Tales with Nicole

It's no secret that I love Netflix. My boyfriend and I originally got Netflix in 2010 while living in university residence and have had it ever since. We don't have any kind of cable or TV set up, just Netflix. If I'm not reading, Netflix is on. I like the TV on when I'm alone in my apartment when I'm writing, cleaning, cooking, in the bath tub. I like having familiar voices around me which is why I usually rewatch the same few shows. Usually I watch Friends , That 70s Show , The Office (and most recently) Brooklyn Nine-Nine , and I will rewatch them about twice a year.   But this post is about Netflix Shows that I want to bring attention to because they were so amazing and want to share some of my current favorite shows with you. Since I already mentioned my core 4 shows, they will not be included in this list. *All description from the shows come from either Netflix CA or Wikipedia.     Here are my TV show recommendations on Netflix Canada:...

"Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever." ( goodreads ) This is going to be a tough review to write since I finished Joyland in May. Joyland was not what I expected from a Stephen King novel but I did enjoy it. It is one in a series called Hard Case Crime , each novel in the series wrote by various authors. The illustrations were so fun, I always like a good illustrated edition. The pictures looked like sketches which were in black and white. It gave the impression that someone was drawing from memory, moments that seemed significant to the mystery surrounding Joyland . Joyland was a coming of age story for Devin Jones. It was also a ghost mystery story. It felt very Scooby-Doo, with the kids of the park trying to solve a murder ...

"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming." ( goodreads )   Sharp Objects Trailer Usually when I don't like a main character, I don't like the book. But Camille was a complicated character, I didn't like her but I felt so bad for her. She made so many bad decisions and said things that made me so angry but I still pitied her too. The bad relationship with h...

June18 book for Poison Apple Book Club Instagram: @taleswithnicole #poisonapplebookclub   "Martin Reese has a hobby: he digs up murder victims. He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find and dig up missing bodies. Calls in the results anonymously, taunting the police for their failure to do their job. Detective Sandra Whittal takes that a little personally. She’s suspicious of the mysterious caller, who she names the Finder. Maybe he’s the one leaving the bodies behind. If not, who’s to say he won’t start soon? As Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder, Martin makes a shocking discovery. It seems someone—someone lethal—is very unhappy about the bodies he’s been digging up. Hunted by a cop, hunted by a killer. To escape and keep his family safe, Martin may have to go deeper into the world of murder than he ever imagined." ( goodreads ) This book sounded like a perfect mystery read and I couldn't wait to start. I even went on Book Depo...