Betsy and Sal
A Serious Case of 'The Hunger Games'
How the popular young adult series took over a North Shore household.
Dear Editor, Please excuse the absence of my column this week. I swear it’s not my fault. It’s spring break, and there are like a million things going around. At my sister’s house, everyone’s got the flu. They’ve got fever and headaches and they can’t stay awake. They’re suffering and feeling miserable and dreaming only of chicken soup and Motrin. It’d be heartbreaking, if I cared. Over here at Chez Higgy, however, we’ve caught a different bug, a sort of “muttation” if you will. We’ve been staying up all night, sitting silently during the day, and barely communicating with one another beyond the occasional inquiry of “where are you now?” In other words, we’ve come down with a serious case of The Hunger Games. It’s highly contagious and as …
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Sally Higginson
1:49 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012
Let the record show: Patch readers are sending me secret little emails admitting to where they are in the process of reading the trilogy. I'm 150 pages away from finishing and have to take a break to pick up my new prescription reading glasses. Even through the blur of tired, aging eyes I'm having trouble putting these books down. And what about the movie? Surely there's a group willing to sit … more ›