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BC Sightings

Beautiful Creatures is being shipped out and hitting bookshelves as we speak.  This is a very exciting time for Kami and Margie as well as for us Caster Girls.  Its it will be amazing to see BC personally in a bookstore and I cannot wait to encounter my first BC sighting.  Some people have already seen it at some bookstores around the country.  If you by any chance see it anywhere send us a picture and let us know where your location is.  We have had a NY sighting, a Atlanta sighting as well as some LA sightings.  We are interested in seeing all of your BC sightings pictures.  Share with us!  You can post them on Gatlin Community, and also sign up while you are there.  Its a great community where we can all discuss the book and other topics about the book.

Now go hunting!  

-Caster Girl 25 

Music Pick

So I'm on a lunch break from my training and I figured I would post a new music pick for today.  I was listening to a bunch of stuff on the plane but the one band that stood out the most was Carolina Liar.

 
If you haven't heard of Carolina Liar you should really start downloading some of their songs.  They are a great mellow band to listen to on those days where you are a bit anxious or nervous because they will soothe your soul.  Their lyrics are poetic and the music is hypnotizing.  It's also one of Ethan's favorite songs and so anything Ethan loves I love.

So check out their video HERE for their song Show Me What I'm Looking For.  It is a beautifully crafted song that will really capture your attention.  And if you haven't checked out Ethan's playlist you need to go over to the Beautiful Creatures blog and check it out!

-Caster Girl 25

P.S. How excited is everyone for the release of BC!!!!???  I'm getting mine the 9th, when are you getting yours???

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES LBC Site & Ning Went Live

Little, Brown's AMAZING BC site is now LIVE! There is even a 3-D map of Gatlin! LBC has really outdone themselves!

The BEAUTIFUL CREATURES ning is also LIVE.

Join now!

Beautiful Creatures: A Review

So I know I am a bit bias on Beautiful Creatures for the obvious reasons, but you should still take a moment and take into consideration this review if you are still on the fence about BC.  Its November 1st so you have a month to decide whether BC is worth your time, which I'm sure it will be if you read it.  

Like all the Caster Girls I read the book in the beginning stages and through all the revisions and got to see the making of BC and its world.  There haven't been many books that I have read that has captured my interest and time as BC did.  Even in the beginning stages when the story was only half done and not at all what the end product is today I was so intrigued with the story that of course I begged Kami to give me more even if it was just a chapter here and there.  

I can honestly say after reading BC I was completely in love with the whole world of the Casters and the books setting in South Carolina.  The interesting thing is that I loved the romance that BC has but it was not the only aspect of the book that makes it so great.  There is so much history interwoven into Ethan and Lena's relationship that you can't help but feel like you are a part of them because you know so much about them.  The story isn't a simple boy falls in love with girl situation its deeper than that and Margie and Kami have done such a great job making the story so complex and understandable and relatable at the same time.  

There is also a whole world that is created in this book, a new world that you are introduced by way of Lena.  I love books that can do this, create a unique place that if you just look close enough you can see, but because we are so wrapped up with our own lives we never really stop and look around.  You are taken into this world with Ethan and are left to experience it just as he is.  A new place that fills you with so much awe and just makes you feel so little compared to the bigger picture that is happening all around you.  

So to conclude this is a MUST read for anyone interested in love, romance, history, action and every other reason why you pick up a book to read.  This book has it all and its a long journey but one worth taking if you just give it a chance.  I know I am bias but trust me when I say you will absolutely love this story, the characters and the setting.  Take a chance and jump.....

-Caster Girl 25

Who Are the Caster Girls?

We call ourselves the Caster Girls, but who are we? We are the girls who dared authors Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl to write the YA novel BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. 

That's right... we dared them. And they accepted. They gave us the first 50 pages and we were hooked. We passed it around to our friends, and they loved BC too.  Every week, we texted Kami & Margie and sent Facebook messages demanding more pages. They averaged about fifty pages a week, until the book was finished. Then came the REALLy fun part - reading the drafts and watching BEAUTIFUL CREATURES evolve.

When you read BC, you'll understand why we call ourselves Caster Girls. And you'll realize there are more of us than you think.

Our identities are anonymous. Our ages range from 12-25, and we identify ourselves by our numbers. We can't show you our faces, but we can show you who we are...

   

   

   

       

All Photos by Vania Stoyanova of VLC Photo. 2009. All rights reserved.

Movies

I am a big time movie buff, I love movies and will watch almost anything.  My favorite kinds of movies are horror movies, anything that scares the crap out of me I will watch.  I just saw Paranormal Activity last night and now I can no longer sleep, which is the price I pay for watching these kinds of movies. 

I guess my obsession came when I was younger and my brother let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street with him, I was terrified but intrigued!  I wanted to watch more and more but I was such a scaredy cat my parents forbade it for awhile. 

 
So there are some upcoming movies that I thought I would share with all of you.  First up is The Fourth Kind. Trailer is HERE.  This is about alien abduction but I guess its based on actual events. It is set in a town in Alaska where there are tons of dissapearance and so this psychologist comes and interviews some town members who have said they have been abducted and they all have one thing in common which is seeing a white owl before being taken.  Really creepy!  It doesn't seem to have much gore but anything suspensful is worth watching.

