Catching Fire Movie REVIEW

Wow.

This is what happens when you stay true to the book. It becomes a masterpiece. Mr. Lawrence get that (Other directors, TAKE NOTE).
The movie was more than what I expected, a little bit slow in the beginning like the book, but after maybe 40 min things started to heat up. There isn't so much to say about the story other than that they painted everything up better than Picasso could ever do, But what I really want to discuss is the environment.
The districts.
The capitol.
The Arena.
Just about every special scene in the book.
Was made so perfectly.

Everything was pretty much perfect, How the whole world was created just took my breath, away, you can almost SEE the money they put down floating around on the big screen hehe. But as they say, Life is nothing without the different characters we meet. Just as this movie would be nothing without all the actors/characters. I cannot express in words how satisfied I am with the acting. They did ALL an amazing job, the chemistry between Josh/Peeta and Jennifer/ Katniss was very realistic, maybe because they are really good friends irl, I don't know. My favorite new character must be Finnick (Sam Claflin) I loved him in the book too, so I did ave high expectations, I knew that it would be hard to play that characters, beause he IS  deep person, he just doesn't show that, but at the same time we all knew it. Does that make any sense? Probably not. Anyway, Sam did a really great job playing Finick I think, and I'm very excited to see him in Mocking Jay part 1!

xoxo Lihini

'Teenbookalover'' mer än bara mitt bloggnamn / 'Teenbookalover' more than just my name.

Teenbookalover. That's me. That's my blog. That's what readers call me.

I was going to discuss my blog name a bit today, given that I know there are some people who wonder, "why Teenbookalover? '.

Quite honestly? Just then, it had no meaning at all, I just needed a blog name. Because Teen Booklover already used it had to be Teenbookalover. I think it was destiny because Teenbookalover sounds better than Teenbooklover in my opinion, it sits better on my tongue haha.

The more days that passed, the more I realized that the name fits me perfectly. I'm thinking like this, I'm a teenager, and is like any other teenager anywhere, with my own "teenage problems" which I usually write about. Or yes, I turn my mistakes into lessons of inspiration.
Book. You hear it yourself, I love books, I wanted to blog about books, simple as that.
Lover. The word that binds Teen and Book. I love both. With all my heart.
Together - Teenbookalover.

My blog will never ever JUST be about books. My blog is also my sanctuary, where I can tell you what I have managed at the gym, my goal, to tell you about my weekend, how much I love school (or hate) etc etc. Of course, 90% always be about books but my blog would not be mine if it were not for the whole, therefore, does the remaining 10% mean a lot to me.

I think that's the biggest reason behind why I made this blog. There was no blog out there who talked about other stuff than books. Sure books take a big place in my heart, but I'm so much more, and I want my blog to show that. I know how weird it can be not knowing the person behind the screen lol.

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Teenbookalover. That's me. That's my blog. That's what readers call me.

Jag tänkte diskutera mitt bloggnamn lite idag, med tanke på att jag vet att det finns några människor som undrat, "varför just Teenbookalover?".

Helt ärligt? Just då hade det ingen betydelse alls, jag behövde bara ett bloggnamn. Eftersom att Teenbooklover redan användes fick det bli Teenbookalover. Det låter lite bättre kan jag även tycka nu lite i efterhand. Anyway.

Ju fler dagar som gått desto mer har jag insett att namnet passar mig perfekt. Jag tänker såhär, Jag är en tonåring, och är som vilken annan tonåring som helst, med mina egna "tonårsproblem" vilket jag brukar skriva om. Eller ja, jag vänder mina misstag och mina lärdomar till inspiration.
Book. Ni hör ju själva. Jag älskar böcker, jag ville blogga om böcker, simple as that.
Lover. Ordet som binder fast Teen och Book. Jag älskar båda delarna. Av hela mitt hjärta.
Tillsammans - Teenbookalover.

Min blogg kommer aldrig någonsin BARA handla om böcker. Min blogg är även min fristad, där jag kan berätta för er vad jag har klarat av på gymmet, mina mål, berätta om min helg, hur mycket jag älskar skolan (eller hatar) etc etc. Självklart kommer 90 % alltid vara om böcker men min blogg skulle inte vara min om det inte vore för helheten, därför betyder de resterande 10 % väldigt mycket för mig.

Det var nog även därför jag skaffade just denna blogg, det fanns ingen blogg som jag kände var som min. Alla var så himla inriktade på böcker, man kände liksom inte personen bakom datorn.

xoxo Lihini

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares REVIEW

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.” 

By David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
Pages: 260
Publisher:  Knopf Books

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors ofNick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

The snow is falling outside our hotel-room.
The TV is showing the Idol finale (on mute ofc ugh...) 

And in my hands I'm holding this beautiful book. 'Dash and Lily's Book of Dares'
I absolutely loved this because of five reasons. 

1. The Christmas feeling this book gives. If you are like me and LOVE this time of the year aka CHRISTMAS TIME you'll love this book. Im serious. Love. 

