The Fault in Our Stars film Review

Hello fellow geeksters and TFIOS fans,

So today, i'm going to give a review of my day at the movies of when I went to watch TFIOS (The Fault in Our Stars).

'Where'd You Go Bernadette'

Hello fellow Geeksters,

So here goes our first article/post for books. The first book which we'll cover is 'Where'd You Go Bernadette' by Maria Semple.

I really liked this book, and as it being my first book that I got to read this summer, it definitely shows that it's a pretty good start for my following summer adventures. Basically having my nose in a book pretending I'm the protagonist, who's either fighting against the Dark Lord Sauron or falling in love with an attractive British gardener. (Please tell me it's not just me?) Overall, it's got all the right ingredients for a great book, including the 2 Ws found in the Geekster Dictionary when it came to Semple's creativity, which are : Wittiness and Wackiness. It's also heart-warming and quite relatable. Let's face it Geeksters, this book is written by the woman who wrote for 'Saturday Night Live'.

First off, this book is an epistolary novel which makes the novel even more interesting. Hence the slight presence of dramatic irony. Though it's not just some typical teenager's emails, but a whole series of genius emails between different characters in the story. Bee aka Balakrishna is a fifteen year old who loves her extraordinary and unique mother Bernadette so dearly, who one day disappears. It contains such themes as those of escape, anxiety, marriage, motherhood, religion and parenting issues. Three fifths of the book describes the lives of Bee, Bernadette and Elgie, Bernadette's history, and Bernadette's thoughts which she openly discusses about to Manjula  ... SPOILER ALERT ... who's secretly the Russian Mafia ... Come on! It can't get any better than that! The other two fifths show the great efforts of Bee trying to find her mother.

My favourite character has to be Bernadette who I truly love and admire, mostly because of her weirdness. It was great to experience the character and achievements of this talented and free-spirited woman. I usually gravitate towards strong female protagonists in books. In this case Bernadette is strong and at the same time isn't, creating a contradiction. She is strong because of her experience in difficult and, some may say, devastating past issues. On the other hand, she hates everyone who lives in Seattle and doesn't feel the need to interact with anyone.

My least favourite character is obviously Soo-Lin. She's that kind of character who you despise from day one and if something bad happened to her, a joyous feeling would be unsurprisingly present amongst the reader.

One of the quotes which really attracted my attention was : "The brain is a discounting mechanism" said by Elgie, which, for me, was the only intelligent thing he had said throughout the book. Here he explains to Bee the situation in which you receive a certain bad result. At first you're constantly worrying about it, but you still can't do anything about it and so after some amount of time if somebody pointed it out to you, you regard it as being unworthy of consideration of thought. He adds that this is important for our survival. Without it we cannot be prepared for the worst. The relationship between Elgie and Bernadette is not an 'always happy with no problems' type of relationship. It is crystal clear that they both love each other very much, but what's also visible is that there's a lack of communication between the parents which prevents them from being honest to one another and to express their feelings, which is clearly shown in this novel. Although, I still deeply believe and think that, in the end, they will both fix each others problems and help their relationship by getting it back on track.

'Where'd You Go Bernadette' mainly impressed me greatly because of one specific reason. Have you ever had that feeling, when you're in the middle of a book, as if you know, or at least have this prediction of what's going to happen, and you're 100 percent sure of yourself? Well, that's what happened to me with this book and it turned out that what I though would happen was completely the opposite in what really happened. I was stunned. I think that the plot is totally unexpected but also thrilling. I love this technique very deeply and appreciate it a lot. This shows how much of an excellent author and exquisite writer Semple is.

With that being said (and we will all agree that I said A LOT), I conclude that : 1) This book made me want to go to Antarctica (the Geeksters who already read it know what I mean) and 2) I will definitely blabber and annoy each one of my friends about this AMAZING book until they admit defeat and read it. I kid you not when I tell you that no Geekster could resist this book.

Let us know what you think about this book and your opinion in the comments below, if you please and thank you. ;)

P.S. WEIRD QUESTION  : Did any of you Geeksters imagine Lee Pace acting the part of Elgie??

Love,
Rakela
xx

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'If you're Happy, then I'm Happy.'

Hello guys out there who feel like stalking this blog for no particular reason , please stay a while to read this.

Last Time, I forgot when it was, I was watching TV and there was a moment when a character said " If you're happy, then I'm happy."
And then I stayed a while thinking.

Welcoming Post - Geek Fever is Officially Launched!!!

Hello fellow Geeksters,

This is the first of a hundred more posts that we, Rachel and Rakela,will write for our own pleasure and for you, to enjoy while sipping a nice cup of Lipton tea... Mhmm

If you're like us,geeky and obsessed about little things that you normally don't obsess about and mainly movie buffs,then we welcome you with open arms to this community.

Few things that we obsessed about are 1) Films 2)Books and other means of literature... Let's admit it... Who isn't? Hence, it would be appropriate to dedicate a blog to both of these factors which we highly over-excite ourselves about.
We also talk about other things such as life experiences and dilemmas.

We must also mention that we aren't licensed or experts in film/book critiques.We're just doing this for fun and as a hobby. It's also important to advice you Geeksters that we will openly talk about our personal opinions and everyone is free to comment about their opinion and their personal point of view about a book or film.

It's clear that both of us will enjoy making this blog and we will be so pleased if you could join us in this exciting adventure.

x
Rakela and Rachel