Lazy Monday - My TBR list for this week

 

Sit back and relax in your favorite corner because today is lazy Monday.  That dreaded first day of a long week and in order to survive it you need to forget about it.  I always have a new TBR pile every Monday that promises to take me to new places and escape a crazy day.  

 

What will I be reading this week?

Fury by Michelle Pace and Tammy Coons

The Proposition by Katie Ashlie

Falling by Jolene Perry

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was a box office success and it comes out on DVD this week.  

We can't forget that this saga will be on screen once again very soon.  Full casting has been completed and the filming schedule has not yet been announced.  The first film was taped in Asheville North Carolina but I am not sure if they will continue to film there again.  I am sure that the producers will want to keep the filming location hush hush to prevent any pictures of the fil to leak.

We now have to patiently await for filming to begin and wait for the remaining three movies.  As declared by Lions gate the books will be turned into  four movies.

“Lionsgate executives told Wall Street analysts this morning to expect big things from The Hunger Games, a series of four action films that the studio will release from the trilogy written by Suzanne Collins.”

While the extra film release isn’t exactly a ground breaking idea, it was the first semi-official report tha’d heard regarding the possibility of a fourth Hunger Games film – and it wasn’t long before industry insiders started phoning Lionsgate for confirmation.

The Hob, a Hunger Games news site managed to snag official word, reporting that Lionsgate was directly confirming the four film structure – but wouldn’t discuss where the movies would be split:

We can confirm we have a deal that encompasses four (4) movies for THE HUNGER GAMES.
We cannot confirm any details beyond the below [the previous response listed above] at this time.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones begins filming on August 20, just one week away.  OMG!  I just want to see a movie poster of the actors in characters pretty please. 

 Exectuive producer Martin Moszkowicz confirmed that principal photography will begin next Monday, August 20.

The Cast

Lily Collins (Clary Fray)

Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace Wayland)

Robert Sheehan (Simon Lewis)

Jemima West (Isabelle Lightwood)

Kevin Zegers (Alec Lightwood)

Godfrey Gao (Magnus Bane)

Lena Headey (Jocelyn Fray)

Aidan Turner (Luke Garroway)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Valentine Morgenstern)

Jared Harris (Hodge Starkweather)

CCH Pounder (Madame Dorthea)

Stephen R. Hart (Brother Jeremiah)

Kevin Durand (Emil Pangborn)

Robert Maillet (Samuel Blackwell)

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Latest Book 2 Movie News

I absolutely love this trend we have been witnessing recently of books inspiring movie directors.  There are so many movies coming out we need to keep a close eye on the updates and release dates.

This week we saw a bit more of the following movie adaptations:

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

And it's a wrap! Kami Garcia announced that filming has finally concluded.  We also got a sneak peak at the set viam MTV Hollywood Crush. 

The Plot:

High school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a fifteen-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.

Beautiful Creatures hits theaters February 13, 2012.

You can follow more closely about this movie via http://castergirls.com/the-4th-beautiful-creatures-books-makes-hollywood-crushs-list-of-2012-want-to-read/


Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
I will definitely read this book before it hits theaters.  I have to be honest a zombie love story is not very appealing.  I have close friends that have told me the story is actually good once you get over the gruesome descriptions.

Synopsis: 
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

he film was slated to open this August, but Summit has decided to push the release date back to February 1st, 2013, per Box Office Mojo.

You can visit the authors website here: http://www.isaacmarion.com/







Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Now I am super anxious about this one.  I recently read the book and let me tell you I was skeptical due to the mixed reviews I read in Good reads.  Can I tell you how happy I was to read this.  It's one of those books that get under your skin and into your dreams.  It was so good you have got to read it before the movie comes out.  Read my review here:http://loveyabooksforever.blogspot.com/2012/08/beautiful-disaster-by-jamie-mcguire.html


"Beautiful Disaster"  has been compared to "Fifty Shades," and is about college good-girl Abby  who falls for Travis, the bad boy on campus. The two make a bet: If Abby wins, Travis must remain abstinent for a month, but if Travis wins, Abby will live in his apartment for the same amount of time.

I don't see the resemblance between fifty shades but it is steamy as heck.  One of my favorites this year.  Warner Bros. won the bidding with  CBS Films for rights to the book.

So for now we sit tight and wait for more news on this fantastic future adaptation.

I will keep you posted on all these upcoming movies and more.

Tammy

Lazy Monday

 

What is Lazy Monday?  That day we all hate because its the beginning of a long week.  How to make it better? With Love YA Books Forever Lazy Monday Post of course.  Just sit back and relax .

On Mondays I will recommend book reads for the week.  With previews of upcoming books.  Book Trailers and Movie adaptation news.