2. Dash and Lily are so smart, I'm talking The fault in our stars smart, and that's saying something. 

3. The red notebook. I really don't have to say more. 

4. The writing style. This book is written by David Levithan AND Rachel Cohn and as a reader I can really see that the collaboration went well, the writing style doesn't change the way it can went it's duo authors, everything is very smooth. 

5. They are both book nerds. I don't know about you, but when I read about characters who loves books just as much as me I get ecstatic because I can really RELATE to that love.

6. The book is H I L A R I O U S. I laughed so much while eading this book, didn't matter that I was sitting on a bus with people around me, I just couldn't stop laughing. I bow down to the authors. Well done!


xoxo Lihini

Lindsay Cummings - the new IT author?

Hi loves! You doing okay? I myself am doing quite well, I'm in a hotel at the moment 2 hours from home because my mum decided that she needed to 'relax'.... so here I am. In a hotel somewhere in Sweden.

You might not be familiar with the name Lindsay Cummings, so let me introduce you guys to her.
Well I'm too lazy to use my own words so I'll just copy a paragraph from her blog.

"Lindsay loves YA books, especially the dark ones, and wants every girl in the world to know that Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead is HER man, and they should kindly back off :)

Lindsay owns two German shepherds,one wolf cub who isn't very smart, a real live Budweiser draft horse named Dan the Man, and a silly little quarter horse named Clue. Lindsay collects weapons, loves to shoot her guns, eats too many Hot Cheetos, and can't stop dying her hair crazy colors. She's still waiting on her letter from Hogwarts--it was probably just lost in the mail. She loves Jesus Christ and believes all of her success is His doing! She's married to an amazing man named Josh, who is pretty sexy, if you ask her."

Lindsay is coming out with her debut book next year in June, 'The Murder Complex' which is a dystopian book (but more about her upcoming books later). 

Her first book haven't even been published yet but every YA book blogger out there knows who she is and talks about her all the time. 

Including me. She is funny, smart, young, talented, beautiful, and most importantly; she's a fangirl. 

HarperCollins bought her book so they will be publishing it next year, having a publisher like Harper will help her A lot since they are crazy famous. 

Being this pre-famous as she is I would think she have a lot of pressure on herself. No one have ever read her work before, all they have to judge on is the blurb of her upcoming book. What if the book sucks? Things will probably go downhill if that's the case.

But to be honest I don't think it will suck. Not at all. She seeems like this author who just CAN'T write anything bad. 

If things go good her book will become well known in a matter of moment's, because that's what book bloggers do. We put great and bad books under the spotlight. 

Lindsay, you have a tough road in front of you, enjoy it and live it to the fullest. We believe in you. I believe in you. 

Your mind is not your own..

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.

The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is—although he doesn’t know it—one of the MC’s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?

Contact her
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xoxo Lihini

xoxo Lihini

We Accept the Love we Think we Deserve - Stephen Chbosky

7. My favorite book characters.

How are you guys? I'm doing just fine at the moment, went to the salon to get my legs waxed today and it felt like I was being bitten by mini hell-hounds. Apparently it hurts more if your legs are used to shaving. U learn something new everyday.

My number one all time favorite character is

Tris Prior from Divergent.
She reminds me so much of myself it's scary. I look up to her a lot, we have been trough a lot of similar stuff and often think 'what would Tris do' when I need guidance.












Augustus Waters from The Fault in our Stars.
Where should I even begin? He is so smart, charming, handsome, tall, reader, and.... smart. I have a thing for smart guys ok. And not guys who just do well in school but guys who question everything. Like Augustus. He is a interesting character and very unpredictable. That's what I like the most abut him; that he's unpredictable.
But at the same time he is this gorgeous caring person who'd do anything for the people he loves. He is honest and is not afraid to say what he really feels. Why can't more people be like him?
One day i'll find you Augustus Waters. you will be inside a human body and probably go under a different name but I'll find you. And you and I will be friends forever.




Magnus Bane from The Infernal Devices and The Mortal Instruments. 
Because he is the sassiest warlock out there who lives every day to the fullest even though he is immortal. Now if a Immortal hot guy can do that, then why the hell can't we mortals do that? It's are time thats precious! :)
 











xoxo Lihini

Goodreads CHOICE AWARDS 2013 winners announced!

The wait and the voting is over, the winners have be chosen, almost TWO MILLION people voted. Are you guys ready? Here are the winners

1. Fiction 2.Mystery & Thriller 3. Historical Fiction 4. Fantasy

5. Paranormal Fantasy 6. Science fiction 7. Romance 8. Horror

9 Memoir & autobiography 10. History & biology 11. Nonfiction 12. Food & Cookbooks

13. Humor 14. Graphic Novels & Comics 15. Poetry 16. Debut Goodreads Author

17. YA 18. YA Fantasy 19. Middle Graders & Children's 20. Picture book

The only one I'm really angry about is YA fantasy winner. Allegiant really? When it was up against CLOCKWORK PRINCESS? Geez people, Allegiant got nothing on CP2....

xoxo Lihini

Wild Cards REVIEW

By Simone Elkeles
Pages: 342
Publisher: Walker Books

After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek’s counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else’s family drama.

Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek—someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?

And she have done it again. 
Simone Elkeles does this all the time, she leave me with no words!
Her books are easy to read but they are yet so powerful and strong, the way she writes is just magic.
She manages to make ME feel what the characters feel, every single time. It's like it's happening to me, and to be able to do that is what I call skills. Knowing how to use the alphabet.


Wild Cards was so heartwarming, so beautiful and just oooh so perfect. I fell in love with the narrators after 20 pages in, they just captured my heart without warning the way her characters always does. 
Simone Elkeles books really show that just because the book is easy to read and fun doesn't mean it can't be emotional at the same time. I really like that.

I got this book from Simone Elkeles herself as a 'get well' gift, because my friend Linnea told her about my surgery, and  after that she contacted me via facebook. To be able to say "my favorite author cares about me, she is my friend" is just so surreal. She is the the most nicest author out there, no questions 
about that <3

xoxo Lihini

New Releases of the Month: December

IT'S DECEMBER PEOPLE IT'S DECEMBER!!!!!!!!

I know that not all of my followers celebrate Christmas, I'm not Christian but we celebrate it anyway, because it's such a nice holiday :)

 

 

If you, like me can't wait for christmas I sugges that you read my blogpost "I can Feel the Christmas: Winter reads and Other Stuff"

 

With that said, let's continue

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Control (Control #1)

By Lydia Kang

Genre: Dystopia

Publication date: December 26th, Dial Books

 

When a crash kills their father and leaves them orphaned, Zel knows she needs to protect her sister, Dyl.

 

But before Zel has a plan, Dyl is taken by strangers using bizarre sensory weapons, and Zel finds herself in a safe house for teens who aren’t like any she’s ever seen before—teens who shouldn't even exist.

 

Using broken-down technology, her new friends’ peculiar gifts, and her own grit, Zel must find a way to get her sister back from the kidnappers who think a powerful secret is encoded in Dyl’s DNA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options

By Abbi Glines

Genre: YA

Publication date: December 5th

 

Two paths.
Two completely different roads.
Each one standing before me.
Each one holding a different destiny.

In life you're just supposed to choose one path.
In life you're not given the chance at choosing one specific future.

Until now.
Until me.

Why am I different? I don't know. But I'm going to see those roads and walk down each one. When it's over I'll know which one to choose because I'll know my - options

 

 

 

 

Snakeroot (Night Legacy #1)

By Andrea Cremer

Genre: YA

Publication date: December 10th, Philomel

 

Fans asked for it, and now they've got it! Andrea Cremer is continuing the story she began in in her internationally bestselling trilogy: Nightshade, Wolfsbane and Bloodrose.

 

 In this new installment, Bosque Mar haunts the dreams of both Adne and Logan, trying to escape for the Nether, where Calla, Shay and the other Guardians trapped him in the final battle in the War of All Against All. Will he turn Adne to the dark side? Will Logan reclaim his birthright? And will darkness take over our world? 

 

In a novel filled with magic, romance and breakneck action, master storytelling Andrea Cremer's newest installment will not disappoint!

 

 

 

 

 

The Promise of Amazing

By Robin Constantine

Genre: Contemporary

Publication date: December 30th, Balzer + Bray

 

Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she’s not popular, but not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet, “good” girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now in her junior year, this passive strategy is backfiring. She wants to change, but doesn’t know how.

Grayson Barrett was the king of St. Gabe’s. Star of the lacrosse team, top of his class, on a fast track to a brilliant future—until he was expelled for being a “term paper pimp.” Now Gray is in a downward spiral and needs to change, but doesn’t know how.

One fateful night their paths cross when Wren, working at her family’s Arthurian-themed catering hall, performs the Heimlich on Gray as he chokes on a cocktail weenie, saving his life literally and figuratively. What follows is the complicated, awkward, hilarious, and tender tale of two teens shedding their pasts, figuring out who they are—and falling in love.

 

 

 

 

 

Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements (0.5)

By Jennifer L. Armentrout

Genre: YA

Publication date: December 1th, Harlequin teen

 

Dez wasn't just Jasmine's crush. A gargoyle Warden like Jas, he helped her come to terms with her destiny—fending off demons and maintaining balance between good and evil. He was her everything...right until the moment he disappeared without a trace. It didn't help that Jas's father had just announced that she and Dez would one day be mated. Hard not to take that personally.

And now he's back, three years older, ten times hotter, ready to pick up exactly where they left off. But Jas isn't taking that risk again. Dez has seven days to meet all her conditions and earn back her trust. Seven days filled with terrifying danger and sweet temptation. Seven days to win her heart—or shatter it all over again...

 

 

 

xoxo Lihini