Ebooks For The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins Author
Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher: Scholastic Press; Reprint edition (July 3, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0439023521

I was barely able to put this book down for any second as soon as the first few pages got me completely hooked. Suzanne Collins narrative here comes with an immediacy with it that, when with the very dramatic life-or-death plot, can be quite compelling. It's entertaining, and intensely disturbing all at one time. If this was simply a good read, I would have given it 4 stars, however they say great art leaves you changed when you experience it... this also book definitely did that. Suzanne Collins has, with one amazing work, propelled herself onto my top shelf.

Parents, caveat emptor! The storyline is brutal. Even though the writing is geared for adults, the primary characters are teenagers, there's hardly any physical romance, as well as the actual violence may possibly count as PG-13 nowadays... it's probably just about the most terrifying books I've read in a very long time! Right on the websites for with George R.R. Martin, or more so. Remember what we learned from Jaws: you don't actually need to SEE the shark for it to be terrifying. Sometimes not seeing the shark is worse.

The story is basically about a teenager who is forced to compete inside a 24-man-enter-1-man-leaves event. I don't want to spoil it by saying any more, but if you liked The Running Man, you will like this. And if you're young enough that that you do not remember The Running Man, nor have you get the Thunderdome reference, then I'm just far too old. But take a well used fogey's advice and focus this book.

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life

By: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Doubleday

year: 2010, EPub 6 Mb

From one of the most beloved authors of our timemore than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alonea fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. Houses arent refuges from history.

They are where history ends up.
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped.

Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home.

To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to write a history of the world without leaving home. The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life.

Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture. Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposition imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency make At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

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