Eventhough, we still do

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...

People look at reality, then you can change it.

- James Baldwin

domingo, 13 de mayo de 2012

English books: Catching Fire

Hey, guys! Here I am again, just writing for you to read my posts. Well, about two days ago I finished... "Catching Fire"! This is the second book of THE HUNGER GAMES, in the one Suzanne Collins achieves to retrieve our attention towards a fantastic experience once more.
In this new tome, Katniss Everdeen has just returned from the Hunger Games to district twelve with Peeta Mellark . Their "supposed romance" finishes from the moment in the one the cameras leave them alone. They're distant, although Peeta's love towards our "Girl on Fire" is real.
What will happen? When they're about to start the Victory Tour through all the districts in Panem, Katniss "welcomes" President Snow, the head of the Capitol, to her house. He will advice her on what is to come, a really dangerous fact.
Katniss will try to protect everyone she loves from the rebellion act she started while the end of the last Hunger Games, in the one she decided to dye with Peeta rather than kill him and return home, which meant the Hunger Games wouldn't have a victor that year.
The Capitol stopped them and now people in the districts have discovered they (supposedly) can win their government and so they're starting to start revolutions  from themselves towards the Capitol.
But this year the fiftieth anniversary of the Hunger Games takes place, and the Capitol has prepared something especial to commemorate the occasion. Wanna learn what it is?
So sorry, read "Catching Fire"!
I leave you the praise for "The Hunger Games", so you'll see how much potential it has:
"The Hunger Games is a violent, jarring speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense... I couldn't stop reading."
- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

 "I was so obsessed with this book I had to take it with me out to dinner and hide it under the edge of the table so I wouldn't have to stop reading. The story kept me up for several nights in a row, because even after I was finished, I just lay in bed wide awake thinking about it... The Hunger Games is amazing."
- Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga

"Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced... Engrossing."
- John Green, New York Times Book Review

"A plot-driven blend of suspense, science fiction, and romance."
-USA Today


Now the praise for "Catching Fire"...:

"Whereas Katniss kills with finesse, Collins writes with raw power."
- Time magazine

"Collins has done that rare thing. She has written a sequel that improves upon the first book."
- The New York Times Book Review
Well, now the information on the paperback...:

Title: Catching Fire
Printer: Scholastic Press
Author: Suzanne Collins
Cover design: Phil Falco
Collection design: Scholastic Press
Parts of the book: 3 (and there's a book before this and another one after)
Pages of the story: 391

See you and hope you enjoy it!
Miriam

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