Why I love PRETTY LITTLE LIARS

I was planning to do a Fast Book Review today but earlier I was thinking about this and I thought why not writing it down. So here are my reasons for being madly obsessed with this TV show.

First of all, a bit about how I learned about PLL. A friend of mine told me probably a hundred times I should watch it, so one day I was alone at home and with nothing to do (good old days) so I decided I would give it a try. At that time there was only a season complete and it was probably airing episode 3 or 4 of the second season. And that was it. I swear I watched the first episode and it was like I needed to learn everything about it. So, in probably three or four days I finished up season one and started watching episodes as they aired.

I’m diving right into the reasons why I love the show. The first one and I think this not only applies for this show but mostly for every show I watch and every book I read. I want to be entertained and forget about my life, about my problems. I don’t want to watch a show that resembles my life, because I have enough of it already, and sometimes life can be overwhelming and you need to chill for a bit and forget about everything. So I love a good show that can take my mind off of things, a show that can make me forget for at least an hour a day. And Pretty Little Liars does that. Its twists and turns keep my mind busy trying to work things out, and mystery makes me hungry for more. The romance on the show makes me wish I could experience some of that myself (on the dark side it also makes me have high expectation on boys ouch!).

The second thing I love is the opportunity to communicate directly with the writers and producers of the show. As a lot of you know, PLL is the most tweeted show on tv, among other things, and almost, if not every writer and producer of the show has a personal twitter account and answers fan questions (although sometimes they answer to the same people over and over again) . I love the possibility that we, as fans of the show, have to talk directly to the people in charge of creating this world, and the fact that we can discuss everything about it, every clue, every revelation, in real time makes it all the more exciting.

And of course, number three are the actors. Maybe you don’t love them all, but you have to agree with me that this is probably the hottest cast on TV. Like really, how is it even possible to hire so many good looking people? The girls are all stunning, and I swear I would be happy having like 2% of their beautifulness. The boys are like too much to handle. And the thing I love the most is that there is one for every girl. You like the kinda hipster guy, you have Tyler. You like the sweet, caring guy who loves animals, you have Ian. And so on. 

Like really?! They are all so perfect it hurts.

I’m not going to comment on acting capacity just because I believe that that is something totally subjective. But what I will admit, and I would love to have you admit too, is that even if they are not the greatest actor/actress of all times, they are there, meaning that someone chose them to portray that particular role, and that, like it or not, means something.

The style of the show, not only the clothing which is amazing btw, but the style of the buildings and the design of the sets. You can tell that everything is thought about carefully. One thing though, how are they even allowed to go to school dressed like that? I know that I live in a different country, and at my school we had to wear uniforms, but how is that even possible? I mean really stylish, but not so much school-ish…

Yeah, they go to school this well dressed...

On a more serious note, another thing I not only love, but admire about the show is the good use they give to the massive impact on teenagers and young adults everywhere. I love how they deal with topics such as homosexuality, loss and addiction. Knowing that they matter to a lot of us, and that probably everyone that is watching has suffer or know someone who has suffer at least one of them. The show feels real to us, and we can relate to it in a positive way. The fact that ABC Family is letting, not only this show, but others on the network too, address some of these topics that were for so long considered “taboo” makes me really happy. Good for them and for us as a society.

And finally I wanted to talk about the storyline. I’ve read a lot of people commenting that they are getting tired of not knowing who is A and honestly I love where they are taking the story. Yes, it’s true that it’s a bit tiring that every time we discover someone is -A, then we found out that they are not. But the whole point of the show is creating mystery and resolving it or half resolving it and leaving open doors to then potentially open them wider or close them as necessary. The whole Alison twist that happened on season 4 was amazing, and you can’t deny that. Ok, I guess you could, but you should not.

So that is all for today. There are probably a hundred more reasons why I love PLL but it’s going to take forever. So if you are interested in knowing more and in case you didn’t realize it already, I would highly recommend you to watch Pretty Little Liars if you want to be entertained, amused and shocked all in the same second. You have until June 10th to catch up, that's the date set for season five to premiere on ABC Family.

A lazy entry

I haven't written anything for a while. I've been pretty busy with college, work and basically deciding what to do with my life. I don't know if it's just me or if it's the age or what but I'm kinda failing at knowing what to do. 

Anyway something interesting I'm starting my acting classes tomorrow again. New schoool, I'm gonna meet new people so I'm excited. Ok so I wanted to give you an update on my reading. I've been pretty lazy with reading because I've been studying a lot buuuut I did finished The Book Thief and I plan on doing a Fast Book Review sometime this month, maybe when I finish Allegiant that it's what I'm reading now. I'm about to finish this one too and I already spoiled myself the big thing that happens at the end of the book and I know for a fact that I'm gonna hate Veronica Roth for a while probably more than I hated Lauren Oliver at the end of Requiem (and that was ugly)

Well I know this suck but I wanna watch Pretty Little Liars and then go to bed because tomorrow I have to work early. So night!

