I know you've already seen it. Who hasn't. But it still deserved a place on my blog. I mean... look at it.
SO PRETTY. They're very close to how I pictured them!
I'm not so happy about that tagline, though. Maybe you could change it up, folks? The story already depresses me as hell, no need to add more to the pain.
This video was just uploaded to the vlogbrothers YT channel, and being a TFIOS fan, I watched it immediately. I was not a very big fan of Shailene Woodley playing Hazel, mainly because I had this image in my mind of how Hazel should look and she didn't fit into it.
But looking at this now, at her and Ansel (who's playing Gus) being together and looking like their respective characters, I can say that I think this will be a good film. Not like many of the films coming out now, based on YA books. Like Beautiful Creatures, which I haven't watched but I've been told that it's a very free adaptation of the book. Or TMI: City of Bones. And many other YA books that are already optioned for film.
I think many people are with me on this: we become so overprotective of our favourite books, that we just want to burn cities when their films aren't as good. It happened to me with Eragon and The Lightning Thief (thankfully it looks like Sea of Monsters will be better). Good books turned into bad films.
Also, being a film student, I'm learning that there are many kinds of adaptations. But still, being a bookworm comes first, and we all want to see the film look just like what we pictured in our minds.
So, I've started to change my mind about the TFIOS film. It's got a nice cast, and I'm hoping, a great adapted script.
BOOK INFO: Release Date: January 10th, 2012 Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Hardcover Age Group: Young Adult Categories: Contemporary, Illnesses Goodreads Page - Amazon
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Summary:
Diagnosed with Stage IV
thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical
miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.
Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything
else, too post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even
though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives
tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a
constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group,
Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in
Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a
long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and
health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone
leaves behind.
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Release Date: January 10th, 2012 Publisher: Razorbill Hardcover Age Group: Young Adult Categories: Sci-Fi Goodreads Page - Amazon
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Summary:
Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It's
been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is
over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship
Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of
the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no
more lies.
But when Elder discovers shocking news about the ship,
he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They
must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of
years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them
and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.
In book two of
the Across the Universe trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Beth
Revis mesmerizes us again with a brilliantly crafted mystery filled with
action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this
time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off
this ship.
BOOK INFO:
Release Date: January 10th, 2012 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Hardcover Age Group: Young Adult Categories: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy Goodreads Page - Amazon
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Summary:
It’s one thing to find
out you’re a vampire princess. It’s a whole other thing to actually
rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time
feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence
in the murder of a powerful elder points to Lucius, sending him into
solitary confinement, Jessica is suddenly on her own. Determined to
clear her husband’s name, Jessica launches into a full-scale
investigation, but hallucinations and nightmares of betrayal keep
getting in her way. Jessica knows that with no blood to drink, Lucius’s
time is running out. Can she figure out who the real killer is—and whom
she can trust—before it’s too late?
I want them all! I haven't read Across the Universe yet, but it's on my TBR list for this year.
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