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FROSTBITE: A VAMPIRE ACADEMY FILM – Indigogo

Aug 12, 2014

You all know how much I love the Vampire Academy books. You also know that I liked the movie as well. It may have not been the best but I still really enjoyed.

That is why we really, really need Frostbite. We will be meeting so many new characters in this movie that I can’t even hold anything in. We will hopefully be meeting Adrian, Eddie, Tasha and so many more.

A couple of months ago the Official Vampire Academy Movie page announced that they need help to fund the movie. They left that with us until a couple of days ago when they announced that there are going to be doing an Indigogo project. Here is the announcement from the cast and producers annoying the crowd-funding campaign.

So what that means is that you are able to buy perks which includes some pretty awesome items and what you buy for it goes towards the funding. We need to raise $1.5 Million for us to be able to get the Frostbite movie.

If we don’t raise the money by the 5^th of September 12.59pm PT time everyone gets their money back and sadly the movie won’t go ahead.

I really want to be able to see Frostbite and there are some amazing perks up for grabs at all different prices. Prices range from $10 to $10,000.

So I encourge all of you please do help us. Don’t let what you think about the Vampire Academy movie cloud your mind from donating to help us from getting Frostbite. In saying that we also have a new scirpt writer for Frostbite none other than Piers Ashworth who not long ago left a message to us fans.

Writing the screenplay for Frostbite made me realize just how perfect the story is for a movie. It is filled with action and emotion and incredible characters all of whom evolve through the story. I can’t wait to see Adrian’s onscreen introduction… not to mention Natasha and Eddie and Janine. But I think my favorite new character is Isaiah. In this film the Strigoi are really, really scary… and the worst of them, the most powerful, is Isaiah. Immeasurably strong and almost impossible to kill he’s the ultimate bad guy and the perfect opponent for Rose. Because of his existence (and his plan to eradicate the Moroi royal families) there is tension from the very first page. That gives the film an energy and a pace that will keep audiences (even those who have never read the books) on the edge of their seats until the very end.

We have to get this movie made. We have to meet Adrian and understand the new dimension he brings to the story. We have to experience the changes Rose undergoes as she battles the ultimate foe at the same time as coming to terms with her relationships (including the one with her mother). We have to see the battle of wills in the basement – and the surprise of Mia’s use of water magic to incapacitate Isaiah. We have to see the Strigoi for what they really are. Please help make that happen.

Just reading that makes me so excited to see the film. Just by what he is saying I know that the script will be so much better than Vampire Academy.

You can donate at Indigogo and guys don’t forget to spread the world. As we reach certain goals we are getting little perks. Even parts of the script. So come on guys join the amazing VAFamily and donate to help us get Frostbite.

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Discussion: ‘Don’t Judge a book by its cover’

Aug 7, 2014

You know that saying ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover?’ Everyone should know it, everyone says it and everyone does it.

Beautiful covers always capture our attention, or maybe it’s something particular on the cover that pulls you. Each and everyone one of us has something that without a second thought will make our eyes travel towards that book. Then you will pick the book up read the synopsis and then decided how you feel about the book, if you think you will like it or not.

You may not fully judge a book by its cover, but you still do in a way. A cover is meant to attract readers, if you have a gorgeous or interesting book cover someone is going to pick it up. If you have a, let’s just say it because we all know it’s true; an ugly and dull cover in front of you, most people will not pick it up. Even if it is one of the most amazing books written. But then you can get gorgeous covered books with dull content. You can never know unless you pick up the book, read the synopsis and (if you like that) read the book.

Yes, don’t judge a book as a whole by its cover, but covers are, for the most part, what a reader will see first. No one should judge a book by its cover, but people do without even realising it. You are looking at shelves upon shelves of books and what is the book that catches your eye? The one with bright colours will be picked up first.

The phrase ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ is true. You shouldn’t judge a book by what it looks like. But it is difficult not to. You don’t know what the inside is going to be until you start reading it.

