Tag Archives: Catching Fire

Move over, Fifty Shades!

We mentioned last week that E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy reached the 20 million mark in the United States. In fact, sometimes it seems as though all chatter in the book business revolves around this hot (sorry, couldn’t resist) series. … Continue reading

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Jennifer Lawrence to play the “Girl on fire”

When it comes to BookPage reader interest, news of The Hunger Games is nearly on par with news of The Help . . . so I expect heated reactions to this info! Lionsgate has confirmed that Jennifer Lawrence—the 20-year-old actress … Continue reading

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BookPage Podcast: ‘Mockingjay’

Rushed through Mockingjay and don’t have anyone to talk to? Or: Want to listen to other reactions on the fate of Panem, President Snow and that pesky little Gale vs. Peeta plotline? [Note: If you’ve never heard of these people, … Continue reading

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Our Hunger Games adventure

On Saturday, Trisha and I went to our local indie, Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville, to hang out with a bunch of like-minded readers: kids who are obsessed with The Hunger Games. Our clips from the event will crack you up—and … Continue reading

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Pumped up for ‘Mockingjay’

Yeah, yeah, Mockingjay comes out tomorrow. If you’ve read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, you’ve probably had August 24 marked off in your calendar for months. (And if you’re totally obsessed with the series—like me—you’ll be reading the book … Continue reading

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Tour cities released for ‘Mockingjay’

Scholastic announced today that the print run for Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay has been increased from 750,000 copies to 1.2 million copies. BookPagers have been fans of The Hunger Games series for a while now, but we hear from Scholastic that … Continue reading

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Suzanne Collins among “Most Influential People”

The 2010 Time 100 list was released online today, and I was thrilled to see Suzanne Collins show up in the Artists category. Lizzie Skurnick, author of  Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, wrote an ode to … Continue reading

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Mockingjay it is!

In December we posted the news that The Hunger Games #3 will arrive on August 24, 2010, and asked readers for title predictions.  A couple of you suggested “The Victors” (which USA Today claims has been the most popular guess … Continue reading

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Fired up

Scholastic is boasting—and justifiably so—about the news that Suzanne Collins’ teen novel Catching Fire is now the best-selling book in the country for any age group, according to bestseller lists just released by USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. … Continue reading

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