Reading Update

I'm doing a reading update of the beginning of the year because I'm reading a lot of books at the same time and I'm enjoying them all so I wanted to write about them a bit.

But before that I wanted to talk about a book that I've just finished and it's called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and it's about an autistic 15-year-old boy who is really smart and logic but has trouble with emotions. One day he decides to investigate the death of a neighbor's dog. This book is so amazing I just can't explain. It was different from everything I've ever read and it was just so pure and beautiful to see the world from Christopher's eyes. I feel different now, I don't know how to explain that either but it changed me. I would recommend this book to everyone because it's so beautifully well written and it opens your eyes in so many levels and I just can't say enough good things about it. Oh and also there's London and math, and I LOVE maths, I've almost forgotten how much I loved math <3

Now that I told you that, we're onto the first book I'm reading, Allegiant by Veronica Roth. This is the third book on the Divergent trilogy and I really only have read the first couple of chapters because I've heard it's really sad, and not a lot of people are happy with the ending and I love Tris and Tobias too much to watch them suffer more if that makes any sense (? So I've let it aside for a bit, but I don't know how much I can distract myself before I give in and read it, and cry my eyes out more certainly.

I'm also reading Free Four which is an additional chapter or something like that, that tells a scene form Divergent but from Four's point of view, not Tris'. It's really short and I feel really excited about it because Tris & Four = OTP

And finally I'm reading The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch. I found this book by accident in a store in my country and read the first page and I knew I had to buy it. I feel attracted to this kind of lecture, like mysterious but silly, I don't know, I'm enjoying it, but I haven't read a whole lot yet.

I'm also gonna be starting with The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I purchased it last week, it was out of stock for a long while but no sooner I saw it I bought it. I did my first year translation project on that book and now I need to read it from start to finish.

So that's all for now. If you wanna know what I'm reading at all times, my Goodreads profile is open and you can add me as a friend if you want :) This is it

Fast Book Reviews: Losing It

Hello cuties! I'm here to bring you another Fast Book Review, the first of the New Year (PS: Happy New Year everyone!) and this is also special because it's the first "New Adult" book I review. This means the book has sexual content, not to the extreme, and it's mostly talked about not performed if that makes any sense (?) Anyway if you are against that kind of book I recommend you to stay away from this book, but if you have never read and you wanna give it a shot, I would recommend this book. It was one of the first books I read of this category, so it's new to me too.

  

Losing It is about a 22-year-old girl called Bliss that is in her senior year of college and is still a virgin. Now, if you hate the typical plot where the poor girl is virgin and she can't have sex because some kind of trauma or because no one wants to have sex with her, you're lucky, because this is not how the book goes. And that is one of my favorite things about it, you expect Bliss to be stereotypical, but she's not, and in my opinion she's just like a normal girl, like you, like me. She has fears, and she overcomes them. She doesn't know the first thing about dating or love but she's not dumb. She's independent, opinionated, and has a mind of her own. She's weird and awkward like most of us are, she's simply herself..

Then we met Garrick and I'm not gonna tell you much about him because I can't without giving too much of the book away but what I can tell you is: bar, hot guy reading Shakespeare, accent, British, and the rest is history.

This book gather some of my favorite things in the world, hot teachers (is this weird?), British guys, strong female character, acting, theatre and a lot (and I mean A LOT) of funny references to bands, movies and books. I mean, Harry Potter could be consider a big part of the novella that comes after this book (Keeping Her) so...

Plot wise, the book is amazing. It's really fast so you don't get bored, it has a lot of characters and character development, it takes you inside the world of Bliss life and I swear to you that you will wanna live there forever.

I would really recommend this book to anyone 16+ if you are OK with reading sex. People would probably rate it 18+ but I believe that at 16 you are mature enough to understand and appreciate it. 

It's really an amazing book about the choices that we have to take in life, career choices, work choices, love choices, and how one girl manages it all.

Favorite Book Quote: “Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.” - Cora Carmack 

Fast Book Reviews: Divergent

Welcome people, I'm here with another fast book review for you, Christmas edition! Well not really, but it is a book I read on Christmas day so it counts haha! This time I'll be reviewing Divergent by Veronica Roth. I've had this book on my shelf for quite some time, but I had to study so I couldn't read it, but now I'm free for the holidays and I'm all back on it. Thanks for reading!

In Divergent we are presented with a post-apocalyptic world that has been splitted into 5 factions that represents different core values. Those that believed the world failed because of selfishness formed Abnegation. Those that believed it was due to ignorance formed Erudite, always seeking for knowledge. Those who felt that lies were the cause of the problems formed Candor, pledging to always speak the truth. Those who felt aggression and power-hunger were the cause became Amity. And finally, those who felt that cowardice was the root of the problems formed Dauntless, the faction of the courageous and strong.

