Re-Readable Books

I am not a re-reader. I very rarely read books more than once. However, there are some books that deserve to be re-read. This is a list of books that I have either read more than once or that I want to read again.

Harry Potter: Obviously Harry Potter si on the list. I have re-read Harry Potter, some of the books more than once.

The Book Thief: I haven't actually re-read the Book Thief, but as it's one of my favourite books of all time, I am planning on reading it again at some point.

The Raven Cycle: I have read this series twice. It's my favourite series ever and I love it to pieces.

The Hunger Games: I have not read the Hunger Games more than once. I read the books a really long time ago, and I want to read them again.

Seraphina: I have not re-read Seraphina, but I want to read it again.

Throne of Glass:I love the Throne of Glass series. I haven't re-read it, because I actually read it very recently, but I will probably read it again in a few years.

Eon: I love the Eon duology. I haven't re-read it, but I plan to at some point.

Clockwork Angel: I have not read the Infernal Devices series more than once, and I feel like it would enjoy it even more than I did the first time I read it.

Paper Towns: Paper Towns is my favourite John Green novel. I haven't read it more than once, but I plan to read it again at some point.

Book-to-Movie Adaptations

Here is a complete list of the movie adaptations of books for which I have both read the book and seen the movie. I've also included two ratings. The first rating (the movie rating) shows my opinion on how good the movie was. The second rating (the adaption rating) shows how well I thought the movie was adapted from the book it was based on. Both ratings are on a scale from 1 to 5.

The Fellowship of the Ring: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
The Two Towers: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
The Return of the King: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
An Unexpected Journey: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 4
The Desolation of Smaug: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 4
The Battle of the Five Armies: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 4
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 4
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 4
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 3
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: MOVIE: 2 ADAPTION: 3
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 3
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 3
The Hunger Games: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
Catching Fire: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
Mockingjay Part 1: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
City of Bones: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 2
Divergent: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 4
Insurgent: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTATION: 2
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: MOVIE: 1 ADAPTION: 1
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters: MOVIE: 1 ADAPTION: 1
The Maze Runner: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 4
The Book Thief: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 4
The Fault in Our Stars: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
Eragon: MOVIE: 1 ADAPTION: 1
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTION: 5
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: MOVIE: 2 ADAPTION: 3
The City of Ember: MOVIE: 2 ADAPTION: 2
Vampire Academy: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION: 3
Ender's Game: MOVIE: 3 ADAPTION:  3
The Giver: MOVIE: 4 ADAPTION: 3
If I Stay: MOVIE: 5 ADAPTATION: 5

2014 Movies and TV

I did a thing at the end of last year where I chose my favourite books published last year in several categories. I decided to do the same for movies and TV shows, even though it's no longer 2014.

List of movies and TV shows I have seen published last year

1. Mockingjay Part 1
2. Divergent
3. The Maze Runner
4. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
5. The Fault in Our Stars
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Vampire Academy
8. The Giver
9. If I Stay
10. Legend of Korra
11. The 100
12. How to Get Away with Murder
13. Elementary
14. Broadchurch
15. Doctor Who
16. Sherlock 
17. Orphan Black

Favourite Male Main Character:

• Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies
• Augustus Waters from the Fault in Our Stars
• Sherlock Holmes from Elementary
• Sherlock Holmes from Sherlock
• The Doctor from Doctor Who

Favourite Female Main Character:

• Katniss Everdeen from Mockingjay Part 1
• Avatar Korra from Legend of Korra
• Clarke Griffin from The 100
• Raven Reyes from The 100
• Octavia Blake from The 100
• Joan Watson from Elementary
• Clara Oswald from Doctor Who
• Sarah Manning from Orphan Black
• Cosima from Orphan Blaxk

Favourite Side Character:

• Tauriel from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Asami from Legend of Korra
• Lexa from The 100
• Danny Pink from Doctor Who
• Kira from Orphan Black

Favourite Villain:

• President Snow from Mockingjay Part 1
• Kuvira from Legend of Korra
• Rachel Duncan from Orphan Black
• Missy from Doctor Who

Favourite Relationship:

• Korra and Asami from Legend of Korra
• Clarke and Lexa from The 100
• Clara and Danny from Doctor Who
• Cosima and Delphine from Orphan Black

Favourite Friendship:

• Christina and Tris from Divergent
• Bilbo and Thorin from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Clarke and Raven from The 100
• Joan and Sherlock from Elementary
• John and Sherlock from Sherlock
• Clara and The Doctor from Doctor Who

Favourite Actor:

• Peter Capaldi
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Martin Freeman

Favourite Actress:

• Jennifer Lawrence
• Tatiana Maslany
• Jenna Coleman
• Eliza Taylor
• Viola Davis

Best Plot:

• Legend of Korra
• The 100
• How to get Away with Murder
• Doctor Who
• Orphan Black

Best Episode of a TV Show:

• The Last Stand (Legend of Korra)
• Spacewalker (The 100)
• The Night Lila Died/ It's all my Fault (How to get Away with Murder)
• Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (Doctor Who)
• By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried (Orphan Black)

Most Anticipated Movie or TV Show of 2015:

• Mockingjay Part 1
• Paper Towns
• The 100
• How to get Away with Murder
• Doctor Who
• Orphan Black

Best Adaptation from a Book:

• Mockingjay Part 1
• The Fault in our Stars

Best Movie:

• Mockingjay Part 1
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• If I Stay

Best TV Show:

• Legend of Korra
• The 100
• Doctor Who 
• Orphan Black

Shatter Me, Elementary and Other Updates

I read the first book in the Shatter Me trilogy.  It started off really well, but then I started to get bored of it. I will read the rest of the series, though.

