My Favorite Movie Adaptations

I would have to say that books and movies are two of my absolute favorite things.
So when there is a movie adaption of one of my favorite books, count me in… even if it means that I will end up utterly disappointed, mad with world, crying my eyes out (most of the times), making me momentarily loose all the faith in the human race.

Favorite Movie Adaptations (by no particular order):

• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – This is probably my favorite book trilogy, I cannot tell you how much of a nerd I am concerning LOTR. Peter Jackson dusted off the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, published in the mid-’50s, in a film trilogy that boasted a first-rate cast and never-before-seen special effects, especially in its creation of Gollum, a CGI creature voiced and embodied by actor Andy Serkis. It won a well-deserved Best Picture Oscar, among others, for the final 2003 installment. I will admit that I watch this trilogy every single month (sometimes more than once :P)
  

• The Harry Potter Series – I grew up reading these series and I LOVE the books and the movies, some a little more than others, still I love them. Though they occasionally suffered from being too close to a literal interpretation of the books, the Harry Potter movies by and large proved that a fantasy series could be brought to the big screen in glorious, engaging, humanized detail and satisfy the vast majority of its all-ages readership.
  I’m a big fan o J.K.Rowling and I’m thankful to her every single day for welcoming me to the wonderful world of literature.
  
• The Notebook – I like to consider Mr.Sparks one of the biggest romance writers of our generation.
  The heartbreaking 2004 adaptation of Mr.Sparks’ first novel about a lifelong, tortured love affair made Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams instant stars. Subsequent Sparks books-to-films have not fared as well. As a Notebook book fan, I have to say that the movie in my honest opinion the movie is really faithful.
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – So.. An adaptation and a Hollywood re-make. I wouldn’t usually touch this with a ten foot barge poll and initially I got on my high horse and said, ‘No.. Not even going to watch it when it comes to DVD.’ Having seen the Swedish trilogy I was already annoyed because I believed they just didn’t come up to scratch to the extraordinary trilogy of books by Stieg Larsson. What made me give it a try was what my two of my friends said, both lovers of the book too, when they came back from watching it at the cinema. They said it was good and that they really enjoyed the watch, but I wasn’t inclined to believe them. Then I asked, How did it end?’ ‘It ended as it did in the first book.’ they told me. Well.. this grabbed me. The Swedish films missed out this part, which devastated me because it missed out one of the most interesting character developments that then make the next two books so interesting. The American version’s dedication to the preservation of the literature and even the locations and settings is something that blew me away. I loved the story from the books an this film doesn’t mess with it. Brilliant.
• Requiem for a Dream – Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream is arguably one of the best anti-drug films to come out of Hollywood in the past few decades. Based on the acclaimed Hubert Selby Jr novel of the same name, the film explores addiction in its purest form. The beauty of the film is that it itself is an addiction that sucks you in with its brilliant script, soundtrack, characterization, and cinematography until you’re hooked, and then the inevitable happens. Like Trainspotting, the film projects the effects that drugs has on the mind on screen, but unlike the Danny Boyle classic, there is no bleak humor, there is no comic relief at all. This film simply injects itself into your veins and stays there for a very long time.

So far these are the ones that make my Top 5 favorites.
I do have to say that I’m looking forward to a few movie adaptations coming out this year, such as:

• The Fault in Our Stars,
• Divergent,
• The Maze Runner,
• The Giver,
• Gone Girl,
• Mockingjay.

Looking For Alaska – Book Review

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I said it before and I will say it again, John Green is absolutely brilliant. This is by far one the best books I’ve ever read. Sadness, guilt, anger, mischief, trust, love, John Green penned these in a way I’ve never encountered in any other books.

