What I’m Reading

Yep. Hunger Games. I did not want to give in to this and here’s why: when many people who have crappy taste in books tell you how much they love what they just read, you run the opposite direction. Oh, that book is another Nicholas Sparks thing? Awesome! I’m reading DH Lawrence. (such a snob..I annoy myself, I promise) but you can see my resistance here.

But the first book was $7 at walmart, and I had a flight coming up. I started it Friday morning, and finished it up later that day. And now I’m nearly done with the third in the series (having a job seriously interferes with reading time, I KNOW, right?)

The series is addictive and the plot is fast and perfectly paced (a mark of a good writer I have only recently come to appreciate.)

I still have a major bone to pick with some young adult fiction: many have complex, challenging content and themes but lack the challenging language and writing to match. I have taught fourth graders that could tackle these books and take them out in a week. But I would never hand them this book (hatchet in the head? Holding your own entrails?) yeeeaaah, no.

So, the book is a breeze yet so engrossing it woke me up in the night thinking about it. Take that however you wish.