There
are fans and there are fangirls, Cath falls in the second category. Simon Snow
has been a great part of her life, not only has she read all the books and she
is a respected figure when talking about Simon Snow fanfcition, but it used to
be something that tied her and her sister together.
Now it
seems that their twin senses aren’t tingling nor in sync. College is around the
corner and Wren just drop a bomb on her, they are not rooming together. Now
Cath is at the mercy of her new roommate and her charming and always smiling
boyfriend.
To add
a little to the stress of her new environment Wren’s and Cath’s father isn’t
what you would call stable and Cath can’t stop worrying about it. College, family
and people are all coming at Cath whether she is ready or not, can this fangirl
survive in an environment so far away from her comfort zone?
Review
I loved
loved loved Fangirl, I was squirming, screaming and squealing, jumping and
turning. Honestly I’ve been banging my head on my desk for not reading it as
soon as it came out.
Would I’ve
not enjoyed this book as much if I just read it instead of listening to the
audio book? Definitely! That is not to say that Rebecca Lowman didn’t do a good
job giving life to the whole fangirl entourage, and not to say that Maxwell
Caulfield didn’t do a great backing her up.
The
characters where yummy to read, Cath’s insecurities, her motivation, the way
she was hit by the bumps in the road made her a really interested and fun
character to read. The best part of it was that I never felt that she was being
untrue to herself.
Secondary
characters wise, yes some of them where kind of predictable but others punched
this really nice surprises and I would love to get lost in a short story of
Ragen and Levi. This book covers the basis of a standalone, it has the sweet
glory of having a full story in just one book with the sweetest agony of
wanting and craving for more.
Gigi,
Bea and Neerja idolized Parad, Neerja’s older sister. Until they uncover the
secret of her school life before parting to college, where Gigi bows that they
will not follow Parad’s path.
Now the
girls are in sophomore year and a mistake gets Gigi in trouble, which roughly
translates in her and Mike working together. Mike is the guy that even if he is
in Gigi’s advances classes is also a jock and he’s asked every now and again
for her homework putting him on the jock that knows when to turn up the charm,
hence he always gets what he wants leaving the conclusion that Mike Ipolito
cannot be trusted.
This incident
unchains a series of events that make the girls stop leaving their safe and
guarded life and getting out there and take chances, from drama, ski to running
for student rep this girls will find out that high school has more to offer if
they decide to take a risk even if life presents a set back every now and then.
Review
Smart
Girls Get What They Want was different from what I expected, it had some really
nice surprises and little changes that made all the difference and made this
book stand out from others of its kind.
If I
had to pick one word to describe this story it would be “fresh” this story wasn’t
fully loaded with drama, it was more like this things happen in life and it’s
how you decide to deal with them that makes a difference kind of story.
The main
character Gigi is naïve and is locked on preconceptions that her high school is
an: us versus them world so her and her friends play it safe, stay together and
study. We see her grow in what feels a natural pace and she has her friends to
help her discover the things she would have otherwise discarded or taken a
little longer to figure out.
Bea and
Nerjaa are good secondary characters each one of them has her own personality,
problems and side story. I like it that they aren’t the type of characters that
are tossed aside and then when help is needed they come running. Gigi, Nerjaa
and Bea are tight as thieves and they stick for one another.
Mike,
Will, Henry and Justin are part of the male cast of this book, maybe Henry and
Justin don’t get enough paragraphs to get to know them in a deep level but they
each work their part well.
Mike
and Will are part of the extra seasoning that shakes this story up and even if
you know how things will end they make
you stumble and second guess about how exactly will the path to the end of the
road twist and turn before you are finally able to read before you reach your
destination.
For
those of you looking for a fresh, high school, contemporary story I would
highly sugest this one.
Welcome
back to our regular programing in Cover Wars!!!!!!!!!!!
As you
already know in Covers Wars two (sometimes more)covers come here in a quest to
see which one of them is worthy of your bookish loving, so please remember to
vote and comment, you can find the poll at the end of the post and remember
that this blogs comment section is powered by disqus so if your information is
there I will be sure to repay the commenting favor.
Now let
me present to you the two covers that will be fighting for your attention, for
this week we have… (drum roll please) Smart Girls Get What They Want by Sarah
Strohmeyer. For those of you that have never heard of it or your memory is a
little fuzzy here is a look at the book blurb:
Gigi,
Bea, and Neerja are best friends and total overachievers. Even if they aren't
the most popular girls in school, they aren't too worried. They know their real
lives will begin once they get to their Ivy League colleges. There will be ivy,
and there will be cute guys in the libraries (hopefully with English accents)!
