#re-reading: catching fire

[swiftlark]

this is actually the most insane thing in the entire world. he changed lives. the world of literature will never be the same.

#everlark #peeta mellark #re-reading: catching fire #re-reading: the hunger games #thg #the hunger games #katniss x peeta

[cardansletter]

starting catching fire

#re-reading: the hunger games #re-reading: catching fire

[lesbianzutara]

one of my favorite things about the hunger games and rereading them is that suzanne collins did an extremely good job of making katniss a teenager. like katniss’s emotions really show her age in a way that’s so important.

Like these are less than 10 pages apart. she’s confused, her emotions are all over the place and she doesn’t understand anything she’s feeling. idk if this makes sense but rereading it really makes me understand how young she is.

#thg #thg book quotes #the hunger games #re reading: catching fire #catching fire #everlark #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark

[sawronica]

“She told me she had several mice at home as pets.” “—But perhaps Octavia liked them because they were small, soft and squeaky. Like her.”

this excerpt alone, alongside the discovery of katniss’ prep-team really humanized them i think. keeping pets, because as humans we feel a love and fondness for small, adorable things. octavia doing the same, and finding a care for what people would think of as mundane and vermin. but the point is that we find the good in things, and we see differently when it comes to things that are often shunned or outcasted.

#[ pathetica’s thg re reads ] #prep-team thg #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #catching fire #mockingjay

[cherries-and-knives]

To the girlies who re-read hunger games several time a year????? A month????? Strong as fuck. Much respect. Have a great day🫡

#I had a mental breakdown just re reading them after years- #like I love it #but I’m not thatttt strong #hunger games #the hunger games #thg #the hunger games katniss #katniss and peeta #katniss everdeen #the hunger games peeta #peeta mellark #thg series #mockingjay #thg mockingjay #thg catching fire #thg movies #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #Lucy gray

[itziwitzib]

That weird feeling when you are re-reading a book and suddenly you get hit by Feels™ for a character you had completely forgot that existed

#I havent re read the hunger games in a few years #and I vagely remembered a couple of the characters that didnt make it to the movies #like Madge Maysilee or the Avox girl #but I didn't remember Darius Katniss's peacekeeper friend #and then when she finds him as an Avox I just 😭😭😭😭 #the hunger games #catching fire #Darius hunger games

[rottentiger-art]

Well, since THG has been trending recently, I'd like to share the dumbest thing I've ever done: the order in which I consumed both the books and the movies.

I watched the first and second movie first, Catching Fire has just out of theaters, I didnt know there was gonna be a third movie until I saw that cliffhanger and there was still no news of that third movie. My sister told me they're based on books and at the moment, wattpad let you upload those kinds of books. So being the smart person I am I thought "oh well, I've already seen the first two movies, I can just make an account and read the third book there so I know how it'll ends". And I did, and I loved it, but there was some things that I didn't understand bc they did not show them on the movies. I'm sure a normal person would just read the first book and then the second. But I'm very smart, so instead I read the second book and when I still didnt undertand some things, I read the first book.

Once I finished it I thought "maybe I should have read them in order". But instead of reading the second book since I just finished the first, I read the first again, then the second book and then the third. Then I rewatched the movies and patiently waited for the other two.

To this day I don't know why I did it like that.

#the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #i will re read them but I'll do it in order this time 😅 #I'll probably just watch the first teo movies tho #since i didnt like what they did with the last two

[lilgynt]

say what u will about suzanne collins but none of her copy cats had the balls to talk about sex work or child sexual exploitation like she did

#personal #re reading hunger games and catching fire and i imagine gets explored more in balled but i was like :0 #i knew it was there and i read it. but i forgot she just straight up said it #yeah they’re playing for sex appeal to up their chances of staying alive #yeah if not for the lovers angle katnisss would have def been prostituted #hey if peeta didn’t throw me that loaf of bread i too might have sold my body for food as a child #finnicks everything. i’m so normal about him #say what you will. did not shy away from that aspect at all just said it soooo plainly

[mariska]

well! bye everyone i'm off to re-read my fav book trilogy of all time that i havent read since their original releases when i was a teenager and also finally get to read the prequel that i never got around to reading for the first time so. i'll see u guys on the other side and by other side i mean i'll see u guys when i re-emerge into society drenched in blood and tears rambling about all the new mental evidence i will have collected for my years-long headcanon that Katniss is autistic and sobbing about how many more details of the whole story i understand on a more profound and deep level than my teenage self was capable of processing properly

#also idk if its visible in this pic but the covers for all of these #have that awesome multi-textured thing where the text and graphic design is slightly raised and has a sort of gilded shimmery effect to it #and its so so pretty!!! these are my own brand new copies im so happy to finally have the whole series after such a long time #i wanna re-watch the movies with my moms once i finish reading everything too cus its been a while and also #i never got around to seeing either of the Mockingjay movies when they came out #(my own horrible life events got in the way of that unfortunately and also my at the time untreated adhd) #so even though i've always loved the books more cus thats just kind of. a pretty standard book-to-movie enjoyment level thing i feel like #i did like what i saw of the first two ESPECIALLY Catching Fire i really like that movie #when i first read Mockingjay it messed me up for such a long time afterwards cus this whole series hits so fucking close to home with me #from Katniss' POV especially in the books. so i have no idea what i will eventually think of the movie versions of that #since that book has never left my head as one of my favorite things i've ever read so far in my life. i love u suzanne collins #ANYWAYS IM EXCITED this will be my first time reading these as an adult!!! wooo the horrors!!! the existential dread!!!

