Confessions of a Shopaholic | Book Review

Hi everyone! I finally finished Confessions of a Shopaholic. I read it in a week, because my school didn't have classes for like 5 days, so I had lots of time to start and finish it. I bought this book for myself as a birthday present and I have been putting it aside for almost 3 months now. But I read it and I'm here to do a review on it for you all.

So let's start on saying how fantastic Sophie Kinsella is as a writer. Her writing style is just so smooth and makes reading so pleasant. I laughed a lot reading it. And the way her character interacts with us readers, makes the reading experience 100 times more enjoyable. 

Talking about Rebecca Bloomwood...she is just the funniest, craziest, clumsiest and most relatable character ever. I just love her. She is probably one of my favorite character of all time, because she is so unique. When I say relatable, I don't mean that I am a shopaholic and I can't help myself from shopping, I'm actually the complete opposite. What I meant was that she is just very easy going and  approchable. 

I will most certainly continue this series and probably read other books by Sophie Kinsella. I'm actually very anxious to buy the next book, but I have to read some of the ones I already have and I want to save the series to read during the summer months. This series just screams summer for me, I don't know why. Porbably because it is a light read.

I didn't want to mention the movie in this review, but that's nearly impossible, because I discovered this series through the movie. Well, after reading the book, I thought that the movie adaptation was pretty off. The places didn't match, some situations didn't happend the same or at all and there were lots of characters missing in the movie. I hear people say that the movie is a mixture of the first and second book, so I will have to read the following one to be sure of my opinion of the book to movie adaptation.

I still love the movie a lot, it is still one of my favorites. But I like to separate the movie from the book or it will make me go mad because of its inaccuracy. So I enjoy them as if they were two different things.

So to finish the review, I want to recommend the book and movie to everyone who is interested in reading and watching a very funny, quirky, light chick lit novel or movie. This is the book that you want to read when you are stressed out, want to relax and have a laugh.

I hope you all enjoyed this review and if you want to comment something about this book or it's movie, please leave it down bellow. I want to know what are your opinions, specially on the book to movie adaptation.

I hope you had a great day,

Ana

Evidence Ballet Slippers | Review

I wanted to write this post on Sunday actually, but I was extremely busy with some school stuff, so I couldn't write a post for the last two days. Well, I don't know why I decided to write a post review about a ballet shoe, but I thought I should share the wonderfullness that is this pair of slippers. I'm not sponsered by them or anything like that, I just wanted to write a post that could help people who are interested in buying this brand's ballet shoes, so they can first know how well it works and the details of it before buying. Because I myself when I bought this pair last month, I searched on the internet to find some type of review on it or something, but I found nothing, so I thought...I'm just going to write my own then.

I bought the ballet shoes on an event that my city has every year that only envolves art and dance, and I even I talked about it on my last post. So there was this store called Evidence Ballet and well I went their and bought this pair of ballet slippers. The unique thing about them, the main reason that I wanted to purchase them, was the stretch material it has on almost the entire shoe.This stretch part is very soft, made with cotton, and it fits like a glove in your feet. It adapts perfectly to the feet. 

I thought at first that just because is not very popular to wear this type of shoe in ballet class, that it made them not very good shoes. Well I was wrong. They are perfect ballet shoes for beginners, because it so light and comfortable to wear and dance in. I don't know if for a professional or just for a more advanced dancer these would be perfect shoes, bacause this is a review from a beginners perspective , so I don't have a clue if is good for professional or advanced means.

Another thing that I love about them is how beautiful the arches look with them on. It accentuates the natural arch of the feet, partly because of the double straps of the shoes and partly because of the really adaptable stretch. And because of the stretch they are very practical to carry around, thery fold very easily and fit in this tiny little bag that came with them when I purchased. Another unique thing about them is the sole. You can see that they are pink and it has this pretty butterfly printed on it.

The only downside of them is that they get durty very easily. But if you think about, every ballet shoe does. But on the other hand it is very nice to wash, they clean very easily because of the cotton material.

My final say about this product is that I love it. I had a Capezio ballet slipper before this one and these ones, the Evidence Ballet ones, are 100% better than my old ones. The are a lot comfortable and way softer.

Now for the price...I paid for them about $20 reais ( Reais is the name of the money here in Brazil). A very good price for a pair of ballet shoes. The price in U.S dollars would be about $ 5.70, but I bought them on sale so I don't know if the price would be the same .