Every year, every 16-year-old has to choose to what faction they're gonna belong for the rest of their lives, and this could mean having to leave your family behind. So we meet Beatrice, a girl from Abnegation and learn a little bit about how life in her faction goes by. But during her preliminary test to see what faction is recommended to her, something goes wrong.

We are then taken into her journey through the initiation process in one of the factions and met Four, a handsome, really mean and a bit scary instructor. But nothing is what it seems and the book is full of twist and turns, it doesn't have a dull moment. Some of the "plot twists" are a bit obvious and that is one of the things I have to criticize, but it's one of the few.

The book is really fast paced, you can't put it down, and you never get bored of a chapter or a situation and that is an extremely good thing. The characters are really well developed, specially the main ones, and most of them have surprises that you found out as the book progresses.

Beatrice "Tris", the protagonist, is amazing. I really like her independence, her will to do whatever she needs to do, and that she accepts the reality that is thrown upon her and acts according to it, she doesn't even think about giving up, it's not an option. She represents the values that the faction where she was born inculcated in her, but she adapts to new rules or at least try.

The love story in this book is amazing. Is not that kind of sickish love that makes you want to throw up. It's cute, and funny, and extremely hot. Let me just say, Tris is a lucky girl ;) IT makes you want more, NEED MORE, and ugh OTP right here.

The last thing I wanna say, and it's something that made me really love this book, is one of the differences between it and a lot of other dystopian novels. It has to do with the fact that the government doesn't force the citizens to do something, the can choose by themselves what they want to live by, they chose to live like this, and this makes you realize that there isn't a need for a dictatorship government for problems to arise. And the fact that I believe all of this problems didn’t' came after a war necessarily, they came to be after the constant seek for peace, I believe they got too carried away looking for ways to make peace that they cross a line and  then it was impossible for them to return.

Overall it's a really well paced and written book, that I would recommend to everyone who likes dystopian themed novels and action books with a bit of love. Oh and YAY for the female heroin!

Favorite book quote: “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent

Bits of inspiration

Do you know that feeling when you find a song that you totally relate to and makes you feel all warm inside? That song that it's like listening to your strugles, your story? That song that teaches you something, that makes you realize what path you should follow? That feeling is one of the best feelings ever!

It happened to me recently. It doesn't matter what type of music you are into, the lyrics are what matter, and the way you relate to them. So today I just wanted to share with you the last song that made me feel like that. 

I don't know if everyone is familiar with The X Factor, and the artists that come out of it. I know the whole prejudice that people have with them, and a lot of opinions against but I want all of you that are reading this to take a minute and listen to this song, and read the lyrics because I can understand if you don't like the sound or the type of music, but the lyrics and their voices are freaking amazing, so yeah... 

I'm talking about the winners of the 2011 UK X Factor, Little Mix. Their second album came out last month in the UK and on youtube (?) and their sound is much more mature and fresh and their harmonies and the fact that they write their own songs is admirable. But I want to focus on one of the songs, which is actually their second single, called Little Me.



I'm just asking for 5 minutes of your time to watch the video, and listen to the lyrics. This song has so much meaning to me, and as the girls said themselves, it's about what you would want to tell your younger self about how to face the world, and the problems we all encounter. I hope you feel as touched as I felt because it's an incredible feeling :) 

"I’d tell her to speak up, tell her to shout out, talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder. Tell her she’s beautiful, wonderful, everything she doesn’t see"

Age crisis - Part 2.

So in case you were wondering I'm having another age crisis. Or the same age crisis. At this point I don't even know.

I started working at a bank, the most important in my country, and everyone tells you that it's a job for life, that I'm going to be really happy there and my life would basically consist of it BUT I'm not sure I want that. Sure I was the one that applied for the job, and it's an amazing job, don't get me wrong. Everyone is so nice and I'm learning a lot, and saving money for the trips I wanna make, but I know for a fact I'm not made for it.

I want to be an actress ok? It's so hard to say it. I don't know if it's because of the way people look at you when you tell them, or because I know it's most likely not going to happen. Ever. But I can't help to dream about it, and it's killing me. In my country you can't live only working as an actor, because the market is not big enough and it's really difficult to be taken seriously. So basically my dream consist on going to the States or London and study acting, but for that I need a support, a job, a career and I'm not sure about any of that.

What I don't want is to wake up one day and realise I'm 40 and I'm still in my country, still working at the bank, and really unhappy. I know, I'm only 20, but this is the age to give acting a go, not 30, not 40. 20's are the best age for that and there is where the key of my crisis is, the feeling that I'm never going to be able to accomplish my dreams. I don't believe in giving up, but sometimes it's so difficult...

GOD I HATE BEING AN ADULT.