Reading Wednesday

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Read Suzanne Collins' latest Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, aka the tragic backstory of Katniss' mentor Haymitch Abernathy. I thought the theme of the Hunger Games as carefully edited propaganda was interesting - what gets cut; what gets orchestrated so the audience sees what the Capitol wants them to - but otherwise it felt like more of a rehash of the original trilogy (specifically the second book) than the first prequel, and I didn't have the knowledge or nostalgia for the original series to catch, or care about, all of the easter-egg details.

Read In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Jeopardy! superstar Amy Schneider, which featured significantly more sex and recreational drugs than I'd expected from a memoir by someone who is, again, famous for winning Jeopardy! but, like, good for her.