Part 3 of our Hollywood audition series for YA books is finally here after some delay. We have a treat for you guys starting from the actor who could play Duncan Dorfman in The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman to who could be the Norse demigod Magnus Chase. Cheers! “The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman” by Meg Wolitzer What fingertips I…
Category: YA Novels
Hollywood audition: Actors who should play the lead in film adaptation of these popular young adult books (Part 2)
Part 2 of our Hollywood audition job (sort of) is here, this time we’re looking for actors who would play the part of Leonard Peacock in, of course, “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”, the introspective cartoonist Josh in “Isla and the Happily Ever After” and four other more lead characters in these popular (or not so popular) YA books….
Hollywood audition: Actors who should play the lead in film adaptation of these popular young adult books (Part 1)
We can’t wait for the film adaptations of these young adult novels so we took it upon ourselves to cast the lead characters of these books from Tom Holland (the new Spiderman guy) as Colin Singleton (read on so you’ll know who we casted as Hassan Harbish) to Zac Efron (yep, I know) as “A”…
Top Books Look Back (Part 3): The Indian stories of good and evil gods in “Ceremony” and navigating the maze in “The Battle of the Labyrinth”
Our Top Books Look Back series of articles is back this week . For our third part of the series, we’re taking a look back to the top books of 2010. In case you missed it, we’re revisiting the book titles which made up our top list for the past ten years. Some of them…
THE BOOMERANG SERIES
Noelle August William Morrow Paperbacks, 2014/2015 “And I don’t know if life’s a map With all the directions gone, Or if it’s a lantern that you Have to keep switched on…” I delayed writing the review of these books because I decided to finish the series first before doing so. It turned out that the…
THE ANATOMY OF A MISFIT
Andrea Portes HarperCollins Publishers, 2000 “Ceaseless. Almost too much for this small frame. You make me part of the sky.” RATING: 4 out of 5 stars FINALLY, A YA NOVEL for the popular girls. Andrea Portes’ The Anatomy of a Misfit chronicles the story of a popular girl, a complete departure to our protagonists which…
The Top Ten Stories in the 21 Proms (A 21 Proms Book Review; or at least reviews of the 10 stories in that book)
Scholastic, 2015 RATING: 4 out of 5 Imagine attending in a school where Geeks are the superstars and those students who flunk their subjects are treated the way we treat LeBron James when Stephen Curry is around, setting NBA regular season record wins and winning the championship. Yep, that is where I come from, and…
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes Penguin Books, 2012 “I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in (this chair), all you have are the places in your memory that you can go to.” RATING: 4.25 out of 5 Okay first things first: The guy chose to die in the end. Sorry…
Another Day
Another Day David Levithan Knopf, 2015 “He will always know what I look like. I will never know what he looks like.” Rating: 3.5/5 stars The story of A and Rhiannon lives on in this new book of David Levithan. (I know I need to post this review as soon as possible so here we…
How to Love
How to Love Katie Cotugno Quercus Editions Ltd, 2013 “Is that a methapor? Do you want it to be?” Rating: 2.5/5 stars From a girl you want to strangle in the neck with a baguette in 99 Days we go to a pitiful, ala Princess Sarah girl in this new book of Katie Cotugno. Like…
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