Also, I should be posting something tomarrow for Toss Up Tuesday… not sure what, but I’ll think of something!  Meanwhile, my son is getting caught up in the world of the Hunger Games!  lol, jk but how cute is that?

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Borders filmed a one-hour Borders Book Club discussion with Collins, three adults (including a librarian) and six teenagers. On release day, the

talk will go up on Borders’ Web site and play in the 90 (out of 513) Borders stores with TVs. Borders has filmed such discussions with just three other YA authors: Stephenie Meyer for Eclipse, Sarah Dessen for Along for the Ride and Christopher Paolini for Brisingr. With Scholastic’s permission, Borders also created a mockingjay pin, which it plans to sell for 50% off its $6.99 retail price with the purchase of Catching Fire. Finally, on September 1, Borders will highlight Catching Fire in its weekly email blast to all 34 million Borders customer loyalty program members. “The storyline to this is just so catching,” said Liz Marotte, Borders’ YA buyer. “Forty-year-old men can enjoy it as much as 16-year-old girls.”    Read more here.

Borders will offer this mockingjay lapel pin for 50% off the retail price of $6.99, with a book purchase.

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Rock it SUZY!

There are few series that are so compelling from the first novel that they leave a reader distractedly thinking about the future of the characters. Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies comes to mind, as does Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments. Perhaps not coincidentally, these stories contain strong female protagonists, much like Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.

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“It seems rather silly to add my two cents of praise to a book that’s been 1) acclaimed by Stephenie Meyer and Stephen King, not to mention a whole lot of other book reviewers; 2) snatched up by Lionsgate to be made into a movie, written by its very author; and 3) sitting in the New York Times best-seller list for 48 weeks. I’ll just say that if you haven’t yet read Suzanne Collins’ “Hunger Games,” then I’m kind of jealous of you. You get to discover the dark, post-apocalyptic world of Katniss Everdeen and then jump right into “Catching Fire,” the second book in the trilogy, as soon as it comes out on September 1.”

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Meyer is also a fan of author Suzanne Collins’ work.

“I also got an early look at a book I’ve been eagerly awaiting: Catching Fire, the sequel to Suzanne Collins’ phenomenal The Hunger Games. It not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them. It’s just as
exciting as The Hunger Games, but even more gut wrenching, because you already know these characters, you’ve already suffered with them. Suzanne takes the story places I wasn’t expecting, and she’s never
afraid to take it to very hard places. Stunning. You won’t sleep when you’re reading this one. It hits shelves September 1st.”

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I recently had the pleasure of falling into Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, which I may have enjoyed even more than The Hunger Games. I don’t want to spoiler either book (Hunger Games hasn’t even been out a year, and Catching Fire isn’t scheduled for release until September 1, 2009) so I am going to skip the summary, but trust me – you don’t want to miss this series.

Right from the start, this book was not what I was expecting. The title “Catching Fire” left me wondering (now that I’ve read the book, however, the title is so obviously perfect) and within a few chapters I realized the pacing was off for the plot that I had been expecting. It’s not easy to raise the stakes for characters after setting the standard in The Hunger Games, but Collins does it well.

Another surprising aspect for me was how it reflected a bit of the Iranian election protests going on right now. Obviously Collins couldn’t have intended that, but I think it’s a good indicator that The Hunger Games trilogy has literary staying power. Also, I can’t help but compare it to other fictitious works of awesome like The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Here’s a video link for you in which Rebecca Leach explains and compares the Iranian protests and Little Brother, in case you’re interested in such things), The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen, and The Giver by Lois Lowry. Collins herself cites inspiration from reality shows and war coverage on TV, as well as the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

My favorite part of the book was the end (seriously, I’m not going to spoiler it, stop twitching). It was the most perfect ending for a middle book in a series. It was completely satisfying, but in a way that leaves you desperately needing to know what happens next.

Catching Fire is scheduled for release on September 1, 2009. Collins is also under contract for a third book which is tentatively scheduled for a 2010 release.

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