A Change of Mind

Let me just say that the past three weeks, I have completed a book series that I'm very proud of reading. That series was The Hunger Games trilogy. I'm very proud of reading this series and how would I say this, it literally blew my mind away both literally and visually.

Reading The Hunger Games two weeks ago, I never thought that I would fall in love with it. I've heard and seen that it was such a huge hit with other readers, both young and old, that I thought to give it a try. Well, it wasn't disappointing at all. I couldn't stop reading The Hunger Game that I would keep reading for a couple of hours and then read at night that went all the way til middle of the night around 3 am. I just couldn't put it down.

Then came Catching Fire, which I have to say is my favorite book of the three, that had a lot of things going for Katness. There is a method to stories like this and it happens in movie trilogy most of all that when you read the first book that you are riding a roller coaster and when you are on the second book you are riding it all the way up and as soon as you get to the top you are at the tip toe of the edge to go down but the down part is the final book.

And then this past week I finished Mockingjay, the final book, which is had a long storyline to follow but I thought it was still good and had some twist and turns that I didn't see coming. Like when Katness was going to shoot President Snow and then shot President Coin. I didn't think that would happen. And the ending of it all just made me feel a whole lot better for Katniss and who she ended up with: that I think she should ended up with in the first place. I just couldn't believe that mental status of her. I just felt so sorry for Katniss.

Besides just these books, the movies were just as good as the book. I love it when a book turns into a movie because I can see it visually better than what I can imagine because I might see it different than what the author had in mind. For example, the part in the book in Catching Fire when Gale was getting wiped I didn't have a problem with it even just reading the details but when I saw the scene in the film version, that made me sick to my stomach.

I can't believe after reading the first book that I got hooked on it right away. As I said last week about Never Judge A Title, that I was never interested in reading what others were reading let alone now reading a book series. I hardly read any book series but I have read the Temperance Brennan novels, but I'm only like five books behind of it all. And now, I've had a change in mind about reading book series.

Now, I'm on to my next book, this time another book series (Divergent) and hope that it's good. I hear a lot of good things about it and the film too.

Here's to the next one!!

Never Judge a Book By It's Title

When I was a kid, let's say around grade school, I never really understood the meaning of reading what other kids were reading. I mean why would I want to read what every kid around the world is reading like Harry Potter for one. I readied what I wanted to read. I readied books like "Harriet the Spy", "Space Jam", "Walking with Dinosaurs", "Frog and Toad" just to name a few. But then this summer has pretty much hit me like a wrecking ball without having Miley Cyrus riding on it.

This summer has been the first time in a while since I read more than just one book let alone some good books. Most of the time, I've been busy handing personal stuff that I won't discuses about on here but it took away my time to read a book. The only time that I had for reading would be during school and most of it would be books on subjects for class and also some mystery, crime, fiction novels and one book would last more than a semester because it would take that long to read it.

But as I said, something hit me that really never hit me before and that was reading what other people were reading. I never liked reading what others were reading. It wasn't the that kind of person I was.

Reading Harry Potter...that was a no.
Reading Twilight....that would be a never.
Reading The Hunger Games....nope.  
Reading Divergent.....I don't think so.

None of these books really caught my attention as something that I have to read because you couldn't put it down once you start it.

Well, I'm here to confess that I'm eating those words right now. This summer I've started to read books that others have said that they loved and can't put down. I've taken some of the books that my friends have read like "The Hunger Games", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "The Fault In Out Stars" just to name a few and let me just say that both of them were outstanding to read and that I couldn't put it down.

So far right now I've been reading "The Hunger Games" series (the first two series) for the past two weeks and so far it's the best two books that I've read so far along with "Fault In Our Stars." But I will saw that "Catching Fire" has to be my favorite so far that it had a lot more effect in the storytelling and that starting this week I will start on the "Mockingjay" and see how it will end. Also I'm planning to start reading the Harry Potter novels so never late than never I suppose.

I think I've finally see what other see in these books. In my mind, it's kind of like high school, when you don't do anything during your time there and years later you wish that you could have done something there, wishing you could relive it over again. Like Harry Potter, I wish I could go back and read those books when they started coming out in bookstores.

Well, I do regret not reading some of these books that my friends and others so helpless recommend on reading. It's the same way with me and televisions shows. And the lesson for this is probably never judge any book by it's title or how someone reacts to it. It could be something that you would read over and over again.