But when an unexpected event shows them they're missing out on the full high
school experience, it's time to come out of the honors lounge and into the
spotlight. They make a pact: They will each take on their greatest
challenge—and they will totally rock it.
Gigi
decides to run for student rep, but she'll have to get over her fear of public
speaking—and go head-to-head with gorgeous California Will. Bea used to be one
of the best skiers around, until she was derailed. It could be time for her to
take the plunge again. And Neerja loves the drama club but has always stayed
behind the scenes—until now.
These
friends are determined to show the world that smart girls really can get what
they want—but that could mean getting way more attention than they ever
bargained for. . .
Now
that we are all have at least some idea about Smart Girls Get What They Want let’s
take a look at the covers!
First
we have the original cover, they one that even if some might think of it as
simple it doesn’t lose when it comes to eye catchiness.
The
cover make-over shakes things up and decides to follow the norm of romantic
book covers.
Tell us
guy which cover is your favorite?? Which one would you end up picking from the bookshelves?
Which one of these covers do you think is the best representative for this
book?
Remember
to join us next week to see which cover won all of your cover loving.
Remember
to join us next week to see which cover won all of your cover loving.
A unique summer job lands eighteen-year-old Eden Saxon into a
lifestyle completely different than her own. She becomes a companion for
nineteen-year-old Finley King, the daughter of a rock legend. Finley suffers
from severe anxiety, and her father fears her being alone. Eden leaves her
loving, but wildly dysfunctional, parents and dreary apartment and enters a
world where no luxury is overlooked. She instantly adores Finley and her
charming, quirky personality. The whole situation has only one flaw– Finley’s
older brother, Jude. Jude King is cocky, arrogant and irritating.
Unfortunately, he’s also completely irresistible.
Eden realizes she’s underestimated the depth of Finley’s problems,
and suddenly her dream job turns out to be a lot more than she’d expected. Eden
soon finds herself in over her head . . . and her heart.
About Tess Oliver
Tess Oliver is a teacher and writer who lives in California with
her husband, kids and a small pack of pampered dogs. She loves horses,
chocolate and Jane Austen books.
So May’s
books into movies may not need any introduction but just in case someone missed
it here it is:
The Great Gatsby
Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
In theaters:May 10th
Book Blurb:
In
1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something
new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately
patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and
above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest
work and certainly the book for which he is best known.
A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its
decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and
earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented
millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most
abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
"Gatsby
believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes
before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run
faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's
rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about
the American Dream.
It's
also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for
Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is
a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall
in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying,
but extremely rich Tom Buchanan.
After
the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever
means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her
voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's
more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long
Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and
waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic
inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway
acting as chorus throughout.
Movie Trailer:
And I would also like to take
this time to apologize because I noticed I missed two book into movies
releases, one in the month of February and the other in the month of March. And
in case you missed them too here they are:
Safe haven
Author:Nicholas Sparks
In theaters:February 14th
Book Blurb:
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as
heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.
When a
mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of
Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet
self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a
series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a
widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with
her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly
begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community
and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.
But
even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that
still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful,
shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport.
With Jo’s empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she
must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . .
and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.
Movie Trailer:
ADMISSION
Author:Jean Hanff Korelitz
In theaters:March 22
Book Blurb:
"Admissions.
Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's
what we let in, but it's also what we let out."
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has
avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a
PrincetonUniversity admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her
reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of
a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just
as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding
their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own
ultimate admission.
Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the
younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold
and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at
Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre
summer holiday in the boarding school with just a few leftover children for
company.
Things start to change now they are in their
new home. Jodie has always been the leader but now it's Pearl who's making new
friends. When term begins, their strange summer is over. But things keep on
changing. Jodie really doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers in her class.
Pearl is blossoming.
Maybe
she doesn't need Jodie as much as she used to. But Jodie needs her. And when
the school celebration of Firework Night comes around and a tragic event
occurs, Pearl realises quite how much she does need her big sister.
