I read the entire Hunger Games during lockdown and here's what happened.

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To ready myself for #TheBalladofSongbirdsandSnakes prequel, I re-read the Hunger Games trilogy so you don't have to.
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A video essay / reading vlog about Suzanne Collins' teen series, The Hunger Games, and what it could say about social responsibility, greed and climate change.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
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@leenanorms 3 года назад

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@pureheartbadass 4 года назад

IT'S ABOUT RESISTANCE IT'S ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IT'S ABOUT EATING THE RICH IT'S ABOUT RACE IT'S ABOUT EVERYTHING AND SUZANNE COLLINS IS SO UNDERRATED

@iaratoledo5583 4 года назад

Exactly. I just love this books

@potaatoo8793 4 года назад

it also has a few subtle remarks on sexism that I never picked up back in the day so yeah it's dope

@alonamerezhko5829 4 года назад

Iara Toledo his?

@rominarad3984 3 года назад

Y e s

@sagnik3556 2 года назад

"eating the rich" is a such a cringe fucking statement jesus christ!

@mollywillo 4 года назад

That fact that we were NEVER supposed to identify with Katniss because WE are the capitol is so hard-hitting

@ihatespringsnark1287 4 года назад

But why are we the capitol?

@PandoraRoman 4 года назад

I haven't read the book in ages so I can't be too sure, but I assume the Capitol is a metaphor for the first world.

@lalafunnys 3 года назад

as a poc...........cant relate 🤷🏻‍♀️

@monica195 3 года назад

@@lalafunnys you probably can relate, you still contribute to capitalism and benefit off the poor treatment of others.

@frosty1865 3 года назад

I don't understand tell me why

@LadyofLetters 4 года назад

Also shout out to Collins for writing the amazing character of Finnick and exploring coersion and the sexualisation of vulnerable celebrities... I really wish he'd gotten a happier ending

@petiolereads 4 года назад

I think you did a great job of explaining why I (unlike seemingly 95% of people when Mockingjay first came out) liked the ending. Katniss definitely has PTSD. So does Peeta. A little peace is achievable for them, some quiet contentedness, interrupted, I'm sure, by nightmares and flashbacks and other horrible things. No, they aren't happy, but they can breath. On a slightly less depressing note, I like this triangle for showing how sometimes people move apart (K & G) and sometimes together (K & P). Gale *becomes* someone Katniss could never be with, and together, through shared trauma mostly, Katniss and Peeta become people who find solace in one another.

@petiolereads 4 года назад

That said, having the Capitol turn into another arena was dumb. I wish she hadn't felt like she needed some version of hunger games in the last book just because she had them in the first two. (Caveat: I haven't read these in many years. But I thought it was unnecessary at the time.)

@bryncannon794 4 года назад

People don’t like sad endings, that’s just the truth. But no much ends happily. It’s too optimistic to assume that they wouldn’t have serious trauma. It’s frustrating, which is honestly what life is like. That’s why I don’t mind it. That being said, I wouldn’t have minded a slightly happier version.

@sla3890 4 года назад

tbh i like the ending a lot. i think its realistic because im not the biggest fan of happy endings since thats not really how it works (especially with peeta and katniss and what they went through). the only thing i still dont know if its that way is if they are happy with eachother if you know what i mean. not happy in general just.. idk that they actually love eachother. thats the only thing i dont know if its true because im kinda confused about that part of the ending

@davidalbee5039 4 года назад

I love Mockingjay also!

@Cynthia-hk2oc 4 года назад

I actually liked the *ending* but I felt the rest of the book dragged, especially around the middle. Funnily though the ending is what makes me not loath mockingjay the way some have. Now that I know more about politics, movements, and revolutions I actually really appreciate the ending. It's harder to digest as a young teen though.

@emmaella7163 4 года назад

I remember buying The Hunger Games trilogy at a Waterstones on the way home from a lecture at Uni. the first movie was coming out and I wanted to read the books first. I started reading on the bus. I finished the trilogy at 5am. I got up at 6 to go to Uni and it remains, to this day, both one of the best and worst decisions I've ever made.

