Hi, UCBS members! Welcome to the library/bookclub blog spot! As you know, we are reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause.

Thoughts, questions and ideas about The Hunger Games:

1. What do you think of Heymitch? Troublemaker? Untrustworthy? Savior?

2.Which children are the worst off? The ones in the Districts where the children were raised to think that competing to kill other children and possibly die themselves was honorable as in Districts 1 and 2? Or the outlying districts which were so poor that the inhabitants had to forage for the smallest portions?

3. Can you think of other books that remind you of The Hunger Games?

4. Does the opening ceremony remind you of our world events, either past or present?

5. Reality TV has been part of our television history since television was introduced (Candid Camera or the Miss America Pageant). How are our current reality tv shows (competitive and survival) similar to The Hunger Games?

6. Do you see any other aspects of current society reflected in this story?