#suzanne collins

[asfairaseros]

Sunrise on the Reaping is a devastating read bc what do you meannn once upon a time Haymitch was best friends with Katniss' dad and Katniss' mom was best friends with Haymitch's oath sister from the 50th hunger games and that woman is the original owner of the Mockingjay pin, which was made by the adoptive father of Haymitch's one true love who also died young! Like Suzanne!!! Hello??

[solitalost]

Now, for a somewhat unpopular opinion about The Hunger Games —and I know it’s unpopular, and people are free to disagree, since I certainly don't have a monopoly on the truth.

It’s a bit of an unpopular take and just a personal frustration of mine, but I don't think the prequel-era books (specifically the Snow one, i am not interested in reading the Haymitch one) were very well thought out. I mean, they’re great — I won’t lie, they’re good — but the fact that Suzanne wanted everything to be interconnected or have some deeper meaning makes things feel kind of... tedious (to me). I would have loved to see Suzanne focus on any other aspect of Panem in the books besides the Hunger Games themselves.

It was just a personal frustration of mine, but when she announced the Snow book, as a law student, I was expecting something more political. I wanted to see the politics of Panem and its legal system—how he became president, his campaign, how he dealt with rivals, the election laws, whether there was a senate, or how he managed to stay in power for so long. Was he democratically elected? Did he stage a coup and become a dictator? I had so many questions, so when I picked up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I was just like... 😐😐😐. Is that it? It’s good, but like I said, it wasn't what I was expecting, you know?

And don't get me wrong—I know it’s a dystopia—but a political landscape where we see no opposition, whether implicit or explicit, feels a bit too far-fetched to me. Speaking as someone from a country that went through two military dictatorships (or three, if you count the 1889 coup as a military one) and imprisoned a former president who tried to stage a coup, I sometimes find the books feel very "American." I also think Snow gets too much credit for things; he surely had a team feeding him ideas about the Games.

[coveysongbirds]

i’m so proud of these hunger games bracelets i’ve made over the past few months that i’m posting them everywhere, shouting at anyone who will listen, “LOOK WHAT I MADEEEEE!”

with that being said… look at these hunger games friendship bracelets i made!!!!

[fullydressedandafraid]

I'm watching the hunger games (again) and my urge to read the book for like the 500th time is so strong. I want to go read it now.

[doyelikehaggis]

Steven Cole (Leo) and Suzanne Collins (Nikki) at Philip Olivier’s (Tinhead) wedding <3

[bururaven]

Gen AI mentioned in Sunrise of the Reaping by Suzanne Collins.

[itmightrain]

Catching Fire's audiobook has the same narrator as Annihilation (an audiobook I have listened to four times in the last year and a half) so I'm constantly overcome with the feeling that The Biologist is accidentally involved in a revolution and is in love with Peeta and doesn't know it yet

[electrictouchfob]

I have started reading Gregor the Overlander after finding the entire boxed set at the thrift store back in the spring. Still in its plastic wrap!

Ironically, it's sixteen and a half years to the day since I first started to read The Hunger Games. You know, the book that made me go "fuck I don't want to read this." Look how that turned out!

I'm going to try to read them all this summer, and then re-read The Hunger Games series again as a lead up to the SOTR movie. I say this as if I don't have a PDF copy of the books open at all times to reference when I'm writing.