John Green’s debut novel Looking for Alaska has been labeled as “young adult” fiction. This is surprising because the book is so very engaging, mature, and complex. The apparent difference between young adult fiction and regular adult fiction seems to be in subject matter. Looking for Alaska is about Florida high-school student Miles Halter and his foray into what he calls “the great perhaps,” a reference to Francois Rabelais’s dying words (dying words being the one thing Miles is interested in). Miles leaves his bland middle-class high school and journeys to Culver Creek, an elite boarding school in Alabama. Before Culver Creek, Miles’s life was boring. No real pain or pleasure seeped into his days; no friends or enemies or challenges of any kind. Culver Creek throws him into a different world, one with all that he lacked before. His first real friend is Chip, his brilliant white-trash roommate also known as “the Colonel.” Chip heads up the gang of kids that Miles falls in with, the most stunning and hypnotic of these is the gorgeous, sharp, troubled, sweet Alaska Young.

I read this book in one siting; it’s haunting and compelling in the simplest of ways. This is a story of one boy’s journey to seek a Great Perhaps, a story about friendship unlike any told before, a story full of quiet incidents with larger than life lessons. This is not a love story; this is a story about love. After reading and re-reading it again and again, I’ve decided that the Great Perhaps is not a destination, but a journey instead. And I think Pudge (Miles) found it within himself.

The character development in Looking for Alaska was amazing. I felt so deeply connected to these characters which is why this book was so incredibly heart wrenching. I have to say that Alaska Young  is a character that is going to stick with me for a long time. The funny part is Alaska is the type of character that I am least likely to ever look up to. Alaska enjoys sex, drinks and smokes excessively. There is something brilliant about Alaska that I just haven’t quite put my finger on yet. She was the character I grew most attached to during this novel. I think part of it was the mystery behind Alaska. She was quick to ask about Pudge and The Colonel’s life, but very seldom would she share her secrets.

John Green created a book full of mystery. He starts out with Before, but we have no idea what Before he is talking about. I had all these ideas running through my head of what Before could be. Then Before happened and it was least what I expected or wanted Before to be. When Before happened I was brought to tears and I started to deny that it ever happened. I felt my heart rip to pieces over this Before.

This book may be short, but Looking for Alaska changed my life. I was making up my 10 favorites of the 2nd half of 2013. I left two spaces in my favorites for the books I hadn’t read yet. Now I understand why I did that. I know I have read The Fault in Our Stars and that is supposedly the best John Green book, but I think Looking for Alaska may be MY favorite John Green book. I did not feel as many emotions reading The Fault in Our Stars as I did over Looking for Alaska. I left a space in my favorites for a reason. That reason is sitting right here in my hands. Looking for Alaska is a brilliantly written novel that will resonate with me for a long time. My only regret is how long it took for me to read this amazing novel.

 

Ana

Eleanor and Park – Book Review

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I will star by being completely honest by admitting that  I had this book sitting on my desk for a few months and I don’t know why exactly, mostly because I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy it. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s such a wonderful book.

If I could use one word to describe this story, it would be “adorable”. Eleanor and Park fell in love on the bus listening to ’80’s music and reading comic books. Can it get any cuter than that? I submit that it cannot! Told in alternating points-of-view, this story will grab onto you and not let you go until the ending.

This book gave me that melty, clenchy feeling in my chest, the warm fuzzies in my stomach. I was basically a mess throughout the entire thing. These two characters had my emotions going up and down like someone was beating on them with one of those sledgehammers at a carnival, trying to get them to climb to the top of that lit up pole again and again. And every time I thought they couldn’t go any higher, Park would do or say something else that sent me flying up, up, up…

Eleanor is the new girl in school. She describes herself as chubby and plain. After her mother’s abusive husband kicked Eleanor, she moved in with some family friends. Now, a year later, she’s back living with her mother, step-father, and siblings in a new town and a rather cramped house. The first day of school she gets on the bus and every kid pulls a “you-can’t-sit-here” (think Forrest Gump). The only seat available is the one next Park, and he is less than welcoming.

Eleanor refers to Park as “the stupid Asian kid,” which totally made me giggle. Unlike Eleanor, Park has a relatively normal family. The son of a Vietnam war veteran and Korean native, Park is a music junkie and a boss in taekwondo. Most of the time, he keeps to himself. He doesn’t want to like Eleanor, but it doesn’t take him long to realize that fighting his feelings is a losing battle.