Hope you guys enjoyed this little review post. There will be coming on your way another post on Saturday, so be prepared. And I would like to thank you all for 212 followers on Bloglovin', that means so much to me, it makes me so happy and surprised at the same time, that people are interested on what I'm writing and my blog. So thank you.

Hope you all have a great week,

Ana

Paper Towns Movie Review

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I went yesterday to the movies with my friends to see the film Paper Towns. It was my first time watching a movie that was inspired by a book without having had read the book itself. Because of that I can't make a true, awesome and detailed review comparing the movie with the book. I kind of felt guilty about it, specially because I loved the movie so much. But this is going to be an honest review written by a girl that didn't read the book before watching the movie. And I think most people can relate to this situation, I think, because most of the time people, inclueding myself, don't have time to read the book before the movie comes out.

But I will be doing a review on the book Paper Towns soon. I know for a fact that I will be getting the book as a birthday present from one of my best friends, so you can be sure that I will read it and write a review about. And I will definitly compare the book and the movie on that review, so don't worry.

I actually thought of not writing this post and just wait to read the book and review it with the movie, but I couldn't help myself, I loved this movie and I really needed to talk with you guys about it. I am not going to tell the story because I know most of you might know it already, because of it's popularity. So I'm just going to jump to the review and tell my true and honest opinion.

I laughed I lot in this movie, the characters were extremely funny and sarcastic like all of the other John Green characters. And they each were very unique and different from one another, if I had to pick my favorites characters it would be Margo and Quentin. 

I absolutely loved Margo's personality, she was such a free spirit, smart and very bold. She inspired me in ways, to be more adventurous and you know, just live life and just care for the things that really matter and not superficial stuff. And Quentin, he was amazing. Even if the movie was just like 2 hours, I could see his character developing, growing, getting out of his comfort zone and shell. And that really inspired me too.

Other thing that I really loved was that it happend in florida. If you don't now, florida is my birth state and I like to think that I am pretty attached to it in a way. And seeing it on the screen made me very happy.

Now about some technical stuff. The acting was just beautiful, But we have to take a minute for the american accent that Cara Delevigne did, it  was very awesome and very well done. In my opion she was a great actress.

I had a very Fault in Our Stars vibe in this movie, specially when Ansel Elgort poped up in the middle of the movie! All the people that were at the movies screamed, it was pretty awesome.

Now let's talk about the general story itself. The message that I got from the movie was so powerfull, that I need to read this book, because I think I will get an even bigger reflextion if I read every single word in those pages. I know that it is just fiction and it is just a book, but it doesn't mean that it can't deeply inspire you in a way that you can change the way you are living life. It made me think trough all of my goals in life and the ones from people that surround me. How all of these goal are superficial and don't matter at all actualy, and how we live in a world that everything that really matters doesn't matter and every single shallow thing is the most important.  

I don't know if everyone that watched this movie got the same message as me, but I know that I got it because now that I am finishing high school there is all this pressure that I have to choose a degree, go to college, get a job, get well payed, have a family and them I will be happy. But the movie showed that that isn't necessaraly true, why can't we be happy right now? Happy with the simple things and the things that matter.

I will end this post here, because if I don't I will continue talking and writting forever about this movie and topic. So, leave your comment and opion about the movie down bellow if you have watch it. Or if you had the same or other thoughts about the message of the movie, feel free to tell them down bellow.

I hope you all have a great weekend,

Ana 

Book Review : The Diary of a Young Girl

I have finally finished Anne Frank's diary, it took a couple months to finish due to my lack of time. I just had so many tests and projects that I couldn't end a single book, but now it is all done (actually my tests started again last week), I am now devoting at least an hour to read every single day and I promise that I will try to write a review at least every month.

My thoughts ...

I found the book just amazing, she was such a talented young girl and it makes me really sad to remember that she died so young with a whole future ahead of her. I related to her so much, we are so similar. She liked the same things as me, like history of art, languages, books, greek mythology and she felt ununderstood by her family (and I can totaly relate with that sometimes). 

One of the things that got me by surprised was the fact that she was very open minded, I didn't expect that from a girl that lived in the 1940s. I really loved her personality, she was very intelligent and a very opinionated person.

While reading the diary I couldn't think of anything else but " I just wished I could talk to her, she's so relatable. We could totaly be friends". And I felt this way until the end, until her last words. 

