Who Else Is So Excited For This?!

Finally we get the trailer for I Am Number Four! All I have to say is at least it looks like Alex Pettyfer didn't screw up this book adaptation. I know it got a little cut off so here is the link to the trailer.

So why do you guys think?

How appropriate is The Hunger Games?

I just had my aunt ask me if The Hunger Games is a book that would be appropriate for my 12 year-old cousin to read and my automatic response was "YES!" because I was so happy that she was even interested in it...but then I started thinking. The book is a tad bit gory with all the fighting and death scenes in it, so I'm starting to second-guess myself. Maybe it is appropriate for her but I still think her of her as a little nine year old. I just can't see her reading something like that! Though she is reading The Book Thief, but I've never read that so there is no way I can compare the two and see if The Hunger Games is a good book for her.

So I guess I'm asking you guys what you think: would you agree that this book is something a twelve year old should read? Because I honestly have no idea!

P.S. This was on her English teacher's recommended reading list. (Great taste!)

Birthday!

Birthday town, population: me...and some other people. (I really wanted to say that but it felt so 90s!)

Always Remembering

Has it been nine years already? My how time flies and forgetful we can become.

I was actually nine years old when 9/11 happened. I remember sitting on the coffee table watching cartoons (I was homeschooled and I hadn't quite gotten around to school yet) when my mom came out of her room in a towel, after having just gotten out of the shower, when she stole the remote from me and turned it to a news channel...just in time to see a replay of the first tower falling. She was holding her head in her hands and shaking. Being nine at the time I had no idea what was going on; all I saw was a building falling. It wasn't until weeks later that it finally hit me that there were people in that building: fathers, mothers, daughters, brothers, siblings, aunts, uncles, husbands, and wives. People who had lives; people who were loved and loved in return.

I was there to see the second building fall. I couldn't help but think why someone was driving planes into big buildings. What was the point? What were they expecting out of it? Mom and my older siblings were frantic because they understood. Phone calls were made, tears were cried, and I stood there in the midst trying to get my nine year-old brain to grasp the urgency of everything.

Little did I know that 9/11 would change peoples lives forever. Not only the country but every individual was changed; some more than others but it affected us all. I, personally, didn't know anyone who had their life stolen that day and I can't even begin to imagine what that must have felt like, must still feel like.

I still don't understand something--why are we so willing to hurt others for personal gain? I mean what do we really get out of it? Are we really so sick that we like to see others in pain for nothing more than trying to make a statement?

What is wrong with us?

Music That Reminds Me Of...The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The other day I was listening to this band that my sisters and I have been in love with for a long time and suddenly realized how well the lyrics fit Katniss and the Districts' fight against the Capitol's control.

Taking Control by Eisley

When we get down
If we get down
We'll get up again
We'll get up again
And if we get down
When we get down
We'll get up again
We'll get up again
And we won't take it when you won't take it, oh no

You've been taking control of our lives
And you've been letting us go
You've been taking control of our lives
And we wont take it when you wont take it, oh no

And if we get down
How should we know
If we'll get up again?
We'll get up again.
And we can take the right way out of here
I'll be sure to show you again
Then we won't take it when you won't take it, oh no

You've been taking control of our lives
And you've been letting us go
You've been taking control of our lives
And we wont take it when you wont take it, oh no

I can't be the one to finally pull you out again, out again
But we won't take it when you won't take it, oh no

You've been making a joke of our lives
And you've been letting us go
You've been taking control of our lives
And you've been letting us go
You've been taking control of our lives
And we wont take it when you wont take it, oh no

You've been taking control of our lives
And you've been letting us go
You've been taking control of our lives
And you've been letting us go
(I can't be the one to finally pull you out again, out again
No I can't be the one to finally pull you out again, out again)

And yet another song by Eisley!

They All Surrounded Me by Eisley









I gathered my thoughts and sat out on a trail
into the woods, wearing sword and chainmail
I started to whistle and walk to the beat
that my heart played constantly on repeat

The nightfall was chilly, I
slumbered right where I fell
dreaming up adventures cause' I had none to tell
Upon the morning, I woke with a start
for the beasts had blackened the horizon

They all surrounded me, they all surrounded me,
that's when the giant dragon jumped over the hill
and he said
He said, "no, no, no, no, no, no way sir,
no, no, no, no, no, not today sir,
you won't surround me, you can't surround us."

(repeat whole song, then)

Oh.....

They all surrounded me...
They all surrounded me...
They all surrounded me...
They all surrounded us...
That's when the giant dragon jumped over the hill
and he said
He said, "no, no, no, no, no, no way sir,
no, no, no, no, no, not today sir,
you won't surround me, you can't surround us."

Have you got a song that you think fits the trilogy perfectly? Let me know what it is in the comments!