@oramiel4559 4 года назад

feel you haha, and nice story

@Ted1_ 4 года назад

Respect the dedication hahaha

@katykatarsis 4 года назад

Wait, you finished the trilogy in less than a day?

@emmaella7163 4 года назад

@@katykatarsis , I'm a quick reader. I could read independently by age 3 and I learnt that the faster I read, the sooner I could read more books 😂 I've learnt as an adult that I miss a lot of descriptive detail when I quick-read but it makes re-reads more enjoyable for me.

@katykatarsis 4 года назад

@@emmaella7163 holy shit!!!! That's mind-blowing!! I only read one book a year despite "I love books" . It's so frustrating because I read 5 sentences and get distracted 30 minutes, then I close the book and I postpone it and I pick up the book the next month and I have to read the few pages that I read over again.... Ughhhh. And I always watch RU-vidrs who talk about books and I'm always reading reviews of books and telling myself that I want to read that or this book, I love people who read.... I just have to have the habit of reading, you know? And it's very difficult when you grow up without it. So just by imagine someone reading a entire trilogy in a couple of hours isss amazingggg!!!

@hannahwitton 4 года назад

I know you did this so we don't have to but it made me want to.

@doraargh1138 3 года назад

Same Hannah. Same

@claradouglas825 4 года назад

The whole bread and circuses thing is also linked to the colosseum where slaves fight to the death. These games were free and politicians gave out bread to win over the urban masses.

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Omg that’s so interesting !

@lemondrizzlecake7766 4 года назад

@@leenanorms That's where the phrase comes from in Latin :)

@boelleboble1388 4 года назад

bruh this is addressed in tbosas

@sallys.2707 2 года назад

Are you talking about gladiator ? Because even if it's true that most gladiator were slaves during the first muni, they very rapidly became professionals fighter, trained in schools (ludi). Most muni had religious and military meaning and with time "fight to death" became really rare because finding good gladiator was expensive. I think the fight in the arena is more representative of what we think muni were, not what they really were.

@hazabee 4 года назад

I thought the consensus was that Peeta = pita bread. In American-speak, "Peeta" and "pita" sound the same. The boy who bakes bread is named after a bread.

@isabelacuenca7503 4 года назад

Florence L yesss bread plays such an important role on the hunger games, Suzanne herself said it in an interview with David Levitah in 2018, it’s like a long thing and I don’t really remember what she said but it’s really cool

@eloiseamya2515 4 года назад

Not sure why but "peeta = pita bread" made me howl 😂😂

@edelgrane9375 4 года назад

@@isabelacuenca7503 Also I think that the country is named Panem, which means "bread" in Latin

@cottontherabbit2952 4 года назад

Yeah, while I appreciate Leena's climate change theory I think it's slightly more of a background sub-meaning than she interpreted it as lol

@ananya_maz 4 года назад

If I am correct. The world they live in “Panem” is Latin for bread. But I could be wrong.

@caitlanwalton5195 Год назад

I love the fact that Leena accidentally calls Prim, Prue - a combo of Prim and Rue. Katniss conflates the two so it makes sense that Leena would after being in katnisses head for days x

@TomasTDE 4 года назад

Re-reading the series I felt Gale was your typical "nice guy" sad boy who got pissy when Katniss didn't immediately return his affection. Dude acted like she owed him because he was her friend and hunting partner. Peeta is proven to be strong and capable as well as nurturing and loving and the only time he was outright hostile to Katniss pre-hijacking was when he realized she and Haymitch had been playing her and honestly I don't see how you could blame him. And this isn't even to mention the fact that Peeta, after getting over hers and Haymitch's using of him, is fully supportive of Katniss and becomes her support on the tour and in the games. #TeamPeeta.

@helenestriker8354 4 года назад

I re-read the series and Im pretty sure that Gale still has all of his family members minus his dad who died way before the rebellion.

@Liv-li9xm 4 года назад

I think you're right! He is the one who got prim and Katniss' mom out as well.