Book to Movie News

After searching the web for news about movies about YA books I found a few things that perhaps you are not aware.  These are not recent news but somehow I had missed them.  Hope you all enjoy.

Firelight by Sophie Jordan

In 2010 Mandalay pictures purchased the movie rights of this amazing YA series.  I tried to find an update but Mandalay has not posted any recent news.  Well have to stay tuned to find out more about this big screen adaption.

Synopsis

The story follows twin teenage sisters, the descendants of dragons who live in secret with their endangered pride. When their mother learns that the pride has a dark plan for one of the girls who possesses the rare talent of fire breathing, she spirits the twins away to live a normal life among humans.

 Incarceron By: Catherine Fisher

   

If you’re a Taylor Lautner fan you may want to stay tuned to this upcoming movie.  He is reported to to star in the movie adaptation of Incarceron by Catherine Fisher. The movie is due to come out sometime in 2013. 

Synopsis

Imagine a living prison so vast that it contains corridors and forests, cities and seas. Imagine a prisoner with no memory, who is sure he came from Outside, even though the prison has been sealed for centuries and only one man, half real, half legend, has ever escaped.

Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires.

One inside, one outside But both imprisoned. Imagine a war that has hollowed the moon, seven skullrings that contain souls, a flying ship and a wall at the world's end. Imagine the unimaginable.

Imagine Incarceron.

Gone by: Lisa McMann

  

Many rumors were linking Miley Cirus to this role but unfortunately they are not certain.  The rights were purchased by MTV Films which is based on the novel Wake by Lisa McMann. Be sure to check out the sequels available at the library, Fade and Gone. McMann also has a new novel coming out in February called Cryer’s Cross.

  

Synopsis

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant...

Well stay tuned for more...

Tammy

Lazy Monday

What is Lazy Monday?  That day we all hate because its the beginning of a long week.  How to make it better? With Love YA Books Forever Lazy Monday Post of course.  Just sit back and relax .

On Mondays I will recommend book reads for the week.  With previews of upcoming books.  Book Trailers and Movie adaptation news.

Book to Movie News

Are you a Cassandra Clare fan?  The expected release date for City of Bones is August 23, 2013.

First it was the Twilight franchise taking over the world.  Now it's the The Hunger Games  and in a very near future the world won't be ready for the release  adaptation of The Mortal Instruments.


Lily Collins is already set to play teenager Clary Fray, who learns that she is a descendent of the Shadowhunters, a clandestine order of half-angel warriors who protect humanity from demons, vampires, werewolves, and fairies.  Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid) is set to direct, taking over from Scott Stewart (Priest), who left the project in February.  Jace will be played by Jamie Campbell Bower from the Twilight saga movies.

Official Synopsis:

CLARY FRAY (Lily Collins) is an ordinary Brooklyn teenager until the night she meets the mysteriously tattooed JACE, who turns out to be a half-angel warrior known as a Shadowhunter. When Clary finds out her mother JOCELYN has been abducted, she desperately hopes Jace will be able to help. After a whirling golden portal transports her across time and space in a heartbeat, Clary realizes she too has the powers of the Shadowhunters. But can she harness them in time to save her mother?
Clary, Jace and their fellow Shadowhunters endure one breathtaking battle after another against vampire, warlocks and demons—only to discover Jocelyn hid a terrible secret from the fiercest warrior of all: VALENTINE. Cast out from the world of Shadowhunters, Valentine abducted Jocelyn believing she had a powerful tool known as the Mortal Cup. Using her newfound gifts, Clary finds the Cup, only to be brutally betrayed and forced to relinquish it.
Still reeling from this setback and racing to save Jocelyn before it’s too late, Clary finds herself caught in a battle between forces she barely understands. Based on the best-selling series by Cassandra Clare, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES is a magnificent urban fantasy rich in detail and suspense, about a girl’s journey to the darkest corners of the underworld to save those she loves.

Books to be marked as to Read

Just because Mel lives in New Whitby, a city founded by vampires, doesn't mean she knows any of the blood-drinking undead personally. They stay in their part of town; she says in hers. Until the day a vampire shows up at her high school. Worse yet, her best friend, Cathy, seems to be falling in love with him. It's up to Mel to save Cathy from a mistake she might regret for all eternity!
On top of trying to help Cathy (whether she wants it or not), Mel is investigating a mysterious disappearance for another friend and discovering the attractions of a certain vampire wannabe. Combine all this with a cranky vampire cop, a number of unlikely romantic entanglements, and the occasional zombie, and soon Mel is hip-deep in an adventure that is equal parts hilarious and touching.
Acclaimed authors Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan team up to create a witty and poignant story of cool vampires, warm friendships, and the changes that test the bonds of love.