Their love story was slow-building, which is probably my favorite kind of love story (Just like The Fault in Our Stars and Anna and the French Kiss). Park lends Eleanor his headphones and Sony Walkman, and she is immediately drowning in the emotions the music evokes. The adorableness continues when he makes her mix tapes and brings comic books especially for her. It doesn’t take long for their seat buddy status to change from acquaintances to friends to something more. Leading up to the “shouting-from-the-rooftops I love you” moment, Eleanor and Park share secret looks and stolen glances.

Let me tell you, Eleanor & Park contains the hottest hand-holding scene of ALL TIME, hands down (pun intended).

Park always tugged on Eleanor’s scarf or nudged her with his shoulder, but he never actually touched her skin. The build-up to this was almost unbearable.

“As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone so long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.”

“When he touched, Eleanor’s hand, he recognized her. He knew.”

GAH. I cannot with him. Can. Not. He’s definitely top-five-book-boy material. I don’t think I’ve ever flailed so hard over a simple hand holding scene.

Eleanor tries hard to hide her family life from Park, but he eventually finds out the horrible truth and is willing to do anything to help her get out. His protectiveness and caring nature is what I love most about him. He no longer cared what anyone at school said about her or what his family thought of her. He only wanted her. Just her. No matter what.

Sadly, as Park and Eleanor learn the hard way, sometimes not all first loves are meant to be forever…or are they?

The end of this book left me in tears. Like, legit streaming down my face, stuttering, had to get up and leave the room so that my cat wouldn’t think I was crazy. Any book that as that effect on me usually goes straight to my favorites pile, but I’ll admit, I knocked this one down a star because this ending – though it made sense -was…kind of unfulfilling. I wanted more! I wanted her to CALL HIM. I wanted her to write him back! I just wanted more. Just a teensy, tiny, little bit.
Open ended endings aren’t my favorite, and though what I’m left with tells me I can picture a happy ending for these two young lovers…I still question whether or not it actually happened if the author doesn’t tell me herself. I admit that it keeps me awake at night, not knowing. Basically, it was a bit of a disappointment after all my happy-swoony-puddly feelings from the beginning.

But don’t worry you may not even cry, most people that I know that read the book didn’t cry. You may, however, be sighing throughout the whole freaking book.

 

Ana

Next on My Reading List: Spring 2014

The table next to my bed has a pile of books I’m digging into this next couple of months. If anything, I’m an ambitious reader.

When do you read?

My reading habits: I always have a book tucked in my purse, in the car, on my Kindle app, next to my bed for those moments during the day when I’m waiting or trying to fall asleep. I’m also a bathroom reader. I am usually working thru several books at one time and usually listening music at the same time.

1. Flat – Out – Matt (Flat – Out – Love #1.5) by Jessica Park,
2. Bloodlines by Rachel Mead,
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry,
4. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson,
5. Making Faces by Amy Harmon,
6. Pivot Point by Kasie West,
7. Never Fade (The Darkest Minds) by Alexandra Bracken,
8. The Raven Boys by  Maggie Stiefvater,
9. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey,
10. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz,
11. Wonder by R.J Palacio,
12. Cinder by Marissa Meyer,
13. The Unbecoming by Mara Meyer,
14. Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma,
15. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta,
16. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau.

All of these books have been recommend to me by friends a two lovely readers.

Let me know if you have read any of these books and your thoughts on it. 🙂

Ana

 

The Fault in Our Stars – Book Review

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This book as become one of my top favorites.
I just can’t get over how amazing it was.

John Green has been critically acclaimed for some time within the writing community, but only lately some of his novels like ‘Looking For Alaska’ and ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ have managed to achieve mainstream success.
Green typically writes books for young adults, and more often than not, they end in tragedy. But not the kind of tragedy that leads you into a depression, instead it’s one that makes you analyse life in a way that makes you appreciate what you have.  See, it’s Green’s subtle talent to translate his thoughts into relatable words and make you believe that what happens in his books could have happened to you. He writes for you rather than to you, and he presents the events in such a way that you don’t feel like you’re reading someone else’s story.
When I first jumped into The Fault In Our Stars I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into, considering that so many people were recommending it to others and that it had such an unbelievable rating. I’ve fallen into the trap of people recommending popular books that left me wondering why they were so successful in the first place many times before.

