Angel Reads

10 Sep

Top Ten Books I Would Love To See As A Movie/TV Show

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten list that one of they bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. This weeks To Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Books I Would Love To See As A Movie/TV Show

Even though I am always so scared when books are turned into movies as so many amazing books had horrible book to movie adaptations. I just can’t stop myself and wish that some of the fantastic books I have read be turned into movies.

I found this really hard as so many books that I love have or already are being turned into movies, but I tried My hardest. These are in no particular order.

1. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
I just love the whole world that the book centres around and just all the twist and turns would be amazing in a movie. I also love the characters and wish they could be brought to life.

2. Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
This is one of my most recent reads and I just love the concept of this whole book and haven’t read or seen anything like it before. And come on Alex.. yum.

3. Looking for Alaska by John Green
I think this will be on of those films that every teen and adult needs to watch. The books has so much meaning behind it, that i think it would be such an amazing movie

4. The Duff: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
Again this is one of those books that I think everyone needs to see, especially teenage girls that feel insecure about themselves, I found out so much about myself while reading this and I think alot of teen girls and boys would get alot out of it.

5. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
I know, I know this books is already being turned into a movie, but I do think and hope this will become an amazing movie. And I just cannot wait, the suspense of the whole book, would create an amazing movie.

6. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
This book has so much meaning behind it and just the love in this book is beautiful and just how they fall. I just want one Sarah Dessen Novel to become a movie

7. Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
This would be an awesome Movie, it would be a fun movie but at the same time very interesting and for something very interesting.

8. Angel Burn (Angel) by L.A Weatherly
Angels. Trying to take of the world. Love. Car chases. This is an Epic Book that I think could be an outrageous movie.

9. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Come on hot gang members that falls for the ‘good girl.’ Beaches. Leather jackets. star-crossed lovers.

And I cannot think of a tenth because so many of the books I want to be movies are already being turned into movies, like Vampire Academy, Divergent, Fallen, Hush Hush, Delirium (TV series) The Mortal Instruments.

07 Sep

August Book Haul

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So I have decided that I want to start up a new thing on my blog, and that is Book Hauls. I just love sharing all the new books I get months. So at the start of each month I will post what i brought throughout the previous month. For example at the start of September, I am posting what books I brought or received through August. I would Also like to here what books you also brought throughout the month as well.

So in the Month of August I brought alot of books. I didn’t mean to, but when i start to buy books I just cannot seem to stop. (these are in no particular order as i don’t remember which books I brought first.)

First I brought a fair few Cassandra Clare books, I do have most of them on my Kobo but I wanted Physical copies. I just love them to bits.

– City of Bones (The Moral Instruments)

– City of Ashes (The Moral Instruments)

– City of Glass (The Moral Instruments)

– City of Fallen Angels (The Moral Instruments)
– City of Lost Souls (The Moral Instruments)
– Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices)

I also brought the 2nd and 3rd books into the Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead. Another one of my buys was Angelfall by Susan Ee

– The Golden Lily (Bloodlines)
– The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines)
– Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days)

The last 2 books I brought were written my the amazing John Green

– The Fault in Our Stars
– An Abundance of Katherines

If you follow my blog or follow me on twitter, you might have read that I went to Penguin Teens Live in Melbourne. I received 2 books by 2 Australia Authors while I was there.

– The Cinderella Moment by Jennifer Kloster

– The First Third by Will Kostakis

I think it can be said that I got alot of Books in the month of August. What did you buy this month?

31 Aug

Book Review: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan

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Synopsis:
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school… again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’ master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’ stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

My Review

So this was a re-read for me. I read The Lightning Thief a fews years ago and just never got around the reading the rest of the series, and I was in the mood to start reading the series again. So I decide that I would re-read The Lightning Thief before I started Sea of Monsters. And it was just as amazing as the first time I read it, the writing style that Rick Riordan has is marvellous he knows how to pull someone into the story and not let them go to the very last page, then make then want more and more. The one thing i liked about this book was that it is not bases around love, even if there was a little hit of a crush *talking to you here Percy* I love how we are brought into this world. I also like that it is from Percy Perspective getting into a 12 year old’s is not something you do everyday. I loved loved loved camp half blood, wish I was the daughter of a God. I love Mythology, and Greek Mythology with a passion, so this book was just my cup of tea. I love hearing about all the Gods and Myths and just everything. The Characterisation for a first book in a series was really good. Percy development so much from the first couple of chapters to the last few of the book. Annabeth, I just love her, she has her defences up yet she has this little bit of vulnerability to her. Grover is the person everyone wants as her best friend. I loved all the little ‘battle’ scenes. I just loved pretty much everything about it. I like the idea that Rick Riordan to mix Ancient Greek ways of living in honouring the Gods into the modern world. That these Gods are real and they have children in the modern world, that have to be kept in hiding to keep safe, and to train, to be great hero. Well of this is not a great idea, don’t know what is. I just love the God especially Athena. I have always been a fan of Athena, I just think she is pretty amazing Goddess. So being able to read about her in the way Rich Riordan wrote her was pretty epic. I also like how the other Gods were presented. I liked how all different Mythological

Creatures were mentioned. I loved the story line and the concepts that the Lightning Thief came with.

Overall I would give it a 5 stars out of 5.