So, on Monday
you saw my review of Going Vintage the cute quirky that tells the tale of a
girl that decides to swear off technology. But did you knew there was another
cover?? For those of you that would like to see the review here is the link,
for those of you that just want to have a sense of the book and see the pretty
covers here is the book blurb:
Mallory has been a victim of the online social networks, her boyfriend cheated on her with another girl online. While trying to get her ideas straight and really take a second to process what happened Mallory stumbles into an old list on her grandmother’s house, a list that was made when her grandmother was her age. The list goes:
1. Run for pep club secretary
2. Host
a fancy dinner party/soiree
3. Sew a dress for Homecoming
4. Find
a steady
5. Do
something dangerous
Taking the list as inspiration Mallory swears technology off and
makes completing the list her main focus.
No one said completing the list would be easy or that family
problems would choose this time to catch up with her, but she will try and
probe that going vintage is worth the price.
Now that we all have a basic idea of what this book is about let
get to know the pretty covers:
First we have the
cover that is all bold colors and sixties looking gal that isn’t afraid to do
her own thing.
Now we come to see
how the feel of the book can really change from one cover to another in this sweet
colored schemed cover.
What do you think? Do you agree that the feel of the story changes
a lot from one cover to the next? Is there one that you like more than the
other? Which one would you pick up from the library or bookstore shelves??
Please share with us your opinions about this two covers.
Mallory
has been a victim of the online social networks, her boyfriend cheated on her with
another girl online. While trying to get her ideas straight and really take a
second to process what happened Mallory stumbles into an old list on her grandmother’s
house, a list that was made when her grandmother was her age. The list goes:
1.Run for pep club secretary
2. Host a
fancy dinner party/soiree
3.Sew a dress for Homecoming
4.Find a steady
5.Do something dangerous
Taking
the list as inspiration Mallory swears technology off and makes completing the
list her main focus.
No one
said completing the list would be easy or that family problems would choose
this time to catch up with her, but she will try and probe that going vintage
is worth the price.
Review
The way
Lindsey Leavitt wrote this book made me feel like I was breezing through it,
like a lazy fresh summer afternoon where you don’t what that moment or that
fresh feeling to end.
I
believe that Lindsey could have made the emotional cheating look more series,
it is a way of cheating and people do get hurt. Yet I can’t seemed to take it
seriously on the book at first it felt too juvenile.
I may
not have always loved the characters on this book, but I understood their
action and why the made the decision they made. So even if things didn’t go the
way I wanted it didn’t make it seemed like it was the author denying something
but a choice that the characters where bound to make because of who they are.
If you are looking for a book 100%
contemporary then don’t pic up this book, when you want something contemporary
with unrealistic elements (I’m not talking Urban Fantasy here guys) with a
sweet and funny moments and a splash of growing up then I really suggest you
read this book.
Now I
didn’t mean the “unrealistic elements” as an attack or anything, you see there
is something in the mix that takes some of the realism out of this book and
gives a feel of high schools on teenage movies. I just don’t want you to go in
with false expectations and if this is what you are looking for then I do think
you are going to have a nice time.
Welcome
fellow book lovers are gathered here today because of our fondness to books, we
are also here because someone decided that a book needed it’s cover re-done and
want a space to share our opinions about this changes, before we beging shall
we take a look at the cover this change has been forced upon?
The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder
Dry,
sarcastic, sixteen-year-old Cam Cooper has spent the last seven years in and
out hospitals. The last thing she wants to do in the short life she has left is
move 1,500 miles away to Promise, Maine - a place known for the miraculous
events that occur there. But it's undeniable that strange things happen in
Promise: everlasting sunsets; purple dandelions; flamingoes in the frigid
Atlantic; an elusive boy named Asher; and finally, a mysterious envelope
containing a list of things for Cam to do before she dies. As Cam checks each
item off the list, she finally learns to believe - in love, in herself, and
even in miracles.
Now
then, let’s take a look at the changes this book has been bestowed upon, first
we have the first look it ever had, the face this book was greeted on when it
hit shelves:
After
that this book’s cover was transformed, it changed from the face we all knew to
give the world a better look of what lies inside of Wendy Wunder’s book and Cam
Coopers story:
Lastly there has been
another changed made to this book, one of feathers, critiques and bright coolers:
Please share with use which cover would
inspire you to pick this book up and read it, does one of the book’s covers stands
above the others? Is there something you dislike about any of the covers?? Let
us know.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could
change everything?
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old
Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport
and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and
involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met.
Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's
cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her
row.
A long night on the plane passes in the blink
of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos
upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?
Quirks
of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family
connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a
twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that
true love finds you when you're least expecting it.
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