If You Like: The Cutting Edge

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.


This week's recommendations are all books and movies that are similar to the Ice Skating based love story, The Cutting Edge. If it's your kind of movie, check out our recommendations HERE!

Ender's Game Movie Blog!

So, I don't know if I've ever mentioned it before, but... Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is my ALL.TIME.FAVORITE.SCIENCE.FICTION.BOOK....EVAH!!

I LOVE Ender's Game. It is an amazing book with great characters and a cool concept.

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.

If you've never read it, I HIGHLY recommend you give it a shot. You don't like Sci-Fi, you say... I will prove you wrong. Try this book. It will change your life.

So. Why am I gushing at you like this??

Well...they are currently filming the Ender's Game MOVIE!! *squee!!*

They've lined up an awesome cast and they've even created a really cool blog that lets you see stuff from the movie sets. 

 

Check it out sometime if you get a chance! Let me know if you think they're going to do a good job with the movie...

If You Like: Stories about Pranks and Hazing

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.



This week's recommendations are all books and movies featuring pranks or the more dangerous version...hazing.  Check it out!

Identifying a Potential Steampunk Reader...or, "Hey, I have no idea if I would even like steampunk?!"

So, today over on the Hub's blog, I created a post to help figure out if you would possibly like Steampunk...and if so, where on Earth to start! Check it out and let me know what you think. :)

If You Like: Stories about Sexting Scandals

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.



This week's recommendations are all to do with sexting and online scandals. I haven't yet read any books that actually featured sexting, just online chat rooms and that kind of stuff, so I'll have to check out some of these great recommendations, myself! You can see it here.

If You Like: The Giver

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

 

This week's recommendations are all things that you might like if you enjoyed Lois Lowry's The Giver. Check it out here!

If You Like: Hart of Dixie

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

This week's recommendations are great if you like the CW show, Hart of Dixie.  Hart of Dixie is about a city girl fresh out of med school who experiences a major culture clash when she begins practicing medicine in a small southern town. So, if it sounds up your alley, check out the recommendations here! 

If You Like: Stories That Take Place Within 24 Hours

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

This week's post includes all types of books and movies that take place in a single 24 hour period.  So, if you love a wild and crazy kind of day...check these out!

If You Like: Magical Realism

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations for stories featuring magical realism.

Magical Realism is what stories are referred to as when they take place in our world but contain elements of magic or the fantastic in them.  Not truly fantasy, but close... if you like this type of story, check out our recommendations here!

If You Like:Stories about Roommates

If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations for stories about roommates.

I got to recommend some of my favorite book and TV series this week! Go check it out. :)

If You Like: Stories about Amnesia

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

Ever wondered what you would do if your whole past was a blank? Would you recreate yourself or would you try to fit what you could learn about yourself from others? I love thinking about all of the possibilities. If you do, too, check out these great amnesia recommendations.

If You Like: Holiday Romances

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

Tis the season...and if you love a little romance during the holidays, check out all these great books, movies, and music recommendations!

If You Like: Books with Male Narrators

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

This week's books all have male narrators. So, if you want a book with an authentic male perspective, check these out!

If You Like: Stories with Dead Narrators

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

It sounds like a strange topic, but this week's recommendations all have dead narrators...and believe me, some of these are really great! Check it out...

If You Like: Stolen

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

Okay, so I'm way behind on linking to this, BUT if you liked Lucy Christopher's Stolen, check out these other great books and movies!

If You Like: The Jenna Fox Chronicles

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

This week check out some great recommendations for fans of the Jenna Fox Chronicles. I love this series! Science fiction at its best. I'm hoping that Pearson continues to write science fiction in the future.

If You Like: Zombies!

If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

OMG. If you have ever visited my blog before, you probably know that I love zombie books! I was beyond excited to put together my recommendations for this week...I had to hold myself back and only really list the books I've loved enough to purchase for my own collection.

I hope you enjoy this week's list!

If You Like: Cooking, Baking, and Candymaking

If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love.

What a sweet, sweet topic! Do you love to bake, cook, make candies...or even just drool hearing about others doing it?? If so, check out our recommendations this week. Most of them are, pardon the pun, pretty SWEET!

If You Like: Boarding School Edition

"If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week includes suggestions for some favorite older titles and childhood favorites.

Check out our combined recommendations for books/movies/tv shows set in Boarding Schools. There are some good ones I need to go back to again!!

If You Like: Retro Edition

If You Like…” is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week includes suggestions for some favorite older titles and childhood favorites.

I just started contributing to this feature at The Reclusive Bibliophile's blog. Check out the Retro Edition here for some great recs!