@Amsayy 4 года назад

Yeah he’s the only one who actually made it out with most of his family in tact. Katniss loses everyone but her mother, who she harbours a lot of resentment and distrust for. Peeta lost everyone. Gale ends up with all his siblings along with his mother alive. Though it’s presumed they stay in 12, as I’m pretty sure his mother continues to help keep Haymitch from his depression and PTSD smothering him to death

@mandy79319 4 года назад

yes and thats another reason why I never liked him

@kendell1151 4 года назад

Craig reading a physical book with his laptop open while also playing the Nintendo is a Mood. Glad I'm not the only person who does this haha

@pearlnunn869 4 года назад

The earth, wind, fire and water thing is blowing my mind Leena!

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Mine too, mine too.

@Louisyed 4 года назад

Oh my god me too. I now realise that Peeta representing earth makes so much sense. I always thought that spelling it Peeta was a silly gimmick but I didn't analyse it further! Omg this can't be a coincidence. So clever of her.

@evep9608 4 года назад

The fifth elemental, depending on what cultural system you are talking about, can be spirit/soul, or metal!? Alma Coin!...Alma is soul in Spanish and Coin...metal! Yup, fits right in...

@jkally1 4 года назад

I applauded my screen at 19:48, truly brilliant

@ellybean7354 4 года назад

YES! and there personalities fit pretty well too. The calm, providing earth is Peeta. The dangerous fire and light of hope is Katniss. The stormy and changeable air is Gale. And ice, a form of water that kills instead of gives life, is President Snow.

@nataograpishvili1662 4 года назад

The only true love story within the trilogy is that of Finnick and Annie and no one can convince me otherwise.

@killhannaah 4 года назад

Yes!!!

@tiffanypersaud3518 4 года назад

I won't.

@adjjal 3 года назад

And also a story of unrequited love between the baker, (Peeta's father), and Katniss's mother💔 the baker only bought katniss's squirrels when his wife wasn't about, but the whole family ate them. Maybe the wife was jealous

@MissLilTayy 3 года назад

❤️❤️❤️

@TakittixD 2 года назад

No?

@andreariego6799 4 года назад

I think that you’re also missing that she turns on Coin cause she’s basically the same as snow (due to her allowing her sister to be killed) and after that she is exiled to 12 and becomes an anti-hero to everyone else 🤷🏻‍♀️

@blondiedies 4 года назад

I remember when the Hunger Games craze happened I was in my first year of high school. Every year starting on second year we were allowed to choose one book to read and be evaluated on. My second year we chose Catching Fire, which almost lost, and by third year Mockingjay was almost unanimous. I remember Prim's death hitting me pretty hard. If I have to say anything about these books it would be that they shaped who I am politically, or at least laid down the groundwork and made me want to be more politically active, if that makes sense. I live in Venezuela. That second year of highschool, the year my brother graduated, there were protests so severe we couldn't go to school. When my brother started college he even participated in riots right outside campus doors. MY senior year, half of it I spent having to get out of school because the military kept throwing tear gas at protesters nearby. There were food shortages in 2018, a major power outage in 2019 that still terrifies me and I can't talk about out loud because I just freeze up and cry. Half my friends have left the country, and the other half is struggling to make meets end. And things... haven't really gotten any better. They're worse, actually. And I don't know how much longer we can last like this. Sometimes I'm scared that people will just... give up, and stop fighting. It terrifies me. I understand the desperation. I understand feeling like all the walls are crumbling on top of you, the crippling fear, the knowledge that no matter how much you want things to change it's always just another cycle, another mistake that keeps costing us all. And I think about this series a lot, especially Mockingjay. In the end, we won't be happy, and we'll have a lot (and I mean, a LOT) of work to do, but at least we'll breathe, and we'll be better, and others down the line will have things easier and hopefully will continue to work towards a better country.

@adjjal 3 года назад

This was an amazing thing to read, thank you so much for sharing ❤ hope u doing well and keeping safe

@ellah4693 3 года назад

Wow what a hard up bringing, I'm so sorry. It just makes me horrified that a (what I thought) was a dystopian fictional book is real. The issues are happening right now to so many people and is likely to get worse. It scares me so bad

