notes on a Saturday

[dreams_of_wings]

In bullet points today, because why not?

• On the recommendation of jadelennox , I spent some portion of last night and a large chunk of today reading Suzanne Collins' book The Hunger Games. It's not quite as good as Flora Segunda  but it comes darn close, and that is saying an awful lot if you are me. (For those of you who have not heard me rant about the

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[fuzzbean]

Oh, The Hunger Games was THE book to talk about in my YA Lit class last quarter. Everybody read it. And raved about it. If you liked it, also try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (if you haven't already)--same post-apocalyptic feel to it.

Neal Schusterman's Unwind was also pretty popular but I didn't like it too much, but that's more due to my personal phobias getting way the hell activated by it than anything integral to the book itself - basically it's about a future society in which there's been a brutal civil war between pro-choice and pro-life forces, and the compromise that's been reached is that abortion is totally and completely illegal, but between the ages of 14-18 a parent can send their child to be "unwound", to be organ-donated in their entirety but still be "alive, but in a dissociated state." Creepy as all fuck as it follows three kids who've been scheduled for unwinding for three different reasons, and how they try to escape it.

And yes, I look far more forward to calling you Dr. than I do to appending any other honorific to your name.