Hypable's Ten Booked to Read before you watch the movies....

Hypable has a great post on Ten books you need to read before seeing the movie. Check it out for trailers, reasons to read it, reasons to watch it and a great overview on some amazing novels.

YA Novels....

I love YA and found this article to be quite good:

http://bookriot.com/2013/06/26/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-young-adult-fiction/

Hunger Games Books, Tie-in's and more for Pre-Order NOW

Three movie tie-in books will be released in time for the premiere of the film adaptation of ‘The Hunger Games’ and they are now available for pre-ordering!

•The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion – Go behind the scenes of the making of The Hunger Games with exclusive images and interviews. From the screenwriting process to the casting decisions to the elaborate sets and costumes to the actors’ performances and directors’ vision, this is the definitive companion to the breathtaking film.



•The World of the Hunger Games – This is the definitive, richly illustrated, full-color guide to all the districts of Panem, all the participants in The Hunger Games, and the life and home of Katniss Everdeen. A must-have for fans of both the Hunger Games novels and the new Hunger Games film.



•The Hunger Games: Movie Tie-in Edition – The astonishing bestseller is now a fantastic movie. Here is the original novel with new movie artwork on the cover.

Set to be released next January, The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook: From Lamb Stew to “Groosling” – More than 150 Recipes Inspired by The Hunger Games Trilogy is now available for pre-order!

Lenny Kravitz did not audition for role of Cinna in Hunger Games

Seems Lenny Kravitz was simply offered the job after his amazing role in Precious.

The Hunger Games fans still harboring doubts about Lenny Kravitz may be even more doubtful when they hear that he didn’t audition for the role. Details has posted a Q&A with Lenny in which he speaks very briefly about his casting:

“I honestly hadn’t heard of them before the director called me. I hope the fans don’t hate me for that. He had seen my work in Precious and called and offered me the part of Cinna, who is the stylist for the main character, Katniss. He saw how I played a caregiver in Precious and figured I might be good for Cinna. I didn’t have to audition, so I’m lucky.”

But, never fear fans.... Lenny is doing his research and is almost done Catching Fire:

MTV News caught up with Lenny Kravitz to talk about his upcoming album Black & White America and he confirmed that he’s finished ‘The Hunger Games’ and has started reading ‘Catching Fire’.

“When asked how he is preparing for what may end up being quite a dramatic scene in the movie’s sequel, Kravitz simply replied, “I’ll do it as best as I can.”"

See a clip of Lenny as the nurse in Precious HERE

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Scott Westerfeld, author of The Uglies Series, guest at Comic-Con

Scott Westerfeld
Author, The Uglies series, Midnighters trilogy

Scott Westerfeld is the author of 12 novels for young adults, including the Uglies series and the Midnighters trilogy, and 5 for adults. His books have won the Philip K. Dick Special Citation, the Aurealis Award, the Locus Award, the Victorian Premier's Award, and his adult book The Risen Empire was named a NY Times Notable Book of the Year. He has contributed nonfiction to Nerve, BookForum, and the scientific journal Nature. His current series is Leviathan, a steampunk trilogy for teenagers set in an alternative World War I and illustrated by Keith Thompson. The third book in the Leviathan series, Goliath, will be published October 4, 2011

Hunger Games Movie Tie-ins and more

Scholastic will be releasing a special gift set edition of The Hunger Games later this year.

Also, three movie tie-in editions will be released in early 2012 just in time for The Hunger Games movie to hit theaters on March 23, 2012.

The Hunger Games Collector’s Edition will sell for about $30 and will be available in November. It will include a special slipcase featuring new, exclusive mockingjay artwork.

In February, Scholastic will also publish a movie tie-in edition of The Hunger Games, retailing for about $13. Scholastic will also publish The Hunger Games: Official Illustrated Movie Companion for $18.99 and The World of The Hunger Games for $17.99, both also set for release in February.

