Monday, September 26, 2011

A Concrete Poem on Catching Fire

About a week ago, I wrote about finally reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  I liked it way more than I thought, although I questioned whether it is really appropriate for anyone under 13 or 14.   Now I've finished the second book of the trilogy, Catching Fire.  It was very good as well.  I particularly liked some twists in the plot that I hadn't anticipated at all.  However, it is probably even darker than the first one--another reason to wait until your tweens get a little older before before exposing them to the book.  It leaves you on much more of a shocking cliff hanger than does the first book, however, so now I can't wait to finish the third book, Mockingjay.

We've been playing with poetry lately, and the muse hit.  So rather than give you a more traditional review for this book, I've summed it up in the form of a concrete poem (although, technically, it may be more of a space poem, since the words themselves don't really form the pattern).

SPOILER ALERT:  If you haven't read the book, you probably don't want to scroll down to the poem, although you probably can't make any sense of it.  I hope that it does make sense to those of you who have read the book, though.....


Note:  If you are having trouble reading it, you can click on the picture of the poem once to bring it up, and then click again to magnify it.

4 comments:

  1. It all rhymes!!! I am printing it out and putting it up on the bulletin board. Thank you for sharing.

    The third book was almost too dark for me, and my limits lie quite far. I can't wait to discuss the whole series with you.

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  2. I'm glad you like the poem. It was fun to figure out.

    I'm almost through the series, and look forward to talking to you about it when I am done. But like you said in your earlier comment, Mockingjay is a seriously dark book.

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  3. Yes, I would advise waiting until you are older to read them. But when you are ready, they are great books.

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