Has a good mission i would recommend it.

So I like when Tommy and his family on the slime ride.

Great read about a group of people each trying to reinvent themselves at an artists' colony with a dark history.

To my regret, sixteen years ago in Ms. McCullough's 10th grade English class, I cheated on my book report and didn't actually read this book as intended by the assignment. Instead, I read the SparkNotes version. My twisted moral reason being that this lie was better than reading a book with "witchcraft and magic." Such material was prohibited in my upbringing. Years later, I saw the film as an adult along with the other Lord of the Rings films and was quite fascinated with the tale of courage and found middle earth completely captivating. During this winter reading challenge, I was delighted to find the book on Libby and had every intention of correcting this wrong of sixteen years ago by reading it (listening). It wasn't until I was about halfway through that I realized it was a 1968 BBC radio dramatisation that, while apparently a classic in its own rite, leaves a great deal of content out from the original book. I hope this is still considered an audiobook as it was on Libby, but I was dismayed to find that it was not, in fact, the original book. The task remains for me to read the other book, but I did enjoy this retelling nonetheless.

It was CRAZY!

How porcupine was pokien all his friends.

It was good! I like the rhyming words.

I have loved this series since the first book, and this novel deepens the reader's understanding of this brutal, extravagant, spectacle of a Rome in its last days society. Haymitch Abernathy is a fascinating character, part good, part bad, a true chiaroscuro of morality. In this novel, we see him younger more idealistic, before loss and alcoholism ate away at him, and yet at the kernel we see the beginnings of his pragmatic, blase outer shell. There are numerous parallels to the first Hunger Games novel and here we meet young versions of Effie Trinket and Caesar Flickerman, along with a young and tragic Maysilee Donner. The writing pulls the reader in from the first page and keeps you turning the pages right up until the tragic end that explains the mystery of why Haymitch behaves the way he does as a mentor to Peeta and Katniss. Excellent addition to The Hunger Games pantheon!

So fun and funny to read

Gossie is looking for her bright red boots. I like it.