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Bookwink's comments from the YA Book Club group.
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Lisa said : I figure fast readers can always slow down but slow readers find it harder to speed up. I can speed read but that's not how I want to read novels. That's kind of true but not really. When I'm reading fast, it's hard to force myself to slow down when I really want to find out what will happen. The only thing that works for me is to stop in the middle of a book and start over from the beginning again. That way I can savor the first half of the book without knowing how it will end.
There is something so magical about reading a book for the first time - it seems like slow readers can enjoy that more than fast ones.
The Hunger Games sequelCatching Fire. My second choice would be Fire by Kristin Cashore. It's the prequel to Graceling. Both are amazing and everyone should read them!
London wrote: "Hey-My name is London! I love to read- but thats why im here! duh! I do want to read the hunger games... i will get to it sometime... I just finished Life as we knew it and i loved it!!!! "
I loved Life as We Knew It too. I keep meaning to read the companion book, The Dead and Gone, but I haven't gotten to it yet. I wonder if it's as good?
Also You HAVE to read The Hunger Games!!
I loved Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by RL LaFevers. Feel free to take alook at my video booktalk for it.
Yeah, Haymitch totally should have helped the people in his district! He could have found a way if he weren't so despicable and hadn't just given up on life.I heard Suzanne Collins read aloud at ALA last summer and she read Katniss' voice in an Appalachian accent. That really made District 12 come alive for me.
I didn't know anything about the book when I started so when I first realized what the hunger games actually were, I was shocked. I didn't think I would be able to keep reading once the games actually started. I thought it would be too brutal and too depressing - and it was, but Collins balanced it all in a way that made it human too.
I promise not to give away any spoilers, but I'm reading Catching Fire now!! I got an ARC at Book Expo.
I liked the romance because it made the brutality a little easier to bear. But it is also depressing in its own way because both Gale and Peeta are such great characters and you know one of them is going to get hurt. It's an impossible choice.
Kara wrote: "I enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't nearly as good as the book (except for the fact that Brendan Fraser is in it!! :) ) I thought the characters were well cast, but the story seemed to move at a slo..."Isn't it funny that Cornelia Funke had Brendan Frasier in mind when she wrote the books? He was her original model for Mo!
Sara wrote: "I really loved the first and second book. I found the third slightly disappointing...not terrible but most certainly not the best of the series.I still recommend them though. =) The first especia..."
I had trouble getting into the third book, at first. But then after about 100 pages it really started moving and then I couldn't put it down!
Sara wrote: "I am still deciding whether or not I should give this series a try. I hear really mixed reviews."I tried to read Eragon when it first came out and I couldn't finish it. The writing style was too juvenile and unpolished, too many cliches; it drove me nuts. But I loved the story and I remember thinking what a great movie it would be. I haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like Hollywood ruined it like so many other book adaptations!
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny HanEver by Gail Carson Levine
The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
Morning in a Different Place by Mary Ann MgGuigan
Thirteenth Child by Patricia Wrede
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
The Red Blazer GirlsThe Red Blazer Girls The Ring of Rocamadour
The Mysery of the Third LucretiaThe Mystery of the Third Lucretia
Hi. I am Sonja and I am the host of Bookwink.com, a video booktalk website for kids. I am a total book-eater and when I'm not reading books, there is nothing I love more than to talk about books. Well, except maybe chocolate. My recent favorites reads are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Both amazing books that I am recommending to everyone I know!
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Graceling by Kristin Cashore (for the 2nd time)
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
I think that is a big part of why this book is so popular with kids. Kids have so little control over their lives, and virtually no power of their own to stage a *serious* rebellion. Kids can relate to the fact that Percy has no choice but to go on the quest, and they can celebrate in his success. They can imagine that they would have been brave enough to accompany him since for most kids, meaningful rebellion isn't an option.The Lightning ThiefRick Riordan
