As a 16 yo, I didn’t experience a first love. A couple of crushes, but none of them were anything more than an occasional glance in the lift, or a quickening of pulse when they appeared in front of me. To read Rainbow Rowell describe it so minutely in normal-speak without being elaborate is a welcome peek into a world when feelings run amok, you barely understand what’s happening and yet you feel so much (so – much like my current mid-thirties, GOTCHA, dumb-ass […]
“It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”
I will be using this review for the “The Book Was Better?” square in CBR10 Book Bingo. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore…” I admit it: I watched the Netflix movie before I read the book. I have a weakness for teen rom-com cheesy goodness, the waiting lists at the library were massive, and I really wanted to know what all the Buzzfeed stories were about. Of course, I […]
This was heart wrenching
I have finally reached the end of “The Hunger Games” trilogy. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were revelatory in the richness of the stories compared to the movies and Mockingjay was no exception. The movie adaptation of Mockingjay left so little impression that I had forgotten it was split into two movies. Having read the entire series I find myself a little surprised that it was ever adapted for the screen. Much of the books are dark and depressing as we watch Katniss deal with PTSD and in the final volume […]
If the first book was a spark, this is dry tinder feeding the flame of my interest
When setting out to read The Hunger Games, I remembered the first movie fairly well and the book unfolded the way I expected it to go. When picking up book two, it occurred to me that I didn’t really remember the second movie other than Katniss and Peeta going back into the Games and all hell breaking loose in the arena at the end, which pleasantly meant more of the events in the book were a surprise. Now I’m not sure if it’s due to my […]