Top Ten Tuesday!

So it's Tuesday, which means I have a top ten! Today this is the top ten books on my pile for summer, comment and let me know what you would add and what your top picks for summer are! Some of these picks are a little vain, some are also not very well justified, so that's how you know its definitely my list!

In no particular order:

 1. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
I can't say I've seen a book about cancer that's classed as a comedy, so I'm definitely intrigued to see exactly how this pans out. Currently finding it difficult to get my hands on it in the UK








2. Alienated by Melissa Landers
One of my favourite book bloggers on YouTube, ABookUtopia (check her out, she has some great reads!), interviewed the author of this, and the premise really caught my eye. From what I have gathered, it's basically about an alien exchange trip. A girl falls in love with their 'exchange' student, I'm just really hoping it's not too cliche and childish, because there's definitely a risk of that. It kind of reminds me of the Lux series which I loved.

 3. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellara
 This has been dubbed as the next Perks, so I'm practically jumping out of my seat t read this. It's been on my list for months and months, and now that summer is here it's time to get my morbid on!

4. The Ring and the Crown by Melissa De La Cruz
This is another recommendation from YouTube, from my absolute favourite YouTuber PolandBanananasBooks. This book has been all over YouTube recently, but it caught my eye because its about princesses and magic. That just sells it for me really, I don't need much more!

5. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Yet again another book that is massive in the book blogging circles. My excitement has actually been dampened by a few bloggers who thought it didn't add up to the hype, so I'm praying this is good because I really want it t be. Anything that acknowledges the idea of 'Fangirling' makes me pretty happy, lets be honest.

6. A Strange Kind of Familiar by Hannah Harvey
It looks like I'm going to be a stop on this book's blog tour! I don't normally participate in book tours, but this sounded right up my street. Boy meets girl etcetc, I can dream right? Watch this space for an author interview!

7. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Do I really need to say anything?
Really?
I'm pretty sure most people have heard of this, it's been dubbed as the most cutesy book currently available. I recently read Just One Day and apparently it actually beats it, so that's why I'm anxious to read it as soon as I can!!

8. These Broken Stars by Amie Kausman and Meagan Spooner
I'm going to just put up my hands and admit that one of the sole reasons this is on my TBR list is because of the cover. That is one damn good cover. I actually don't know much about this book, other than it's like titanic in space. What more do you need t sell a book than an amazing cover and the words 'titanic in space'?

9.  We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
This book is so mysterious. I know so little about it, because the blurb gives nothing away and the bloggers I've seen talking about it literally refuse to give anything away which is SO FRUSTRATING. It makes me want to read it more though, it's like a book playing hard to get, and I like it. This was the June Booksplosion book of the month, so I'm a little behind but I'll get there eventually.





10. Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
Woah, what  is this cover? I have never seen this before and it is really.... something. I feel like I am the thirdwheel of this book cover, and the need to avert my eyes. Anyway, cover aside, I added this to my list because Abbi Glines wrote The Vincent Boys and I loved that book and her style of writing. A blogger must have spoken about it for it to be on my list, so if I remember who I will put thier link here. Basically I have no doubts this book will be superb, and an easy, fun read. I'm so excited!!!




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The Fault In Our Stars - FILM REVIEW!!!

It happened.


It finally happened.


So I was lucky enough to attend the fan screening of TFIOS, a week before it's official release. This was actually the Friday just gone, but I need some time to really decide how I feel about this book to movie adaptation.

For starters, it's quite possibly the best book to movie adaptation I've seen thus far. It's almost on par with Divergent. This is the kind of book to movie adaptation that other adaptations need to take notes from, it was genuinely that good. That did not, however, make it entirely faultless. In fact, in true Sarah style, I found many faults with this film, as good as it may have been.

Firstly, at no point in the film is the title explained. I feel like this is a very key mistake. Of course, all of us hardcore fans understand the title. But to everyone else it is just nonsense. I actually didn't notice that they had cut it out until a few days after the screening when I was just pondering over it. Since then, I have explained to at least ten people that the title comes from a Shakespeare quote. In his play Julius Caeser, Caeser says "The fault, dear brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings"

This is a key point in the story, the title make absolutely no sense to anyone because they missed out the key quote of the entire novel.

Other than that, I had no other real massive issues with the film. As a fan of the book, I was obviously very aware of all of the scenes they were cutting out (specifically the 'beautiful couple is beautiful' scene. Really? Are you trying to upset your fanbase?) but theres was little else that was important enough for me to criticize. Some aspects of the book didn't translate well into the big screen, and I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I liked neither the whole Cigarette metaphor nor the 'oblivion' speech.

I just felt like in the book they just work a lot better, and although the film is practically word for word to the book, when Gus was explaining the metaphor to Hazel it just looked weird. When you imagine it yourself it adds to his intelligent character, whereas seeing it on screen he just looks stupid. I hate to say it but it made me cringe a little.

And don't get me wrong, Ansel Elgort was the most amazing Gus they could possibly have ever chosen. He was untraditionally good looking, he played Gus absolutely perfectly and was just kind of all around perfect. However, the 'oblivion' speech in the restaurant in Amsterdam was just plain odd. The friend who came to the screening with me and I both agreed that it was his worst piece of acting, which is frustrating because it's a key scene in the plot. However, I think this is less to do with Ansel's (amazing) acting skills and more to do with content that is far too overly romantic to be easily believed when shown in a real life setting with real life people. It works in the novel, but possibly not in the film.

Getting back onto the topic of how much I love Ansel Elgort, I am minorly obsessed with him. He played Gus so ridulously well, he had his arrogance and wit down to a T, and he was just so charming and convincing. The car scene near the end genuinely broke my heart, like I genuinely held my breath for a good few minutes to stop myself from making awkward noises to accompany my heartbreak and sadness.

However, as for the scene when Hazel find out that Gus is dead, I actually didn't cry. I was too busy being distracted by the girl next to me who began wailing and sobbing hysterically the moment we knew what was coming. I couldn't concentrate on my own grief because she was crying so damn loud. Though I guess it would be fair to say that she cried for the both of us. I cant wait to buy the DVD and watch it at home so I can cry to my hearts content!!

Because it was a special screening, we were also shown the scene in which John Green plays the father of a little girl who asks Hazel about her cannula. It was so cute, and I'm so angry it got cut from the film!! I sincerely wish they release all of the deleted clips because I'm really gutted about some of the things we didn't get to see.

That's all I have to say about the film, other than of course that I absolutely loved it. Part of me is kind of hoping that another John Green book will be taken on as a film, but I am partially torn on the matter.

If you enjoyed TFIOS, another beloved book is being released as a film in the next few months and that is If I Stay by Gayle Foreman which is definitely worth a read before the film is released!

And finally, here's a photo purely for your amusement. We were all given free limited edition TFIOS posters, and when I got mine home I realised how absolutely giant it is. I texted this photo to my friend as means of demonstrating and it has made its rounds of the my friends and social networking platforms much to everyone's amusement, so I thought I would share it with you all. You're welcome, by the way.