A week later, I have ( more thoughts on Mockingjay. )

I had to get this one out of my system, and writing it was so enjoyable. I've withheld the summary, since I know many of you haven't yet read the novel (but those who have can probably figure it out right away!) This is for queenofthorns, who loved Mockingjay for all the same reasons I did ( Read more... )

We're starting a schoolwide literacy class this year -- thirty minutes at the start of every day, with silent reading and mini-lessons on comprehension and vocabulary. Today I got an email outlining our lesson plans for the rest of the week. Wednesday: "Watch a 15-minute interview with Suzanne Collins about her series, The Hunger Games, then ( Read more... )

My apologies. Late tonight, I planned to distract myself from the wait by replying to all the lovely comments on my Mockingjay post. Well. As you can see, I succumbed to the siren song of the ebook, and I stayed up way, way past my bedtime to read it! Totally worth still being awake at 4am. And now I have to post some immediate -- and mostly ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm semi-obsessed with the Hunger Games series right now. Less than two days until I get to read it! I was hoping to take Wednesday off, but that won't happen after my illness last week. Plus, Amazon's very disappointing preorder system -- they won't actually ship it until Tuesday -- means that I'm just going to pick it up at Borders on my ( Read more... )

I've been rereading The Hunger Games, and I'm buying into Katniss/Gale a lot more than I did before. ( Mild spoilers for the first two books, plus speculation about the third. )

1. All my knitting this week seems to have given me a touch of tendinitis in the middle finger of my right hand. It's fine when I curl my fingers slightly in a natural position, but I feel shooting pains when I make a fist or extend it. (Guess I won't be flipping anyone off soon!) It's not serious enough for the emergency room, and I can't get ( Read more... )

Thanks to the spec earlier this week, I've had the Hunger Games series on my mind. Still not full-fledged fannish about it, mostly because it's hard for me to get that way about books and the rarity of new canon, but I've been craving more meta. Maybe I should just reread the books and write my own meta! In the meantime, I present a very ( Read more... )

Without getting spoilery, I really liked tonight's episode of Lost, a show with which I have a love/hate relationship. The Locke-centric episode tend to be the best, or at least the ones I most enjoy. Also, one scene in particular made me smile. Those of you who know me will probably guess which one ( Read more... )

I don't have much experience writing in new fandoms -- particularly book-based ones -- but the Hunger Games universe has so much fascinating fic potential. So, instead of writing more of Kat or a 'ship fic, I decided to peek inside Prim's head during the latter half of the second book. This is a belated birthday present for taragel, who is a lovely ( Read more... )