@TheHollyClements 4 года назад

I reread the trilogy during lockdown too! It's such a multilayered series that it always annoyed me how it's just marketed as a silly teenage story. HOW can you be team Gale though for reeeeaaalll? Katniss is completely traumatised and he has the nerve to guilt her with all this "you only pay attention to me when I'm hurting". I do hate that their friendship has to end but it just adds to the whole feeling of war has no winners. Also you said that he lost his family too in the bombing and that's part of the reason why he turned into a ruthless freedom fighter but he actually saved his whole family and they are mentioned being in district 13 I'm pretty sure (any excuse for me to dislike Gale lol!) Loved the video though :D

@mars_girl 4 года назад

Yeah, Gale's family survives! I agree with you 100%. Katniss cares so much about Gale and Peeta, and especially in Catching Fire, Gale is such a dick about it? She's like, "I want to save the people I love, so our families and Peeta", and Gale is like "How DARE you??? Have a strong bond?? With another MAN????" It's just always frustrated me.

@taylortea3429 4 года назад

Gale was lowkey abusive and pretty selfish 😳

@mickaelabaker9422 4 года назад

@@mars_girl Peeta was also jealous of Gale, but he was more like "Dang Katniss, I kinda thought what we had was real. Whatever, I love you, I want you happy" vs "YOU CHOOSE THE BOY WITH BRED OVER ME" like Gale. Still, I respect Gale. He carried two families on his back. Sure, itd be easier if he didnt want Katniss more when she was gone, but it is what it is. I just wish he loved her more. Like, actually care for her happiness and sanity vs just wanting her as a partner. There's definitely a differenc.e

@Randompersonnumber3 4 года назад

Reading the book I would constantly roll my eyes and say "fucking Gale!" and my cousin would nod in agreement (she had already read the books) and repeat "fucking Gale"

@tss5320 4 года назад

@@Randompersonnumber3 mood

@tillysshelf 4 года назад

This is brilliant! I totally agree that the quality of writing in The Hunger Games really exceeds that way that it has been treated and there is so much more depth to the text as a whole than the outline of the plot might suggest. Since I reread it recently I've really felt that it deserves the kind of theory/analysis discussions that we see endlessly around Harry Potter but it rarely gets that kind of attention. Your elemental/environmental theory fits very well and I'm looking forward to seeing who young Snow turns out to be.

@victoriag863 4 года назад

I read these when I was 13 and I remember feeling so uncomfortable with the ending. I didn’t hate it, but it made me feel kinda uneasy and now I realize it’s because it felt so realistic. This is such a good trilogy and you made me REALLY excited to reread it before I get the prequel

@bridgetthewench 3 года назад

The ending felt like a cop-out, like the author thought she had to end up with someone. It doesn't feel genuine given Katniss's sentiment through the series.

@plumdutchess 7 месяцев назад

@@bridgetthewench Sometimes people make choices because the situation is the way it is. Katniss and Peeta shared something very intense. She lost her sister, the only person who she cared deeply about. It was a logical choice to stay with the person who had been where she had been.

@City-of-lights 3 года назад

"Katniss keeps talking about food" honey I thought the title of the book had forshadowed that already..

@leenanorms 3 года назад

😂

@sinahasler562 4 года назад

What you need to be looking for katniss, is a man who can make plant based goods. Don't we all at this point?

@leenanorms 4 года назад

AMEN.

@MVTay 4 года назад

Years ago, after I’d read the hunger games my mum went into hospital to have knee replacement surgery and she asked me to give her some books to read. I gave her the hunger games and she absolutely loved it and was so surprised that it was marketed as a teen girl ya book. I completely agree that if the book had been written by a male and or marketed differently it would have possibly been received in a different way. I also think it coming out around the time of the twilight frenzy probably led to some unfair comparisons and assumptions (though I must admit I was a massive twilight fan at the time, just saying I feel like this is a different class of book)

@elenathegreat 4 года назад

did I need a 40 minute video of leena taking about the hunger games? yesssss suzanne collins was really predicting today's climate disasters back when she wrote this wowow IF the hunger games were published by a man, or even about an adult mc, it def would have been received so differently. I feel like so many people look down on it as any other YA book AND IT IS NOT. So many people wrote it off as if it wasn't anything beyond a story about a 16 yo girl

@Hillary429 4 года назад

elenathegreat yes! Whenever I recommend these books or talk about reading them people look at me sideways like umm those are just dumb YA books for teens.. it’s so frustrating and makes u feel dumb for loving them

@vitoriaassuncao7716 4 года назад

Yes!! It's so much more than just a "YA book "

@Risaala 4 года назад

Scientists were predicting these climate disasters in the 1970's. I think Susanne Collins was informed.

