Willow ,'Get It Done'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Trying to put together Mockingjay thoughts. Wow, that was bleak. Like, nobody comes out of there without serious psychological scars. Well, of the people who actually make it all the way to the end, anyway.
I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up, and how many people there are and where they all live. The more I try to figure it out, the less sense it makes.
Wow, that was bleak.
To the power of 10.
Wow, that was bleak.
I sometimes wonder if the Jr Hi kids who are reading them really get just how bleak and fucked up they are.
Probably. It's exactly the kind of bleak I would have loved in Jr. High. I would have read it from beneath a wall of my hair in my eyes, so you could not see into my black black heart. And then I would have gone roller skating.
(hearts Liese, as usual)
DDebet, did you see the interviews with kids about the Hunger Games books that I posted? Those kids got it.
Lisa, yeah. With those sorts of things, I always worry about cherry-picking. I spent yesterday morning with a couple of Jr Hi kids, and we briefly talked about Twilight (didn't have time to get into the depth of the problematic nature of the whole thing), so I was sort of primed in the direction of "they'll gloss over things in their own thinking"
I'm also puzzling over the logistics of how the districts are divided up
I've seen a lot of maps but this one makes the most sense to me.
I stopped reading him because I met him and he was severely creepy, and friends had stories of more creepiness. He seems to live in his own self-righteous world of creepy.
It does give me that sense of considering himself a special snowflake who's wrongly condemned by society for being sensitive enough to understand kids' needs—and totally blind to how molestation actually messes children up for life—that you often see in pedophiles.
Must locate old paperback copy of Blue Adept to burn in ritual cleansing...
I was just on Goodreads rating a bunch of books five stars that I loooved when I was a teenager. Then I remembered how icky I found The Apprentice Adept series when I re-read it last year. Now I don't know if I can trust my memories of what's a good book and what's not.