If I Stay {Book to Movie}

Opens August 22, 2014

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Written by, Gayle Forman

I read this book a couple of years ago and it immediately drew me in. I read it so fast, I just couldn't get enough of it. This is one of my favorite books along with the sequel "Where She Went"

Movie Synopsis

Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.


Book Synopsis

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make

Chloë Grace Moretz - playing "Mia Hall"

Chloe has been in many movies and TV shows. Some of the movies she is most known for is "Kick Ass" playing "Hit-Girl", "Hugo" playing "Isabelle" and the remake of "Carrie" playing "Carrie White".  She plays "Diondra" in "Dark Places" a book to movie written by Gillian Flynn coming out September 1st, 2014. And she has another movie coming out September 26th, 2014 where she plays "Teri" in "The Equalizer" starring with Denzel Washington. She has a total of 6 movies coming out this year. She has been very busy. She is currently cast to play "Cassie Sullivan" in "The 5th Wave" coming out in 2016.

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Jamie Blackley - playing "Adam"

 Jamie has been in several movies also. He is most know for playing "Iain" in "Snow White and the Huntsman" and for playing "Ziggy" in "The Fifth Estate". He has another movie coming out this year called "Kids in Love" playing "Tom". And he is currently filming the Untitled Woody Allen Project coming out in 2015.

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I made my own "If I Stay Movie Poster" 
If you would like to have some fun creating your own click here.

Favorite Quotes

This book has so many great quotes it is hard to choose just a couple.

Quote 1

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Quote 2

"And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it." -If I Stay

Quote 3 

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Movie Trailer #1

Movie Trailer #2

Here is a hopeful review from someone who has seen an early screening of the movie. This makes me super excited to see it.

August 5, 2014

I was lucky to come across free screening tickets (as usual) from a post from Refinery29 and was able to watch this movie a week ago. I didn’t post any reviews because I thought that, having not seen movies like these (pre-teen, based on books, death centered, tear jerkers) in a while, I would want to see the other similar ones out right now (The Fault in Our Stars) before making any reviews… If I had to pick one out of the two, I would pick If I Stay in a heartbeat. 

I went into the movie theatre not very sure of what to expect, I just wanted to see a free movie and watch my girl Chloë Moretz kill it on screen as she usually does, and that was exactly what happened. 

Let’s start off with how great the soundtrack was and music references (both classical and rock) and how I wished that all those 13 year old girls at the movie theatre watching the movie could appreciate. I loved the setting in Portland and the idea of music being in the center of everything. The timeline of going back and forth between the present and the past made it refreshing to watch and the pacing of the movie worked great. 

In comparison to The Fault in Our Stars, I want to mention about how this movie almost had me completely crying during so much of it while TFIOS did not. What I think did it the most was how well they introduced the family and they allowed you to fall in love with the characters before you see them in the car accident. (I won’t put any spoilers, because I want you to go see) but it could’ve easily been a really forced movie, and it wasn’t. 

When I’ve mentioned this movie I always mentioned Nick and Norah’s Infinite playlist, except maybe better. The movies aren’t alike, but the aspect of music is in there. The comedy and the community. I’m happy this movie exists and it was a very wonderful surprise.

3.5 Stars ★★★▴

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This review made me want to check out the movie soundtrack. I love seeing movies that have great music in them. Can't wait to hear what they have.

Want to see more Book to Movie Posts!

Still Alice
American Sniper

Into the Woods

Unbroken

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Before I Go to Sleep

Gone Girl

The Maze Runner

If I Stay

The Giver

Here's hoping we all enjoy the movie!

Kellie

Top 10 Summer Reads for 2014!

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It's that time of year again! School's out, vacations are planned, the days are long and everything can be done poolside! Besides our amazing 2014 Delicious Reads Line-Up there are lots books we're looking forward to reading this summer. Today I'd like to share our Top 10 Summer Reads for your reading pleasure. Let's get this party started!

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Rainbow Rowell is the author of another awesome book, Eleanor and Park, which was a fantastic young adult novel. This new book, Landline, is geared to adults- it’s about and woman named Georgie and her struggling marriage to Neal. Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past, and has to decide if she wants to fix her marriage or if it would be better if they had never been together in the first place. They depth and description of the relationship in Eleanor and Park was fantastic so I’m hoping this one is just as amazing.

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I’m going to put the book blurb for this one because it’s so interesting and different:

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

Doesn’t that make you want to read it??? Me too.

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This book promises to be one of those books that will stay with you for a long time. It’s about a social worker named Pete who helps a undernourished, almost feral eleven-year old boy in the Montana wilderness. Pete’s journey to help this boy lands him in the middle of an FBI manhunt that will make it impossible to put down.

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We just read The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty and we loved it! Here's our Picture Recap I, Picture Recap II and Our Book Review. Liane Moriary's new book, Big Little Lies comes out July 29, 2014. Big Little Lies is the intersection of three women’s lives: Madaline, the funny, 40 year old woman who is working through the fallout from her divorce, Celeste, the beautiful mom who seems to have everything lined up perfectly and Jane, the young mother who has been mistaken for the nanny. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands, second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

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Everyone loves The Office right?? Well B.J. Novak, aka the actor, writer and director of The Office delivers his debut book this summer. It should be an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly debut collection that signals the arrival of a welcome new voice in American fiction. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak’s assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving-often at the same time.

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Killing Ruby Rose by Jessie Humphries is about a seventeen year old vigilante with killer taste in shoes. When she ends up taking out a murderer to save his victim, she discovers she's gone from being the huntress to the hunted.

Ruby must discover who's using her to implement twisted justice before she ends up swapping Valentino red for prison orange. With a gun named Smith, a talent for martial arts, and a boyfriend with eyes to die for, Ruby is ready to face the worst. And if a girl's forced to kill, won't the guilt sit more easily in a pair of Prada peep-toe pumps?

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I heard about this book at the Storymakers 2014 Writer's Conference and I was swept up by this young author's story. Fifteen-year-old Maya Van Wagenen made the brave decision to spend a year following the advice of a 1950's popularity book, Betty Cornell's Teen Age Popularity Guide. She followed it step by step and didn't tell anyone what she was doing. This memoir is her story, which has already landed a movie deal. The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise—meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace, Maya’s journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence.

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If I Stay, by Gayle Forman is on our list because the movie adaptation is coming out in August! If you haven't read it yet now's your chance! It's about Mia, a girl who has everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, admiring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. In an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the only decision she has left. It is the most important decision she'll ever make.

Here's the official trailer!! I can't wait to see it!

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The premise of this book just sounds so interesting I have to pick it up: Paul O’Rourke is a man made of contradictions- he loves the world, but doesn’t know how to live in it. He’s a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online “Paul” might be a better version of the real thing.

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This thriller sounds really exciting! Check out the blurb: Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. But that book will come back to haunt him when there's a textbook murder… because Pilgram wrote the book.

There you have it! Our Top Ten 2014 Summer Reading Suggestions! Now all you need to do is head to your nearest bookstore, jump online to order or get downloading! I hope you saw something that piqued your interest!

Happy summer reading!

Warmly,
Brooke