No longer skeptical...

Right before I went off-track one of my friends sent me home from school with a stack of books to read.  I've heard of these books before...apparently they've made quit a stir in the local reading community.  There was a waiting list 1,000 people long to check out the last book in the series from the library.  1,000 people long!  Must mean these books are pretty good, right?  I've been pretty skeptical, not really wanting to read them during my precious off-track time.  But with another push from my friend, Dale and I decided to read them together.  I'm sure you've heard of this series, and have probably read it yourself...they call it "The Hunger Games."

Read it...love it!

Dale and I started reading Friday night.  The plan was to read 1 chapter a night, alternating turns to read out loud.  We didn't stop reading until 1:00 in the morning.  Saturday we took it with us on our "Day Date."  We decided to use up some of our gift cards and free food type stuff.

Typical Dale pose...ready for anything!

We split our "FREE MEAL" at Cafe Rio, and read our book while we ate...and in the car on the way home...and between using our Free Ice Cream Coupons and American Eagle Gift Cards...in fact, we didn't even use all of our gift cards because we got sucked into the book.  We even read to and from visiting my grandma later that night.  Long story short, we finished the book today...Sunday.  Couldn't put it down.  Onto the next!