@kristavaillancourt6313 4 года назад

Climate change, as it relates to human impact, was written about begining in the 60s. See Carson's Silent Spring.

@CM-pf1xc 4 года назад

Well that’s bc it came out in the wake of the post HP void where everyone was trying to write and publish meaningful and blockbuster YA series. It’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. And the movies were sold as teenage blockbusters.

@thepowerofcheesecake 4 года назад

My feelings differ from yours re: Peeta and Gale. Quite honestly, I don't think romance is really on Katniss's mind at all (and frankly I wish she just remind a kind of asexual character, the love triangle feels like a relic from a time in which Twilight mania was the order of the day). But if there has to be a romance... She sees Gale as a hunting companion and confidant, and any exploration of them perhaps being together in the future is quickly dismissed because she's far more concerned with surviving in her day-to-day life. In contrast, Peeta is, if not a love interest, a kind of anchoring point for Katniss (in the arena he's familiar face from District 12, and after the fact as somebody who went through the Games with her and has to process them afterwards alongside her). I feel like throughout the books she draws further away from Gale and grows closer to Peeta (even if that means they end up around the same place, at least before Gale does the thing)

@mars_girl 4 года назад

Exactly! I would like to speak on behalf of Suzanne Collins, however, and defend the love triangle. Because unlike the other YA books of the era, The Hunger Games is using Katniss's relationship between Peeta and Gale as an allegory for war and peace. Ultimately, Katniss chooses peace. I also read Katniss as an ace character, but, after reading it recently, the metaphor was so clear to me, and I just appreciate Collins not just adding something for *drama*.

@taylortea3429 4 года назад

If Katniss didn’t want Peeta I was more than happy to step in

@mjc3206 4 года назад

Taylor Tea same

@doctorwholover1012 3 года назад

I felt like Gale (in Book 1) was supposed to be Katniss's origin person, her homebase. The person she could return to and find who she used to be (much in the way returning to the shire/returning home to parents is thematically used in other narratives), and after the first Hunger games, Katniss returns to the district/shire/Gale, and finds that she no longer fits, and she tries to shove herself back into the space she used to fit (next to him) but is unable to find enough room for every part of herself now that she has grown. Then in Book 2, Gale, realising that Katniss is not longer able to fit next to him, decides to try and reshape himself in a similar way to how she has, to recreate the way they used to fit together, only to end up too different from his previous self, and their overgrown, jagged edges dont align at all anymore, leaving them both stuck at a distance from the other, unable to close it and reconnect. And finally in Book 3, Gale, giving up on the idea of Katniss returning, grows and grows, outpacing Katniss herself, and goes too far too fast, leaving her behind, effectively as if Katniss time travelled ahead a decade, trying to deal with an entirely new person where they only have their building blocks in common, as their architecture has become so abstractly different that they barely register as the same structure, let along built into he same place/from the same base. Basically, Gale started out being The One Katniss could Return To, but, as she kept going back out and kept returning with new and different changes, he couldn't remain the same and fit her at the same time, so he gave up on being static and decided to try and join her, but ended up going too far and shifted their dynamic irreparably. (Idk I feel like I've explained this rlly bad lol😅)

@ForeverSunnyy 3 года назад

Katniss definitely falls into the ace umbrella. I think you mean aromantic? Because ace people can definitely fall in love and enjoy romance. She’s 100% Demi to me. She’s not falling for guys and is trying to survive, she obviously has feelings for Peeta but not in the conventional allo way. However, in book 2, once she fully realizes she needs Peeta she feels a hunger for him. She needed to create a deep, emotional bond for Peeta before feeling sexual attraction at all. So that screams demisexuality! In regards to the love triangle, I agree with Mars Girl. It really isn’t about love drama, Gale and Peeta represent war and peace, anger and happiness, vengeance and forgiveness. In the end, Katniss chooses Peeta, meaning, love and light.

