For the month of March we are reading
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
* The buzz around this story has grown immensely over the last half year - especially now with the
first movie in the trilogy coming out later this month - but it wasn't until recently that I really grew interested in reading these novels. I think my first exposure to them was when I was browsing around Indigo looking for books for the book club to give to Karyn on her arrival home from Rwanda and to celebrate her engagement. I was pretty pregnant at the time, and if you've ever been pregnant you might know this, everyone wants to help you and talk with you. So, while I was browsing in Indigo a number of sales associates offered to help me. I heard about a lot of good books that night but one lady in particular took me on a grand tour of the store showing me many different novels. She brought me over to the pre-teen section, pointed to
The Hunger Games trilogy and told me, "now these might be for kids, but seriously, you have
got to read them. They're a great read." Although not what I was looking for that night, I tucked that bit of information in my head as something to look into later. I'm so glad that Carolyn chose
The Hunger Games to read this month and now I finally have the chance to read them.
Not knowing anything about
The Hunger Games story line I was reminded, based on the title alone, of a hallowe'en episode of
The Simpsons where
Mr. Burns puts a number of the townspeople in a forest and hunts them for sport (starts at 9:45). That episode is based on the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell which he wrote in 1924. I won't give away the ending,
it is worth reading, but it involves man hunting man.
