Ok, so Mockingjay showed up today. It was sitting by my door when I got home. I was torn. I hadn't quite finished The Hunger Games on audio yet. I'd originally downloaded it when I thought my copy wouldn't show up til Aug 31, and I would have time to listen to it and read Catching Fire. However, now that I have Mockingjay in my posession I really want to read it. But I think I've decided to be good and follow through on the original plan. I finished Hunger Games tonight, and started Catching Fire. I know that I could probably just pick up Mockingjay and be ok, but I've only read the others once, and I'd forgotten quite a few details of Hunger Games. I think in the end I'll be glad I reread them both, but until then I may have to put Mockingjay back in the box and put it away until I can tear through the rest of Catching Fire! Because right now it is sitting on the arm of my couch staring at me. I never should have opened that box!!
I actually picked up The Hunger Games because it's on our list of titles for our apocalypse-themed common experience project, but now I have to finish the series. I've been trying to find Catching Fire at our local bookstores without success. Apparently they don't think the college kids don't read these. Pretty soon I'm going to have to break down and buy it online.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel to a lesser degree. When I got my copy of Mockingjay I was about 1/3 of the way through re-reading Catching Fire. Even that much was hard for me to decide to wait until I'd finished. I'm still not done with Mockingjay though. I've just been too busy!
ReplyDeleteAnd I loved the books just as much, if not more, the second time around.