Readers Anonymous

My family asked me a few weeks ago what I wanted for Christmas. I thought for a while and posited I would appreciate the gift of a book that each of them had read and preferably held in their hands (although I wouldn’t turn away electrons). I want to read the same thing they read but through the lens of my time, my biases, and my myths. They came through with the books in the image above. I’ve already started the first one, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins. I had no idea Collins had written a prequel to “Hunger Games”…so what was the proper thing to do? I have a philosophy on prequels written after a successful series, take Star Wars, for example. I think they should be read/watched in order of production so in Star War’s case, 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8, & 9. (Not counting all the sideshow movies). I did not want to read the first three Hunger Games books. I’d watched the first movie many years ago. But now, now, I had the prequel and had no idea about what it was a prequel to. (I hate dangling propositions) Time for a binge watch. Kyle and I watched the first two Hunger Games movies yesterday and the second two today. We won’t watch the last until I finish the book which I’m targeting for next week. Not exactly Christmas movies, but hey, we were together!!

I’m truly very happy about these gifts and look forward to reading each of them. I will ponder what each family member thought as they soaked up the exotic words, the adventures, the mystery and the mayhem. Ha! Sounds like I want a book report…I don’t, I want to walk through the pages of a book, just a few hours, virtually together in a bit of a different way. Makes me happy.