@chiarathomas5044 4 года назад

I definitely remeber my original copies having a Stephanie Meyer quote on the cover

@leenanorms 4 года назад

No way! That's so interesting! (and in line with my theories!)

@margit97 4 года назад

@@leenanorms also btw LOVE the scenes of just seeing you read slouchily always with a pillow and /or blanket. now that's calming and reassuring content

@julietanardin6631 4 года назад

@@leenanorms just checked my old edition and it has the same quote by stephen king and one by stephanie Meyer

@emyg494 4 года назад

leena norms I just checked my edition and Meyer’s quote is ‘The Hunger Games is amazing’

@bookishme3635 4 года назад

Mine do too. Stephanie Meyer quote on the cover and the spine on all three of them. Stephen King quote on the back of Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

@emilyking4493 4 года назад

There's just something about The Hunger Games series that every time I see something from it, I go on a whole spiral that ends with me re-reading the trilogy. Well-written literature.

@jenicat55 3 года назад

I always felt she did love peta from the books especially during their press tour and how she can’t relax / sleep without him whilst dealing with the obvious ptsd. I think there as lots of nuance in their relationship that was ignored in the films.

@leenanorms 4 года назад

SO.... what did you think?WHO IS EXCITED FOR THE NEW PREQUEL? ANY PREDICTIONS? ALSO SORRY at one point in the vid I refer to PRIM as 'PRUE' - I think I'm combining PRIM and RUE in my head which I've been informed is thematically accurate but just a public SORRY to Prim: who deserves better, not just in name but also in her fate as a character!

@itsameliewithane 4 года назад

sounds like a crossover between Hunger Games and Bakeoff! :o

@caterinabrilli8812 4 года назад

I'M JUST DYING FOR WAITING

@InkStorm1 4 года назад

leena norms would happily watch tf out of a THG prequel review from you!

@jessjose3638 4 года назад

Exited and scared

@moonbugria 4 года назад

i was so confused

@laurawardrobe 4 года назад

I really appreciate your "Thrillers By Men™️" section to this video as it's something that I'm always rambling on about to people. Similar to this, I often theorise that fantasy books written by men end up in the Fantasy section of book shops, whilst those written by women seem to end up in the YA section. It's an interesting topic to think about. Also - I think my original copy "back in the day" did have the Anthony Horowitz quote on it, but I too have no idea where I've put it...

@ZombieInvader 4 года назад

Re: the race of district 12, I don’t think that it’s that weird that Katniss would look like Gale/ the majority of others in her region even though her sister and mum are blonde with blue eyes. My interpretation when I was reading was that district 12 was probably somewhere like Wyoming with a significant number of indigenous people. I know quite a number of people who identify as native/indigenous/ Indian/etc but pass as white because of light hair and eyes. In communities with a long history of colonialism, it’s common for most people to be a bit mixed race and for recessive genes to sometimes just pop up. So, Katniss inherited her Dad’s complexion, but her Dad must have had some recessive blonde genes in him from Prim to turn out with fair colouring. Also, considering that the districts have a small enough population for them to all gather for the reaping, I think it would not take too many generations for people to start looking fairly homogeneous.

@justperpetuallybothered3474 4 года назад

They inherited the fairness from there mother. I always imagined katniss to look like Olivia Hussey, a half British half Argentinean actress who played Juliet in the 60s Romeo and Juliet movie. She had olive skin, light eyes and long dark hair as well.

@kahkah1986 4 года назад

Yep, that's pretty much how genes do work, they are more of a toss up than people tend to assume; race doesn't really exist in the way the 19th century scientists taught. Also, places like Russia are multi-'racial' because they encompass so much land, Russia is literally in both Europe and Asia, so has Asian and European looking people.. I assumed it was based in somewhere like Russia, but USA makes equal sense because of indigenous cultures, you're right.

@taylortea3429 4 года назад

District 12 is set in the New England area-ish. It’s on the east coast for sure. District 11 is in the Atlanta area seeing as Katniss talks about how significantly warmer and humid it is there than district 12. As well she mentions that more people in district 11 have darker skin, assuming most of them are African American. (Plus I’ve looked up maps of Panem that people have come up with) Not sure if that helps.

