Sunday, 13 December 2015

Favorite screen characters Tag!

If you can't guess from the title, the point of this tag is to select (if you possibly can) ten of your favorite on-screen fictional characters (yes, only ten!). Then tag ten friends who can do this tag as well and they also choose ten others friends and so on and so on ....

I haven't been tagged by anyone but I just wanted to do the tag anyway! so let's start!


1. The Doctor
I love the Doctor for so many reasons! he's funny and sweet and just wants to help others. When he is in a bad mood he'll always say and he just needs to be surrounded by the people he love. He is a real person with a real heart that also can be broken from time to time. Out of all doctors I think the 10th and 11th are my favorites! you know why? 10 had such a love for Rose he would do anything for her! and 11 because he always brought out the best in people! He brought out the best of Amy and Rory.

2. Sherlock Holmes
Yes, on 2 my kinda all time favorite character as well, Sherlock Holmes! I like him best in the BBC adaption. He's always moody and thinks he always knows best! Although he says he has no friends, his best friend will always be John! How cute they are together. They would absolutely do anything to save each other, no matter what. Sherlock acts like if he has no heart and like he doesn't care but deep inside he does have feelings too, like everyone around him who loves him!

3. Mary Crawley
yes yes, I have a weak spot for Mary from Downton Abbey. It's one of my favorite tv shows ever and I loved mary through all the seasons. She has no eye for people lower in rank and always wants to score the best out of everything. She acts like if she doesn't care but to her Maid Anna she always speaks te thruth. She feels guilt for Matthew as well, when she falls in love with Mr.Pelham. She can be broken and isn't the manipulative biatch she always acts to be. She wants to help people her way and will always fight for what she wants.

4. Claire Fraser
Claire, from the tv show outlander! I discovered it only a couple of months ago but I am so addicted to it already. She is a strong and independent woman who fights for what she believes in. She helps people who are in need and she falls in love on the handsome scottish laird Jamie. She had a rough time by falling through time but she adapted and turned out to be the strong and loyal British woman. 

5. Mr. Harry Selfridge
In a time when nothing was certain, he moved from America all the way to London to follow his dream. He wanted to have his own department store, a place people could shop in all areas without leaving the store. 1 building and 1 place people could meet, shop and talk. He had this dream and made it come through. He left everything behind and he became succesful! That's why I love this character so much. When following a dream you shouldn't be affraid for the outcome, you always need to fight, no matter what!

6. Merlin (emrys)
Merlin from the TV show Merlin. He is so great! He makes people laugh and protects them without them knowing. He becomes friends with the prince, Arthur, who later becomes king. Even though magic is forbidden Merlin keeps this part of him a secret and helps Arthur wherever he can! They are friends, secretly best Friends. He's always there for all his friends and when battle comes, he always sides with Arthur. 

7. Miranda
Who doesn't love some British humor? Mirand Hart is the best! She has her own series called 'Miranda'. In this series she always makes the best jokes and is madly in love with this guy Gary who doesn't know for a long time. Miranda is the most clumsy person ever and that makes a hilarious and witty person. She almost never is unhappy and loves her friends deeply.

8. Damon Salvatore
Sweet sweet Damon.. He'll fight for Elena till the end. He loves her so much and she sometimes doesn't even care. He always plays the bad guy but deep inside he has so much of his humanity left. When he opens his heart, it's full of love! But also pain, regret and humiliation. 

9. Sansa Stark
For all the pain and loss she had to endure she always tries to stay strong. She tries to fight of her enemies as best as she can. She has her own mind. She has been trapped, punished and abused but she always fights for the better. She wants to save what's left of her dad's lands and she has her mind set on becoming the Lady she always intended to become.
10. Emma
I love Emma of the BBC period drama so much! in a time marriages were arranged, people had secrets and couldn't come out for their opinion, Emma is brave enough to ignore all of that! She is a strong 19th century woman and thinks she always knows best, until she one day figures out she doesn't.... She'll do everything for her friends and loves her father deeply. She is making her own choice!


