JK Rowling new book

Last Thursday was a glorious day !!!
It was announced that JK Rowling will be releasing a new book this year !!!
This news made my day. I remember that I was at the library when I learned this. I saw a tweet talking about it just 5 minutes after it was announced and I wanted to scream I was so excited and happy ! I was eagerly waiting for a new JK Rowling book since the release of the last Harry Potter. Everyone was talking about it on twitter. I know that this post is a little late (my computer was dead last week) but I wanted to do it anyway.
We don't know anything about the book yet. We only know that it's an adult novel.
You can read more about this news here.

Picture : JK Rowling at 10 Downing Street. I love these pictures of her.

Richelle Mead new adult series + Golden Lily news

 

Richelle Mead announced it yesterday on twitter and she made my day !!!
She just got a deal for a new adult series of 2 books (at least for now as she said on twitter).
Here is what she said on her blog :

February 9, 2012
Fiction: Paranormal
NYT bestselling author Richelle Mead's GAMEBOARD OF THE GODS, the first novel in her new adult paranormal series, Age of X, featuring an unlikely pair charged with investigating mystical phenomena in a futuristic world that was nearly destroyed by religious extremists, to Brian Tart at Dutton, with Jessica Horvath editing, in a two-book deal, by Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (world). 

 I'm a HUGE fan of Richelle Mead so I can't wait to read this new series. Vampire Academy is my favorite YA series ever and i'm currently reading the fourth book in the succubus series and I love this series as well. I still need to read her third series though. I've always loved all the floklore, mythological and religious references in her books so I'm really interested by this new series even if i'm not a great fan of dystopian books.

 And talking about Richelle Mead books Penguin just received Golden Lily manuscript and they are currently reading it and tweeting about it ! Golden Lily is the second book in the Vampire Acadmy spin off series. I loved the first one Bloodlines and I can't wait to read this one i'm so jealous that they are reading it right now especially since Dimitri will be in this one normally !!

And a few days ago a Golden Lily blurb was also released :

Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.
Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California–tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.
But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age–old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and the sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi—the fiercest vampires, the ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that—special, magical, powerful—that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Brayden, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else—someone forbidden to her.
When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.
Should she trust the Alchemists—or her heart?

Beautiful Creatures Cast

Beautiful Creatures is going to be a movie we know that for quite a long time but it's getting real now because we have our Lena, Ethan and Amma.

Lena - Alice Englert 

Ethan - Jack O'Connell 

Amma - Viola Davis

First I don't have an opinion about Amma I can't quite picture her. But I think Viola Davis can be good.
I'm really happy by Lena choice. Alice Englert has a really beautiful face and I think once she'll dye her hair black she will be a great Lena.
But i'm really sceptical about Ethan... Well I really like this actor but I saw him in Skins and now... I don't know I just can't picture him as Ethan. I hope i'm wrong and he'll be an awesome Ethan !

I need to say that i'm really worried by this adaptation. I'm deeply attached to this series because it's one of the first YA series that I read in english and Lena is one of my favorite character ever. And sometimes I just want to say : Stop turning all the books into movies !
Yes it can be good to see movies adaptations based on books and I love a lot of them but... I just don't know what to think about it because I must confess that I hate when it become a phenomenon and I'm really protective and don't really want to share sometimes when I loved a book. I know it's quite paradoxal because it's the point of my blog : to share ! I just can't explain it... For example I'm going to see The Hunger Games movie in March but i'm not that excited because I'm worried...
I think I need to stop i'm being too much paranoid...

EDIT
Mrs Lincoln -Sarafine - Emma Thompson 

 Wow I can't believe that she is going to be in Beautiful Creatures movie. She is such a great actress ! But did I miss something? Why Mrs Lincoln and Sarafine should be played by the same person? Anyway I can totally picture her for Mrs Lincoln but not really for Sarafine...

Maggie Stiefvater New Project

ALERT GUYS new Maggie Stiefvater writing project :D !!!
Finally today we get to see the cover, title and summary of Maggie Stiefvater new series. She is one of my favorite author, I met her twice and she is so nice and funny. I was super excited to discover this new project.
And it is called The Raven Boys. Just look at the cover it's stunning I love it ! And it's going to be a series of... 4 books !! You can read Maggie's post talking about it here.

Here is the summary :
Filled with mystery, romance, and the supernatural, The Raven Boys introduces readers to Richard “Dick” Campbell Gansey, III and Blue Sargent. Gansey has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on the hunt to find Glendower, a vanished Welsh king. Legend has it that the first person to find him will be granted a wish—either by seeing him open his eyes, or by cutting out his heart.
Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there—known as Raven Boys—can only mean trouble. When Gansey and his Raven Boy friends come into her life, Blue realizes how true this is. She never thought her fortune would be a problem. But she was wrong.

Expected publication : September 18th 2012. 10 days after by birthday :).
The story seems awesome and i'm really curious to read it. I'm sure i'm going to love it though because i'm a huge fan of Maggie books and I loved them all !