Review: The Hunger Games Movie

Just as I was reluctant to read the book, I was just as wary to watch The Hunger Games. Why? Because where the book brought to life ideas of the possibility of such a dystopian society—a society that glorifies the murder of innocent children by the hands of other innocent children merely to show the…

Review: Revolution is Catching Fire

Upon finishing reading The Hunger Games, I was about as reluctant to continue reading the series as I was to start the series, for mostly the same reasons. The dystopian setting. Kids killing kids. The hopelessness of their existence. And yet, this afternoon, I was struck with a sudden resolve to read Catching Fire, the…

Editorial: Reluctant to Read about Reaping

I was not one of the first fans of the Harry Potter series. Actually, it wasn’t until I started to hear the hype surrounding the release of the first movie that I picked up Sorcerer’s Stone from my school’s library. I had read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series previously, so I was not unfamiliar…