Who would have thought that Judge Chris Crutcher could be so heartless as to send the Lincolns packing. Have you no shame, sir?
But despite reading HG kicking & screaming ( I don’t read fantasy. With the exception of Cormac McCarty’s The Road, I don’t read “After the fall” literature either. So I opened The Hunger Games cursing School Library Journal for asking me to participate in the Battle of the Books and cursing my editor for telling me I should do it ), HG won for one simple reason.
No, the Everdeen Sisters did not show up at his house and threaten him. Simply put, HG "was just a hell of a yarn."
This leaves Lois Lowry in the position of deciding between Octavian and Katniss. I, for one, cannot wait! One raised in a literary tradition; the other raised in survival. Both outsiders in their world; both fighting for life; both suffering under governments where they have no voice.
© Elizabeth Burns of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
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Did you read the GREAT things Crutcher said about THE LINCOLNS? He picked the other book as the "winner," but what a shining review he wrote about THE LINCOLNS. If you're gonna lose, that's a nice way to lose.
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