So, this was my top 10 favorite screen characters! I actually have tons more but 10 was the limit. As you can probably see I'm a huuuuge period drama fan. Especially British ones. Hope you enjoyed my choices. For this Tag I need to tag 10 people! These 10 people are: 

If you like you can do this tag as well!

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Review: Life and Death by Stephanie Meyer



Title/author: Life and death by Stephanie Meyer
Originally published/ year published: October 2015 by Atom
Genre: Fantasy, young adult
How I got this book: bought
Why I read this book: I've been a twilight fan for many years, I had to read this one as well. 
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars


Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Twilight! This special double-feature book includes the classic novel, Twilight, and a bold and surprising reimagining, Life and Death, By Stephanie Meyer.

Packaged as an oversize, jacketed hardcover 'flip book', this edition features nearly 400 pages of new content as well as an exquisite new back cover art. Readers will relish experiencing the deeply romantic and extraordinary suspensful love story of Bella and Edward through fresh eyes.


Review:
Oh my, I just can't believe Stephanie Meyer made this. It actually is very good. I immediatly fell in love with Beau and Edyth (also I've never seen the name written like that). 
In the book Meyer swapped the characters, Bella is a boy named Beau and Edward is a girl named Edyth. Twilight always has been seen as the ultimate girls book because Bella was the 'weak' one, but in this book Meyer made very clear Bella wasn't weak, but actually a human in distress in the world which is a secret supernatural one. 

The characters as I said were the same as in the old book, nothing was changed, only their sexes. Bella's (Beau's) parents Charlie and Rene stayed the same, all the others changed gender. Doctor Cullen (carlisle) became Carine and her husband became Earnest. Carine had more of a storyline than Carlisle had in the original twilight book. 

The gender swap at first made me a bit confused, I was stil in the Bella and Edward story but soon I adapted and reading went really good. Meyer has written the book with an alternate ending, one I personally didn't see coming. Some parts she also left out, like the Jacob part , in the book Beau (Bella) only met the girl version of him only once properly. 

Alice was changed in Archie. He was way cooler than Alice was and that was a bit of a bummer for me. I just loved Alice's character so much! Jasper was Jessine and well, she was totally different than he was. She kinda had her own part in the story. 

I always have been a huge fan of twilight and thought this book might make enjoy the books less, also I expected maybe I wouldn't like this book. After having read the book I can say that it totally matched my overall expecation and that Meyer did her job more than well. 

I do think when you go into the book as a diehard twilight fan and recently having read the original books you might not enjoy it. The book really needs to be read through with another mindset than the original twilight books. 

There of course also were parts I didn't like that much. Because of the alternate ending Charlie and Rene were kinda left in the dark, which in my opinion I think was really sad and Beau just didn't seem to care that much.. Earnest didn't have a proper part in the book as well which I would have enjoyed. Beau's (Bella's) friends also had a smaller part in the book and Jacob you didn't read about much at all. I would have liked the old love triangle to be back. 

I overall really enjoyed this book and the book was just nicely written. therefore give it 4 out of 5 stars. 



Sunday, 6 December 2015

November Wrap-up and December TBR

November is over and now it's finally December, which means having a holiday and also Christmas is coming! I have a feeling it will become a great reading month!

In October I read the following books:
- Mees Kees - een pittig klasje by Mirjam Oldenhave
Recensie: Mees Kees - een pittig klasje
- heb je mijn zusje gezien? by Joke van Leeuwen
Recensie: heb je mijn zusje gezien?
- Monsterboek by Alice Hoogstad
- Life and death by Stephanie Meyer

I enjoyed all books a lot but my fav one I read was Life and Death. The other books were childrens books and picture books.

so now my list of books I want to read in November:
- The iron knight by Julie Kagawa
- The Heir by Keira Cass
- De stem van de zee by Mara Li
- Soms laat ik je even achter by Daan Remerts de Vries
- Valentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens
- My true love gave to me : 12 holiday stories by Stephanie Meyer, Holly Black, Ally Carter etc

I hope I'll be able to read all the books. I know the christmas days will be more than hectic and also have to study a lot for my upcoming exams in January. At the moment I'm reading the Iron Knight and so far I'm enjoying the book a lot!

