Favorites from 2014!

Happy new year! 

To look back on 2014, I am doing a post about my favorite books/movies/music from 2014. For this blogpost, it’s not important if the books (for example) are written in 2014, it is important if I have read them in 2014. The same goes for the movies and the music :)

So, let’s begin with the books. 

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I’d like to start off with The Fault In Our Stars. What a wonderful book! This is definitely one of my favorite books ever.

I also read the Divergent series last year; divergent, insurgent & allegiant. Though I don’t quite like the ending of allegiant, I still love the series. It’s a good combination of love & “adventure”. 

Last summer, I read The Carrie Diaries & Summer And The City. I loved both of them. They’re not extremely special or anything, but just nice books to read when you’re bored :) 

Lastly I want to mention City Of Bones, the first book from The Mortal Instruments. I’m not recommending the whole series just yet, since I haven’t even finished the second book, but I’m pretty sure I will when I’ve read all of them. It took me a while to really get “into” City Of Bones, but when I did, I couldn’t stop reading. 

So, let’s get to the movies! :)

My favorite Disney movies last year were Frozen and Tangled. I actually liked Tangled even a little bit more than Frozen to be honest. Tangled is from 2010 or something like that, but I hadn’t seen it before. Both of the movies make you feel happy about the ending :) 

Then there is The Fault In Our Stars, based upon the book. Wow. What an incredible movie! I’m glad they didn’t change much about the story. 

I saw The Notebook just a few days ago, but it immediately is one of my favorite movies ever. It’s just a beautiful love story! If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely watch it some time soon! 

Another movie with Rachel McAdams in it — she’s also in The Notebook — : About Time. Also a love story, even though this one is completely different: this one includes traveling back in time! :)

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Divergent, based upon the book, is also one of my favorite movies from last year. I can’t wait for Insurgent! 

Easy A was a movie I saw on Netflix and I just thought like, “Okay, let’s watch this one, it’s probably funny,” but I liked it better than I expected I would! I watched it twice :) It’s a movie in the genre of Mean Girls. Completely different though, but it’s that kind of girls-night movie :)

My favorite music from last year: 

Justin Bieber was definitely my favorite artist last year, but he’s probably my favorite artist ever, so that can’t be a big surprise. I listened a lot to his Music Journals & his album Believe last year. 

I also kind of “discovered” Marina and the Diamonds, and I’ve been listening to her album “Electra Heart”. 

I also loved Taylor Swift’s new songs “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space”. 

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2014 was also the first year I started listening to Arctic Monkeys, I loved their album “AM”. 

It was also the first year I started listening to The Pretty Reckless (due to Gossip Girl, since Taylor Momsen had Jenny’s role, and I knew Taylor had a band now, so I wanted to check her music out :)). I like their songs Blame Me, Heaven Knows, Messed Up World & You. 

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I’ve also been obsessed with Heartstrings for a while, Leighton Meester’s newest song. 

I loved the songs Birdy made for The Fault In Our Stars, especially Not About Angels. The other song she made for TFIOS is Tee Shirt. It’s beautiful as well. 

That was it for this blogpost! I hope you liked it :) What are your favorites from 2014? 

xo Luna

hey :)
It’s been a while, since I read this book. But, it occurred to me that I hadn’t written a review yet. So, that’s what I’m doing today! :)

The perks of being a wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
It’s about Charlie, a freshman in high school, who becomes friends with Patrick and Sam. They are a few years older than Charlie, but Charlie becomes a part of their world anyway and learns about the things they do, which people his age usually don’t.

I found it hard to describe what the book is about, so if you want a better description, you can always Google it :)

It’s not written like a normal book. You read thousands of letters Charlie has written to an almost-random person, “I’m writing to you because she said you listen and understand (…)” is the first sentence of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. So he doesn’t know him/her, but he hasn’t really picked a random person either. In the letters he tells him/her about what happened.

So, I liked the book, but, it’s not one of my favorite books ever, or something like that. It’s very real, which is a good thing, but some parts felt a bit like over sharing to me. Though it hasn’t really happened of course, but still.
I still recommend it to everyone, though! I enjoyed reading it, after all.

