{"id":72,"date":"2012-01-30T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:00:00","slug":"a-book-review-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"A Book Review – The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n

I have a 16 year old son who doesn’t like to read.\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 How can anyone NOT like to read?\u00a0 I LOVE reading, I always have.\u00a0 One of my very favorite parts about working downtown Seattle was that I got 45 glorious minutes (each way!) of reading time on the bus.\u00a0 My reading time has been cut drastically now that I no longer work downtown and my husband goes to bed way earlier than me so no reading in bed, either.\u00a0 Adjusting to my new schedule, I hadn’t read anything other than a magazine in months.\u00a0 Ok, so back to my son.\u00a0 I always figured he didn’t like reading because he never read a book he really liked that could draw him in.\u00a0 I asked a few kids his age, who do like reading, what all-time favorite book they would recommend and the consistent answer was “The Hunger Games”.\u00a0 I bought him the first book (its a trilogy) for Christmas on the pretext that if he read it, I would take him to see the movie (which comes out March 23).\u00a0 Well, the book sat on his dresser till a few days ago when I picked it up and thought I’d read it first so maybe I could encourage him to read it.\u00a0 Oh My Goodness!\u00a0 I Loved it with a capital “L”.\u00a0 I couldn’t put it down.\u00a0 The kids saw how engrossed I was and now they all want to read it!\u00a0 I ran out to the nearest book store and paid full-price for the second book.\u00a0 Full-price I said – that’s how much you know I love it; I don’t pay full-price for anything!<\/p>\n

So here’s the story-line (without giving anything away)….the story is based in North America in the nation of Panem sometime in the future.\u00a0 Anyways, there are 12 Districts and a Capitol.\u00a0 The Capitol controls all the Districts. Some time in the past, District 13 rebelled against the Capitol and now no longer exists.\u00a0 To commemorate that rebellion and to remind the rest of the Districts who is in charge, each year the Capitol draws two children’s names, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, from each District to participate in The Hunger Games. Those 24 children (known as Tributes) are taken to the Capitol where they are interviewed and “prepared” for The Hunger Games.\u00a0 The Hunger Games are a brutal battle to the death between the Tributes until there is only one victor.\u00a0 In District 12, 12 year old Primrose Everdeen’s name is drawn.\u00a0 Knowing she’ll never survive, Primrose’s 16 year old sister, Katniss, volunteers to take her place, an almost certain death sentence for her as well.\u00a0 An accomplished hunter, Katniss must kill or be killed, choose humanity or survival.\u00a0 Does she survive?\u00a0 Does the boy Tribute from District 12 survive?\u00a0 You’ve got to read it to find out…just make sure you have the dishes and laundry done first, otherwise you won’t be getting to it for a while! (I know it is a strange premise for a story to have kids killing each other off, but the storyline is amazing.)<\/p>\n

Book One:\u00a0 The Hunger Games
Book Two:\u00a0 Catching Fire
Book Three:\u00a0 The Mockingjay.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I have a 16 year old son who doesn’t like to read.\u00a0 Wait, what?\u00a0 How can anyone NOT like to read?\u00a0 I LOVE reading, I always have.\u00a0 One of my very favorite parts about working downtown Seattle was that I got 45 glorious minutes (each way!) of reading time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}