Transitive Verve

For my review of the novel, by Nicola Yoon, please click here . I really liked the novel when I read it a couple years ago, so I was really excited for this movie to come out. (Not the least of all, because Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton are like, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE I'VE EVER SEEN.) The quick sum-up is that Natasha and her family are undocumented immigrants, and the day before her entire family is due to be deported, she meets Daniel, an American-born son of Korean immigrants, on the way to a college interview. Tasha is all science and sensibility and facts; Daniel is a poet and a philosopher. Daniel is a writer who doesn't want to become a doctor like his parents want him to; Tasha is a New Yorker who doesn't want to be forced to leave the city that has become her home, even though the American government feels otherwise. Daniel tells Tasha that he could get her to fall in love with him in one day, using scientific methods from a study he read about fallin...

Thoughts at a glance: ***** (It was amazing!) Summary:  Natasha is all about facts and science; Daniel is all about poetry and philosophy. Natasha is practical, sensible; Daniel is daydreamy, passionate. Natasha believes in choices; Daniel believes in fate. Natasha is twelve hours away from being deported back to Jamaica with her family; Daniel is on his way to an interview for Yale because his Korean immigrant parents really want him to go there and become a doctor. Natasha doesn't have time to fall in love with this wonderful, adorable boy whom she's just met on the street; Daniel knew after one glance at Natasha that they were meant to be. Over the course of a day, it seems as if the universe is conspiring, according to Daniel. Or, as according to Natasha, is everything just a series of coincidences?

I decided to keep close track of the books I read this year for the Goodreads Reading Challenge, which is not something I've done before (and this blog only just began in March!), so this is my first top ten list! These are my favorite books that were released this year. I know there are a GREAT many books that were left off my list (like books from Sabaa Tahir, Rainbow Rowell, Patrick Ness, etc.), and that's because I haven't gotten around to reading them yet! I know, sacrilege! If only there were more hours in the day and more of me to get things done. But these are my top ten that I've read  from this year. Without further ado, here they are, in no particular order: Illuminae  by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Okay, I know I said "in no particular order," but I'd be lying if I didn't say that this was probably my FAVORITE book from this year. It was clever and unique in terms of its format, but it also just had a fantastic, gripping story. ...

This copy was provided for free from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Thoughts at a glance: ***** (It was amazing!) Madeline Whittier has never left her house. She has an illness that renders her, well, allergic to everything, so she can't go outside, the (MANY) books she reads have to arrive shrink-wrapped, and contact with anyone other than her mother and her nurse Carla has to be carefully monitored. Things change when Oliver's family moves in next door. Maddy, wearing her white clothes, standing in her white bedroom, and feeling very aware of her unwell body, sees strong, muscular Olly dressed all in black, performing parkour stunts, and climbing onto the roof. They are instantly drawn to each other, and soon, they are emailing/messaging and pantomiming at each other through windows. Before long, it starts to feel like not enough for Maddy. Their romance, and Maddy's subsequent thirst for freedom, unfolds through Maddy's thoughtful and p...