I really like the The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. There was a bit of a controversy surrounding it in a couple circles about how horrible it is with kids killing kids, but it is a book I am debating letting my 10 year old read at the moment because she has read so much. She could probably handle it. In this dystopian world we have The Capital that sets up "games" that pit one boy and one girl between the ages of 12-18 from 12 districts to fight to the death. It centers around a girl named Katniss. She has be the closest thing to my literary equal. Not so much in character but in thought process.
I was introduced to these books by a girl in my husband's youth group. She gave them to my husband to borrow and read. I read them while he never even cracked one open. I was hooked after the first book. I just bought the set from Goodwill and haven't reread them, but I would love to do that. But for now I will just have to be content with reading through the many, many books on The List that I have not read yet.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
#VOTEHungerGames
The part with Rue is heart breaking. I don't want to spoil it but I will include a little bit of music from the book/movie.
This week for the Popsugar Challenge I have finished Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller for the prompt "a book by or about a person with a disability". I have wanted to read this book for awhile since I found it was an Oregon Battle of the Books books. I have been a fan of The Miracle Worker and Helen Keller's life for a long time. I love American Sign Language and was even privileged enough to work with a group of deaf children as a camp counselor for a week. This was a great book from Annie Sullivan's perspective. She does call Helen some names that would be greatly frowned upon today but knowing that this is from a different time and being sensitive to Annie's childhood I was not taken aback. I enjoyed this book. I was originally going to attempt two books this week but as soon as I started reading Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery I knew I wanted to savor that book. Montgomery has such a way with words an...
The unfortunate problem with doing a daily project such as this is that if you miss a few days they start piling up pretty fast and some books will not even get as much of a post as others especially incredibly long books such as War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This book is just about as long as The Count of Monte Cristo but seems a lot more intimidating almost solely because it is Russian. My roommate in college read it and I should have given her more props for such an amazing accomplishment. Any way this will be the second to last book I get to on The Great American Read List . Here are a few things I watched to give me an idea about what I will be getting myself into in the far far future. One of the lamest and biggest reasons I want to read War and Peace is because one of the translators is named Larissa. It is too bad Larissa is such a popular Russian name and Russian literature is so daunting to me. This is a library ...
"Everyone loves a conspiracy." Yes, I am part of that everyone. I really do love conspiracies, secret societies, ghost stories, mysterious disappearances, and haunted houses...all that stuff. I use to have a big series of Raintree books from the 1970s that dealt with all of those things. I have searched in vain for a picture of these books and the closest I have come is this blog that only has the pictures of the creature books. Still those books made a big impression on me. I think about them whenever I want to think about leaving it all behind to go on a crazy adventure to discovery what is the secret of the Bermuda Triangle...and get famous....but honestly it is just a bunch of fun thoughts of a different life that I don't have. No worries- I still just read about them and stay safe at home. All that to say I have been reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It is fun stuff. It is a little cheesy writing wise but I am to...
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