Posts tagged Hunger Games

Thanks to HungerNames.com,

My name is Whim Higglesworth

Congratulations! You had the honor of being a District 2 tribute in the 47th Hunger Games!

You were killed by jumping over a landmine and landing on a bear.

You know, I always suspected that that’s how I would go.

From the American Library Association, here is the list of the top ten most-challenged books of 2010:

• And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• Lush, by Natasha Friend
• What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
• Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
• Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Personally, I have read four of these titles (all of which I enjoyed), but now, in support, I plan to check the rest out too.  Have you read any of these?

30 Day Book Challenge

Day 27 - The most surprising plot twist or ending

The climax of Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.  I’m not into spoiling things for others, especially since it’s still such a new book, so I’m just going to leave it at that.  You’ll have to read it for yourself and let me know what you think.

Day 28 - Favorite title

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender.  That just tickles me, for some reason, and it’s why I picked up a copy to read when I was on vacation in Scotland last summer.  Plus, the cover art is really pretty. 

This past year, I managed to read 90 books (not up to my usual 100, but not too bad considering my new status as grad student), and a lot of them were absolutely marvelous.  Here’s my top ten list, hard though it was to choose between them all (and yes, I’m counting series as one item on the list…):

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

Scout, Atticus, and Boo, by Mary McDonagh

Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein

This Book is Overdue!, by Marilyn Johnson

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, by Rick Riordan

Others that I really enjoyed include Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, Dave Barry’s I’ll Mature When I’m Dead, Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird, and Julie Halpern’s Into the Wild Nerd Yonder.

Honorable mention also goes to the Harry Potter series, which I reread for the umpteenth time this year to prep for the new movie.  I’ve read it over and over several times, but it still resonates with me powerfully and sweeps me up in the world and makes me cry like a schoolgirl.  Well done, J.K. Rowling.

What were your favorite reads last year?