*warning: major nerd post.
So, I may or may not have gone on a book frenzy these past couple of months.
(P.S. I almost said "a book hiatus" instead of "frenzy" just then, because for the past 18 years of my life I've been LIED TO. (just kidding. maybe?) I thought that word meant something a long the lines of frenzy, stage, or an outburst. Turns out it means the opposite. What a letdown!!!)
I read Divergent, Insurgent, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Spectacular Now all in the matter of a month after not reading leisurely for lets say.... well.. a while.
Let me just say that these three books are all equally so incredibly magical. Totally in their own different ways of course. But something about reading all of them just brought me back to LIFE, ya know?! Here's the thing about me. I could read books for days. Days. But, I'm extremely picky about the ones I read. That's why I go on a lot of HIATUS's. (notice my word choice there). Divergent literally transfers you to another world where you wish you were a brave "Dauntless" helping save society from the lies it has been built on alongside an extremely attractive male by the name of Four, (Insurgent is the 2nd book so I can't say anything or it will totally spoil it!) The Fault In Our Stars shows you the reality inside the life of a cancer patient whose insanely quirky wits match fellow cancer patient Augustus Waters' charming, insightful, caring self. Then the Spectacular Now takes you into a little bit more relatable scene, diving back into high school days while Sutter Keely lives in his own carefree world of "embracing the weird" which he sees nothing wrong with until he meets Amy Finnicky.
Now, I know what you're thinking: This chick is sappiest of all sappy people. All of these dang books include romances and cheese like that. Well, I mean, YES. They all do. But how could you resist?! Anyways, my next point here is I have found that all of these books are coming to life this year or the next. Yes, they are being made into movies. Bittersweet.
Here's what will blow your mind.
Shailene Woodley.
Yeah, lead actress in the TV series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager", actress in "The Descendents" and in several episodes of "The O.C". Whatever you've seen. You gotta know who she is. Anyways. Get this:
She is the LEAD ACTRESS in every single movie from every book I just told you about.
Excuse me, what?!
Oh, but there's more. Ansel Elgort. He plays the brother of main character, Tris (Shailene Woodley) in Divergent, but he is also Augustus Waters, second main character of The Fault In Our Stars who becomes the boyfriend of main character, Hazel (Shailene Woodley). Brother AND Boyfriend chemistry, ehhh...?! No, just no.
THERE'S EVEN MORE! Miles Teller. He plays the co-leading actor in The Spectacular Now. His character, Sutter, falls in love with Amy (Shailene Woodley). But he is also an actor in the now-becoming movie, Divergent who plays Tris' (Shailene Woodley) arch enemy. Another completely different role relating to the same person.
I am literally mind-blown. How could they let this happen?! (Excuse how nerdy this sounds...) But I was totally emotionally invested in each of those books, imagining for myself what the different characters were like and Hollywood screwed over my imagination(!!!) and put Shailene Woodley in place of every single one of those main characters. And so on. This extremely weird, twisted actor/actress triangle is just absolutely unacceptable.
Dang you, Hollywood.
You're messing with my brain & ruining my imagination.
Not to say i'm not excited for the movies to bring to life each of the books, cuz I totally am.
But bottom line, let's just say the books will always be better than the movie! Always.
Have a splendid week, WWW. (world wide web, since i'm assuming no one reads my blog which is wonderful anyways because I reveal a lot of embarrassing opinions on here.)
Stay classy, San Diego.
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Read these books! Do it do it do it!
-Divergent by Veronica Roth
-Insurgent by Veronica Roth
-The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (this one is my favorite!)
-The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
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