She was just so hopeful, she had hope that everything was going to be ok and that the germans were going to loose the war, and that she could live a normal life again with her family. I got hopeful too, but I knew the ending already and that it wasn't going to end as happy as she predicted. 

Turning to the last page was agonizing. I stared at the page for a few minutes and I new that that was it, she was gone. I don't know what happend after she wrote the last word. Anne and her family were probably discovered and taken to a concentration camp. 

I will never forget the way this book impacted me, I'll not forget the girl that after all she had suffered ( famine, loneliness, insecurities, fear), still never gave up on herself and in humanity.

I can't have enough of this book, I've already recommended to everybody I know. If you are reading this and are debating if you should read it or not, totaly do read it. It is not just a book/diary about the war, it is a diary of a girl growing up. And this book is perfect for kids that are in their preteen years, like 13, because they can grow up with Anne and rely on someone that is going through the same phase as they are ( of course in different circunstances).

I hope you all enjoyed the review, and thank you for 140 followers on Bloglovin. Have a great weekend, 

Ana

Movie Review: Insurgent

Warning: This might have spoilers

 Yesterday I went with some friends to the mall to watch Insurgent, we were all exited bacause most of us had read the series and loved it . I was hesitant to watch the movie, because I saw the trailer and there was this mysterious box that only a divergent could open and that wasn't even in the book, but of course I was going, it is a book to movie adaptation of a book I have read and loved.

 I watched it in 3D and the quality was perfection, it look like it wasn't even real. Tris hair was awesome, I love how they cut it short just like Tris from the books. Caleb was just as annoying in the movie as in the book (no ofense to people who like him), but Peter was amazing just like in the scene of the book that he saves Tris. Four what can we say, it was Four.

 The only thing that bugged me was the box. Like where did that box come from? Not from the book that is for sure. It didn't ruined the book, in the end everything came together just like in book. I know that book to movie adaptations aren't that accurate, they will always take something out or mix the order of things, but what is the need of adding something that the author did not even write about. Stick with the book people, stick with the book! It is a premade script.

 I think I could point out more imperfections, but I am not going to, because 1- I don't want to be that fan that hates all book to movie adaptations and 2- I really don't remmember much details from the book because I read it 2 years ago. And that is probably why my friends did not like the movie, because they have read the book too recently and they were restless, just looking for flaws in the film.

 I can't say hated it, like my friends said, because I loved it. Of course there were all those imperfections, but regardless of that I still appreciated the movie. The actors and the special effects were amazing, the sound track was stupendous. And it is a movie, not a 100% faithfull one to the book, but it went a lot of work and effort of a lot of people in it, and I think that should be appreciated.

I am not going to say anything more, because I don't want to spoil anybody or influence someones's opion towards the movie. Hope you all are having great weekend.

Ana

Book Review: The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein

I remember when I found out about this title, it was in the year 2011, 7th grade, and I was just looking for new movie releases and discovered the movie "The Moth Diaries". I was so fascinated with it that I made my best friend promise that she would go to the movies and watch it with me. I don't no why I liked it so much, probably because of the idea boarding school, bacause it wasn't like an over hyped movie.

The realese date was coming up and there was no where in my city that was going to realese it, and I kind of gave up hope ( In 2011 I didn't even imagine that I could watch it online), until I found out about the book. But I couldn't find the book anywhere either and just ended up forgeting the whole thing. Then last year with no reason at all I remembered about the book and movie, and decided to watch and read it.

I absolutely love this book, it is so creepy and mysterious, and boarding school movies/books always give me the chills. It's probably not everybody's taste, some people say that it is an awful book, like my best friend, she did not like it that much, not that she said that it was a horrible book, but it was just not her style.

The book is a diary of a girl that we never learn the name of, and she is dealing with her father's suicide. She goes to an all girls boarding school and there she meets Lucy, and they become best friends. A new girl shows up in the school, and she becomes friends with Lucy right away, leaving the main character with an obsessive behavior over her friend and raises suspicion that Ernessa ( the new girl) is a vampire, due to the facts presented in the book Carmilla that match up to Ernessa's behavior.

The interesting thing about this book is that you don't know if it is true or not, if Ernessa is really a vampire or if the main character is blind of jealousy towards her friend, Lucy. And it is clear that with all that the girl is going through, that she is tormented and not stable.

Hope you all liked the post, and that you feel interested in looking up the book and movie. If you have read it already ot watch the movie, feel free to comment your opinions on it. Have a great week.

Ana