finally saw the hunger games - with mat & jen... last night. maddie thought all her christmases had come at once to see them, she'd been asking for jen non-stop for weeks (ever since we went up to visit and get the bassinet) "where's aunty jen? i go see aunty jen? i see the emu?" so funny!
i liked it! i thought it was very well done and thankfully followed the book quite well (i hate it when they ruin a good book by making it a movie... twilight? dead and buried.) the books really impressed me, i thought it was such a fabulously original concept... (even though it's such a sad story!) and i was glad to see the movies thus far have been quite true to them.
jen and i were discussing the books afterwards - and i would like to make a prediction right now... we were stuck reading this ridiculous book called "animal farm" in high school and we hated every minute of it, (yes, yes i am fully aware of the fact that it's a "literary masterpiece" but the two of us hated it with a passion, it went on and on and on and on and onnnnn about a topic that could not have interested me any less...) but i think that in 20 years time, high school senior english will be reading "the hunger games". hopefully they will appreciate it as much as we did, cause it is great. so well written and one of those books that you really don't want to put down.
so - you read it here first - hunger games, coming to high school english! if i'm still writing in 20 years - watch me gloat.
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