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HELLO :)

Ok so the last post was a bit rushed and I'm sorry... I had to go. Anyway.
So here it is: I read If I Stay and Where She Went yesterday and at the end... yeah. I came a bit obssessed trying to learn what you usually do when you learn one of your favourite books are being turned into a movie: you learn all the actors' names, their lives, behind the scenes' secrets, etc. So I tried to do that. Sort of failed, and ended up scrolling on Tumblr through Malec stories (Magnus x Alec, The Mortal Instruments). Anyway :P.


So I'm going to post the same thing I posted on Tumblr, if that doesn't bother you.

So if you haven’t read them (they're sequels, don't try to read Where She Went first, you'll be spoiled), go type ‘If I stay’ and you’ll find the synopsis, I think it has been repeated enough times already.
If you haven’t read them, and don’t know if you should read them: DO!! I mean, there’s a movie coming out August 22. It’s Gayle Forman. It’s really good.

So if you HAVE read them.
If I stay: I loved all those flashback scenes, AND GOD I SHIP MIA AND ADAM SO HARD !!!!! That concert scene… GOD!!! I did get sometimes confused but in general I loved. I don’t say that I REALLY loved, but I didn’t. I mean, I have nothing against it, it did make me cry because it was touching and cute and GOD THAT SHIP!! But seriously… Contemporaries aren’t my favourite type of books, and I usually have problems getting into those… (Tho I loved Just One Day and Just One Year….). I think I’d give it 85%. Maybe 90% ^^ Because I didn’t get THAT impressed. I think it’s that I had the trailer in my head and it have me too high expectations and that was bad.

Where she went: I loved that one. I loved how Adam felt so real, how he grieved. I loved how he was broken (I kept thinking of like Katniss in Mockingjay, or Magnus in COHF and when he said I don’t remember in which book something about broken and beautiful people). I loved their reunion, and when he went to her concert. That was perfect. Still shipping them so hard !!! I’d give it a 90%.

Btw I’m really hard on books. The TFIOS quote about saving her ten is so real for me. I mean… It’s really hard for me to give a really good mark because of the ‘what if sow thing is better than this one’.

Anyway, thanks for reading :)

P.S. NOW I'M IN FOUR (VERONICA ROTH'S NOVELLAS OF DIVERGENT, POV FOUR) GAAAAAH SO GOOD :D


P.S.2 I DUNNO IF YOU WATCH/LISTEN TO PENTATONIX (www.youtube.com/user/PTXoffici…) BUT YOU TOTALLY SHOULD THEY ARE SO GOOD. THEY DO EVERYTHING ACAPELLA AND IT'S IMPRESSIVE. THEY DID TWO EPs AND THEY ARE GOING TO RELEASE ONE OTHER LATER IN AUGUST :D
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HEYYYY EVERYONE :D (Big Grin)

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY
Went somewhere (over the rainbow) for vacations and the wifi just crashed so yeaaaaaah...

WHAT I'VE BEEN READING LATELY (in July)
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (DON'T SPOIL ME FOR THE NEXT BOOKS PLEAAAAAAASE): if you haven't read-->kickass book, give it a chance, have an open mind. if you have read it(SPOILER ALERT)-->GOD THAT BATTLE AND ARGGG WHEN YOU KNOW THINGS AND YOU JUST WANNA TELL EVERYTHING AND JUST ARGGGGG !!!! :P
White Space by Ilsa J. Bick (DON'T SPOIL ME FOR HER OTHER BOOKS PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE): if you haven't read-->can't tell you much more than the synopsis because I would spoil you and because I think you need to get into it without knowing too much. DON'T GIVE UP. IT'S CONFUSING. if you have read it-->OH GOOOOOOD OMG I DIED AND I CRIED AND OMG. I mean… CASEY!!! And OMG THOSE PLOT TWISTS!!!! I JUST CANT!!!!!! AND THAT END !!!!!!!! OMG I JUST HATE IT BUT I LOVE IT AND ARGGGGGG!!!!! I WANT THE NEXT ONE SO BADLY!!!!

WHAT I WANNA READ/BUY NEXT
The PJO new box set
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (IT LOOKS SO HEARTBREAKING BUT SO GOOD)
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor (THIS LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOD)
Allies & Assassins by Justin Somper (LOOKS KICKASS)
and other... :) (Smile)

So yeah....

See you later

Yasmera
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HELLLLLLOOOOO

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HEYYYY EVERYONE :D

I was like "Yeeah, gonna do things" but didn't do anything so I guess I'll try now...

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY
Summer. Seeing friends. Working (sort of learning... my friend's mother directs a day camp). Reading (trying to... not enough money to buy all the books I want...). Being on Tumblr (I made one like two days ago. Feel free to go check it out: kikyra34.tumblr.com/).

WHAT I'VE BEEN READING LATELY (in July)
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (good book but not as good as I was expecting it to be... STORY: dystopian world where girl gets brought to camp because of a plague. Girl learns she isn't really what she thought. Girl got brought out of the camp and.... things happen. BTW: don't read the back cover, really tells you too much...)
Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza (REALLY GOOD BOOK. STORY: girl lives with her mom after her father died and begins a sort of love story with guy in school, until she has to flee because... BTW: the beginning is a bit slow. THE REST IS FAST AND YOU WANT THE SECOND ONE RIGHT AWAY.)
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (French play written in 1897, I think. Guy (poet but ugly) loves girl but is friend/cousin/brother zoned and has to help the other guy (hhandsome but simple) to impress the girl. BTW: 5 acts, really good, GO SEE THE PLAY AFTERWARDS.)

