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Hunger Games Thoughts

I just finished reading the whole book (It's my first book of the year so yay) and I have a lot of mixed feelings! Like OMG the deaths are so much more gruesome and the mutts part at the end, WTF?! I'm also pretty disappointed because we got less of president Snow, and more of Avox (which I learned about them very recently and they are one of the reasons why I wanted to read the book instead of relying on the movies like I've been over the past few years). I didn't like Peeta much? (but tbh I never liked him in the movies too) but at least in the books he's trying to do something, trying to create a sense of normality for Katniss with his plain remarks, I think?

And it got me thinking, would I survive the hunger games if I had to participate in them? I mean, I would definitely volunteer, I wasn't stable at the ages of mentally, so I might've volunteered because I was pissed at my family. I would've been wooing over Cato tbh the entire time and try to make him know that we are somehow of allies because he would've been my best shot at winning, I would've spent the entire time hiding, I would've been awful when it comes to sleep, I wouldn't sleep when I'm supposed to sleep and I wouldn't wake up when I'm supposed to wake up lol, and over all, I would've snapped and stopped. fighting at some point.

P.S. I should probably stop reading books because I like a couple of minor background characters .-.

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My Reading List

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman

The Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures - DK

Queen Charlotte - Julia Quinn

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Katt vs Dogg - James Patterson

Cursed - Thomas Wheeler

Batman: Under the Red Hood - Judd Winick

Batman: A Death in the Family - Jim Starlin

Batman V3: Death of the Family - Scott Snyder

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

Carrie - Stephan King

BFG - Roald Dahl

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Becket

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Original Screenplay - JK Rowling

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul - Jeff Kinney

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Looking for Alaska - John Green

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School - Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw - Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

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Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

Favorite Quotes Part Two

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Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

Favorite Quotes, Part One

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Find the book on Amazon

Quotes index:

City | Lost | Time | Fire | Life | Crisis | Interest | Wild | Fame | Universe | Happiness | Someone | Importance | Loved | Stars

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— The sky grows dark

The black over blue

Yet the stars still dare

To shine for you

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— Whatever happens, they will be looked after. They will be loved. And they have each other and they will be happy.

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— Never underestimate the importance of small things

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— “who was that?” Dylan asked.

“Oh just someone I knew in another life”

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— “There are patterns to life… rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are results of that particular existence. That it is a by product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come on different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”

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— “Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad”

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- Was this what fame was like? Like a permanent bittersweet cocktail of worship and assault?

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— All good things are wild and free

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— I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

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— A moment of Extreme Crisis in the Middle of Nowhere

“Oh fuck” whispered Nora, into the cold.

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— “Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life”

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— Fire

Every part of her

That changed

That got scraped off

Because of schoolyard laughter

Or the advice of grownups

Long gone

And the pain of friends

Already dead.

She collected those bits off the floor.

Like wood shavings.

And she made them into fuel.

Into fire.

And burned.

Bring enough to see for ever.