[swiftlark]

the way post quarter-quell katniss is written to be a parallel of her mother in book one is absolutely poetic to me.

#everlark #re-reading: catching fire #catching fire #the hunger games #thg #re-reading: the hunger games

[ravenclawfromdistrictfour]

favourite everlark moments: 2/?

#tiff (re)reads thg #thg #catching fire #everlark #favourite everlark moments

[daenerys-targaryen]

I am trying so very hard not to spoil tbosas for myself 😵‍💫🥴

#leah rambles #I am reading catching fire rn… #gonna re read the main trilogy before I read the prequel

[sawronica]

“We're still in the game,” I try to say this was optimism, but my voice cracks.

“Still in. And I'm still your mentor.”

thinking about how this is both a representation of foreshadowing, of being stuck in coin’s game rather than snow‘s, but also how they never really leave the games. how the roles are rehearsed over and over and even with the games eventually being past, they're still fitting those moulds. doomed to be tribute/victor/mentor wherever they are.

#[ pathetica’s thg re-reads ] #no matter where they are the curse of being a player of the games is ever clear #it's a thing played till death (or until they get better) #but that omnipotence would still surround #and it's a miserable thing #call back to “there's survivors & there's no winners” because it's true #they don't win! they just manage to escape #haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #catching fire #mockingjay #i am physically weeping!!!!

[dreamyinwriting]

I think everyone who read The Hunger Games as a kid will inevitably get the undeniable urge to re-read the series. This theory is unresearched yet true in all cases btw

#just watched a YT reaction to Catching Fire and I must re-read the books. Catching Fire was peak cinema but I remember the books being - #so much better than the movies #The Hunger Games #she speaks!

[cottageivy]

dont mind me, having a morning breakdown over peeta and katniss edits <3

#mia rambles #my youtube recommended me two edits to the great war and it was over from there #i need to buy the first hunger games book so i can do a full re read #i have the other two and even some annoations in catching fire but #anyways. gonna go cry <3

[lovetaled-a]

1 and 3 !! <3

book you’ve reread the most times?

i think catching fire by suzanne collins ! my roleplay days barely missed my hunger games phase in high school that was very much my emotional support series. i would still consider it overall to be the strongest in YA that i've read ( or having the most relevant/mature breadth ) for the themes it utilizes and the speculative element of the society depicted. it also spawned that whole dystopian YA craze,  while none of the other additions came close. the depth of the themes, the lines, the romance subplot that was perfectly fit in the scope of a greater story ..  the friends to lovers,  the unlikely allies,  the fake dating because if we don't our families will die but oops one of us has actual feelings  ..  and i would say stylistically,  the irony that the author implied by the games being twistedly-absorbing to an audience that you actively take part in while reading really resounds with me.  i feel like catching fire even more than the other the two books showed the revolutionary aspect in the series the most,  introduced the characters i love ( finnick )  and is a strong example of a second book in a trilogy,  part of the reason i see that trend happening of me favoring the sequel in most of my favorite series.  never mind that it was tragic and disturbing and didn't exactly end happily ..  i'm sensing a pattern here because the other book i've read the most is clockwork angel.  for the plot.

( the plot: )

3. what is your favourite genre?

for the most part,  fantasy !  gotta have that magical component to a story for me to be really involved,  especially when it involves fairytale or mythology tropes and reworks them in an interesting way.  however ..  i do not like high fantasy in any respect.  can’t do asoiaf,  anything sanderson,  or those stories with too much worldbuilding and detail that bogs down my enjoyment of simpler tropes and characterization,  which is why my fantasy reading mostly stays in the YA category.  i also really enjoy a good romance/slice of life vibe and would say that’s my comfort genre.  and for classic literature i am into gothic romance.  works by the brontës,  mary shelley and other romantic era authors/poets,  old monster novels,  paranormal romance,  gothic feminist pieces  ..  love that stuff.  and finally my area of expertise with my lit degree so far is regency fiction/romance.  a subgenre i will never give up and hope to do my thesis on !

#warnsyou #⋆ 🦋 ◝ ooc ask. ◟ fine make me your annoying dash presence. #you think i wouldn't mention the boys? #i've read clockwork angel like 3 times #and i don't tend to be a book re-reader #just going back through scenes throughout the series #but yeah i've read catching fire probably five times #and you know my genre taste already #would add onto that gothic/dark romantic short stories #like hawthorne or poe #and my favorite short story in general is the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman... unhinges me and it's a mood