3 Books in 2 weeks (and a few days...)

During the 2 week break over I devoured these three books:

I've already mentioned this one...the back of the book may make you think "what? weird." but it was a page turner...a nice, clean, page turner.

Description

Grade 7 Up--In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old KatnissÆs young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining districtÆs female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. CollinsÆs characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like ôSurvivorö and ôAmerican Gladiator.ö Book one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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This is the second of the series. The third will be coming in August. If I had known how addicting these books would be I wouldn't of started them until Summer! sheesh! I may have to start a count down for the third book! And I may just have to be one of those nerds who go and pick up there copies at midnight...we'll see.
This one I picked up on a whim at Wal-mart right before our Seattle trip after seeing that one of Matt's buddies bought the book as a Christmas gift for his wife. The movie trailer made me think that this was some sort of scary story...(it will be interesting to see what the movie does with the story) but it was good! caution: I did skip over some pages that made me blush and another that twisted my stomach with the whole murder of it all...but over all it was a great and intriguing read...unexpectedly uplifting. I ended it with a sigh and a smile. I would recommend it.

Description

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet ..."The Lovely Bones" is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places. 'Spare, beautiful and brutal prose ..."The Lovely Bones" is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing.' - "The Times". 'Moving and compelling ...It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed.' - Maggie O'Farrell, "Sunday Telegraph".