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

PLAYLIST

Link: PLAYLIST

hey :)
I made this playlist on Spotify, for a Saturday afternoon, or just whenever you feel like listening to music. There are some “new” songs, and also (mostly…) “old” songs. There are sad songs and happy songs. Click on “PLAYLIST” to open the link :).

Let me know what you think :)
xo Luna

ps: it says that it’s from Thijs van Schadewijk, cause that’s my Dad, and I’m using his account on Spotify, haha :)

hey :)
This post is going to be about music again, cause recently I started listening to “Marina & The Diamonds” and I like the music, so I decided to share it with you guys :)

At first, I thought Marina & The Diamonds was a band, and Marina was the lead singer. But, Marina & The Diamonds isn’t a band. It’s just Marina and “The Diamonds” are her fans.

So I started listening to her most recent album “Electra Heart” and like I said, I like the music. I didn’t listen every song just yet, but I’m about to :)
It’s hard to describe the music, so just search for her on Spotify and listen! :)

xo xo Luna

hey guys!
Today I decided to do a post with a lot of quotes. The pictures above are two of my own, which I took in the rain yesterday. I really love the rain :)

"Love doesn’t hurt. Loving the wrong person does."

"There’s no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs."

"Happy or sad, I always listen to music."

"Nothing is worth it if you aren’t happy."

"What this world needs is a group hug."

"Never let an old flame burn you twice."

"I believe in the person I want to become."

"Fall in love with your life."

"Even the leaves fall for you."

"If you want to be TOGETHER you have TO-GET-HER."

"Stars can’t shine without darkness."

"There’s no rainbow without a little rain."

"You’re young, so shut up, and enjoy life."

"Sometimes the eyes can say more than the mouth."

So these were some quotes I like, I hope they inspired you, haha :)

xo xo Luna
I found all of these quotes on We Heart It (what a surprise..:)).

So, you all know I’m kind of in love with gossip girl. Well, a few days ago, I read on the “real” gossip girl (www.gossipgirl.com) that Leighton Meester released (well, pre-released. It will officially be released at the 28th of October) a new song “heartstrings”. There was a link to billboard.com, so you could listen to it immediately. I did, and I love the song. So, I wanted to share it with you :)

xo xo Luna 

This song is a little old, I think, but I just kind of discovered it. It’s a really good song! I don’t exactly know why I like this song so much, I just do.
Lana Del Rey is like really popular, but I never really listened to her songs, I don’t know why. Yesterday I realized that, and decided to listen to some of her songs. “I might like it” I thought. But then in Dutch, of course :)
And like I told you, I do like them (I only listened to a few songs, not all of them, that would take a while :)). I added Video Games, Summertime Sadness and Dark Paradise to a playlist called “random” (on that playlist are also Love the way you lie (Eminem ft. Rihanna), Beauty and a Beat, acoustic version (Justin Bieber), Fancy (Iggy Azalea), Eenie Meenie (Justin Bieber ft. Sean Kingston) and Work (Iggy Azalea)).
Later, I removed Dark Paradise, not because the song wasn’t good, but because the lyrics were like really really sad, so yeah.
So Video Games and Summertime Sadness are still on my playlist and I especially love Summertime Sadness (I know that’s also sad… But yeah, the song is just really beautiful) so I wanted to tip you about that one :).

xx Luna

This post is about my favorite music; AM, the most recent album of the Artic Monkeys (favorite songs: Do I wanna know, One for the road, R U Mine? and Snap out of it) Justin Bieber’s Music Journals — I listen to it all. the. time. Really, and for, like, three months already…
I also love the song Fancy (Iggy Azalea) and Take you (Justin Bieber).
So this post was just in case you were looking for new great music.

XO Luna :)

The apps in the picture above are my favorite at the moment, and I’m going to tell you about them, like a short review.
Netflix first;
Yeah you know what to do with Netflix and you know why I love it — see my previous post — so that’s it. I told you it would be a SHORT review ;)
Then We Heart It;
On WHI you can find all kinds of pictures, I especially love pictures of quotes :) WHI is just awesome.
Room For Thought;
A Dutch app (I’m sorry guys)..
You have to take a photo every day (you get a message on a random moment at the day, which tells you to take your picture). You get a nice photo “diary” if you do this every day.
Last but not least; Beats Music
(I’m sorry “last but not least” was a cliché, but I couldn’t think of anything else) Beats Music is a great app, a bit like Spotify, but better ;). This also contains a nice “extra”, called “the sentence”. You tell the app what you’re doing and it’ll play music that fits with the situation :)
Hope you liked my review!
xoxo Luna