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This hop features books that have been made into either a movie or a TV show. If you've read The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey then I'm sure you would agree to me in saying that it is truly a worthy book to be adapted into a film!

And if you didn't know yet, yes, The 5th Wave is getting made into a film!

The adaptation will be directed by J Blakeson. Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, and Alex Roe will star as Cassie Sullivan, Ben Parish, and Evan Walker, respectively. (Left to right)


The adaptation is scheduled to be released in January 15 next year and if you have not seen the trailer yet, here you go:


So, what do you think of the casting and the trailer? Let me know in the comments below.

Now, for the main event! Up for grabs is a paperback copy of the movie tie-in edition of The 5th Wave! The tie-in edition will be released on 3rd November 2015 so winner wins a pre-order of the book! This giveaway is open internationally so long as The Book Depository ships to your location.

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Every Day / Another Day

Published: 28 August 2012 / 30 July 2015

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 0307931889 /
 0385756208

David Levithan (born 1972) is an American children's book editor and award-winning author. He published his first YA book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a Young Adult imprint of Scholastic Press.

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Every Day:


Another Day:
Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person…wasn’t Justin at all.

The whole concept of the series is very intriguing and absolutely clever. "A", the protagonist, wakes up every morning in a different person's body, replaces their consciousness with his own, and experiences living as that person for a day. A has no control over where his soul might wake up the next morning. Everyday hopping from one random host to another, and constantly adjusting to the lives of the persons whose body he is living in, A has made it a point to never get noticed by acting as normally as possible and most importantly, never getting attached either to the host or the people around him/her. All goes well until A occupies the body of Justin and meets his girlfriend, Rhiannon. A realizes that Rhiannon deserves more love and appreciation than what her temperamental and distant boyfriend is giving her. Realizing this might be his only chance, A decides to give Rhiannon a perfect day and ultimately falls in love with her.

The depth of the characters is very impressive. David Levithan has a talent in giving life to his characters. What is most interesting is that A is actually not a person but more like a soul or a spirit. A has never had a corporeal body, had been switching from one body to another since childhood, and had never spent more than 24 hours in one body. A jumps from one consciousness to another, never knowing who he might be the next day. It was always interesting to find out who A wakes up as every day. At times, A finds himself in a boy's body, and at some times in a girl's. He wakes up Asian one day and wakes up Mexican the next day, and so on. Every different person A instantiates to has different lives and stories: gay, lesbian, transgender, obese, suicidal, drug-addict, and so forth. A basically has to adjust to a new life every day and throughout the years, A has developed some sort of "impartiality" towards persons of different gender, sexual orientation, physical appearances, wealth, etc. The stories of these persons are the best portions of the book because this is where Levithan touches into sensitive themes and topics on LGBT relations, religion and many more. You will not find Every Day and Another Day as merely a story but also a discussion of morality and current social issues.

The first novel is told in A's perspective and throughout the whole book, A pursues Rhiannon and attempts to maintain their relationship despite the circumstances of his condition. The first book is perfection in a lot of aspects. It is not the same thing for the second book however. I felt that the second book is an unnecessary sequel to Every Day. Every Day is already a strong novel and by itself, it would have been an outstanding stand alone. Another Day is exactly just a retelling of the events in the first book told in a Rhiannon's perspective. No more, no less. While it does interestingly add dimensionality and more depth to the characters, most especially to Rhiannon's character, it is basically nothing else but disappointment.

In both novels, I felt that what David Levithan was trying to tell me was: to love someone by looking beyond superficial appearances.

Overall, Levithan's writing is very good and very engaging. Easy and quick yet witty and stirring. It is very engrossing and it is the exact type that would keep you wanting to finish reading the whole thing in one sitting.

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