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It’s here, it’s here, it’s here…Catching Fire. Look at that sexy cover. I haven’t been this excited about a book, or film, or show for a while (although HBO is developing a pilot called “Game of Thrones” with some yummy actors but this is year or so off)
Part of my excitment is that Hunger Games, the book before Catching Fire, was the most surprising, exciting and intriguing book I read in 2008. It also featured a tough/strong female lead, a touch of romance and some great action. She out runs a freaking forest fire! I don’t know where this love of a good action sequence came from but it’s almost required for my enjoyment of anything. So I loved the first book, but why the itchy, burning desire for the next amoung all the other series I read? And why do I crave that shiver? That antici…pation.
But anticipation is as much a motivation to read as escapism or information seeking. The desire, nay, the need to find out what happens next is why we start, finish and fight over books. That’s what good authors do, make you care about the characters or the story enough to find out how it ends. I’m afflicted with the need to know how something ends. I’m notorious for jumping to the end, reading spoilers, watching episodes in reverse order. I remember asking a friend who died at the end of Pearl Harbor so I wouldn’t have to see it. But when I hold back and restrain myself, oh, OH, how sweet the anticipation tastes.
To tease myself a bit more, I’m finishing my stack of library books before I start Catching Fire. Okay maybe I’m waiting for the weekend because I know I’ll be up until all hours, half blind, reading just one more page, one more page. I’m stretching this out because the next book will be so far away and once I give to the anticipation I’m a slave to the just one more page, one more page.
The year is halfway gone so I wanted to evaluate progress on my 100 books in a year challenge.
On my ever helpful Goodreads page I have tagged 64 books as “2009.” Of those, 20 are adult books, 37 youth (kid and YA), 8 graphic novels, 2 did not finish and 5 that I am currently reading. Yes that does not equal 64, I cross tag certain books.
I am continuely suprised that I don’t finish books as fast as I think I do. True I read some books faster, like Nora Roberts or Meg Cabot because its delightful yet mindless drivel. And I have a habit of retiring books if I can’t get into them *cough* Ghostgirl *cough*. I wonder if the challenge is taking a toll on my reading habits. I pressure myself to finish so I can move on to the next book, get that next notch.
I need to read 36 more before December 31. Things should start picking up now I read all the Printz books I wanted to and am moving on to the Caudill nominees for this year. I started with Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life which was amazing. I have two more that came in this week so I might get to them this weekend. But first I have to get my Matt Cruse fix. Kenneth Oppel and his Airborn series might be my new favorite Potter replacement. Adventure, mystery, like our world but not quite. And it has this Steampunk vibe that is very cool. Probably stay up tonight and finish it, my last nod to summer break.
Wouldn’t Colin Morgan from Merlin make a great Matt Cruse? Sure he’s bit old but he plays the skinny and awkward, yet smart and sensitive so well.
Armed with a new theme and some updated links I’m ready to go!! Again!! I always fall off the blogging wagon but I can never stay away. But I’ll ease back into it with a short post and work on more for tomorrow.
What are they doing with the Percy Jackson movie??!!?? I don’t usually approve of unnecessary punctuation but it is deserved in this case. The casting for this movie, based on a favorite series of mine by Rick Rirodan, is all over the place. You can check it all out here at the IMDB page. I have to applaud much of the casting so far, Sean Bean as Zues (oh baby, yes) Uma Thurman as Medusa, Pierce Brosnan as Chiron…so much good. A little on the fence about Steve Coogan as Hades, I like him but that role is really for a dark and brooding type, Richard Armitage comes to mind. But Coogan’s good so I’ll take. Not a bad haul so far for a kids movie right? And then it all goes down with the casting for the kids, you know, freaking Percy Jackson. I don’t have a problem with this Logan Lerman guy just that’s he’s pushing 18 and Percy’s way younger. Yes typically older teens play younger teens. But this is was suppose to be set as the next Harry Potter and they cast those kids the right age. The chick playing Annabeth? 22!! Really? Really? Rumors are swirling about major plot changes already which is very disappointing since the books already read like movies. Rirodan gave you the action, why change it? I have horrible visions of the disaster that was The Seeker. Please Hollywood, please, don’t mess this up. Please? With sugar on top?
The future Zeus, it helps me calm down.
