Review: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Blurb:

On a day that started like any other,

Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, admiring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. In an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the only decision she has left. It is the most important decision she'll ever make.
Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting, and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying, loving.

Series: If I Stay #1
Rating: 3.5(4) ☆s
Genre: YA, Contemporary Romance

Life Update: Graduation, College, Summer, Where have I been??

Greetings internet!
After a 3 month hiatus, it feels good to be back! Gah. I feels so giddy, I don't even care if no one reads this.
 While I was away:

April Favorites

I missed my March favorites. Now to make it up, I have twice as much to talk about!
Changing is happening soon. GOOD change since the end of March. :) Let's get started.

Favorite Book

                     

March-April Playlist
Counting Stars-OneRepublic
What You Wanted-OneRepublic
If I Lose Myself-OneRepublic
All We Ever Say is Goodbye-John Mayer
Gravity-John Mayer
Everybody-Ingrid Michaelson
Kill Your Heroes-AWOLNATION
Guilty Filthy Soul-AWOLNATION
All I Need-AWOLNATION
Not Your Fault-AWOLNATION
Next to Me-Emeli Sande
Why Am I the One-Fun
Shattered-OAR
Here's To Never Growing Up- Avril Lavigne
Stay Out-Nina Nesbitt
Brave-Sara Barielles
It's a Beautiful Day-Michael Buble
1957-Milo Greene
The Way it Was-The Killers
Hello My Old Heart- The Old Hello's
Bullet from a Gun-The Script
Still-Daughter
Human-Daugther

Favorite Quote:

"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary." -Anon

Most Anticipated Movie:

I'll admit this isn't even a real category but can we just talk about how close we are to the release of THE GREAT GATSBY....pause for the scream.

Book Thief Movie ??? Coming January 17, 2014. The cast is out! 

So what have you guys been up to?

Feature and Follow #6

Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The purpose is to meet new people and gain more followers in the book blogging community. If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers. But you have to know, the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

Q: If you could hang out with any author (living) who would it be and what would you want to do?

Hmmmm... Laini Taylor! I just finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone and love doesn't even begin to describe how much I enjoyed it. I am going to savor Days of Blood and Starlight. If I do meet her, I'll probably be too starstruck to start an intellectual conversation with her (though I am curious as to where she comes up with such an intricate world with angels and chimeras). I'll probably bask in her awesomeness and hope that some of it seeps into me. Oh and I want her bubblegum pink hair.

Leave a link to your FF, so I can check it out. Please let me know if you are a new follower, so I can follow you back. Happy Friday to all!