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BLOOD CELLS > WEEKEND.

Although I'm sure I could get myself to like the latter, in time. Laser Eyes was pretty cool.

New Schoolyard Heroes?

I cannot wait for more of their music.

Oh, hello internet. How goes it?

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It's pretty cool, like when you're not really used to it. There's nothing really making you stand out. Every time I would see a white person it was sort of like "LOL, hey look!". Considering how America is actually super super diverse, compared to the rest of the world. And that's a good thing, obviously. Still though, I felt really comfortable there.

The plot of the Hunger Games is this dystopia sort of world that's supposed to be "future America", and the government's tyrannical and some places seem to have gone sort of "backwards" from progress, in terms of technology, while other places excel. The main character is this girl in the farthest "district" from the capitol city, where they hunt for meat, are mostly starving, don't have cars, trade in markets, etc.

She goes into these "Hunger Games", where 24 kids are put in an arena and forced to kill each other. Lots of the story is preparing and stuff; the Hunger Games are televised all over the country and people are forced to watch. In the capital city, it's more like entertainment than anything else while other districts plainly recognize the brutality of the Games. Anyway, the Games part was really fun to read.

The best part about it were the characters and plot. The protagonist, Katniss - whose perspective we see the story through - isn't totally annoying, and the other characters are really interesting. The plot was pretty interesting too, especially into the second book.

Personally I thought the writing style could use a little work, but it's nothing too distracting from the story, like writing style sometimes is. After I finished the first book (it's a series of 3, with the third being released sometime this summer/fall) I really really wanted to read the second (which was pretty much ALL BUILDUP for the third book).

Here are some short video interviews from the author, and I thought they were really helpful in better understanding the story, especially the "inspriation" videos.

Haha, that was probably way too much information.

Oh, right. She's two and a half.