The GIF booktag

The GIF booktag is one that I have been wanting to do forever, but no one actually tagged me. Well fuck that, because I’m doing it.

The GIF booktag is quite simple, someone gives you 10 books and you have to give your thoughts on it in GIFS… But since, I didn’t have anyone giving me books, I used a top ten ya books of all time list!

The hunger games – Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

The fault in our stars – John Green

Divergent – Veronica Roth

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

The mortal instruments – Cassandra Clare


But… Towards Jace I’m more like:

Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan

Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead

The lunar chronicals – Merissa Meyer

The selection – Kiera Cass

Until my next post,
Stay Nerdy!

My most anticipated book releases of 2016!

It’s going to be a new year, which means it is time for new books! With so many books coming out in 2016, I decided to make a list of my top 5 most anticipated books of 2016! These are in the order of the release date.

1. This is where it ends – Marieke Nijkamp, January 5^th 2016
   
   “This is where it ends” is a book set in a time period of 54 minutes in which it follows four different characters during a school shooting. The debut novel of Marieke Nijkamp already has lots of phrase surrounding it, like from Kirkus Reviews: “This brutal, emotionally charged novel will grip readers and leave them broken hearted”. I am exited to read about this controversial topic!
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2. Unhooked – Lisa Maxwell, February 2^nd 2016
   
   A lot of people have the wished to go to Neverland at some point in their lives, for the main character in this book this wish comes true. The story follows a girl who finds herself in Neverland, but it is nothing like the stories. Neverland is much much darker and more dangerous. Personally, this story had me hooked (so punny) at “hot pirate”. I can’t help it, the oncer in me just wants more Colin O’donoghue!
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3. The crown – Kiera Cass, May 3^rd 2016
   
   The crown is the fifth book in the bestselling “the selection” series. The dystopian series follows a girl named America Singer who grows up in poverty. But this changes when she gets the chance to enter the selection, a competition to win the crown prince’s heart. Basically this story is the bachelor royal edition with a couple of rebels that somehow keep getting into the castle (seriously, someone should do something about the security). This series is very addicting and has covers to die for (except this one)!
4. The marked girl – Lindsey Klingele, June 21^st 2016
   
   The marked girl is the first book in a new series. In this series fairytale characters fall through a portal and end up in our modern world where they meet Liv, but Liv is not what she thinks she is. It turns out she has a deep connection to the fairytale world and so the tale of them having to get home begins. Besides a amazing cover, this book caught my attention since one of my favorite tv shows ever involves fairytale characters ending up in our world (once upon a time). Although I suspect this book has more a Disney’s “Enchanted” kind of feeling.
5. Heartless – Merissa Meyer, November 8^th 2016
   
   The last book on this list might be the book I am most exited for. Heartless is a new stand alone by best selling author Merissa Meyer. The book is a retelling of Alice in Wonderland and tells the story of The queen of hearts before she became the evil queen we all know. I am exited for this for multiple reasons. First of all, I love the way Meyer rewrote fairytales in her previous series “The Lunar chronicles” in which she rewrote Cinderella, Little red riding hood, Rapunzel and Snow white. She is a master in taking well known stories and making them her own. The other reason that I am insanely exited about this book is because Alice in Wonderland is my favorite story in history and I am super exited to see Meyers take on it!

Until next time,
Stay nerdy!

Hunger games characters vs mental illness

Last Sunday I went to see Mockingjay part 2 and I was originally planning on writing a movie review. But then I discovered this week is mental health week.
I decided to work with that, since it is a big topic in the books and the movies. So here is a list of characters and what mental health issue(s) they are facing.

Katniss Everdeen
Let’s be honest, Katniss goes through quite some shit in the books/movies. She sees more traumatic events in three years than most people would see in their entire lives. This has to effect her in some ways. Katniss most likely has PTSD since she suffers from flashback to her games as well as nightmares. Besides this she probably also suffers from depression. She thinks she is useless, blames herself for about everything, hates being around people and is constantly sad.

Finnick O’dair
Finnick is probably the easiest character to look over as it comes to mental health issues since he always puts up a smile and helps everyone. But the signs of serious depression are there.
Finnick first entered and won the hunger games at the age of 14 and after that he was a mentor, having to send kids into a certain death every year. He also was forced into prostitution and is basically a rape victim.
Finnick shows some serious signs of depression as he is known to have suicidal tendencies and he almost lost his shit when Annie was captured by the Capitol. The only thing that kept him “sane” was tying knots, sometimes until his hands bled. Yeah, I would categorize that as self harm.

Annie Cresta
Despite there being a lot of mentally ill characters in the hunger games, Annie is described as “the crazy one”. (Sounds a bit offensive and hypocrite to me, but that’s just my opinion.) Annie’s problems show in a way that sometimes she closes her eyes and covers her ears for no reason, she laughs at inappropriate moments without a clear cause and she sometimes stares lifelessly into nothing. The only person that is able to calm her down is her boyfriend Finnick.
Her problems started after she won a hunger games by being to only person who could swim when the arena flooded, but not before she watched a friend be beheaded. Ever since that moment, she has been very mentally unstable.

Until my next post,
Stay Nerdy!