Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
4 Books To Read Before They Hit The Big Screen
1. Divergent by Veronica Roth. Movie Release Date: March 21, 2014.
2. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Movie Release Date: June 6, 2014.
3. The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Movie Release Date: September 19, 2014.
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Movie Release Date: October 3, 2014.
Six years...
But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life—a time he has never gotten over—is turned completely inside out.
As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart—and who lied to him—soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.
Harlan Coben once again delivers a shocking page-turner that deftly explores the power of past love and the secrets and lies that such love can hide.
HOT TOPIC
BBC's top 100 books:
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Friday, March 28, 2014
Khaled Hosseini
"A brave, honorable, big-hearted book." - The Washington Post.
And indeed The Washington Post was not mistaken! The Kite Runner is one of our favorite books. It is simply exquisite!!! We believe this book needs to be exclusively read by adults, since it has some tough content to take in. The book narrates a spectacular fictional story, set in Afghanistan, of love and friendship twisted with tragedy and betrayal. It gavr us a renewed compassion to help those around us. This is an amazing book.
The boy who lived
The seven book series about a young British wizard named Harry Potter and his extraordinary adventures when fighting against evil have been widely read worldwide. These books, worshipped by most young kids and enjoyed by many adults, while telling the story of "The boy who lived" have many life lessons to teach making it even worthier of prestige. If you haven't enjoyed them yet, read them!!! We guarantee you will love them. If you want any additional info about J.K. Rowling you can access: www.jkrowling.com/es.
"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies." J.K. Rowling
Love, Rosie
Wow!!! We have a wonderful surprise for all of you young readers. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern will be soon turned into a movie! Lily Collins and Sam Claflin will be starring and though there is no official release date yet it is expected to be released sometime in 2014. I hope ypu are all as excited as we are, to have such a romantic book turned into a film. If you haven't read it, we highly recommend you to do so!
Thursday, March 27, 2014
We want to thank all of those who made it to our first bookworm reunion at Vie de France!! We definitely enjoyed talking about our recent readings. We are glad to invite you all to our second meeting next Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 6:00 am at the same place. We hope you all try to make it. DONT MISS OUT!!
Love, your favorite bookworms.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Hello there Bookworms!!!
Friday, March 7, 2014
Getting Started
We will begin our blogging with one of our favorite books: Half Magic. Written by the talented author Edward McMaken Eager, this book talks about four children who find a magical penny that grants them their wishes in a peculiarly fun kind of way. We recommend this book for all of our mighty readers, specially for the younger ones!
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