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"It doesn't sound like Sejanus, said Coriolanus"

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView -thanks for the tag

1. Usually twice. Day clothes into pjs.

2. Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games

Want to play @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @CBee

#wondrouswednesday a few days late

1. Oh I have several. But my fave is probably The Princess Bride

2. Reading (does that count as a game? 🤣)

3. But not a game I‘d want to try.

Thank you Suzanne Collins for giving us what we want!

I always forget how incredible a writer Collins is.
64 years before the Hunger Games trilogy, we see the events of the 10th annual Hunger Games. Corilanus Snow is chosen as the mentor for Lucy Gray Baird from District 12. During the days leading up to the games, Corilanus begins to question his place in the capital and wonders what a life with Lucy Gray would look like after the games.
Hint: it‘s not pretty

Happy St Patrick's Day from N Ireland 💚🍀☘️

Poignant well written villain story.

This is a prequel. It supposed to set up the later books. I loved the book until the last 20 pages where the author suddenly decided to change the trajectory of the book.

Finally got around to reading this and it was as good as I had expected

Loved this book! I hope the author writes one more between this and the hunger games.

A worthy set-up to the Hunger Games, and leaves us ready for a sequel.

This is the last book in this series but the story is a pre-sequel, what happened before the Hunger Games, how and why these games were created. It is about who is Coriolanus Snow. The story is slow and repetitive, maybe this should be rated in Litsy as a so-so. But I still liked to know who was this character and how and why this world existed. For me was interesting. Snow....you born like that or you were raised like that?🤔 3⭐️

Great. Loved the books.

These were some pretty elaborate costumes!!

#AutumnPlease
#Costume

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Having really enjoyed the original trilogy I thought I would give this a go before the movie came out. Overall I enjoyed it and felt it gave background to the previous books and the rise of Snow. I thought the end came quite quick. Like I‘d missed a chapter. Would have maybe liked a bit to the end but didn‘t ruin the overall enjoyment.

I‘ve finally got back into reading and I‘ve started with The Hunger Games trilogy. #audiobooks #hungergames #backtoreading

#LoveTriangle ❤️🔺 #TeamPeeta 🥖

#MarchMagic 💚💰🌈🍀

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

What books are in your book cellar?

I‘ve got:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Seasons of Chaos
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Chosen Ones
And more!

Re-read these in preparation for marathoning the movies with my husband this weekend. (He just read them for the first time so I‘m finally permitting him to see the films; it was important to me that he had the books‘ context first so he could fully appreciate the amazingness of Peeta while watching.)

At any rate, they really held up for me. I loved books one & two as much as the first time I read them & actually liked Mockingjay more this time.

So I ended up reading the rest if the series back to back. I still feel the movies may not have done them justice. I think this hits different now that I have children and I am older. I imagine at 16/17 I would‘ve loved this series but I don‘t think I would‘ve appreciated it as well as I do now.
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“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”

The Hunger Games makes you think about if you lived in a society like that and what you would do in those situations.

The Hunger Games is a trilogy that follows a dystopian society with different districts in which humans are sacrificed due to overpopulation. They are drawn from a “draft” and chosen to compete in a series of games to kill one another. The last one standing is the victor and treated as royalty. The book encompasses speculative fiction as it involves characteristics that are do not exist in real life.

I actually like both, as long as they are done well, which is the important part. Post-apocalyptic can get too dark and that turns me off. If I end up thinking the best solution for the characters (and the readers) is for them to commit mass suicide, it‘s gone too far. As far as alt history, that walks a fine line between the actual history and being so original it‘s basically just an original story set in that time period.

Thanks for the tag, Lisa! 📚 #Two4Tuesday

1️⃣ Not particularly a fan of either genres, but I have read more Post-Apocalyptic books, so I choose that one.

2️⃣ The tagged trilogy; Basic, I know. 😂 And some may not even consider it as such. Also, The Giver series as well.

📚Who wants to play? @GingerAntics @slategreyskies @AkashaVampie @Kappadeemom

What book have read more than once?

Off the top my head: Hunger Games and Fallen

Reread this trilogy after 8 years. It was a much more difficult read this time around, especially Mockingjay.

🏹 🔥 🐦 #BecameAMovie 🎥 🍿 #BookMoods

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Recommend me some dystopian books 💜 Love hunger games and divergent

Took to reading these when the kids were teens. Enjoyed the reads and then follow up movie watching with my kids.

I was really excited to read this and be submerged back into the Panem universe. On the whole the book was great and I‘d highly recommend for Hunger Games fans. Sadly I felt the ending totally let it down with a lack of detail presenting a rushed feeling.

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The first attempt at reading this book, I hated it. I bailed about halfway through. However, with my second attempt, I enjoyed it. Hated the main character still, he has no redeeming qualities but the story was good in a terrible way. It is a very bleak story.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1. Going to Merlefest, a bluegrass music festival, with my bf for his birthday. He got to see one of his favorite bands and was very pleased ☺️
2. Felix Ever After 😍
3. Katniss Everdeen, she can be so annoyingly dense sometimes 🤦🏼‍♀️
4. Cooler temps that allow me to break out the dress-with-tights wardrobe 💃🏼

this book is a prequel to the popular series The Hunger Games. It goes back in time before Snow became the president, Snow‘s family have been struggling with poverty from the war. As we read the story we follow along with Coriolanus‘ journey of being a mentor for the hunger games, we then meet his tribute, Lucy Gray, together they work to insure Lucy‘s win to save Lucy and give Coriolanus the money he needs to save his family. But after some (1)

At last!
#newbook #currentread #newadventure #atlast #summerread #suzannecollins #hungergames #green

Day 4 of #LitsySummerCamp: I‘m pretty sure my favorite literary character Katniss Everdeen would be teaching the archery 🏹 lessons. In her free time she would hunt for the camps dinner. (After I realized it was an example: I also like Lightfoot-a unicorn- he will be giving rides, taking campers on trails, healing campers using his horn which doubles as a way to communicate with other unicorns).Thank you for another great day of camp @ImperfectCJ

#curiouscovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
Day 8: Circles
My pick is the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes which I haven't read yet. I'm waiting to see if there will be another book & I don't like to wait. 🤷🏻 🔵⚫🔴🐦🐍

#CuriousCovers Day 5: Bird

I was going to post a picture of The Goldfinch, but I forgot that I loaned my copy to a friend, so posting the next best option: all the books of the Hunger Games series. The mockingjay features prominently on the covers and in the plots of all three books.

#Bird #CuriousCovers

The Hunger Games was the first thing that came to mind with today‘s prompt.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘d recommend this to any teenager into dystopian future books.

#Victory
#InspiredNewYear

“Make sure they remember you.”

Today, I‘m sharing what I want to read this month and I‘ve decided that I want to continue with The Hunger Games Trilogy. I read the first book in 2015 and I liked it but I haven‘t read the last 2 books. I will be rereading the first book so I can finish this trilogy. I started rereading the first book tonight and I like it so far. I‘m looking forward to finally finishing this trilogy this year. I‘ve been putting it off for a long time.

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This made me snort! 😂 #LitsyHumor