This will be my first daring post of Periplus Dare to Blog feat Strange Library Giveaway, and it will be about my current favorite; If I Stay by Gayle Forman! Wish me luck!
Reading a book after watching the movie feels wrong. At least, for me.
Doing so is just simply not right. Anything the writer wrote would set like something precise in my mind; when the best thing about reading is the limitless imagination. Of course doing otherwise is a totally different thing. Seeing a world in your mind alive is cool, at least when it's done right.
However, this Adam actually said this in the movie: "This is the you I like. But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow." And I was like: "I need to read the book." Yes, I am a sucker of beautiful quotations. I want to know more about Mia and Adam; I want to have more reasons to love them.
From the first page, the Mia I potrayed in my head is not an average girl. She is Chloe Grace Moretz, and she is beautiful, and she is very good with cello. In my school, someone like that can't be invisible. She is dating the hottest guy in school, who is also a musician. Plus, she has this uber cool family. Wait, this is too perfect. Whenever a book start with this perfect life, something terrible is going to happen. Then within pages, bam, she lost everything; her dad, her mom, and her little brother.
Written in the first person PoV narration, I feel Mia easily. We are basically in the same age, maybe that's why. Boys, family, friends, and oh all the insecurity when your boyfriend hangs out with prettier, cooler girl than you.
Though, I bet not many of us have been given the chance to choose over life or death. Up until this part I randomly remember Tyrion's quotation from my favorite television series Game of Thrones: "Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities." How can she need to wonder what to choose? Then the book states it to me; how Mia's Dad stopped from the band for being a better father for her. How he sold his kits for Mia's first cello--the kind of love that makes you cry. At this point, I finally understand why Mia's Grandpa would let her go. Mia has a beautiful family, how can she live without them? Is Adam enough for her to go on?
This book is about an out of body experience this girl Mia has after a severe car accident, yes. This book, though, teach me more about love than many other romance ballad novels out there.
It teaches me about imperfection, don't we all struggling with that? You don't need to be perfect to be loved. You don't need to constantly worry; some people will unconditionally love you no matter what. Family is one of them. Lucky if you have more; I do, and suddenly I feel the urge to tell them that I love them so much too after finished reading.
Wandering out of your body is so not real, but the love Mia and Adam have, I can connect with that easily. The coolest thing about If I Stay is, I would still read it and love it even without Mia being in the spirit kinda world. I ship the love story, the bond between Mia and Adam, which is not perfect, just like our own. I ship the way they're falling for each other in the most beautiful way. I ship how the words are spoken by the characters, moving and deep.
The movie is a hit, so maybe many people have known how the story would end. The adaptation is actually doing a great job, but there is always more in the book.
If you love the movie, you won't be disappointed. If you haven't watched, yes, started with the book is always better. Happy reading!
Regards,
Michelle
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