Book #16: The Hunger Games

 

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

 Released: September 14th, 2008

 (Was originally written April 11th, 2023)

Book #16 complete for the year: The Hunger Games

I don’t want to spoil anything because it is a very good read and I certainly recommend it to anyone who wants a good book.  These are more general notes.

- District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety

- The people who live in the district eat wild dogs.  Not intentionally, but if you accidentally take one out, meat is meat if you’re starving

- You become eligible for reaping the day you turn 12

- The reaping is held in the square, one of the few pleasant places in town

- The Hunger Games revolve around a governing body punishing society for an uprising against them.  So they take 24 youths (2 from each district) and they fight to the death.  The victors get food for their district while the rest starve.

- Haymitch is a former Reaping winner.  He is a crazy alcoholic, which makes me wonder if he just has alcohol issues, or suppresses the memory of killing.

- I see similarities between Hunger Games and A Court of Thorns and Roses 

- “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

- Katniss assumes Peeta has contempt for her when really he seems to have a warm affection 

- You can eat pine.

- Each of the tributes are skillful in different ways.  It would be neat to see alternate editions from each point of view.

- Katniss is torn as the book ends

On to Book #17: Catching Fire (Book 2 of Hunger Games)