My series book club met yesterday to discuss The Hunger Games. We were originally going to discuss just the first book, but ended up discussing the entire series because everyone had read all three books already. It is a very quick read, but I could not put it down.
I have been describing it as Brave New World meets Lord of the Flies. But I liked it much more than both of those books. It is told from the point of view of Katniss, a girl that volunteers to be in the hunger games to save her younger sister. It is set in a future time when North America has become “Panem” consisting of a Capitol and 12 districts. The hunger games are essentially a reality show where teenagers from each of the 12 districts are selected and forced to compete against each other gladiator style to the death. The games and starvation are how the Capitol maintains control over the districts.
There are a lot of good characters and discussion points so it translated well for a book club. I highly recommend it, but read all three and then discuss, much better that way!
Next this club is going to start A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. It is a four book series.
It comes highly recommended by my sister-in-law, but the first book A Song of Fire and Ice, is pretty long, so we won’t be meeting until January.
Stay tuned for updates on this book, as well as my other club which meets later in October. What have you been reading lately?
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