The Fault in Our Stars is about a young cancer-ridden girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster. Surviving on borrowed time, Hazel’s story takes an unexpected turn when she meets Augustus Waters, a handsome young man who fought cancer himself. While cancer is a touchy topic from any angle, Green masterfully uses that to his advantage as he explores the love story of people who literally have to appreciate every moment and the end result is beautiful.

The Fault in Our Stars is an exceptionally powerful story. It is told completely from Hazel’s point of view, and her unconventional thoughts on her disease and experiences are surprising and refreshing.

Augustus is also a fascinating character, perhaps partially because the readers aren’t in his head, and he’s therefore more of a mystery than Hazel. He’s definitely eccentric, and he proves this early in the book when he puts a cigarette in his mouth. He explains he never smokes, but says it’s a metaphor: “You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”

I just have such strong feelings about this book, that I can’t seem to find the right words to write.

I totally recommend this book, is such an amazing read, full of love, laughter and the inevitable tears.

This was my first John Green novel.  I Loved it with a capital “L”.  The exquisite and emotional story tugged at me in ways very few novels have.  I can probably tick them off on one hand, honestly.  Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters are like two star-crossed lovers in my mind.  Fated, but their infinity together is unfairly small.  Bound together by cancer, they bond, not just with each other, but with the idea that they will not live forever, so they must live now.  And live they do.

John Green doesn’t keep The Fault In Our Stars all sobs and heartbreak.  He somehow knows what it’s like, that to have cancer, you must have a sense of humor about life and all the things in it.  So many scenes, or small quotes from the characters themselves had me laughing out loud.  I quickly fell in love with all of them.

One of the things that I most loved about this book  is the realistic concept, rather than a, “Surprise!  You’re cured!” approach I think some authors would take. There is no happily-ever-after in this story.  There is only before and after.   Green is not afraid to make his readers feel, or think.  And that’s what The Fault In Our Stars does:  it makes you think, about life, death, mortality, the Before and the After, and what you are making of your life now.

Basically what I’m saying is, this book deserves the highest praise and I bow down its greatness and John Green.
I just have such strong feelings about this book ❤ ❤

 

Ana

Top Ten Tuesday – Fictional Characters that I’d crush on

I’ve been reading a lot of top ten Tuesday posts from other bloggers and some  of them have inspired me.
This weeks topic: Top Ten Fictional Boys I Would Crush On If I Were Also Fictional or if they were real. The only problem is that I just don’t know if I can narrow it down to ten. These authors know how to create some very attractive gentleman.

(In no particular order)

1. George Knightly (Jane Austen’s Emma) – I know that most people go for Mr.Darcy, and I though we would be in my top ten, but giving it a second though, Mr.Knightly is a much better choice. He is everything that Mr. Darcy should be and a little bit more. He’s funny, sweet, loyal, he wants to help the people that he loves be better and guess what? He’s smart enough to marry is best friend.
2. Park Sheridan (Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park) – First of all, he’s half-Korean. I just can’t being to describe how much I crush on good looking Korean guys. 😛 Park is such a great character. He likes comic books, awesome music taste, great sense of style. He’s the sweetest, cutest, most interesting fictional boy that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. I can’t even being to describe my feelings for him.
   