You can buy it at book stores or online, for £7.99. If you’re not into reading, there’s also a movie based on this book :)

xo xo Luna

Today’s post is about the last book I read: The Carrie Diaries. As you might know The Carrie Diaries is about Carrie Bradshaw, from Sex and the City, when she was younger.

So, I read it, and actually I’m really positive about the book. I enjoyed it and couldn’t stop reading.
So it’s about Carrie, and in SATC she has three best friends: Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. She meets them in New York.
But, like I told you, in the Carrie Diaries, she’s younger. Only seventeen. She lives in Castlebury and has a group of best friends:
Maggie, Lali, the Mouse, Walt and later there’s also Peter.
So she knows none of her future best friends yet.
There’s a new student on Castlebury High, Sebastian Kydd. She falls in love with him, and he falls in love with her.
But then something awful happens to their relationship.

She also wants to be a writer since she was a kid. She applied for The New School, a summer writing program in New York. Unfortunately, she isn’t good enough to go, according to the New School.
Carrie tries everything she can to get into that writing program, hoping she can go next summer.

Does she get in? What happens to Sebastian and Carrie? When will she meet Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda?

Those are the most important questions you ask yourself while reading the book. Of course I can’t answer all of them — too much spoilers — but I can tell you the answer on the last question: she doesn’t, yet. She’ll meet them in Summer and the City, a sequel to the Carrie Diaries. I’m reading that one now, and it’s just as good as the Carrie Diaries. I didn’t read the whole book yet, so I don’t know if she’s going to meet Charlotte in this book (because she hasn’t already), but she did meet Samantha and Miranda already.

Like I told you; I really liked the book.
It’s not too dramatic, but it’s also not like Carrie has a perfect life and absolutely no troubles. It’s a good mix :)
I also find Candace Bushnell a good writer. I only read one and a half books of hers yet, but I think both of them are well written.
There’s also a television show made of the Carrie Diaries, with AnnaSophia Robb as Carrie.

xo Luna

I’m happy. I really am.
Of course, I mean, there are always ups and downs, but over all I’m a really happy person.
A while ago, I saw the book “14.000 things to be happy about”.
So, my goal is a list of 14.001 things to be happy about :).
I started my list, and it already has 67 things on it. I know it’s nothing compared to 14.000 but you have to start somewhere.
I made a picture of my list, so you can read it.
Do those things make you happy, too?

xo xo Luna

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This is SO TRUE!!! :)

I told you before that I was reading Divergent, but I hadn’t decided yet if I was going to do a book review about it. But I have decided now and here the review is :)
So everyone knows what Divergent is about but, I don’t care. I’m just going to tell you and you can choose by yourself if you’re going to read that part of the post :p

So it’s about Beatrice (Tris, in the biggest part of the book) who lives in the future; the world is split up in factions by then. A faction for the honest -Candor-, a faction for the intelligent -Erudite-, a faction for the brave -Dauntless-, a faction for the kind -Amity- and a faction for the selfless
-Abnegation-.
Then there are the factionless, people who failed initiation for the faction they chose. Cause you have to choose the faction you’ll be in for the rest of your life (unless you become factionless) when you’re sixteen.
Tris is sixteen and she has to choose.
She (and all the others who are choosing their faction this year) has to do the aptitude test. The test will say in which faction you truly belong, so it’s easier to choose. But Tris’s test results are more than one faction.. She’s Divergent. That’s dangerous, but she doesn’t know why. And which faction will she choose when she has to make the decision all on her own; without test results?

I read the book and it’s fantastic! Sometimes it’s really romantic, and then suddenly Tris is almost going to die, if you know what I mean.
It will keep your attention till the end - and then you really want to read the second book, Insurgent.
So that’s what I’m doing; reading Insurgent! I’m loving this part too!