 
Second up is 2012.  I love end of the world movies, The Day after Tomorrow, End of Days, I am Legend etc etc.  Disaster movies that seem completely impossible but in the back of your mind you are thinking "what if."  So 2012 is about how the Mayans or maybe Aztecs not sure, predicted the end of days to be in the year 2012 and this movie shows how it will happen.  Starring John Cusack (who by the way I love after Say Anything and Identity another scary movie you should watch.) Trailer for 2012 is HERE.   

 
Last is Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo.  Enough said, right?!  In case you need more it is set in a insane asylum for the dangeroulsy crazy people.  The trailer is HERE.  Anything set in an insane asylum has my vote for scary movie.  

What are your favorite kind of movies? If horror is your favorite you should definitely give me suggestions, I'm always up to seeing a really good scary movie.  

Enjoy getting the crap scared out of you!

-Caster Girl 25 

Meridian

So halloween is coming up and to get myself into the spirit of things I usually end up re-reading my Scary Stories to tell in the dark books but recently I read Meridian and I thought this would be a great creepy halloween book to pick up.

Here is the description from Amazon:

Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.

Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home—and Meridian’s body explodes in pain.

Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she’s a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunt’s house in Revelation, Colorado. It’s there that she learns that she is a Fenestra—the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.

How creepy is that to have animals come to you and then just die!?  I don't know I found that terrifiying.  First of all the description sold me and then the cover was amazing so I had to pick it up.  Once I started reading it I could not put it down.  I finished it in a day and was completely creeped out.  There is a cute boy obviously which makes this book even better.  So my suggestion is to go pick Meridian by Amber Kizer its a fast read and will keep your attention the whole way. 

-Caster Girl 25

P.S. There is one character in this book that really creeped me out.  Not because he looked like what your typical nightmare character would (mine would be a cross between Freddy Krueger and that Hellraiser guy) but because he looks normal on the outside but is completely evil and no one seems see it.  That truly terrifies me, evil that can be disguised into a nice looking person.

Fall/Winter

As most of you know I don't really like the Fall or Winter because it is just tooooo cold for me.  But a couple of things that keep me going are the releases of new books and new music.  So with that said here is what I am looking forward to in the coming months.

First:  Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.  I have been dying to read this book because I have heard such great things about it.  Also look at that cover, I love it! 

 

Second: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting.  The mystery in this book has been hyped so much that I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of it!  I've also heard the romance is great so I have to pick it up since I am a sucker for a good love story.

 

Third:  Fire by Kristin Cashore.  I actually read this book already but look at the cover of this book, I love it and I want my own copy.  Graceling was one of my favorite books last year, but Fire blew me away!  It was amazing and the action and love story in this book will keep you hooked.  I finished this book in a day.  So if you get a chance go pick up a copy next week, it comes out Oct 5th I believe. 

So what are the books that you are looking forward to this fall/winter??  What can't you wait to read?

-Caster Girl 25

Music Tuesday on Thursday

I was reminded by the lovely V that I forgot to post a music Tuesday yeseterday so here I am doing it on a Thursday.  So this next band I listened to as well while reading Beautiful Creatures.  I would have my shuffle going and this band was one of the bands that always popped up and I felt was a great sound track to the book.  INTERPOL

 

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I can't really say anything to justify how amazing this band is.  If you ever get a chance to see them live you should definitely do it because they are one of those bands that mesmerize you while they are on stage.  The way the lead singer sounds on the album is the exact way he sounds live. 

Some songs that kept popping up as I was reading BC was Slow Hands, Evil, Narc, No I in Threesome, The Heinrich Maneuver, PDA, C'mere and so many more that I won't have time to list.  But seriously if there was ever any band that I recommend that you should listen to this would be my biggest recommendation.  Interpol is an amazing band wth an amazing sound and amazing songs.  If you enjoy Joy Division you will definitely enjoy Interpol. 

Check out their video for Evil (my personal favorite) HERE

Enjoy!

-Caster Girl 25 

Music Tuesday on Wednesday

I completely forgot to post yesterday, so much was going on!  But since BC is coming up I decided to feature music that I was listening to while reading BC.  Usually when I read I have music going on in the background and when a song comes on that seems to connect with what I am reading I write it down on scraps of papers.  Arcade Fire was one of the bands that continually made an appearance during my reading of Beautiful Creatures.

 

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There is something about this band that really spoke to me while reading BC. It seemed like every song fit perfectly with the parts I was reading.  Songs like Wake Up and Intervention and No Cars Go, they are just beautifully crafted songs from a very talented group of individuals.

I saw this band at Coachella 3 years ago, or maybe 2, and they were AMAZING!  Its not just a band with guitars, bass and drums but also violins, accordions, keyboards, violas, cellos etc.  All these different instruments give this band a more arena sound when you are seeing them live and can reach out to everyone no matter what your favorite genre of music is. 

So if you have never heard of the Arcade Fire I suggest you download some of their songs off of iTunes because I guarantee you will love them.  Check out their video for Wake Up HERE.

-Caster Girl 25