@claire0528 4 года назад

I’m fairly sure district 12 is in the Appalachia area (hence all the coal)

@octaneblue6 4 года назад

@@taylortea3429 Not New England, lack of significant coal, more like western Virginia, western North Carolina, or Kentucky.

@Mikyshor2323 Год назад

When I was a teen, the killing of Coin was a huge twist and nothing more; now I understand it was the portrayal of "it's not enough to kill the leader, you need to kill the idea". Thank you for rereading the books, loved living the experience through you TvT ❤️

@andyhartley 4 года назад

37:05 Leena: "Is this a lesson for the left?" Yes. It seems like THG is a comment on many authoritarian political ideologies (eg, fascism) however the left are not immune to authoritarianism which must expunge detractors at all costs. This is a spotlight on why socialism (by which I mean authoritarian socialism, a la Soviet Union) has failed because it was always focused on not being capitalism, and by extension the West. To not be the West you couldn't have elections or liberty, because you had to work for the state and only the state. This seems to be the case for even those in the Capitol who hold no real power, and live in fear of Snow if they ever start to oppose him. But leaving that aside, the real lesson for the left is saying how bad the other lot are is not something that is going to put you in power. This seems to be a running theme of the left in elections. Yes there's a manifesto, but when you start relying on telling people on the doorstep that you should vote for "us" to keep/get "them" out, then it will drive voters in the arms of your enemies. Just getting rid of your enemies doesn't make you the best choice, and even if it's the case you would do a better job, then you still have to convince people of that for them to vote for you. The more authoritarian you are, the less you try to really convince people you're right, and the more you just ignore the people who don't think exactly like you because you dismiss them as always being wrong - the bunker mentality. If you're a liberal then you have to try to convince people because you accept others have that right to disagree with you in the first place, and being humble in your opinion. This is why in Western democracies you tend to see liberal (with a small L) politics win in elections - both liberal conservative and social democrat style parties. Yes - what we call the centre ground. IMHO, the left need to find a way to bin the authoritarian tenancies and start humbling themselves before the electorate in order to win.

@emmeline-tyler 4 года назад

Andy Hartley Rutger Brugman discusses this in his book Utopia For Realists. Worth reading

@nm9688 4 года назад

True socialism should have a decentralized or even non existent state imo

@animekitty4218 4 года назад

Well there is such a thing as libertarian socialism, however the public in general know woefully little on the subject. To many, the left equals authoritarianism, which is a shame as the libertarian left is as rich and varied as any other political flavour (and in my opinion by far the best).

@gisellegastellou1071 4 года назад

Hi there! I've read THG trilogy several times now, and everytime I find them to be more 'adult' than what you may expect from a YA book. I think they're fantastic tbh, and while they depict raw violence, their main message is a pacifist one. I agree with what you said about nobody ever winning a war, but my views on the ending differ from yours. I think that while Katniss and Peeta are both deeply hurt after the rebellion, in the end they do find some sort of happiness back (albeit a 'flawed' one). Collins does not elaborate a lot on this, but I think she makes it pretty clear with a quote near the ending of Mockingjay, where Katniss is thinking that "-...life can go on, no matter how bad our losses... it can be good again". To me that's a very powerful message that makes the trilogy even more important, as it not only focuses on an anti-war narrative, but also sheds light on how it is possible to find joy in life even after going through severe trauma.

@jenniferclaire94 4 года назад

With the 4 elements theory... Could Finnick be water?! That’s what popped into my head before you mentioned Snow. I absolutely loved this, I might have to reread them now too!

@Marialla. 3 года назад

LOL if Katniss is fire, water would put her out. Which is why she wasn't attracted to Finnick. If Gale is air, it would fan the flames but could not really mix into a new element, which is why they don't end up together. But mixed with earth, fire becomes magma, which is the core of the world, and does not extinguish. LOLOLOL I'm just being unnecessarily poetic, you don't have to pay any attention to any of that! :D god I'm so silly.

@thelibrarybat4254 4 года назад

In my first year of my English Literature degree, we studied the first Hunger Games novel and the first Harry Potter novel for our "introduction to literary theory' module and hearing all thoughts on the Hunger Games regarding race, gender, society and politics is giving me major flashbacks to those seminars 😂

@awkward.potatoe6502 4 года назад

Wish I had this! My seminars are based on books like The Odyssey and The Republic. Which I'm not complaining about but it would've been nice to talk about the Hunger Games because I'm so obsessed with the series.

