I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

(5/5) stars !!


for the book summary click here


"heartbreaking, suspenseful, life-affirming, magical and yet unlike anything I've ever read" - Gayle Forman author of If I Stay and Where She went








This book, this book ! should be on everyone's to-read list okay ? 

This book simply had everything, suspense , romance , heartworming scenes , people you wanna punch (his father) and people you want to hug (Sam and riddle), but for those of you who hate contemporary romance don't worry this book is not you average romance novel it's way more then that and also the romance doesn't take a lot of the story it concentrates more on family , sam and riddle's struggles and the incredibly loving bell family.

I'd even recommend this book to Laila who hates contamporary romance.

throughout reading I'll Be There i felt all kinds of emotion , I smiled , I cried (mentally, I don't cry from books I cry inside ) , I even shouted things like : "No!" "they can't!" "mom! how could they do this ?!" and also some "awww" and finally a lot of :

“For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.” 



I'll Be There is one of those books that make you see the world in a new light , make you proud to be a bookworm because you had the privilege of reading such a master piece.

Characters:

Sam: can anyone be more carrying for his little brother then him? defiantly not.

Riddle: ADORABLE ! I really felt like crying because of him a lot of times and also i wanted to hug him too

Emily: I think I was so in-love with sam and riddle that I didn't concentrate with Emily that much but she wasn't annoying.

Debbie Bell & Tim Bell : such big hearted people *happy tears*

Bobby Elis : This boy ! he just got on my nerves from the begging I knew he was up to no good.

Clarence : Aka: john smith..........YOU! you took #1 top asshole of a father prize from Grant Cooper (from North of Beautiful) 


Do you understand how good it is now, go read it.

QOTD: What book gave you a book hangover? 

Where you can find it in Egypt?
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The Fault in Our Stars Movie Review

5/5 Stars

I actually want to give this movie ALL OF THE STARS (Get it? Of course you get it. I'm hilarious!)

If you haven't heard of The Fault on Our Stars, you're lying. You must be sick of every single teenage girl around you going on and on AND ON about it ALL THE DAM TIME! (Sorry, couldn't help the PJO reference hehe) But let me say this, this book and its movie are definitely worth the hype.

After waiting what seemed like an eternity for the movie to come out here in Egypt, and going to the cinema to find all the tickets for the movie sold out the first time I tried (I had to book tickets on the phone in advance to find seats) I finally saw this masterpiece of a movie. 

So I read The Fault in Our Stars a while back ( you can check out Farah's review here) and I absolutely loved it. John Green is a gift from the gods! So naturally, I was expecting a good movie, but I was a little bit skeptic because YA book-to-movie adaptations have been pretty depressing lately (Beautiful Creatures, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, to name a few) So what a joy it was to finally have a book-to-movie adaptation live up to, or even exceed, my expectations. 

The acting was better than anything I could have wished for. The insanely talented Shailene Woodley proved once again that there isn't a role she can play less than flawlessly. She WAS Hazel. And the precious Ansel Elgort mastered the part of every girl's favorite amputee, Augustus Waters. He was funny, he was cocky, he was dreamy, and he shattered my heart into a million pieces. Nat Wolff was incredible as Isaac, though I do wish he had more screen time. Laura Dern and Sam Trammell portrayed Hazel's parents so beautifully they brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion. (Everything in this movie made me cry, but that's beside the point) And Willem Dafoe managed to make me hate Van Houten more than I already did, which is no easy feat, so a round of applause to this great man. Long story short, this movie had the perfect cast.

The movie was almost exactly the same as the book! Of course, there were some slight alterations and omissions, but the changes weren't really that relevant. The plot was the same, and most of the lines were taken straight from the book, so as a huge fan, I was satisfied (I wish they hadn't cut John Green's cameo, though, because I definitely would've freaked out right in the middle of the cinema!) To fellow TFIOS fans, please, please don't be one of those annoying people who say, "It was good, but the book was better!" Movies are not books, they're an entirely different thing, so don't expect a movie to ever turn out better than the book, it's just not possible (except maybe with The Notebook.)

Before I went to see this movie, I was told that the movie wouldn't make me cry as much as I'd expect to. THAT WAS A LIE! I sobbed so hard I got a headache, and I wasn't the only one. All of the people who went in to see The Fault in Our Stars (95% of whom were teenage girls, by the way) came out weeping. After the movie, the bathroom was full of girls trying to fix their makeup after making their mascara run down their face from all the crying. 

Josh Boone did a terrific job directing this movie. Actually, everyone who was involved in this movie did an outstanding job. John Green must be proud! 

If you haven't seen this movie yet, then go buy all the tissue boxes in the store (they still won't be enough) and go see it right this instant. You'll be emotionally unstable afterwards, but it'll be totally worth it. Okay?

QOTD: What is the worst, most horrifically terrible book-to-movie adaptation you've ever seen? 

For me, it's probably Beautiful Creatures. That movie was so atrocious, it made me want to stab my eye with a fork!