I’m going to assume that anyone who would read Suzanne Collins’ book Mockingjay, or a review of it has already read the first two books in the trilogy, so I won’t summarize what they are about. Instead I will go directly to the events of the third and last book. In Mockingjay, majority of the districts…
I’m going to take a break from reading Les Miserables to read the 3rd and last installment of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay, which came out today. The Hunger Games Trilogy, starting with The Hunger Games, introduces readers to the post-apocalyptic, futuristic world of Panem, home of Katniss Everdeen, the main character…
Where we meet a saint, former convict, a desperate woman, a ruthless couple and a fanatic… “Fantine,” opens the novel. It is 1815 and amidst France’s restoration to monarchy and the impending downfall of Napoleon I , readers are introduced to Jean Valjean, a former convict who served 19 years in the galleys for breaking a window…
It took me over 15 years to finally decide to read Victor Hugo’s epic novel, Les Miserables. I first discovered Les Miserables from the music and lyrics of Claude-Michel Shonberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer’s highly acclaimed musical of the same name. Through the powerful and moving music and oftentimes heart-wrenching songs, I was acquainted…
Because I’m quite ambitious with my reading selections, I’ve decided to finally read one of the greatest novels ever written – Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. Thinking that it would be quite easy to find, since it is one of the pillars of classic literature, I was quite surprised when I couldn’t find a copy of…
“If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” This is my concluding post about Markus Zusak’s I am the Messenger. After a week, I finally finished 357-page “children’s book.” As I stated in an earlier post about…
It’s taking me a little longer than I expected to finish Markus Zusak’s I am The Messenger. I thought I would be able to breeze through it during the weekend, but the copy I have has around 350 pages, and it takes me a while to read something that long. The book is easy enough…
I was so curious about Markus Zusak after reading The Book Thief that I went ahead and bought I am the Messenger, a book he wrote before The Book Thief. I ordered I am the Messenger online, yesterday, not expecting to get it today, considering my local bookstore’s unreliability when it comes to online orders,…
“First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. *Here is a small fact* You are going to die.” I find it much harder to write about a book I liked than to write about a book I disliked or hated. With ‘bad’ books, there’s always…
The Misanthropologist 