Top Ten Tuesday (#101) (07/28/15) Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

 

Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

This is actually pretty hard for me because I don't really remember characters that are huge book worms.  Here is my best attempt.

Kristy Palmetto

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

So Kristy is a secondary character, but she has a love of her trashy romances and she's not afraid to admit it.  Macy the main character also seems to love books, however I wouldn't classify her as much as a book nerd as Kristy and stash of romance.

Lily

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Lily and Dahs "meet" in a book store.  Both had to frequent it enough to find the book of dares.  Reading is not a huge part of the book, but they both have a love of books.

Liesel Meminger

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

She's such a book nerd that the name of the book is named after how much of a nerd she is.  She'll do anything to get a book and her books are her most prized possessions.

Hazel Grace Lancaster

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

She's such a book nerd that a lot of the book is built around a single book and author that she has to meet, if only to find out what happens next.

  Cath Avery

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Cath is such a booknerd that she writes fan fiction about her favorite fictional character.  Doesn't get much nerdier than that.

Hermione Granger

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling

Big time book nerd. I would be surprised if she doesn't end up on most people's list.  Her nose is always in a book.

Ponyboy Curtis

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Ponyboy is smart, and he has a love of poetry.  Yes he ended up isolated, but getting something to read during his isolation was a priority.

Elizabeth Bennet

 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The ultimate book worm.  She loves to have her nose in a book. If had the life of leisure that they had to suffer, I'm sure I would be reading just as much as she does.

Sam Roth

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

Sam is such a book worm that he works in a book store.  He has a love of poetry and is eager to share it with Grace.  His room is also filled with books.

Sydney Sage from

Bloodlines (Bloodlines #1) by Richelle Mead

Sydney is an overachieving book worm.  She seems to read everything that comes her way.

Top Ten Tuesday (#45) (01/28/14)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

 

Top Ten Worlds I'd Never Want To Live In

This is actually a bit challenging to me.  There are a couple of ways to look at this.  So many books take place in current time, but the characters are dealing with the paranormal, such as the Alice in Zombieland books.  I would never want to live knowing zombies are real, but the world is the same as the one I'm living in.  So I chose to go with more dystopian/apocalyptic worlds, with one glaring exception. 
 

Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth


I would never want to be forced into being any one thing.  I would like to think that I was divergent, but who knows.

Emma by Jane Austen

Yes I know this world actually existed, and Jane Austen was great about showing a slice of life as it really was.  And you know what?  I am SO glad times have changed.  If I was transported to this time, I would be miserable, and at my age, probably dead. I picked Emma, but really you can sub in any Jane Austen book you want.

Wither (The Chemical Garden #1) by Lauren DeStefano

Yikes, I don't know why anyone would want to live in a world where people die so young.

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins

I can't think of a single thing that would make me want to live in this world.  Risk being put up for slaughter for years? Starving?  No thanks.

Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Tahereh Mafi

The world that this covers doesn't seem that bad.  We actually don't know much about the world.  Even so, it still seems pretty awful.

The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass

The world that is set up in The Selection would pretty much be horrible.  That being said, I'm not sure which caste I would have been born into.  I guess that makes all the difference.

Delirium (Delirium #1) by Lauren Oliver

A world without love would be pretty bad indeed.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth #1) by Carrie Ryan

I will say it 1000 times.  I would not, nor do I want to, survive a zombie apocalypse.   Living like the characters do in this series, would make me insane. I pick death, or zombiedom. 

Matched (Matched #1) by Ally Condie

This is another pretty horrible world.  Everything is so regimented and so controlled.  What a nightmare.

The Pledge (The Pledge #1) by Kimberly Derting

Yep, this world is pretty bad too.  Risk execution for speaking another language.  Plus a caste system. Nothing good is going on in this world.

Teaser and Top Ten Tuesday (#16) 07/09/13

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

Renegade (Ripper #2) by Amy Carol Reeves

From pg. 73:

Unbelievably, I saw his dark eyes fill with tears before he turned his head to walk to the window, to stare at the dirty, busy street far below.  He squinted and shielded his face with this hands as if he had a headache.

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Best/Worst Movie Adaptations

 This is actually hard because I don't watch that many movies.  I'm terrible, and the movies I do watch are usually not based on YA books.  So in the spirit of that, I'm going to move away from the YA roots of this blog and just pick movies where I have read both the book and seen the movie.  There are not many.

Best:

1. Clueless v. Emma by Jane Austen

One of my favorite movies, and it's based on an awesome book.  A totally updated and modernized telling of Emma.

2. The Natural v. The Natural by Bernard Malamud

The movie was actually better than the book. That doesn't happen often.

3. Shawshank Redemption v. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Another one of my all-time favorite movies.  The short story was also so memorable. I read it years before the movie came out, and it stuck with me for a long time.

4. Stand by Me v. The Body by Stephen King

One of the rare times where I read the book soon after seeing the series.  I won't do that again.  I liked the book, but loved the movie.  It may have something to do with that cast!

5. Bridget Jones's Diary v. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

I don't know which I liked more.  They were both really well done.  Except Renee Zelwiger's fake British accent.  That was pretty bad.

6. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone v. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

I thought the movie was well done, and fun. The book was much better though.

7. The Hunger Games v. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I enjoyed the movie, but it was nothing compared to the book.

8. The Outsiders v. The Ousiders by S.E. Hinton

One of my all time favorite books.  The movie was awesome and that cast was epic.  It just didn't capture the emotion of the book.  Still very well done.

The Worst:

9. Twilight v. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

It's not that the movie was bad, it just wasn't great.  I think my main issue is that I didn't really like Rob P. and K. Stew in the roles.  I actually kind of hated the idea of K. Stew as soon as they announced that she had the lead. 

10. Bridge to Terabithia v. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

This book wrecked me.  The movie was super sad, and I still cried, but nothing compared to the book.  I also hated the CGI.