{"id":1776,"date":"2012-03-14T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2012-03-14T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:59:28","slug":"book-log-catching-fire-mockingjay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Catching Fire &#038; Mockingjay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy)<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<br \/>\n<em>Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy)<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re good, these books.  <\/p>\n<p>I should have waited until April and May, when I could &#8220;borrow&#8221; them for free from the Amazon Lending Library. But sometimes you just need to know how the story turns out.<\/p>\n<p>The story has great rhythm, never dilly-dallying with useless preamble.  The plot flows smoothly from point to point, maintaining tension, plausibility and unpredictability.  <\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I found out this was a Young Adult series.  I fell for this with Pratchett&#8217;s <em>The Wee Free Men<\/em>, reading along thinking myself an Old Adult.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>Harry Potter<\/em> that&#8217;s done this&#8230; blurred the line between Old Adult and Young Adult.  Now I&#8217;m reading <em>Slam<\/em> and <em>Hat Full of Sky<\/em> and not even realizing that my development has been arrested.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s just time that Young Adults got something worth reading.  Something Adult, but only just.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m just looking to fill that end-of-a-good-series inner void with something decent.  I&#8217;m not up to switching gears suddenly back to Dickens.  Will the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> series suffice?  For some reason I&#8217;m associating the two.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins They&#8217;re good, these books. I should have waited until April and May, when I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}