Book Blogger Confessions #7

Book Blogger Confessions is a new bi-weekly meme hosted by Tiger @ All Consuming Books and Karen @ For What it's Worth Reviews.

Spoilers in reviews: Do you read them, do you include them? How do you describe (or avoid describing) spoilery parts of a book?

Spoilers in reviews...I loathe them, I really do. Actually I hate spoilers on books in any form (you hear that Reeshe? Stop telling 90% of everything that happens in the book when you recommend them to me). She's great with keeping it quiet in a review but when she starts talking, cover your ears! Anyway I try to avoid spoilery reviews whenever I can and thankfully if a review I come across, in the blogs I follow, have spoilers the poster is kind enough to warn me before hand. Which is what we do hear if our reviews stem into discussions. And since I hate reading reviews about spoilers (read one on a book store site the other day that told me a big twist in a book I was considering, I wanted to slit the reviewer's throat) I do not post reviews with spoilers and I'll even warn you if I'm not 100% sure if what I am posting is a spoiler.

Sometimes though there are certain books where you can hardly say anything because big things are revealed early on that you wouldn't know about unless you read the book, which makes it quite hard to discuss the book so my reviews for those tend to be shorter and just comment on writing style and characters (if I can even mention characters without spoiling you.)

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Rise of the Guardians Movie Trailer

I didn't add this onto our Movies We Can't Wait to See in 2012 list last year because there wasn't a trailer yet but now there is one now. Enjoy.

When an evil spirit hatches a plot to take over the world, the immortal Guardians join forces to protect the hopes, beliefs, and imagination of children all over the world.

I think the tooth fairy is adorable and I love the design of the sandman and Santa's tattoos. The movie looks like it's going to be pretty great.

Based on The Guardians of Childhood books by William Joyce.

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Out This Weekend - Ghost Rider 2 and A Thousand Words

I have been outnumbered and will be seeing both of these movies this weekend. Hopefully I'll like them and my weariness will be for nothing.

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Stumble Upon Songs #2

Before the WildFire Writing team allows March to end here are some songs for you to listen to.

I Remain by Alanis Morrisette

If you've seen the movie Prince of Persia - Sands of Time then you might remember this song from the ending credits.

Raising Today by Peasant

This wouldn't be the first time I've discovered a lovely song from the television series Bones. I re-watched an older episode the other day and noticed this song for the first time. Other lovely songs I have discovered on Bones would be Heartbeats by José González and Bring on the Wonder by Susan Enan featuring Sarah McLachlan.

The Golden Floor by Snow Patrol

So far I have loved everything I have heard by Snow Patrol and the sad thing is I only own a handful of their songs. This song unlike the other songs I've heard by them didn't have me instantly loving it. It actually took me listening to this on repeat and paying attention to the lyrics before I could truly appreciate it. Discovered on the play-list for Maggie Stiefvater's Linger

Have you discovered any favourite songs lately? Share them with us! Also check out the songs on our music player in the sidebar.

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Giveaway: The Iron King and The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

This Giveaway is now Closed.

Continuing on with our shelf clearing, up for grabs this week are the first two books in the The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa.






Rules:
1. To enter to win you must be 14 years old or older to enter.
2. All entries must be done through THIS FORM.
3. The 2 books will be for 1 winner.
4. This giveaway is open to the US ONLY.

DEADLINE
April 6th 2012

Giveaway Policy:

• WildFire Writing and it's contributors are not responsible for items lost or damaged in shipping or items shipped from 3rd party sponsors.
• Winners will be chosen randomly by WildFire Writing using Random.org.
• You do not have to be a follower or subscriber to participate.
• Winners will be contacted by either Sandy, Reeshe or Kitten of WildFire Writing via email.
• All books in this giveaway, unless stated otherwise, are paperbacks. 

If you are also having a giveaway this week feel free to join I am a Reader, Not a Writer's blog hop below but ONLY for BOOK and BOOK RELATED GIVEAWAYS.

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Dark Shadows Movie Trailer

Discovered by Kitten over the weekend. Enjoy :)

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better... Written by Warner Bros. Pictures

Premier Date

11 May 2012

Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, vampires. What else do you need?

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Book Review: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Anna can't wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's not too thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Étienne St. Clair, the perfect boy. The only problem? He's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her crush back home. Will a year of romantic near-misses end in the French kiss Anna awaits?

I added Anna and the French Kiss because almost everyone I knew had loved the book and had given it five stars. I was certainly surprised by this because if you read the title, look at the cover and read the synopsis it comes off as a light chick-lit read. Something to put you in a good mood for a bit but not something that would garner the amount of positive response from readers that it had received, so I picked it up.

It didn’t take me long to finish Anna and the French Kiss, it really was a quick read filled with humour, romance and charm. The main character Anna has been shipped off to boarding school in Paris for her senior year without her consent and at first she’s upset about this because she’s being pulled from the only life she knows and being forced to adapt to a new culture and make friends. However, it doesn’t take very long for Anna to find a group of friends to tag along after and soon after that it takes her even less time to become one of them especially when she instantly clicks with the beautiful Étienne St. Clair.

This novel was very much a romance and I knew that going in but I wasn’t really that much invested in it. I certainly think that both Ann and Étienne have great chemistry, the way their dialogue just flows naturally back and forth between them and the way they both just seem to understand each other but I didn’t really care if they got together and only wanted them to be together so that Anna could stop fawning over Étienne. What I really enjoyed was that the story wasn’t just about the romance; it was about Anna coming to terms with herself. Like any other normal teenage girl Anna makes mistakes and she has flaws and dreams and it was great watching her make mistakes and learn from them and grow. It was also fun to read about her new group of friends in Paris, they were all unique individuals that stood out very fresh in mind and who I wouldn’t have mind learning more about.

So I will be picking up Stephanie Perkins’ next book (Lola and the Boy next Door) which is a companion piece to this novel about a different set of characters, because I did enjoy her story even if I didn’t love it as much as everyone else.

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