Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Best Movie Adaptations

I've decided to participate in some blog hops whenever I can/want to.

Top 10 Tuesday (#14)

Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by 

The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments!

This Week's Top Ten Tuesday Topic is:

Top Ten Best Movie Adaptations

(In no specific order)

1. All the Harry Potter movies

2. The Hunger Games

3. The Host

4. Ballet Shoes

5. Holes

6. Twilight (yes, I actually liked them originally so I'm including it)

That's all I can think of!! I definitely hope that all these new movies that are based on books will do them justice!!

Top Ten Book Romances That I Think Would Make It In The Real World

Top 10 Tuesday (#11) 

Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments!

This Week's Top Ten Tuesday Topic is:

Top Ten Book Romances That You Think Would Make It In The Real World (outside the book)

I'm guessing this topic is referring to the top ten couples that would make it in the real world, outside of the world in the book. i.e. Jace & Clary making it in the real world outside of the world of shadowhunters, faeries, werewolves, vampires, etc. or Ron & Hermione making it in the real world outside of the magical world of witches and wizards. So here are the top couples I think would make it in the world if they were real people:

1. Jace & Clary--Mortal Instruments

2. Ron & Hermione--Harry Potter

3. Lena & Alex--Delirium

4. Ian & Wanderer--The Host

5. Tobias & Tris--Divergent

6. Adam & Juliette--Shatter Me

7. Jared & Melanie--The Host

8. Liz & Owen--Elsewhere

9. Will & Ronnie--The Last Song

10. Josh & Emma--The Future of Us

Top 10 Most Vivid Book Worlds/Settings

Top 10 Tuesday (#8) 

Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments!

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is:

Most Vivid Book Worlds/Settings

I sort of changed it to the top 5 Most Unique Settings in Books

1. Hogwarts--Harry Potter

2. Panem--Hunger Games

3. Chicago--Divergent

4. City of Glass (Alicante)--The Mortal Instruments

5. The Cube--Inside Out

Sorry for the short post this week! I'm in the middle of a great book & I want to see what happens!

The Character Who Reminds Me Of Myself

Top 10 Tuesday (#4)

Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments! 


This week's topic for Top Ten Tuesday is: 

Top Ten Characters Who Remind Me Of Myself Or Someone I Know In Real Life

I feel bad about changing things a bit, but in all honesty, I cannot think of more than one character who I can relate to or who reminds me of someone else. I usually don't compare myself or other people to fictional characters. To me, that would be like comparing real people I know to other real people that I know. Fictional characters feel real to me. Know what I mean?

With that said, growing up, I could find that I could relate to Hermione Granger. Like I said, I typically don't compare myself or other people to fictional characters, but in this case, I did because I pretty much grew up with Harry Potter. Anyways, I definitely have a lot of things in common with Hermione. First of all, I have been told for many, many years that I look like Hermione. I take that as the biggest compliment because I think Emma Watson who plays Hermione is really gorgeous. Secondly, I am very studious. School always comes first. It has become a huge priority in my life. It has gotten to the point where I start stressing out if I have a lot of homework and studying to do because I want to earn the best grade possible. I also tend to do well in school too. I hate to brag, but I have never gotten a C before (for a final grade) in my life. (I still could get a C though, I have one year left of college before graduating.) Finally, growing up, I've always been known as a "goody-goody." I don't typically break the rules at school. I just never wanted to  get in trouble. To me, that's very similar to Hermione.

What character or characters can you relate to? Let me know in the comments below!

Top Ten Tuesday--June 12, 2012

Top 10 Tuesday (#3)


Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments!

This week's topic for Top Ten Tuesday is: 

Top Ten Books I'd Recommend As Good Beach Reads

Nice topic for the beginning of the summer! Here's my list in no order:

1. The Hunger Games

2. The Host

3. Delirium

4. Matched

5. Inside Out

6. Divergent

7. Harry Potter

8. The Scorpio Races

9. A Kiss in Time

10. The Last Song

So what about you? What are your Top Ten Books You'd Recommend As Good Beach Reads?

Ship Sunday--June 3, 2012

Ship Sunday is a new weekly blog hop hosted & created by Emily @ Emily Hearts Books. Each week a book or a book series will be listed & I will discuss my favorite "ship" from that book or book series. I'm not referring to your typical ship on water type of thing.  So what ship am I referring to? According to Urban Dictionary, a "ship" can be a noun or a verb. 


Noun: Short for relationship, popularized in fanfiction circles.
Verb: To endorse a romantic relationship


So in other words, a ship is fictional couple in which you support in a book or series. For example, (noun) I love the Ron and Hermione ship OR (verb) I ship Ron and Hermione. 


It's as easy as that. But, if you are still confused check out the Wikipedia page for "shipping (fandom)". Whoever created that page did a great job.


