What I've Finished Reading

Mockingjay! When I first started reading The Hunger Games I got some warnings that the second two books weren't as good as the first, and that's probably objectively true, but I'm so glad that I read them that I barely even noticed. I didn't really believe in the rebellion as it was happening, which undermined things a ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

The Cricket on the Hearth is an incredibly sappy novella by Charles Dickens about Angels of the Home. There is a Scrooge-like character who has a last-minute change of heart no clear reason, and a saintly blind girl with a saintly father, and a charming awkward guy who is too nice for the Iago trick that Not Quite ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

I've been trying to get on top of some "real" work (the kind I need to get paid) and assorted other things, so it's useless placeholder season again.

In a way this book is a sequel to the friendship which there was between Wilson, Bowers and myself, which, having stood the strain of the Winter Journey, could never have ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

The Hidden Land is much more fast-paced and intense than The Secret Country, and the intensity gets a giant boost three pages from the end, with YET ANOTHER inconclusive and uncomfortable ending. Characters are a little sharper and a couple of plot elements that were total mysteries in the first book are - not so much ( Read more... )

I got The Hunger Games from the library yesterday, so that I could start reading it in the evening and have something to anticipate at work today. It's pretty good so far! The worldbuilding feels a little shaky (how big is District 12? How big is Panem? Why are the Games being presented explicitly as punishment and not as an exciting opportunity ( Read more... )