WHAT I WANNA READ/BUY NEXT
The PJO new box set
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (IT LOOKS SO HEARTBREAKING BUT SO GOOD)
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor (THIS LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOD)
Allies & Assassins by Justin Somper (LOOKS KICKASS)
and other... :)

WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING LATELY (in the last year)
City of Bones (movie adaptation from the REALLY GOOD book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. QUICK MOVIE REVIEW: was good enough but the book is still better. THOSE WHO SAY THEY HATED THE MOVIE SO THEY WON'T READ THE BOOK... ... ... ... MUNDANE FOOLS. QUICK BOOK NOTE: if you haven't read the book or not at least both big series --> it's really good, go read it, with The Infernal Devices, The Bane Chronicles and the Shadowhunters' Codex (both i need to read... TBC will be out in paper form in November though :)) and The Dark Artifices that will be out next year (The author also wrote Magistrum with Holly Black, will be out in fall). READ IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION. If you DID read ALL the book --> MAAAAALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC... JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMM !!!!!
Catching Fire (BEST MOVIE ADAPTATION I THINK... FANTASY/DYSTOPIAN... WAITING FOR MOCKINGJAY !!!!!!!! ---- don't think I need to tell what THG is about, do I ?^^)
Divergent (good movie adaptation but still......... GO READ THE BOOKS IF YOU DIDNT, THEY ARE FROM VERONICA ROTH)
The Fault in our Stars (YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HAVING HEARD OF IT. IF YOU DIDN'T: GO READ IT. THEN WATCH THE MOVIE. THEN WE'LL TALK. IT WAS SO ADORABLE AND UTE AND OMG I JUST LOVED IT SO MUCH.)

WHAT I WANNA WATCH NEXT
The Giver (we read the book in class and it's just a really long story... (Urbanmay):)
If I Stay (THIS LOOKS SO GOOD BUT I NEEDA THE BOOK THO FIRST)
Lucy (LOOKS KICKASS)
and others...


DON'T FORGET YOU CAN MESSAGE ME IF YOU WANT ABOUT ANYTHING :D:D:D:D:D:D

LOVE
-YASMERA
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Hey...

DID ANYONE SEE THE CATCHING FIRE MOVIE ?!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw it last Friday, yup, the release date... IT. WAS. SO. AMAZING.....

If you didn't see it yet... GO BUY TICKETS AND SEE THIS FREAKING AWESOME MOVIE !!!!

If you already did see it... GO BUY TICKETS AND SEE THIS FREAKING AWESOME MOVIE... AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!


I loved that they stayed true to the book.

I loved that the characters were played to another level.

I loved to see that new arena.

I loved the new interview place...

I loved... OMG, I just loved everything. It was so well done... I mean...

It had everything and it went at a good pace, without any moments when you were there like: "ok... nothing happening..." NO!! There was always action!! It was so cool and good and...ahhh so much better than the first one....


-Yasmera

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PATHFINDER !!!

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Hi :)

All right so since nobody answered my other journal entry, I just do this since I'm bored (and yes, I know my English is terrible). Always feel free to comment:)

 

Soooo... Read this book called Pathfinder. No, wait, those two books: Pathfinder and Ruins (the second one). There's supposed to be a third one (Visitors) next year... Can't waiiiiiit !!! So yup, it's written by Orson Scott Card (and yes it's the one of Ender's Game that I haven't read... I will I guess...).

I should do a summary, right ? Allright… so… I guess (since I’m the sarcastically the best to do summaries) I should start with saying it’s about this guy called Rigg who has a secret: he can see what we call paths (paths, pathfinder… see the connexion?) which sort of where each living person passed… Am I using the best word for it? So I just said it was a secret. Nobody but his father with whom he lives in the woods, hunting animals so they can sell their furs, knows about it. Except that when his father dies, saying Rigg has to go find his sister with his mother. The boy didn’t even know he had a sister and a mother. So he goes back to the village where they went when they weren’t hunting, to find this girl called Nox. She, apparently, knows a lot of thinks (Nox, knows… sorry, just always laughing when I see her name. Did anyone read Proxy from Alex London? With Knox and Syd? Could do a journal entry for that one too:)) that his father hadn’t told him. Like the sister-mother thing, and the fact that he could see paths (not that he didn’t know but he didn’t know Nox knew), etc. So Nox tells him they (his mother and sister) live in Aressa Sessamo. So Rigg’s adventure starts there…

Yeah, so I just told you the first three chapters, though I just skipped the chapter two since it’s seriously complicated to explained, but one of the coolest thing in the book and that you can’t explain to someone else… So read it if you want to know what mysterious-not-that-much-mysterious-alright-it-just-isn’t-chapter-two is.

And what I thought of it. So this is for people who haven’t read the book: It was really amazing. Did any of you read The Mortal Instruments from Cassandra Clare? Or Percy Jackson (and all the other series with it: The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles) from Rick Riordan? Or even The Hunger Games from Suzanne Collins? Have you? No wait, Graceling from Kristin Cashore? Or if you’ve read in French: La quête d’Ewilan (and all the Pierre Bottero books) or Terrienne (Jean-Claude Mourlevat)… No? Yes? If yes, let me tell you that I loved these books and I think Pathfinder was better than those. And I’m not kidding.

For those who DID read the books (and those who don’t mind to know all the spoilers and all): Can I tell you how much I love this group? Mostly Umbo? Seriously this guy is like… If I didn’t ship him with Param I would go in that world and steal him from there. Yeah, would find a starship and go there (without expendables :P). And am I the only one who like sort of hated Param and Rigg for a time in Ruins? But Loaf and Olivenko… gahhhh, I loved how they just made peace and talked to Rigg and Umbo and Param, telling them how life is and all…

 

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So yeah... That was my first book-writing-thing. Sorry for it being that long... Thanks for reading it. Hope you liked it. Please comment :) And you always can send me notes if you want to talk about anything :)

 

-Yasmera

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