De stem van de zee by Mara Li I also will be reading for sure. I've been chosen to read her book for the Storm Publishers christmasclub (Kerstclub). Storm publishers is a new publishing company in The Netherlands and to get a bit of fame they organised the christmas club. I hope I'll enjoy the book :)



what will you be reading this month?

Friday, 4 December 2015

#FridayReads 04-12


Hi everyone!
hope you all had a great week. the past week I kinda didn't read many books. However I did finish life and death by Stephanie Meyer and also read a picture book called Soms laat ik je even alleen by Daan Remmerts de Vries. The picture book I read in Dutch and life and death of course in English ;)

So, It's Friday! It's weekend again! This weekend I'm going to have a drink with a friend of mine from Belgium and also am going to do tons of homework for internship. Of course I'll also be reading again. Although I might not have much time for it I'll try anyway.

The books I'll be reading are 'The Iron knight' by Julie Kagawa, this is the last book in the iron fey series and I'm so excited for it! I already started it last week and I'm enjoying it very much.
And the other book is one by the Dutch author Mara Li called De stem van de zee.

The book in Dutch I got for a review from a new Dutch publishing company called 'Storm publshers'. I am also participating in their christmas reading club (kerstleesclub) and this is the book I'll be reading with 11 other people. We'll do facebook discussions on the book and just talk in general about it. The feedback we have will be given to Storm publishers and Mara Li herself.
You kinda can guess I'm pretty excited for it ;)

btw, Storm also publishes books in English. If you became curious here's their website : http://www.stormpublishers.com/

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

December YA book releases

November, ahh sweet november. we had some great books released last month:
- Winter by Marissa Meyer
- November 9 by Colleen Hoover
- Ten thousand skies above you by Claudia Gray
- half truths by Sally green

did you buy any of the November releases? I unfortunately didn't. *money issues* :P
however, that doesn't make me less excited for December, as this month Christmas is coming, which means many books under the tree from Santa!

I made a little list of the most popular December releases.

The 1st book on the list is: 'their fractured light' by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. this is book 3 of the starbound series (or trilogy?) I've read the 1st book in this series and did like it. this book follows the story of tarver and lilac, in the spotlights, but also a secret life away from the world's gaze. This book will be released on December 1st.

The 2nd book is 'See how they run' by Allie Carter. this will be the 2nd book in the Embassy row series. Grace's past has come back to hunt her, if she doesn't stop she won't be the only one to get hurt. The countries of the world stand like dominoes, one wrong move can make them all fall down. This book will be released on December 22nd.

The next book is 'The trouble with destiny' by Lauren Morrill. After her debur novel 'meant to be' this is her second book published so far. The book follows a girl called Liza Sanders and she's in her senior year at high school. She isn't interested in love, nor the 2 boys Lenny and Russ. She thinks herself of an expert of almost everything, but she definitely isn't an expert when it comes to love. This book will be released on December 8th.

The final book will be 'Did I mention I love you' by Estelle Maskame. This book will be the first book in the DIMLY trilogy. This book follows 16-year-old Eden Munro. She will spend her summer with her father in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are divorced and gone seperate ways. Her father now has a new family, and this summer she'll meet them. She now has 3 stepbrothers. The oldest one is Tyler, he takes her under his wing. Soon she has this feeling of falling in love with the very person she shouldn't fall for... This book was going to be released on December 1st but the publishers decided to have an earlier release date which was July 1st.