Updated: Jun 17, 2020
We've waited TEN years for Suzanne Collins to release another book in the Hunger Games series.The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to the Hunger Games. This week we talk about the series as a whole and rate the new book WITHOUT SPOILERS!! Please feel free to join us as we theorize how Panem got its start. We also talk about waste being a luxury and if Suzanne Collins predicted some of the events that we have been going through in 2020. We also go ahead and rate the book :) We also discuss which District we would each choose to live in if we had the choice! Please play along with us! What District would you want to live in?
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Ratings: We ALL gave this book a thumbs UP!!
This week we did a 1-5 scale. 1 being BLAH and 5 being GREAT!
Pacing:
Katie - 4
Mandy - 3.5
Sarah - 3
Holly - 3.5
Mood/Style:
Mandy - 3.5.5
Mandy- 3.5
Sarah - 3
Holly - 4
Character Development:
Katie - 4.5
Mandy - 3
Sarah - 4
Holly - 3
Story/Plot:
Katie - 3.5 maybe 4
Mandy - 5
Sarah - 4
Holly - 4.5
Rating the books in order of BEST in series to worst.
Katie: The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Catching Fire, Mocking Jay
Mandy:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mocking Jay
Sarah: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Mocking Jay
Holly: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Mocking Jay
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Favorite quotes from the book
“What a luxury trash would be." "Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion though.”
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." -- The opening sentence of Rousseau's The Social Contract
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Show Notes
Mandy's Next Book: The Guardians by John Grisham
Sarah's Next Book:
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Katie's Next Book: (This was also mentioned in the podcast)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Holly's Next Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The book Katie Quoted from in the podcast. Stay by Anjuli Paschall
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