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Category Archive — dystopia

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ah, beauty. A tricky thing. It might land you in a castle as a beast’s prisoner or maybe it might start a war between countries, with one face launching a thousand ships. We all want to be considered beautiful, but just want makes someone beautiful is difficult to define. Is it everyone looking the same [...]

Mockingjay Post-Mortem

So, bookworms, it’s been two weeks and I’ve had time to read and digest, then re-read and digest some more all things Mockingjay. So here’s my requisite Mockingjay post. It’s not really a review; rather, it’s a collection of random thoughts that I wrote down in the immediate aftermath of reading the book, then shaped [...]

Book News, August 28th

How is it possible that this is the last weekend in August? Time is flying when you spend the week obsessed with Mockingjay. I absolutely must give a shout-out to the fabulous ladies (and guy) at Forever Young Adult, without whom I would have never survived Mockingjay madness. And now, onto the book news! Happy [...]