Showing posts with label tfios. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tfios. Show all posts

7.14.2014

INTERNET FRIENDS PART 1

Nowadays, Internet is a big part of people lives, specially teenagers'. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, (and Blogspot of course!)... However old you are, you've certainly heard these names and visited at least once all these sites. Obviously, these social networks help you staying in touch with your friends, discovering new artists and staying updated with information of those you already love. But there is one thing all these sites allow you I haven't mentioned yet: meeting new people
Remember when your parents told you "don't talk to strangers on the internet"? Haha, bullshit. You did it anyway. What a thug life! Sometimes you bump into people you'll only talk to a few times but sometimes, you meet people you consider as real friends and distance only becomes an easy obstacle to cross. 
In my case, I met a few people in both categories but in the second one, there are particularly two people I think of and last week I saw one of them for the second time. Indeed, Maëlle (it's a French name haha) came over for a few days and I decided to share a little part of our week with you.


We took these photos in a photo booth the day she left. We took six and could only choose two so it was hard to pick out those we liked the most but actually I think both of them are great. 
The same day, we also went shopping, and I bought some cute things I'll probably show you soon (at the end of the summer!). We had lunch in a restaurant and I ordered fish n'chips (with rice instead of chips odd isn't it?). It was quite tasty even if I didn't liked the salad because I hate salad sauce more than anything! For dessert, I had a crepe, I didn't take any photograph of it because it wasn't particularly pretty so I thought it was useless to post it haha. Instead, I show you my mom's best friend's dessert which is a coffee with creme brulee, vanilla ice cream and madeleines. It's pretty, colourful, and seemed to taste good. 


The day before, I showed her the "town" I live in (i don't really know if it's considered as a town it's kinda small haha) and we hung Ed Sheeran's posters everywhere so people get to know him. I don't think it worked though since most of them were ripped off...However, it was great to share my love for this guy with the few people who saw it. Of course, while doing it, we were listenning to his new album X (I'll write a post about it as soon as possible). We actually spent the week listening to his and Nina Nesbitt's albums and even now that she left I can't stop playing them. The third photo was taken the same day. After finishing to hang all the posters we had, we went to a little park and there is Maëlle doing weird stuff while she's sat in the swing. 
Finally, the last photo was taken the last day. Indeed, while waiting in the train station, we saw this poster of the TFIOS movie which hasn't come out in France yet. (I wrote about the book and you can read it right here!) It was not something really important but I didn't expect to see Shailene and Ansel's cute faces so why not sharing them with you? haha 


Maëlle stayed 4 days so I only showed a little part of the time we spent together. Quite a long part of what I didn't show is related to One Direction and Nina and Ed's relationship so I SWEAR it's okay if I don't talk about it haha. 
Anyway, I'll see her again in February...AND THE SAME DAY I'LL SEE ED FUCKING SHEERAN DO YOU HEAR ME CRYING?....


SEE YA IN FEBRUARY FOR PART 2 DARLINGS


Oh, and now I know all 5sos members' faces and names omg aren't you proud of me?
Because I am.


J.

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6.22.2014

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS REVIEW

I found this photo here
(I read it on my computer so I can not take a photo sorreeh)


After spending more than a year hearing everyone talking about how "incredible", "wonderful", "amazing", etc., that book was, I FINALLY READ THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. It was really important for me to read the book before watching the movie (it came out on June the 6th in the USA but only comes out on August(us haha i'm so funny) the 20th in France). So, after three days of almost non-stop reading, I can finally tell you... IT'S ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ. I'm literally speechless.
First of all, if you haven't read the book (I hope you have though), here's a (very) little summary:



Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.



To be honest, when I finished the first chapter I wasn't really enthusiastic because the relationship between the two main characters (Hazel and Augustus) was moving too fast in my opinion. However, as I continued to read, all my senses slowly started to develop through Hazel and Augustus adventures and I couldn't think about anything else but reading. Chapter after chapter, everything on my mind was TFIOS related.

There is particularly one character I wanted to talk about in this review: Isaac.
People who know me know that I have this awful habit to get incredibly attached to minor characters (Isaac isn't what you could call a minor character though) in any kind of tvshow, movie or book. So, naturally, I have loved Isaac the minute he met Hazel for the first time and I was moved by his story although I was sad we hadn't the chance to know more about him.


Obviously, Isaac wasn't the only character I fell in love with. Let's take a minute to talk about Augustus Walters, okay? Okay. (heeey see what I did here). At first, he seems like the eternal bad boy all flirty and stuff but slowly we discover what his disease made him go through which makes everyone love him even more. In my point of view, his weakness is one of the most beautiful and rough thing about the entire book.
These imperfections in the characters make them real, we can easily relate to them thanks to their weakness and it's one of the things I liked the most in the book.



I also liked the book for his originality. It is not the happy-ending kind of book; the end is surprising and unexpected. Furthermore, cancer is one of the most expanded diseases in the world and it's important to me that people discuss it, that it doesn't become a taboo as AIDS was before and, somehow, still is.

Anyway, I hope you'll read the book if you haven't yet and you'll enjoy it as much as I did. I'm looking forward to watching the movie and I may do a review to tell you what I thought of it.



Love, 

J.

PS: If you haven't read the book yet, DO IT. PLEASE.