Comments on: Keir’s Reading Resolution: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins http://blog.booklistonline.com/2011/08/31/keirs-reading-resolution-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Courtney Jones http://blog.booklistonline.com/2011/08/31/keirs-reading-resolution-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/comment-page-1/#comment-780844 Courtney Jones Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:36:48 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=8062#comment-780844 I’m going to try and get through this without squealing at you like a 12 year-old-girl, but it’s fair to say I’m obsessed. I found myself wondering why I couldn’t put it down. At one point, I remember anxiously watching the clock in church trying to count the minutes until I could curl up and finish a few more chapters, if not finish the whole thing.

In short, this book hit all my buttons. Dystopian fiction? Check. Suspenseful plot? Check. Paced like a greyhound on the track? Check. A three dimensional heroine, who may love her family, but I still wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley? Check. In Katniss Everdeen, Collins has a female protagonist I’d prefer my young girl cousins to cheer for. Her decisions are life or death, and she makes grave errors, miscalculates, but manages to thrive and still remain a recognizable teenage character.

Plus it’s going to be a movie!!! With Lenny Kravitz! And Stanley Tucci! And Jennifer Lawrence, who was in that amazing film adaptation of Winter’s Bone. I’m intrigued to see what they do with it.

Keir, good luck and have fun on your sabbatical. And as always, may the odds be ever in your favor.

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