Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Today was the release day of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins! I’m a HUGE fan of the Hunger Games trilogy and have been dying to read this. It’s going to be my reward tonight for writing this blog and calling all my girl scouts about a meeting Saturday (which, by the way, I’d rather have a facial with a diamond sander than do).
If you haven’t read The Hunger Games or Catching Fire, drop everything and do it.
Go ahead. I’ll wait. It’s okay.
Forget work…I’ll write you a pass. The kids can feed themselves. And if your pets are like mine, they can live off their own body fat for a while.
I loved Harry Potter (and loathed Twilight) but this is better. I think I read the whole first book in one sitting, then recommended it to my friends who have now all become addicted (It is not necessary to thank me…you know who you are).
But I was never this way with a series before. If my city had a midnight release party, I would’ve been there in costume, with face paint, dragging my bow. And I would’ve been there with all the other 40-something women I saw today as I raced across town over my lunch hour to get the book.
I WASTED AWAY waiting for Catching Fire, finished it in one night and thought I was actually going to DIE waiting for Mockingjay. But now it’s here. And I am happy. Unless Michele finishes it before me. Then I’ll be seriously bummed.
I will not get any sleep tonight.
The Assassin