When is the next installment published!!!!

Don't miss out on this fantastic series, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Her lastest installment, just released, Catching Fire, does not disappoint. The story picks up where Hunger Games left off. In case you haven't read the first in the series, I'll try to sum up the book without revealing much from the first.

Our narrarator has returned and is about to emback on a victor's tour of Panem, when President Snow pays a visit announcing that the country is on the verge of rebellion. The rebellion must be tamped down. He insist that on this victory tour, our heroine must aid in this effort or those closest to her will suffer severely.

Collins does a superb job of weaving a continuation of the story into the sequel. It is packed with shocking twists and gut-wrenching turns in the plot. Catching Fire surely will not disappoint you, except when you get to the last page and realize you must wait another year, UGH!!, for what happens next.

Welcome back!!

Summer is over :-(

But now that school is back in session let's share some favorite summer reads. One I enjoyed over the summer ...

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

When a meteor is reported to collide with the moon, no one on Earth is terribly worried. But the collision is so powerful it actually moves the moon closer to Earth and causes unexpected catastophic effects such as tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and drastically altered temperatures . In Life As We Knew It, these events are cronicled through one family's struggle to survive the aftermath. The narrator, Miranda is just finishing her sophomore year at high school when life on Earth is so drastically altered. She documents the changes and her thoughts through her journal. Fuel and food shortages are an immediate concern of her mother but as weeks pass to months without conditions improving, the whole family (older and younger brothers) is becoming worried about their survival especially when disease and death strike close to home.