Had to rush a little with Catching Fire and Mockingjay because Mockingjay was on express checkout from the library, which meant I had to finish both of ’em in a week.

My basic reaction to these books is that, as with the Harry Potter series (which I read) and the Twilight series (which I haven’t), I don’t see what it is about them that has caused the Millennial generation to pick them out of the crowd and turn them into mammoth blockbusters. Which is not to say that they’re not deserving! Let me put it this way: as far as I can tell, the success of the Hunger Games trilogy (and the Harry Potter septet, and, I guess, the Twilight series) relative to the success of all other books is not proportional to the quality of the Hunger Games trilogy relative to the quality of all other books.

And good for Suzanne Collins! I don’t mean that this is unjust. Perfectly good story and I’m going to check out what else she wrote. I don’t know why it happened, that’s all.