wrt to Hunger games series. First book was really well done and pretty interesting. 2nd book was decent but felt it recycled a fair amount of book one. Third book was mostly garbage. As another poster mentioned if you want to know how the series ends the movies might be better.
Have seen the movies, so from all the comments, will not seak out the others, thanks all
I finished the third book of Margaret Atwoodâs âMaddaddam trilogyâ. The third book is called Maddaddam. All three books are fairly different, even though theyâre covering roughly the same time and events and many of the same people. This one covers mostly the post-apocalypse, although it jumps back in time quite a bit. The book has the most humor of the three, mostly due to the unknowledgeable and very literal new lifeform misunderstanding things that are said and, even more, being told slight lies of convenience that are then canon as far as the lifeforms are concerned (such as someone trying to avoid having to explain why their injured teacher cried out âOh Fck!", which leads to them believing that "Fckâ is a friend of his that he is trying to summon)
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Huh. An asterisk seems to turn on and off italics.
Yeah, there are a lot of stupid things in this forum format.
Finished my horror story collection last night. Still reading Mysteries of Udolpho (I donât find the narrative as compelling as A Sicilian Romance, but Iâll certainly finish it).
Started The Sandman (Preludes and Nocturnes) the last couple of nights. I picked up the full box set of the 30th anniversary trade books a couple months ago. I figure Iâll try reading an issue or two a night, or more if Iâm in between books.
Husband just finished reading this one (in probably a couple of hours at most). He reads freakishly fast - like so fast that Iâve actually looked at him before and said, âWTF thereâs no way you just read that whole thing, tell me exactly what it said or I donât believe you!!â and well, he did read it, and I still donât believe him.
Anyways, Iâm halfway through East of Eden and made it to the âtimshelâ part. I have a photo frame with a quote from this section on a gallery wall, next to some of our wedding photos (no Live, Laugh, Loveâs anywhere though I promise). D thought the section was important enough to read out loud to me early on in our relationship, and he considered reading it at our actual wedding. I stuck the quote on the wall to surprise him (also my backup/workout wedding band has âthou mayestâ engraved on the inside).
All that to say that the book is kind of important to us. And Iâll read Piranesi next.
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Itâs a non-Discworld novel, but definitely Pratchett in outlook, and has a very sweet ending (this is not a bad thing) â itâs kind of an alternate history earth, starting with a pandemic in 19th century UK, and a tsunami in the south Pacific.
Mysteries of Udolpho really does pick up about a third of the way in. Prior to that itâs a slow moving sentimental novel.
One thing that makes me laugh is how much Ann Radcliffe states things are âsublimeâ.
My âcurrently readingâ list on goodreads is a bit out-of-control.
Itâs got 75 books⌠and about half are in my special shelf: âwill-continue-to-read-once-i-findâ
Anyway, I need to clean up and find some of those books. At least with e-books I canât âloseâ them.
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I finished A Painted House by John Grisham. Itâs a very non-Grisham book. It covers an 7 year oldâs summer and fall on a small cotton farm struggling to get by in rural Arkansas.
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Iâm reading the userâs manual for my new watch. 
Demons/The Devils/The Possessed (3 titles in use, all the same book) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gulag Archipelago (unabridged) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
The Bible by various
That should keep you occupied for a while.
Hound of the Baskervilles:
âThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.â - Sherlock Holmes
Monday, starting
Icon, Frederick Forsythe
That was the first thing i read on my Kindle, it being free. I enjoyed it
Finally finished Mysteries of Udolpho a couple days ago. Itâs not bad, just way too long.
Started The Stand yesterday.
Just started Calibanâs War (book 2 in The Expanse).
The Valley of Fear (another Sherlock Holmes novela) - and it starts with a piece of bitchiness by Holmes, and then a few paragraphs later Watson is bitchy back. Itâs amusing.
Dodger by Terry Pratchett (non-DiscWorldâŚbut includes Charles Dickens)