Feeding Your Soul

Katniss returns to the districts after the events that transpired in the Quarter Quell. She returns not to District 12 since as Gale told her no longer exists but to District 13 which unbeknownst to everyone in Panem expect the Capitol has been living and thriving all along. Now more than ever, her thoughts are jumbled, what she believes is changing everyday and the one person she needs the most is sitting in the Capitol, being tortured for information about her. She comes to the breaking point and beyond and this is a fight for her survival as much as the rest of Panem. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the book because I do not want to give anything away. What I have written below does highlight a few aspects of the book that I have to mention to get my point across so if you do not want to be spoiled, do not keep reading. You have been warned. I couldn’t read fast enough. I wanted to keep reading and find out what happened to everyone. I will admit that I wanted t...

What do you get when you take a CEO of a consumer product company and 2 CIA spies vying for her attention? War. In the new movie This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine 2 CIA operatives fall for the same girl and the comedy that ensues is spectacular. Comedy movies like this one is all about happiness.  Happiness - depending on one’s state of mind when the read the word, could make one smile, cry or even want to throw something.   Happiness is something that I have been lacking in the past week and when I think back to the last time I was happy in the past week (besides scoring my hockey team’s winning goal with 8.6 seconds left!) it was when I went to see this movie.   It was hysterical. I found myself laughing harder than I have laughed at a movie in a long time. It might have been because I was in a movie theater with other people besides my fiancée but I like to think that the movie really was that funny.   I can’t wait to watch it again w...

Here we go again – back into the arena our heroine goes but this time all the rules have changed. And some that she isn’t even aware of yet. Catching Fire picks up a few months after the events of Hunger Games where Peeta left Katniss standing on the train platform after he realized that her “feelings” in the games was all a rouse to keep her alive. Katniss goes on about what life has been like since their return, what it has done to her family, herself, and her relationship with Gale who was shown to be introduced as her cousin instead of friend (the capitol didn’t want a love triangle to form).   She comes home one day to find President Snow in her new Victor’s Village house waiting for a private chat.   What happens boils Katniss’ blood – he full out threatens the lives of her family, Gale and everyone she holds dear if she does not make everyone believe that she is truly in love with Peeta. There are possible uprisings that could happen and he doesn’t want a little girl...

Luce just saw an apparition of herself get shot by a supposed friend.   She saw her chance to give herself answers and she took it. Little did she know what she would be running into – or through since she was the one who stepped through the Announcer and into her past lives with Daniel.   At the end of Torment , Luce had stepped through the Announcer in order to find the answers that Daniel and Cam and all of the other angels weren’t giving her.   Daniel got scared and stepped through after her, along with her friends from Shoreline.   She finds friends, enemies and always Daniel no matter what century she turns up in.   All she knows is that there has to be one lifetime that will tell her everything she needs to know about the curse and the love between Daniel and herself. But the question she hasn’t asked herself is she ready for everything that her past lives will entail? Especially when it kills her? I enjoyed this book just as much as the first one. There...