Grace's PRABE week 4 - may28-June 1

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May 29 - 2 hours - The Hunger Games

May 30 - 2 hours - The Hunger Games and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

May 31 - 2 hours - The Hunger Games and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Thoughts for this weekMy reading time expanded to quadruple the times started this week because I started my summer job at the day care. I work Monday through Friday from

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[aries11]

I'm so glad you're reading the Hunger Games! I think you'll enjoy the rest of the series. I want so bad to have another person to talk about it with! Peeta ended up being my favorite character. For your sake, I won't say anything else about it. ;)

[writergirlie]

Yay, you like Peeta too! :)

If you like the first book, you'll love the second. The third tends to be the most controversial; if you're expecting a neat, tidy ending, you'll be disappointed. But as you may have guessed from the first, Collins wants to tell a very realistic story of the real effects of violence, war, trauma, etc. Think DH, but on steroids. It will be a bloodbath in the third book, but ultimately, there aren't any deaths that didn't feel gratuitous, if that makes sense. All the deaths had a purpose, even if they are heart-wrenching.

And there *is* hope in the end. Actually, the last paragraph of the last chapter talks about exactly that: hope. It's such a beautiful, beautiful passage, and it echoes back to a passage in the middle of the first book (in other words, pay attention to when Katniss is recalling when she first meets Peeta and what happens after he throws her the bread. There will be a symbol there that she'll associate with Peeta and it plays a huge role in that last passage of the book).

[writergirlie]

P.S. I can't remember if I told you this, but it took me a long time to get into the first book. I wasn't all that fond of Katniss in the beginning (and the fact that the book was in first person--which I already find annoying under normal circumstances, but even more so when I don't like the character--only compounded it), and it wasn't until Peeta became much more prominent that I fell in love with the book. And eventually, I fell in love with Katniss, too :). It just took me a while to warm up to her. The fact that Peeta quickly became my favorite character, though, pulled me in, and it's no coincidence that I warmed up to Katniss only after she started to trust and become way nicer to Peeta :p.

[writergirlie]

Oops, I meant "there aren't any deaths that felt gratuitous."

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oh no! does this mean that Peeta will not surivive the end? Don't tell me! I want to find out for myself.

I am actually in the middle of book 3 so I guess I will find out pretty quickly. My prabe entries are a couple of weeks behind because while I've found the time to read the books but not the time to post my reflections.