Feature Follow Friday: Books Kimi Wants To Change

Increase Blog Followers
The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!

GFCbloglovin

Change the Plot. If you could, what book would you change the ending or a plot thread? Go ahead and do it…change it.

1. Mockingjay - There would be more Peeta than Gale. Finnick would not have died. I think that's it... I'm pretty much satisfied with the story mostly, yeah.

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Sorry J.K., your HP regrets would have been about who Hermione ends up with, but I'm pretty satisfied with that and have OTHER problems. I would have preferred Fred Weasley to stay alive. Albus Severus should not have been named that way. I don't see how Snape is a 'hero' or 'the bravest man Harry ever knew'. He basically spent most of his time tormenting the child of the woman he loves, and also begged Voldemort to spare Lily but didn't give batshit about Harry or his father. What kind of man is that? He may have been on the good side all this time, but he was a pretty awful character.

3. Allegiant - Not let Tris die. I don't have problems with main characters dying, as long as it is justifiable. However, I couldn't seem to understand why Tris had to die and at the expense of her evil brother too. I just don't see the point of her death. Also, I could be rid of the dual point of views, thank you very much.

4. Twilight - Not let Bella fall in love with a vampire. Not let her get pregnant with said vampire. Not let her give birth to a weird half vampire half human demon baby spawn thing. Not let any werewolves imprint on said baby. Not let that baby thing be named Renesmee. Not let Edward saying "Goodbye my friend, my brother, my son." to Jacob. 

Oh wait, that's basically the whole series. Oops.

---

What would YOU change? I may have been brutally honest with my answers, but I can't help myself sometimes. HEEHEE. 

If you follow our blog, please please let us know in the comments! We will follow back because we just love meeting new bookish people! <3

Top Ten Tuesday: Books that will make you cry

This week's topic is books that will make you cry. This is a very difficult topic to write about as we at the Geeky Chiquitas rarely cry, we just have feels. So on the rare occasion that a certain book does make any of us cry, we are sure to remember it. For sure. 

Kimi's Picks

1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
This is the most recent book I've read that made me cry. A beautiful and heartbreaking story between two young men, this book will surely make anyone burst into tears.

2. Mockingjay
Because it broke my heart to read about tortured Peeta and crazy and depressed Katniss.

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
This is the most emotional and overwhelming book I've ever read. I grew up with these characters, the world, and the story. Knowing that this was the last book was a big tearjerker for me. Watching the characters die was also too painful.

4. Thirteen Reasons Why
This is the first book I've read about suicide and it simply blew me away. 

5. The Last Song
I'm quite skeptical of adding this to the list as I'm not the biggest Nicholas Sparks fan, but this book is clearly an exception as I thought it was very poignant and beautiful, and made me shed a few tears too.


Beryl's Picks
1. The Sister's Keeper
This book is all about sacrifice to save someone you love's life. This book truly touched my heart, and I realized that sometimes kids really do feel like they are neglected by their parents. 

2. If I Stay
I can't imagine choosing between life and death. Knowing that if you choose death, you wouldn't know what could happen to you if you had chosen life. If you had chosen life, there will definitely be a lot of challenges and it will be especially hard for Mia because her family is already dead.

3. The Fault in Our Stars
I'm not the only one who cried upon reading this book. True love is infinite and when Augustus Waters died, you could see how much Hazel loves him. Now that, is true love.

4. Catalyst
Catalyst is a book that wrecked me emotionally. It was a book of pure genius, evil genius. I would probably break down if I were to go into more detail about this book so I will leave at at this note: this book will change your outlook in life.

5. Clean
Because it contains all of a teen's possible encounters in life. It's very realistic. I just loved reading this and I definitely don't regret it.

Can't Wait to Watch Movies of 2014





Being the movie buffs we are, we decided to write a blog post dedicated to the upcoming movies of 2014. This 2014 there are a lot of movie releases that we are truly waiting for! We'll share them to you in this blog post. Plus, you can use this blog post to know the release dates of your awaited movies of 2014.

Let's start off with: 

1. The Lego Movie (February 7) 

We love watching cartoons and animated films, so it's a crime to not put this on our list of 2014 movies to watch out for! We really enjoyed watching Wreck it Ralph, and think that this movie is similar. Plus, who didn't enjoy playing Lego when they were kids?

2. Divergent (March 21) 

We're super excited to watch this movie because we are fans of the book. We read the Divergent book series, so naturally we'd like to see how it is translated to screen. We're most excited to see how they're going to portray dystopian Chicago, the chemistry between Tris and Tobias and of course, how they're going to create the simulations!

The Hunger Games & Catching Fire: Book to Film Differences


I recently reread The Hunger Games trilogy just for kicks, even though I faintly remember telling myself three years ago when I finished Mockingjay that I would NEVER reread the series again, for reasons that are obvious (it's too depressing).

I guess it was because the 2nd movie had just come out, and my mom was reading the trilogy for the first time since she saw the movie and couldn't understand it so she decided to read the book - and then I thought why not read the trilogy with her, so I could refresh my mind with what had happened in the books.

When I read the series, I had just seen Catching Fire thrice (all in theaters. Yes I am that addicted) and rewatched the first movie which I had downloaded. 

And now, I know, the Hunger Games movie franchise is generally loyal to the book, but of course there were some aspects like characters and scenes that had to be cut out of the movie. I didn't notice much of these stuff at first since I saw the movies long AFTER I finished the trilogy, so now that I've read the books again, this time I took mental notes on which stuff I wanted to get translated into film but didn't get to see.

1. Madge
I understand that they wanted to make the movie understandable to everyone and not just the readers, but I hate how they completely deleted Madge's character. Madge is the Mayor's daughter in District 12, and is Katniss's only friend aside form Gale. She is also the one who gives Katniss the mockingjay pin. But in the movie, Katniss acquires the pin from Greasy Sae in the black market. This was a very noticeable difference, and it just felt wrong for me. Madge, though a minor character, plays a major part in the story aside from being Katniss's friend who sits with her at lunch in school.

WHY KATNISS SHOULD CHOOSE PEETA

WARNING: This will be a long read.

WARNING WARNING: MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP.

Do not read if you haven't read the books or haven't seen the movies. If you've read up until Catching Fire, but not Mockingjay, then STOP right now (unless you're like me and like spoilers so much, then wow okay read on, I insist)

But for those who hate spoilers, enjoy this picture for a while, then LEAVE. For the love of God LEAVE NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE (i have had enough death threats from people who I have unintentionally spoiled, I don't want any more)



Popular Posts

Like us on Facebook

Stalk Us

2015 Reading Challenge

2015 Reading Challenge
Kimi has read 3 books toward her goal of 100 books.
hide