From a corner in the library

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Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)
Author: J.K. Rowling (www.jkrowling.com/)
Date of publication: September 2000
Synopsis: The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable ...With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller. (From goodreads.com)

OK. I have to admit that, after four HP books, I know what the big fuss is about. Why did I wait so long to read these books?! 'cause apparently I AM a hipster :P HP was way too mainstream. Yeah, no. Actually I'd never been to drawn to fantasy, but this guy made me read it:

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Not like personally, but you know... Hank (and John) kept talking about Harry Potter so much in the vlogbrother videos, that I just had to read them.
Right, so I think I liked this book a bit less than the others (which I liked a lot, so I still like this one a great amount). The first part was kinda boring. Am I going to be reading about Harry's terrible summers with the Dursleys again in the next book? Bit repetitive.
The Quidditch World Cup was also boring. I'm not into sports in real life... so a fictional sport does not interest me in the least. But once they got to Hogwarts things got better.
The fact that Harry was one of the Hogwarts champions did not come as a surprise for me. He was THE famous Harry Potter, of course he had to be a part of everything. Too predictable.
I liked the tasks, I enjoyed them. Especially the egg one that involved the merpeople.
I loved Hermoine! or Herm-Own-Ninny LOL. She's my favorite character. And since some really great (read that with a huge amount of sarcasm) spoilers have told me how the series ends, I found Ron to be adorably jealous :3 I wonder if she's going to keep SPEW going. I liked Dobby (I know how his story ends up, as well) and WTF was wrong with Winky!?!
That also was great, the whole part where they discover Mad-Eye Moody was really Crouch's son. Awesome plot twist.
I had so much fun imagining Robert Pattinson as Cedric!

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He was cool, though. I was sad when he died.
So of course, I'm intrigued as to what they'll do now that Voldermort is back. Kinda scary, right?

Would I read it again? Probably
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Title: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Author: Kody Keplinger (http://kodykeplinger.com/)
Date of publication: September 2010
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face.
But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.
Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone. (from goodreads.com)

WHOA! Hold your horses right there.... Keplinger wrote this book when she was SEVENTEEN?!?!
*considers the whole book for a second*
Right, OK. I'm ok now. It's not that I didn't like the book, I did. But it wasn't great, you know? Since there's a movie made about it, I thought it would be amazing... it wasn't.
It has something, definitely. Because I finished it in two days, there was something that kept me turning the pages (well, pushing the little buttons on my kindle, but whatever). I just don't know what it was. I couldn't connect with Bianca. I didn't hate her, I didn't love her either. Wesley... I didn't fall in love with him like I usually do with other YA book boys. I just couldn't.
Other characters I don't even remember 'cause they were not very relevant for the story I guess.
I liked the moral of the story, it's great, but IDK it feels like the whole story was going there, there weren't any surprises, any plot twist...nothing that kept me on the edge of my chair (so to speak, 'cause I was laying in my bed the whole time :P)
So, yeah. It was cool, but not so out-of-this-world, nothing too special.
I just watched the trailer and let me tell ya... I won't be watching the movie any time soon. It has nothing to do with the book!! It infuriates me that they make movies claimed to be based on books when the only thing that is similar is the name! It seems like they changed many things...

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Is that the emo girl from The Perks of Being a Wallflower? The one that was Charlie's girlfriend for a while? I might've given the movie a chance... but there's that red-haired girl from Shake It Up, what's her name? Anyway, I can't stand her, so...

Would I read it again? Don't think so.

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Author: Federico Moccia [http://www.federicomoccia.it/]
Title: Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (=Sorry if I call you love) [Scusa ma ti chiamo amore #1]

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Date of publication: February, 2007
Synopsis: Niki es una joven madura y responsable que cursa su último año de secundaria. Alessandro es un exitoso publicista de 37 años a quien acaba de dejar su novia de toda la vida. A pesar de los 20 años de diferencia que hay entre ambos y del abismo generacional que los separa, Niki y Alessandro se enamorarán locamente y vivirán una apasionada historia de amor en contra de todas las convenciones y prejuicios sociales. [From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3421805-perdona-si-te-llamo-amor ...sorry, I couldn't find it in English]


This is definitely not my kind of book. So why did I read it? Basically because every.single.time I went to the library (which is quite often) I saw these pretty little books with really catchy covers and I got curious. I was kinda tired of the kind of books I read last month (YA lit, which I love but can be seriously infuriating when read in big amounts), so I figured I changed my style for a bit.
Anyway, this is an Italian book that I read in Spanish and am going to review in English *brain explodes*
I honestly thought for a while that this book was going to get five stars. But there were several things that I just hated. Let me write first about why I loved the book.
Alessandro is adorable! He's broken-hearted and when he meets Niki he's so afraid because their 'love' is fragile.
Niki might not be the most realistic character ever, but she's kinda crazy (not Olly-crazy, but still) and somebody that I'd like to have as a friend. Oh, and don't make me LOL about the fact that they all passed their exams after all the partying they did! Though, I got it... work of fiction. Anyway, Niki, yeah.... I liked her :) La chica de los jazmines.
There are a lot of little situations that are extremely romantic and cheesy... and I absolutely loved that! You know how Olive/Emma Stone talks about having this perfect movie-like romance in the Easy A movie?

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Well, I want a book-like romance... Jeez, I just puked in my mouth a little bit. But it's the truth! Alex and Niki had the most romantic love story ever! Until he fucked up, but I'll talk about that in a second.
When they prepared a little (or big) surprise for each other?! That was incredible cute, for example, Alessandro's birthday :D or Niki's birthday :3 *swooning*
I liked the relationship they had with their friends: Alex with Enrico, Pietro and Flavio, and Niki with the "Olas" (what is it, Waves? I don't know...).
The writing was like a 50/50. I don't really enjoy reading in Spanish, but since the book was originally written in Italian, I thought Spanish was more appropriate. I liked some of the parts, but some others where just too much blah, blah, blah... 
I freaking hated Elena... omg, I hated her so much! Throughout the whole novel, she just annoyed the hell out of me. And she was present in just two chapters or so. How dare she come back! How dare she mess with Alex's feelings! How dare she have an affair with Marcello! I'm so angry. But what makes me even angrier is that Alex took her back in a heartbeat! How dare he! I hated him so freaking much!

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 You know, if I were Niki, I wouldn't have taken him back! That was despicable. What would've happened if Andrea hadn't sent Alex that email? They would've married and Niki would've been sad forever.
Two more things that I didn't like:
1. At the very, very end of the book I understood the reason why the author included chapters with Mauro, Stefano and Ella... But during the whole book I just kept wondering how the hell those people were!
and 2. The ending! the last 15% percent was I don't know, I felt like it was done in a rush. Moccia was very descriptive during the rest of the book, but after Elena came back it was all a rush... things kept happening super fast, one after the other. Boom, boom, boom. The end.
I thought that when Alex and Niki re-encounter it would be as magical. But no, it was so simple, there was no sweetness at all.

Good thing is (and I'm so excited about it!) there is a movie! Raoul Bova is super cute! That's kinda what I imagined Alessandro to be like (I say kinda, because for the first part of the book, before I even knew there was a movie I imagined somebody else *wink, wink*)

I don't know where I'm going to find the movie (checked Netflix...not there), but I will. I have to. Soon!
Would I read it again? Maybe. I'll read Scusa ma ti voglio sposare so, who knows?!