Review: How A Review in The West Australian Newspaper Convinced Me To Read The Hunger Games
This review is about two things. It is first and foremost a review of the 2009 novel by Suzanne Collins- The Hunger Games , first in the YA dystopian trilogy. But it is also a lesson in reviewing, a lesson I am learning out loud on this blog. I had never intended to read The Hunger Games. It seemed to me that it was another pop culture phenomena that would come and go like bushfire, sweeping through everyone I know and then leaving as soon as it came. Also, some of the books had an endorsement from Stephenie Meyer on the front. Now, long standing readers of my blog will know that I too was fooled by Twilight. I was fooled by the amount of press attention that series was given, by the number of people talking about the books, and by the fact that my younger sister (who never reads for recreation except in unusual circumstances) was into them. I read them and I am not ashamed to say that I enjoyed them. It was like being in a tranc...