So go read Divergent! :)
xo Luna

I picked some photos out of my “perfection” collection on We Heart It. Yeah, I know. I post too often things from We Heart It, but I just can’t stop myself. Those pictures are just awesome.
xo Loen

Today I just wanted to show you guys my room - but only some cute parts of it :)
I’m going to explain each picture a little. Let’s start with the first; some movies I like, and the old-fashioned TV show called “friends”. I love that show. I also have season 1 (lucky me :)) but while I made this picture it’s laying next to the TV in the living room, haha :) Next to the movies you see “twilight”. I have the complete saga on my phone in IBooks, but I found this one at a flee market for only 50 cents, so I have this book twice, actually…
In the second photo you see my lamp, which I really like.
In the third you see some lip smackers, standing on a Dutch (originally German) book I like. I love lip smackers (I wrote a blogpost about them, once). They just taste awesome.
In the last picture you see my
tea-collection, haha :) (I also have another cup like those two, but I couldn’t find it…)
xo Luna

I know almost everyone has already read TFIOS by John Green, but I’m reading it right now - and for the ones who haven’t read TFIOS yet, I’m writing this review. Because I LOVE the book.

So first you have to know a bit what the book is about;
It’s about Hazel, who has cancer which can’t be healed. With a special medicine she can live longer, but no one knows for how long. When she meets Augustus, who has survived cancer, everything changes. Hazel tells Augustus about her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, which ends in the middle of a sentence. The author lives in Amsterdam, and Hazel and Augustus wanna go there, to ask the author some questions about the end of the book..

I already told you I really like the book, and that’s also because I like the way John Green writes, but, of course, it’s not the only reason. Another thing I like about the book, is that you’re going to know Hazel like she is you. I like it when I’m knowing the characters in the book better and better while reading :). And it’s just a good story.
I would really like it if you’re going to read it now - it’s worth it!

xo Luna
ps. I bought the book in IBooks for only 4 euros!

Source of the picture on the left: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars

So true. Twilight is going to change your life. (I know I’m now telling you the magical thing but I hope you can forgive me) Just read Twilight 💕

Iedereen kent Twilight, maar er zijn toch veel mensen om me heen die de serie nog niet gelezen hebben. Aangezien ik nu bezig ben in “morgenrood” (breaking dawn) en de boeken met veel plezier lees, heb ik besloten maar eens een boekreview te schrijven.

Hoewel ik er vrij zeker van ben dat iedereen het basisverhaal kent, vertel ik het toch nog maar even;
De hoofdpersoon uit de boeken is Bella Swan (Isabella Marie Swan). Haar ouders, Charlie en Renée, zijn gescheiden. Bella woont al heel lang bij haar moeder in Phoenix, maar verhuist (begin Twilight) naar het regenachtige Forks, waar haar vader woont. Daar ontmoet ze op school Edward Cullen. Ze voelt zich al snel tot hem aangetrokken, maar Edward doet zijn best haar zoveel mogelijk te ontwijken, hij zegt namelijk gevaarlijk te zijn voor haar. Na korte tijd ontdekt Bella wat er met hem aan de hand is, maar gek genoeg is ze niet bang voor hem. Als haar beste vriend Jacob Black dan ook nog bovennatuurlijk blijkt te zijn, staat Bella’s wereld al helemaal op z’n kop..!

Wat vond ik van de boeken?
Zoals ik al zei; ik lees de boeken met veel plezier. Ze zijn enorm goed en realistisch geschreven, zodat het lijkt alsof er overal bovennatuurlijke wezens rondlopen. Alsof dat heel normaal is. De balans tussen spanning en liefde vind ik ook erg goed. Nieuwe maan vond ik wat minder leuk, omdat het heel lang niet goed ging met Bella, maar dat was ook wel de enige die ik minder vond. Morgenrood, waar ik nu dus in aan ‘t lezen ben, vind ik misschien wel de beste. Ik kán echt niet stoppen met lezen. Verder kan ik er niet veel meer over vertellen, want ik wil niks verklappen voor jullie. Ik kan alleen nog even zeggen dat je ze móet lezen. Echt waar. Geweldigste serie ooit! (Mijn nummer 2 serie is trouwens de edelsteen trilogie, van Kerstin Gier, misschien dat ik daar ook nog eens wat over schrijf :))

Laat je het aan me weten als je ze gaat lezen?
xx Luna

PS Hou je niet van lezen? De boeken zijn ook allemaal verfilmd!

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