More results from my project of working through some top reading lists. Next up: Divergent, by Veronica Roth.
Tag: Hunger Games
bookmark_borderUsing alternatives for ‘said’
When you’re writing, do you use ‘said’ over and over, or do you go for variety by looking for alternatives?
bookmark_borderWriting review: The Hunger Games
My writing reviews have been focused on fiction, but in this case I want to look at “The Hunger Games (Book 1)“, not so much the novel as the movie version. I read the book recently and then saw the movie this past weekend. As always there are the issues of discomfort over what is left out of the novel when it is turned into a movie, but for me in this case I wasn’t too concerned; the novel was borrowed so I speed-read the novel in 36 hours total time, less actual reading time when you deduct 8 hours for sleeping and 9 hours for work and so on, so my memory for the details was not precise to begin with.