3. Augustus Waters (John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars) – Augustus Waters is the boyfriend I always wanted and the boyfriend I was (am)  also scared to love so much. He’s sweet, he’s sarcastic, he introduces you to video games and makes them really dirty and hysterical, and the most important, he’ll be there for you in the hard times. He is the guy who gives up his own Make-A-Wish request to make sure you got to live your life’s dream. He’ll waste no time because he knows that’s the one thing he can’t give, so he makes sure that all the time you spend together is worth it. But the one true thing that makes Augustus probably one of the best is that he’ll truly love you until the very end.
4. Etienne St.Clair (Stephanie Perkins Anna and The French Kiss) – It’s really hard not to love Etienne. He’s an America boy with a British accent and French name. He may be a little bit on the short size, but that doesn’t really matter, since he’s so smart, interesting, charming and totally sweet. I just can’t help myself but smile when thinking about him.
   
5. Jase Garrett (Huntley Fitzpatrick’s My Life Next Door) – There isn’t much to be said about Jase, but the fact that he is very much perfect. He’s sweet, funny, beautiful and sexy, caring and hardworking.
   
6. Peeta Mellark (Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games) –  This catch of a man is clever and classy, rebellious and realistic. With his sharp wit and determination, Peeta is a natural leader who is man enough to let the strong lady in his life shine. Most importantly, he possesses that most underrated of human qualities: kindness. I just find Peeta such a good person and let’s not forget that he bakes!
7. Ronald Weasley (J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter) – I think that has a boyfriend, Ron would totally be the type to make sure you didn’t take everything so seriously, and let’s face it, if you’re even slightly as high strung as Hermione can be at times, you totally need someone like Ron in your life to remind you not to sweat the small stuff! He’s fiercely loyal and unafraid to stand by his friends, even when it means putting his own life on the line, and I’d say that makes Mr. Ron Weasley quite the catch indeed!
8. Gilbert Blythe (Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables) – Gilbert is one of the most wonderful men ever written about, period.  From the time he was about thirteen, he has wanted one thing: Anne Shirley’s love.  He is most girls’ idea of “the perfect man,” one who waited for her for years.  He’s so funny and smart and sweet and handsome.  Love him.
9. Tobias Eaton/Four (Veronica Roth’s Divergent) – Tobias is the bad boy fantasy of my list. He’s tall and dark, has deep blue eyes, and a full lower lip (YUM!).  He’s mysterious, quiet, and likes to think of things first before he does something. He’s also intelligent and loving.
   
10. Daemon Black (Jennifer L.Armentrout) –  Daemon is great, that said there isn’t much more to be said. Sexy and arrogant and brooding and hilarious with a very sweet and compassionate side.

I had such a hard time to narrow it down to just ten and I know that I’m probably missing some very important names in here, but this is really difficult. 😛
I would love to know your fictional crushes are! So that I know that I’m not alone with my obsession with fictional man.

Ana

20 John Green Quotes that Will Inspire You

John Green has become one of my favorite writers and I absolutely LOVE all of his book.
I  think that he writes so beautifully, it just makes everything better.
So I decided to share with you, (whoever you are – thank you for reading), some of my favorite quotes from Mr.Green books.
Enjoy!

1.  “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” — The Fault In Our Stars

2. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” — An Abundance of Katherines

3. “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” — Paper Towns

4. “Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.” — Looking for Alaska

5. “If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” — Paper Towns

6. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” — The Fault In Our Stars

7. “You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” — An Abundance of Katherines

8. “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” — Paper Towns

9. “At some point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.” — Looking for Alaska

10. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” — The Fault In Our Stars

11. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” —Looking for Alaska

12. “He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.” — An Abundance of Katherines

13. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.” — The Fault In Our Stars

14. “You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.” — An Abundance of Katherines

15. “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” — Paper Towns

16. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” — The Fault In Our Stars

17. “I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.” — The Fault In Our Stars

18. “I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” — Paper Towns

19. “Maybe okay will be our always.” — The Fault In Our Stars

20. “I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.” ― John Green 

 

And, I have to say, yes! yes it will.

Thank you John Green for being super amazing!

2014 Reading Goals

Last year, I had set a goal to read 150 books throughout the year.  I wasn’t really sure if I was going to have the time to do read that many books, but apparently I can read more than 150 books in a year with no problem at all.

So this year I decided to create another goal!

