Finished! The Hunger Games Trilogy

It's been so long since I last finished a book, keeping this blog for my 101 tells me the last time I'd finished a book was way back in March last year. Fourteen months later and I've read three books in the space of a month! Crazy.
It's 'The Hunger Games' trilogy by Suzanne Collins that has brought on this behaviour. Never before have I read a book before seeing the movie, but with this series I just had to. I'm so glad I did, I love these books!
I've been lending the books to someone at work and she's a fast reader, it's spurred me on to read books two and three really fast so she can have them. 
I now have the amazing urge to Google 'The Hunger Games' and found out everything I can on some sort of dedicated Wiki site! I need to fill the void until the next movie comes out in 2013!

012. [currently reading] 'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins

With my current obsession with the The Hunger Games trilogy and finishing one book in about two weeks, I've now started book two - 'Catching Fire'. I'm already about 8 chapters in and desperate to read more! I've got book three, 'Mockingjay' on standby ready for when I'm done with book two.

I've not been this into a book or book series in years - this is quite new for me!

The Hunger Games

I never usually get caught up in book-movie hype, I never did with Harry Potter or with Twilight either. Although the The Hunger Games trilogy is a teen based book just like those, I really couldn't help myself - I had to read it! I knew a bit about the story, what it was all about, but not enough to spoil the plot. I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie, there just seemed to be something about the story that made me want to use my own imagination to create this alternate future and I didn't want the movie to spoil that.

I started reading the book in early May and finally finished it after a couple of days away travelling on trains around London and Leeds. I was so pleased to finally finish it, it's been way to long since I started and finished a book so quickly! I'm really glad to finish it while the movie was still playing in the cinema, it meant that because I finished the book on the Thursday we were able to go and see the movie on Saturday afternoon. 

I think the movie was made so well and really represented the book. A couple of differences, but they're so small that they're not worth mentioning. I'm now on book two and the second movie isn't out for over a year! Never mind, I really love these books at the moment and will probably seek out similar kinds of stories and genres - I've not enjoyed a book like this in years!

023. Watch 20 movies in the cinema (7/20)

James is a huge comic books fan and I knew we'd have to see this film. I was really looking forward to seeing it as well, and really enjoyed it! I've only seen the Iron Man films prior to this and already know about The Hulk story, but I hadn't heard anything about the Avengers story, so James filled me in quickly before the start of the film. I think I want to catch up and watch the Thor movie now.