This week's book or book series:
            

           

 Harry Potter by JK Rowling 


My favorite Potter ship:

Ron & Hermione

Ron & Hermione were the first fictional couple I ever shipped & I shipped them hard. I remember years ago before I read book 4, my brother telling me that Ron had a crush on Hermione & being completely shocked! When I read it, I never caught on to the fact that Ron did like Hermione. I didn't read in between the lines. I don't remember when I finally realized it, but suddenly I became a huge Ron & Hermione shipper. When waiting for book 6, I read Ron & Hermione fanfiction like it was my job. I read it a lot. So much, that my mom told me to stop reading them! I truly was obsessed. I remember wondering if they were going to get together in book 6 or 7, wanting them to get together in book 6, but thinking that they wouldn't get together until book 7 (which of course they didn't get together till book 7). I continued reading fan fiction & coming up with my own in my head after reading book 6 wondering when in book 7 that they would finally get together. I predicted that they would get together at Bill & Fleur's wedding, but I was wrong. I remember getting a little upset when they didn't get together right away while reading the book. Chapter after chapter after chapter. Then, finally, on page 625, they kissed! I was so happy! I started doing cartwheels around my living room. Yes, I was that happy. 


I still like Ron & Hermione together. I think they are cute. I used to say that they are the best fictional couple ever. However, now, after reading several other books, it would be hard for me to pick one ship/couple that I prefer over the other.

What's your favorite ship from Harry Potter? Feel free to comment or if you have a blog & decide to participate, please link back to Emily Hearts Books & post a link to your blog post in the comments! Thanks!

Top Ten Tuesday--May 29, 2012

Top 10 Tuesday (#1)

I will now be participating in Top 10 Tuesday (almost) every Tuesday. Top 10 Tuesday is a blog hop hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They post a Top 10 topic & other blogs participate & link their blog post to their website. It is a way to get to know your follow bloggers & get more traffic on your own blog! If you have a book blog, you can definitely participate! If not, you can still post your answers below in the comments!

This week's Top 10 Topic is:

Top 10 Books Written In The Past 10 Years That I Hope Are Still Being Read In 30 Years

This is a hard one! I've only become a massive reader in the past 12 months, so I haven't read as much as I would like to admit. I definitely have read books before I became an obsessive reader, like Harry Potter & The Clique Series though. With that said, I'm only going to list 5 books that I hope are still being read 30 years from now.

Here is my list:

1. Harry Potter Series

I've always thought that the Harry Potter books would one day become classics. If they don't already (and I'm sure some do), schools will one day require their students to read two or three of them. The Harry Potter series is the type of series you don't see more than once in a lifetime. Harry Potter is truly original and I don't think it is going anywhere anytime soon even though the books and movies are now done. If I ever have kids, I'm definitely going to make them read at least the first book.

2. The Hunger Games

Nobody should be two surprised by this. I love The Hunger Games. I'm not listing them just because they are extremely popular or because I love them so much, I'm listing them because I truly believe that 30 years from now, people will still be reading them. They hold an important message about society, and since they take place in the future, they won't really be outdated 30 years from now.

3. Divergent

Like The Hunger Games, I believe that the Divergent books have a very important message to them. Also, like The Hunger Games, they cannot become outdated ever because they take place in the future. Besides that, the books are amazing & I highly recommend them. 

4. Delirium

I am repeating myself over and over again for each book, but Delirium has an important message to it that I believe future generations should know about. The whole concept of a country without love is very mind boggling, and an interesting topic to talk about. Not only that, but this book is so beautifully written, I would be surprised if this book isn't still read 30 years from now.

5. The Maze Runner

I seriously am being repetitive, but I mean it every time. This book is so original and so unique. I also don't think it will be outdated either. By the way, I haven't read the last two books yet, so SHHH! don't write about them in the comments, PLEASE!!

Fictional Couples

As some of you may or may not know, I love romance! Romance is probably my favorite element of a good book. However, in some books, the romance doesn't work (at least not for me), but that's a different story. In this post I will list fictional couples that I prefer. Some I obviously like more than others (the ones in red are the ones that I LOVE, those in bold but aren't red are ones I like but don't love obsessively, & the ones in that aren't either are the ones that I'm okay with--if they end up together, great! If not, who cares?).  I'm also not going to discuss whether or not these couples actually end up together or not (some don't). In some cases (those of which have more sequels coming out) nobody knows if these couples will end up together in the end.

Divergent

Tobias & Tris

Harry Potter

Ron & Hermione

Harry & Cho OR Harry & Luna

Luna & Neville

The Hunger Games

Katniss & Peeta

Gale & Madge (kind of)

Finnick & Annie

Delirium

Alex & Lena

The Insider Series

Riley & Trella

Scorpio Races

Sean & Puck

Matched

Cassia & Ky OR Cassia & Xander

These are the only ones I can think of at the moment. I will post another list at the end of the summer after I read more books.

-E