From the Press Release:
“Millions of readers have already discovered the world of The Hunger Games series, and now even more will come to it through the release of the film,” said Ellie Berger, President of the Scholastic Trade Publishing division. “The collector’s edition will be the perfect holiday gift this year for teens or adults, and the tie-in books will add new dimensions to our Hunger Games publishing as we anticipate the release of the feature film.”

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Divergent Book 2: Insurgent

Veronica Roth's 2nd book to the "Divergent" series has been named....

This post really wouldn't be complete without a dictionary definition, so here it is:

INSURGENT. Origin:
1755–65; < Latin insurgent- (stem of insurgēns ) present participle of insurgere: to get up, ascend, rebel. 1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel. 2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party. 3. one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies 4. (international law) a person or group that rises in revolt against an established government or authority but whose conduct does not amount to belligerency Not all of those definitions are equally applicable to the book-- some are more spot-on than others. But I won't tell you which ones yet.

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Young Adult Novels to Movies features in EW

Not only is The Hunger Games the cover feature for this week’s Entertainment Weekly, but 10 top Young Adult in-the-works book-to-movie franchises are also profiled.

Among them:

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl; Warner Bros.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare; Screen Gems
Delirium by Lauren Oliver; Fox 2000
Divergent by Veronica Roth; Summit Entertainment
Earthseed by Pamela Sargent; Paramount
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher; Fox 2000
Matched by Ally Condie; Disney/Offspring Entertainment
Pure by Julianna Baggott; Fox 2000
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater; Unique Features
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion; Summit Entertainment

Read them before the movie...








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'Perks of Being a Wallflower' casting and interview with Nina Dobrev

Here Nina talks about upcoming 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' script and cast. Love the Vancouver mention. It is true they shot Vampire Diaries pilot in Vancouver while Percy Jackson and New Moon were shooting. In fact, at the first 100 Monkey's show Ashley Greene's date was an Somerhalder... #truestory.

I wish TVD stayed in Vancouver!!! Ah Well... onto 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' which is written and directed by the author of the book Stephen Chbosky.

The casting is absolutely amazing. Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, and more - - - Exciting!

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“The script is really, really, really amazing and the cast,” she enthused. “The fact that Stephen wrote the book, and he wrote the screenplay and he’s now directing, it’s going to be really good to see that because a lot of the time when a book is made into a film, a lot of the original fans are scared it’s going to be ruined. But when the visionary is the one who is going to see it is made the way he saw it and wants it to be seen, he’s going to play it true to the original.”

The path that got Miller to this point, in this universe, began in New Jersey, where he caught the performance bug early. He suffered with a severe stutter and finally found his voice when a teacher introduced him to opera. He fell in love with storytelling and went on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, where he starred in Philip Glass’ White Rabbit. “Through doing that I realized that humans, with our voices and our songs are the species—the only one we know of—that tells the story of the universe. It’s sort of our responsibility.” By eight years old, Ezra Miller’s path was set. “There is no choice for me. This is my divergent reality.”

Have you read the book? Excited for the movie?

Earthseed screenplay to be written by Melissa Rosenberg

TheWrap writes:

Like The Hunger Games– Lionsgate’s new franchise –Earthseed is set in a dystopian future.

In this one, a group of teens has been born from the genetic bank of a spaceship and have no traditional parents.

“Ever since I was a kid, it’s been a goal of mine to see Earthseed get to the screen in an awesome way,” Paramount Pictures Film Group president Adam Goodman said in a statement. “To have Melissa Rosenberg and her Tall Girls company writing and producing this material is truly a dream.”

Mandy's Mind - I am so excited to see so many YA novels becoming movies. It's awesome to see!



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Booboo Stewart & Mackenzie Porter in The Haunting Hour

Booboo Stewart is here in Vancouver to film "The Haunting Hour"

Actually while Debby Ryan was in own to film a guest spot on the show she did an ice cream date with fans and I took my daughter.

To be honest, I haven't seen The Haunting Hour but it is filmed locally and based off of R.L Stine's Stories and let's face it, who didn't LOVE R.L Stine as a tween?

I had ALL the Fear Street Books (pre Goosebumps folks!)

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