With The Twilight Saga and Harry Potter both winding up their cinematic runs in the next couple of years, it's no surprise that a lot of attention is being focused on the movie version of The Hunger Games, the first book in Suzanne Collins' YA sci-fi crossover trilogy about a teen girl forced to fight for her life in reality television gladitorial battles in a dystopian future US.
Just pointers to two things that I wrote, which are not unrelated. The first is a piece about the Hunger Games books, the first of which came out from Scholastic last fall. There was a lot of buzz about them, and I picked the first one up … and then put it down again. It [...]
