — it’s all on the table, so save your personal vendettas for that one not-so-special day. These movies almost always focus on a group of survivors forced to endure the madness. Also? They destroy in the box office. The first Purge movie was the lowest budget film to hit the top of the box office charts since 1988, making roughly $64 million against a budget of $3 million. Much like Saw, these movies are cheap, gory, and they speak to our weirdly intense desire to see graphic depictions of pain and torture.
You would be hard-pressed to find a critic who would list The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, or The Purge: Election Year among their favorite movies, but that doesn’t mean that these movies are devoid of merit. Both of these franchises speak to a sick, twisted part of our nature, the part that kind of appreciates Michael Myers or Freddy Kruger’s innovative kills as we’re screaming in terror. The fact that both of those franchises have collectively made about $627 million proves that this isn’t a niche interest (the Saw movies made $413 million and the Purge movies made $214 million). They appeal to a weirdly universal desire. Will The Purge go on for seven movies with a planned reboot? Who’s to say? But as long as a sick desire to see other people get tortured and killed exists in humanity, there will be a market for it.
AMD is reportedly getting ready to add a triple-core variant to its A-Series processor lineup. The chip will be sold under the A6-3500 moniker and it is essentially the same as AMD's upcoming A6-3600, except for the fact that it has one core switched off. That means 2.1GHz clock speeds (2.4GHz with Turbo), 3MB of L2 cache, support for 1866MHz DDR3 memory, Radeon HD 6530D integrated graphics with 320 stream processors running at 443MHz, and a TDP of 65W.
AMD has yet to release a price for the triple-core Llano and we don't have a specific release date either, but reports claim the A6-3500 will be hitting stores sometime during Q3 with the rest of the A6-series line-up.
A forum poster by the name of bminggann on Chinese site ZOL got their hands on a sample and has uploaded some pictures and details about the chip in question, including a few CPU-Z and GPU-Z screens as well as AIDA64 and 3DMark06 scores. On the latter benchmark the A6-3500 managed a score of 5137, while bumping the core voltage to 1.552V bminggann achieved a 3.6GHz overclock and a higher 3DMark06 score of 5259.
Rumors also point at the possibility that some motherboards will let users unlock the fourth core on AMD's A6-3500, as it is possible today with triple-core Athlon II and Phenom II offerings. This means you could basically get a quad-core A6-3600 without paying full price for it -- though it's not guaranteed to work in all cases.Continuing our birding in the Caribbean, we left Cuba on Cayman Airways for Jamaica. The two hour stop-over on Grand Cayman allowed us to see Vitelline Warbler (a Cayman endemic) in the bushes around the airport carpark. We had arranged our Jamaica trip with “Attractions Link” |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| following the advice of Greg Roberts in his 2015 trip report. Janette Murdock organised the accommodation, and we were ably driven and guided by Wayne Murdock for the whole trip. We thoroughly recommend their services, Wayne was as determined as we were to see all our target species! We saw all the endemics – and all 34 target species! Unfortunately the Jamaican subspecies of Golden Swallow has recently been declared extinct (https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/golswa1). We used the field guide “birds of the West Indies” by Raffaele et al.
We were very happy with our accommodation, both the Starlight Chalets and Bayview Ecovillas suited us very well. The staff were very friendly and attentive, and the food good.
23 Nov	Arrive Kingston, Jamaica on Cayman Airways flight at 7.30 pm. We were met by