The Hunger Games

My goal of this summer was to get JD to read The Hunger Games with me. She loves the movies and her bffl had read them all, and I figured that if she read them, JD would read them. J hates to read, despite all my efforts to change this. I finally convinced her to read by starting a "Book Club" via iChat with P, and my sisters. We read one chapter together, and then stopped. (Well, we stopped. My sister read them all obsessively in 3 days and adored them). I was lazy and didn't really feel like enforcing the reading thing w J, thinking it may turn her off to reading even more.

So for the past few days, she has been talking about her Sims characters. Like, obsessively. About their attributes, characteristics, what made them better at some things than others. Then, I had an idea! A terrible, wonderful idea...

I told her that we would read the books together, and she would create a Sims world using the book and textual evidence to make the characters. She loved this idea. We sat down, and read up to chapter 6 in one shot.

Then last night, I totally broke the rules and finished the book. She is so pissed at me, and is having a panic attack about "catching up." But I couldn't help it.

Today, we watched the movie.

I'm about to start "Catching Fire."

The book.

Because I am obsessed.

Here a few of my observations about the book vs. the movie:

-in the book, I loved Peeta! You never care about Gael because you don't see him or his reactions. In the movie, Gael kinda broke my heart. But I still love Peeta. Although Andy told me he turns bad. Which is upsetting me. A lot.

-in the book, I wanted to punch Katniss for telling Peeta that it was all for the tv and broke his heart

-in the movie, I wanted to punch Katniss for being"like bella swan, all dumb mad face all the time" (awesome quote from my sister). Despite the fact that I adore Jennifer Lawrence. And Katniss. I'm so distraught with my conundrum.

That is all.