In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, she makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls… There she meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the Fire Demon, with whom she agrees a pact. But Sophie isn’t the only one under a curse – her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl, and Michael, and her quest to break her curse is both gripping – and howlingly funny!
Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook Publication Date: April 14th, 1986 Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books Country: USA ISBN: 0007299265 Original Language: English Age Group: New Adult Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Fairytale Source: My bookshelf! Buy the Book: Amazon Lootability: The book that set off a thousand raiders!
A semi-regular (when I have time) segment on books that made it to the big screen.
This week I checked out the pilot of The Lying Games based on the series of the same name written by Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard.
I've gotboth Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Games in my to-read and to-watch piles, and started with The Lying Games because January is my debut and new release month and the TV series is only 11 episodes or so in. The last two books of the four book series are due out this year as well!
Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard
"I had a life anyone would kill for.Then someone did.The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet. Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move? From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thePretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences. Let the lying game begin."
The Lying Game
created by Sara Shepard
I haven't had a chance to read this yet, but a review will be popping up during the week sometime (I have a few days to myself). I watched the TV series pilot this morning and there appear to be some serious differences between the two.
For starters, in the book (according to the blurb and reviews) Sutton has been murdered and Emma chooses to take her place. In the TV show, Sutton finds out she has a twin sister, gets in contact with her, and convinces Emma to take her place while she searches for their biological parents.
The show is interesting, and I'll definitely keep up with it (for now) but I'm more excited to see how Shepard manages Sutton's POW in the book. It can't be easy to write a dead protagonist in a non-supernatural novel. I'm also dying to know how each mystery turns out: the identity of Sutton's murderer (novel) and; who kept the girls apart, and why (TV)?
I succeeded in reading 200 books this year; in fact, I'm close to 250 with a few days to go. Unfortunately, due to responsibilities at home, at uni and at work I didn't manage to review even a quarter of them. I think I gave up around the 50ish mark. In fact, I haven't published much since March.
Pathetic, I know. I'm definitely going to keep the blog going next year. It has been a real asset and helped me get a 6 month internship with a Melbourne based Women's magazine. So, in order to keep my writing skills up to date, I will be creating a review schedule.
My NYE resolution will not be to read a certain number of books (and kill it) but to post regularly and with more variety. 2012 will start on a Sunday and so will my posting schedule.
Sunday: Weekly Review
Monday: In My Mailbox
Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday
Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday
Thursday: Rest
Friday: From Page to Screen
Saturday: Rest
I'll hopefully be posting some early reviews of ARC's and participating in blog tours, but I need to work on my blog first. It will be undergoing some renovations in the next few weeks as I get my brother to do some design work.
Something else I'll be introducing will be monthly genres. Each month will have a theme and the reviews will reflect that theme. I might post a few extra reviews, but it means I won't be as overloaded trying to catch up. I only have four reviews to stick to a month. Here's the monthly schedule:
This year Raiding Bookshelves will have a new format. At least four reviews a month, published every sunday. Each month will have it's own genre.
I will also be publishing extra reviews on soon to be released ARCS.
January - Debut Authors
February - Romance and Bodice Rippers
March - Dystopian
April - Young Adult and General Fiction
May - Fantasy
June - Jane Austen and Regency
July - Adventure
August - Action and Thriller
September - Science Fiction
October - Non-fiction and biographical
November - Fables, fairy tales and mytholoy
December - Picture books and Children's literature
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and enjoy your New Years Eve.
Film and Television adaptations of our favourite stories
As most people know Lionsgate Entertainment have the rights to produce The Hunger Games movie and they recently announced who they have cast as Katniss!
The lucky girl is Jennifer Lawrence who appeared in The Winter Bone (2010) and will be appearing in The Beaver(2011), Like Crazy (2011) and X-men: First Class (2011). I haven't seen her on screen yet but Suzanne Collins has thrown her support behind Lawrence who is excited to have landed the role.
I stumbled across this Hunger Games short produced by Mainstay Productions. Katniss and Rue features Danielle Chuchran as Katniss and a girl named Savannah Kylie Lewis as Rue. The girls do a fantastic job acting out this particular scene and I would have loved to see them take on the roles in a movie length adaptation. So this is for entertainment purposes only and has nothing to do with the Lionsgate film.
Film and Television adaptation of our favourite stories
Introducing a new segment! Created to celebrate the release of the new Jane Eyre film (2011) released on March 11 (in the U.S) From Page To Screen is a new segment dedicated to checking out adaptations of our favourite books. Since Jane Eyre doesn't come out in Australia until August (that's a five month difference!) I will start with a class: Pride and Prejudice.
