Books

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Finished reading Doomsday Book last weekend.  What a grim yet lovely book.   A little overlong but definitely rewarding (and devastatingly sad in places.  But, you know, the Black Plague and an Avian Flu epidemic are always going to be sad. They're going to need to send poor time travelling Kivrin on a long vacation after that... and possibly into therapy. )

Devoured The Hunger Games (Book I) today.   Damn.  It's straight-up awesome.  Loved it!  Loved Katniss, who kicks major ass and is a wonderful heroine (who makes me think of a young Aeryn Sun).  Rue completely broke my heart into a thousand pieces, and  Peeta... *swoon*. 

Really. Just loved it.  Now I have to read the whole series.

And I also now have a dilemma.  What do I read next?  I've been waiting for six months for the answer to Connie Willis's cliffhanger-ending to Blackout and pre-ordered the sequel All Clear months ago. According to my e-mail, Amazon shipped it today. 

OR I can devour the rest of the Hunger Games trilogy  Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

That's not even taking into account that there's a Harry Dresden book being released this month. 

However, I strongly suspect that this Harry Dresden anthology isn't going to actually answer the cliffhanger from the last book (my understanding is that the part of the anthology that deals with the cliffhanger from Changes is going to be told from Murphy's POV, so I suspect that it isn't going to actually answer the cliffhanger... which is why it currently ranks lower on my 'to read' list than the two remaining books in The Hunger Games  and the Connie Willis sequel).

Let me just finish by saying that The Hunger Games completely sucked me in.  All the way.  I may have something more coherent to write about it later.  Right now I'm bleary-eyed and needing to go to bed.  I just couldn't sleep without finishing Book 1.