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It's a plane!
No, a bird!
No, it's a SUPER book!

Presenting... *drumrolls*

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Hello everyone! Sorry about the sporadic posts lately. I've been settling in my new 'job'/ industrial placement project as part of a school module. It's been a crazy fun three weeks full of 14 hour days, including the travelling time, which means I can barely get some sleep, reading time and a tweet or two in -- let alone a whole, nicely worded and thought out post.

But here I am, ready to pound out some intellektual thots. Another seven more weeks to go. I'll schedule some reviews to fill in the gap, and I hope you do comment! :)

Showcasing a load of great books that I didn't expect to get at all -- neither as a gift nor as review books. Here goes!

The Last Song

When I heard that Nicholas Sparks was approached to write both the film's screenplay and the novel for The Last Song, and that the movie was to star Miley Cyrus and bring her out of her Hannah Montana persona, I was intrigued.

Firstly because I'm a huge fan of Miley Cyrus, and the theme song When I Look At You was beautiful, and I think the movie would be beautifully sad as well. Second because it was Nicholas Sparks, and the book and movie would 1) be very sad, 2) have a happy and unhappy ending at the same time, 3) it is vastly different from Hannah Montana. Thirdly because I have never heard of a situation where Disney deliberately approached a well known author to commission a book and movie to launch one of its stars out of teendom to the general audience, and the author accepted.

I'm going to get this book soon. I've never read any Nicholas Sparks books because I'm afraid of sad stories, but I hate watching movies before reading the books first, so it's quite a dilemma I'm in here. Since it's a Disney/Miley/Nicholas Sparks mix however, I'm up for it.

Anyone read it yet? What's your opinion?