I know that it is hard not to judge books by the cover because is what our brain just does, so I say don’t be ashamed about doing it. It just happens. All I say is if you see a cover that catches you attention, pick it up, read the synopsis and think about if you will like it. That is all that you can do really.

The saying is something that every reader, or any person, will always have on the back of their mind and yes, it does have some truth.

In the end it does happen and I think that the saying is just a saying, that is it. Don’t be ashamed about going straight to a book with a nice cover. It happens and no one should be judge you for it. Because in the end they will do it too, maybe without even realising.

What do you think about the saying? What is it about covers that grabs you attention?

Discussion: Banned Books

Jun 12, 2014

I was watching a past episode of Tea Time by Epic Reads a few days ago and it was all about Banned Books. Last year around September when Banned Books Week is held I just couldn’t believe that books are still getting banned today.

I cannot hold my anger in about this issue. Mot only are books still getting banned but for the most stupid reasons. Don’t get me wrong parents are allowed to not let THEIR child read certain books, but they cannot prohibit others from being able to read what they want.

Banned Books

Books can be banned from school libraries, school reading list, etc. Banning a book from these sorts of things essentially causes the removal of the material. Even the notion of challenging a book to be banned makes my blood boil.

There have been so many books throughout history that have been banned or challenged and I understand certain books being banned 100 years ago but we are living in the 21st century, come on people. Banning a book from, let’s say a High School Library for offensive language? Hello parents, your teen children do and will swear, you did, they do. Saying it is not age appropriate? If the main protagonist is age 15, then I am pretty sure it is suitable for 15 year old teens.

From 2000 to 2009 here are some stats as to why most books were banned or challenged:

1,577 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material
1,291 challenges due to “offensive language”
989 challenges due to materials deemed “unsuited to age group”
619 challenged due to “violence”‘
361 challenges due to “homosexuality”
274 challenged due to “occult” or “Satanic” themes
291 challenged due to “religious viewpoint”
119 because they were “anti-family”

Yes, I know that banning books doesn’t happen everywhere and I think it rarely happens in Australia anymore, but it does still happen and it just shouldn’t. Like I said before, if a parent doesn’t want their child to read a certain book, sit them down, tell them why you don’t want them to read it, make them understand. Don’t go and try and ban the book so others, whose parents will let them read it, cannot.

What I don’t understand is how some books people are trying to ban are less ‘offensive’ than some PG (M in Australia) rated films and TV Shows. These are appropriate for 13+ (15 +),yet they swear and sometimes they have nudity and violence, but books that have less of this content get banned! It just doesn’t make sense.

I totally understand when a parent doesn’t let their child read certain books or watch certain things, but don’t take that away from others just because of your beliefs. It just isn’t fair on others. If that were ever going to happen to me, I would be furious. I cannot name how many times J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been challenged. This just makes me so angry.

I also understand why certain books such as let’s say Fifty Shades of Grey being banned from a High School library. That is logical. But banning it from, let’s say a college library or a local library, just isn’t right. People can read what they want.

I just think the whole concept of banning books, and even challenging them is out of date. The reasons are even more ridiculous. Looking for Alaska by John Green has been challenged for: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, being sexually explicit, and being unsuited to age group. Drugs/alcohol/smoking I don’t know about you, but I hear about this nearly every day in the media. I see people smoking all the time, so why do people want to ban a book because it contains things that actually happen? This is seen in real life.

Again, I understand parents not letting their own children read certain books due to religious values and their own values and that is totally fine.

Challenged Books

Here are the top ten books last year that were challenged out of 307:

Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence

You can find about more about banned books and banned book week which will be from the 21st of September to the 27th of September this year on the Banned Books Week Site.

Sorry that this post turned more into a rant then a discussion. I just have really strong feelings about this topic.

What are your feelings about banned books? Has your school or library ever had a book banned?