I also read the first book in the Throne of Glass series. It was pretty good. The plot was paced well and it was interesting. The world sometimes didn't feel real, though. And most of the characters didn't have much of a personality.

I finished the Old Kingdom trilogy. It is one of my favourite epic fantasy series that I have read so far. I'm really excited to read the prequel Clariel.

I read the first book in the Falling Kingdoms series. I really enjoyed it. I love books that are told from more than two characters' perspectives. I also love that no side or person in the book is truly good or evil.

After reading The Fault in Our Stars and An Abundance of Katherines I read John Greens two other books, Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns. They were both good. Paper Towns is my favourite book by John Green.

I've started watching the TV show Elementary. At first I liked it, but now I'm starting to love it. It's interesting to see the differences between Elementary and BBC Sherlock. It's making me want to read more of the original stories.

I watched the Maze Runner movie. The book series was honestly not my favourite, but I actually did like the first book. The movie was pretty good.

I am now reading The Perilous Sea, sequel to The Burning Sky.

Soul Mates Edit

I tried to put pairs in here that were as different as possible. Some of them are romantic relationships and some of them are friendships. I could not, unfortunately, find and f/f pairings for this.

Shadow and Bone, John Green and Other Updates

This post is basically just about what I've been reading and watching recently.

I read Four: A Divergent Collection. I thought I might find it difficult to get into because I read the rest of the series so long ago, but I actually really enjoyed it. Tobias is a great character and I am more than ever convinced he's an ISFJ.

I also finished the Shadow and Bone series. I liked it, thought it wasn't my absolute favourite. I was really absurdly happy about a random thing that happened in the last book. I'm planning on doing a "YA Epic Fantasy" post soon, once I read a few more series.

I have been reading the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I read Sabriel, which I enjoyed and I have also read Lirael, which I enjoyed even more (even though the end was a bit predictable). I am going to read Abhorsen soon.

I have also read a bunch more books by Agatha Christie. I don't know when I'm going to stop reading Agatha Christie, but it won't be soon.

I read Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead. The Vampire Academy/Bloodlines books aren't really the type of book I generally read, but my friend loves them so I read them. The fifth book (or eleventh, depending on whether or not you count Vampire Academy and Bloodlines as the same series) was okay. The ending (while exciting for Sydrian fans) was a bit annoying, in my opinion. I really enjoyed the re-education stuff, though.

I am currently reading Looking for Alaska by John Green. I finished An Abundance of Katherines the other day. I enjoyed Katherines, thought it's realistic fiction and that will never be my favourite. It had math in it, which was fun. Looking for Alaska is good too. I'm going to read Paper Towns next. I put all the John Green books on hold at the library and they all came at the same time.

I am very close to finishing the TV show Merlin. I have three more episodes left. I will post a lot of Merlin stuff once I finish.

Book Quotes #1

This is going to be the first in a series of posts containing random quotes from books.


"I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me."
- The Book Thief

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
- The Inheritance Cycle

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
- Divergent

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"A small fact: You are going to die."
- The Book Thief

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
- The Fault in Our Stars

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
- The Hunger Games

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
- Harry Potter

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
- The Perks of Being a Wallfower

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
- The Lord of the Rings

“You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”
- The Inheritance Cycle

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone."
- The Infernal Devices

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
- The Fault in Our Stars

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
- Harry Potter

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
- The Hunger Games

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Fault in Our Stars Movie

So I went to see The Fault in Our Stars today and I have a headache from crying. The movie was amazing. It is literally exactly like the book. It's probably the best book to movie adaptation I've ever seen. If you complain that they changed things from the book I will not take you seriously. You could not ask for a more perfect adaption.
I am so sorry that I'm terrible at writing reviews.

Your Fictional Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Soulmate

ENFP: The Doctor (Doctor Who)
INFP: Will Herondale (The Mortal Instruments)
ENFJ: Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter)
INFJ: Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)
ENTP: Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)
INTP: Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings)
ENTJ: Sherlock Holmes (BBC Sherlock)
INTJ: Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)
ESFP: Jace Wayland (The Mortal Instruments)
ISFP: Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars)
ESTP: Tobias "Four" Eaton (Divergent)
ISTP: Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
ESFJ: Sam Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
ISFJ: Jem Carstairs (The Mortal Instruments)
ESTJ: Leo Valdez (Percy Jackson)
ISTJ: Peeta Mellark (The Hunger Games)

ENFP: Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson)
INFP: Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
ENFJ: Hazel Grace Lancaster (The Fault in Our Stars)
INFJ: Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
ENTP: Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
INTP: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
ENTJ: Isabelle Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments)
INTJ: Tessa Gray (The Mortal Instruments)
ESFP: Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
ISFP: Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
ESTP: Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
ISTP: Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments)
ESFJ: Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)
ISFJ: Tris Prior (Divergent)
ESTJ: Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy)
ISTJ: Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Academy)

The Fault in our Stars

I finally, FINALLY read The Fault in our Stars.
I'm so terrible at writing book reviews.
It was fantastic. I loved it and I'm not okay right now.
How can one book make me feel that emotional?
That's all.