there's no race. is your comprehension very high? when I read fast without the voice I don't remember anything.

Now that I have outed myself as a teacher, I just want to add that MANY of us do NOT believe in only letting kids check out certain “level” books!!! That is an absolute travesty.

Oh, no!! I have lived in 5 states and interlibrary loan never cost me anything!!! I totally understand the space issue. I donate to little free libraries. Or goodwill- in my town, if I donate to goodwill, they give you a 10 percent off coupon which I then use to buy more books! I actually keep very few books myself, but we have soooo many kids books. I am an elementary teacher though, so as soon as my kids outgrow them, they are being donated to school. They use them as giveaways, in book swaps, just in classroom libraries, all kinds of ways!

I have only read the first book and really enjoyed it, I take people's perception of books and genres with a pinch of salt anyway.

ive never read it completley as deathgame series give me too much second hand anxiety, but what i did read i admit was a amazing, i couldnt put it down

I read The Hunger Games when I was in middle school--I'm in college now--but from what I remember, it was pretty good and kept my attention long enough for me to finish the whole trilogy. I bought the prequel that Collins wrote, something about songbirds and snakes, but I haven't started yet because people said it was boring lol.

It’s surprisingly common just because they don’t think kindergartners can actually read books like Percy Jackson on their own. I just wish there was a little more wiggle room.

I’ve been kind of keeping an eye out and all the big libraries that have done something similar have had restrictions on the deal that weren’t initially reported. I don’t remember all of them, but an example would be the New York Library had a headline about it that anyone could check out books, but when you read the fine print it was only certain banned books on their list. Lots of stuff like that.

Last time I tried to inter-library loan something it was twice the cost of buying it used. Yeah I’m a pro at finding cheap books, but then you have to do something with them when you are done.

I enjoyed them a lot, as a mid 30s person whose favorite books are Jane Eyre, Persuasion, and Les Miserables. It could be that they just didn’t click for some people, but I didn’t find them badly written.

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5* - Couldn't stop reading it/Good quality novel information, which changed my perspective on the world

4* - Good, but wasn't completely obsessed

3* - Average, was bored in a few places

2* - Boring, most of them I didn't finish

1* - Hasn't happened yet, but probably for utter trash. I usually check the score on Goodreads before starting a book, so probably won't happen.

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I'd like to think that she'd say "2,000 open parentheses question mark question mark end parentheses BC"

This particular book talks about prostate massage among other things.
People that dont want their children seeing that stuff arent crazy or
FaSciSt.
It has nothing to do with homophobia.
Its not a apt comparison.

Well, billions of years ago the earth was a molten mass…

But in 2016 we had a sentient, angry blob of grease become president and all the people who secretly wanted to turn the country into the fourth reich felt they didn’t have to be so secret about it anymore.

There's more free news content than ever before. Kids aren't falling out of love with reading because of a few paywalls. They aren't falling out of love with Marvel movies due to the Disney+ paywall either. They still enjoy legos, ice cream and video games despite those also costing money.

I get it, it's annoying to run into a paywall. But you can't blame them for every problem in the world.

This is how I tend to rate books - I was giving a lot of 4-5 then as a big re-reader that most of the books I should probably be only rating a 3. I did go back and change some. I only have a few series that I would consider 5 stars.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - A new favourite. Would strongly recommend and will absolutely reread.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I really loved this, there's just something off about it that makes it less than a favorite. I'd still highly recommend it and would likely reread it.

⭐⭐⭐ - It's fine, inoffensive but nothing special. I didn't actively dislike it, but I'll probably never think about it again. I might recommend it to the right audience.

⭐⭐ - I did not like this, but I was at least able to get through it. It has some redeeming quality that kept me going.

⭐ - I probably didn't even finish this, and if I did it was blatantly a hate-read.

I should also note that despite having an English degree, my ratings are almost purely based on feelings/vibes and not the objective quality of the book.

The first book was good. The second not quite as good, but a quality read. The third book was a hot mess. Collins didn't seem like she knew how to end it. Peeta was next level annoying and Katniss strung Gale along with seeming disregard for his feelings at all. And why kill Prim? It didn't add anything to the plot/story but more misery. She was the entire reason Katniss got involved, so why kill her in the third act of the third book?

Don't get me started on the movies. They were junk.

The subtitle says it's not just the screens and if you read as far as the second paragraph she writes "screens surely play a large part in this". So let's not jump straight to conspiracy theories. It's possible that someone who write children's literature for a living is concerned and curious about the causes and isn't just acting as a corporate mouthpiece.

In recent years (since The Atlantic has been owned by Jobs) they've published articles like "The iPhone isn't Cool", "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" (answer: yes), "How Your Laptop Ruined Your Life", "I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones", and "The Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls".

I don't know if Jobs has any editorial influence (and I doubt she does), but the magazine isn't some underhanded pro-screen propaganda machine.

I understand where the name comes from. I just think that it’s meaningless in-world. It’s purely for the reader. I think there are multiple ways to world building and types of world to create, and the type you’re describing matters more for books like those in(but not limited to) the epic fantasy genre.

I did not find it to be so at all. Realistic, i mean.

And clearly you enjoyed the books and have quite a different view of them. So, let's agree to disagree.

I just hope that these aren't the best that YA has to offer, since besides the concept, these weren't very good books at all in my opinion.