1. Read 220 Books. 
   I have already read 39 books this year (I had quite a lot of free time) and according to my calculations, I’m about 18% into the goal. 
2. Listen to 1 audio Book.
   I truly hate audio books. I can’t seem to take it seriously, but this year, will be different! The book is now on my phone. And I’ve listened to one track from it. This really might take me all year at this rate.
3. Promptly share books that I’ve finished via my Pinterest board and on Goodreads.
   I’m already doing better at keeping up with this, and not sharing them all in one big flood of pins and feeds at the end of each month. 
4. Stop buying the same books but with different covers.
   I’m clearly running out of space to store my books, so I should really stop buying the same ones. I just can’t seem to help myself, the designs are all so pretty. 

I will try to update the progress of my goals every month, so that I can keep track of what’s going on.
Do you have any reading goals?

Ana

Anna and the French Kiss – Book Review

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Absolutely LOVED this book!
If you haven’t read it, please do yourself a favor and go and buy this book.

Everyone was telling me to read this book, how it has amazing reviews on goodreads and that I should give it a try. So, eventually I purchased the copy on my kindle, soon after finishing the book I went and bought the hard cover. I just had to have this book!

For those of you who don’t know what this book is about, I will give you a brief description;
Anna Oliphant’s father is shipping her off to France to attend her senior year of high school at the School of America in Paris. She is leaving behind a little brother whom she adores, a best friend who is her other half, and a budding relationship with her very attractive co-worker. All these things she is being forced to trade for a country who’s language she doesn’t speak, where she is an outsider and she doesn’t even want to go. Her senior year looks bleak, to say the least, and then things start to look much better, when she meets Etienne St. Clair: one part American, one part British, one part French, and all parts everything she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. The only problem is that he already was a girlfriend…

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is a wonderful read, filled with humor, romance and those sentimental moments that make you tear up and get the stomach butterflies. It just so well written that it sweeps the reader up into the story. Not to mention the trip through Paris that the author takes us, exploring the food, culture, landmarks, and so much more. The secondary characters add both drama and a whole lot of humor. The main protagonist is clueless in a sweet kind of way, avoiding getting on my nerves through out the book.  And her love interest is just an adorable man-boy with a side of extremely smexy (sexy and smart). He was one of those characters that made my heart skip a beat just by reading his name alone. 😛

One of the things that I love the most about this book is that Anna and Etienne’s relationship is a slow build. Their attraction to one another is clearly apparent from the instant they meet, and yet Stephanie Perkins takes the time to build a strong foundation for their relationship based on common interests and personality, a definite departure from the seemingly more popular trends of late of couples falling blindly in love with one another at first sight, it’s refreshing and fun.

To summarize Anna and the French Kiss is beyond hilarious, sweetly romantic, and simply awesome. I could read this book a million times over and never tire of it. Please,please don’t hesitate about this book…READ IT!

Ana

Top Ten Tuesday

Hello!

Hope everyone is having a good week.
So, I’ve decide that every Tuesday, from today onward, I will write a Top Ten post. It can be about anything that I like or hate. So please look forward to it, so that we can discuss our opinions.

I will be starting with, TOP TEN BOOK COUPLES!

All book addicts have their favorite book couples and if you are like me, the list keeps getting bigger by the day.
But, I still have my all time favorites and here is some of them;

• Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy – Pride and Prejudice,
• Hazel Grace Lancaster & Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars,
• Margaret Hale & John Thornton – North and South,
• Wendy Everly & Loki Stadd – The Trylle Trilogy,
• Anna Oliphant and Étienne St. Clair – Anna and the French kiss,
• Peeta & Katniss – The Hunger Games,
• Tessa & Will – The Infernal Devices,
• Severus Snape & Lily Evans – Harry Potter,
• Eleanor Douglas & Park Sheridan – Eleanor & Park,
• Aragorn & Arwen – The Lord of the Rings.

I just love them all and I know that Snape and Lily aren’t actually a couple, but it’s my favorite one-sided love.
Let me know your favorites book couples and if there is any  book that I should read with a great couple.