So, that was pretty fucking awesome. It's like someone wrote a book, just for me.

Will not say more, so that nobody kills me.

I'd like to reread the entire trilogy immediately, but I suspect I'll be lending my copy of Mockingjay to like, 50 people first.

Easter Vigil at any Abbey is pretty sweet. Not only was the homily superb (the abilities of a priest as a homilist will pretty much make/break him, in my esteem of him), BUT THERE WAS A GIANT TORCH TO LIGHT THE EASTER CANDLE. Seriously, that pole had to be 20 feet long, and there were GIANT FLAMES that made me fearful most especially when the dude ( Read more... )

Now that I live in a city with a most excellent used book market (a ton of my manga is purchased at half-price), it's pretty rare that I buy a book brand new the day it comes out. In fact, I think I've only ever done that for Harry Potter.

But when were_duck e-mailed me to let me know that copies of Catching Fire were in at Room, I bolted there immediately ( Read more... )

I read this book a few weeks ago and I would still like to reread it in a day or something. SO AMAZING.

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games is a cross between the TV reality show "Survivor," the Theseus/Minotaur myth, and a dystopian future. In a future North America where the land is divided into districts and controlled by "the Capitol," Katniss ( Read more... )