@mrssamwisegamgee 4 года назад

I cried so hard after reading Mockingjay. You just want the characters to be happy even though you know it's not possible. Even though Katniss and Peeta are now at peace at the end of the book, part of me does think it would have been better if they died after the war and thus wouldn't have to deal with the PTSD and the weight of all the people who died along the way. Gosh, it's just so depressing overall!!

@Unklekrackerfan 4 года назад

Really off topic and innocuous, but you were truly made to wear red lipstick

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Haha haha thank you! At this point my face does feel naked without it!

@alliecat1019 3 года назад

My biggest problem with the Hunger Games was it was marketed as a YA novel. Thank you Lena for bringing up how it might have been marketed differently which would have changed my feelings about the novels.

@JlNXED 9 месяцев назад

Considering some aspects of the books were darker I would be curious what that would have looked like in the movies too especially as it’s more so meant to be read from a capitol citizen perspective which is interesting

@cassiejob6709 3 года назад

So, random tidbit: I wanted to read the Hunger Games and my local library didn’t have it available in English (long waitlist) but they had it in Spanish. I was learning Spanish, so I read the whole series in it. And that part where she talks about drowning a cat is how I learned the word “to drown” and I still have that imagery every time I read or think of the word ahogar.

@annabelkok3662 4 года назад

On another note... why is the recommended reader age of this 11+ on my copy. Suzanne Collins really got dogged there

@_sunflower_4900 4 года назад

Annabel Kok Yeah, I feel like even a mature 11 year old would A- not understand all the complex plots of the story B- probably be slightly scarred/not be able to handle some of the events.

@reneemaggard1418 4 года назад

I read the books when I was ten and had no problem navigating the plot, but I will say that a lot of the more deeply political themes went over my head. But I feel that Suzanne Collins did a wonderful job of making everything easy to grasp even if you were a young reader. Honestly, reading it for the first time so young has just made rereading it super fun because I pick up on new nuances as I grow older. (As for the violence, I honestly had no problem digesting the gruesome parts. Maybe I was just a dark child, but personally, it wasn't an issue for me)

@ninagordin7397 4 года назад

I tried to re-read them again at the age of 21 and i found the writing of it very simple and a very teen/tween style to be honest, even through the themes can be analysed and understood more by teens and not children, it is quite hard to read as an adult

@niki3722 4 года назад

Thanks for reminding me how deep the books really were I remember loving them and reading them when I was 12 and being disappointed by the films because they focused so much on the love triangle

@Ashley-xh5lb 4 года назад

The Hunger Games trilogy is the only series that I revisit time and time again. Each time I get something new from them. They are absolutely wonderful. I can't say I'm excited about the new novel though. I think that the world of the Hunger Games is so rich and interesting, there was a better story to tell there. I like that Snow is a tyrant who I as a reader can't relate to. Don't make him an anti hero, I feel like it could cheapen the original sentiment of the trilogy.

@Mar-dj4nj 4 года назад

from what i hear, the prequel is not meant to make us sympathize with snow or feel any different about him for that matter, but to understand exactly how the evil people in the world like snow come to be. thats why im actually really excited to read it

@annbrew1096 4 года назад

I love the trilogy and listen to it at least three times a year (and I am WAY older than most readers, and probably older than their parents too). I gobbled up the prequel in 2 days. Parts of it felt weird, introducing characters we don't know (yet) but I really really enjoyed it and am hoping there's room for another story to be written.

@Skylinersontape 3 года назад

Oh believe me i read the prequel and from the beginning you can notice from his way of thinking ‘this kid isnt exactly nice’, bad things happen to him hut he’s a but of a psychopath

@melaniemurphyofficial 4 года назад

This was EPIC Leena, omg I LOVE x

@leenanorms 4 года назад

I have a new respect for your editing of your monthly vlogs, even this nearly broke my computer and my editing brain!

@emmeline-tyler 4 года назад

This was amazing! Would love more thanks. Also at the end you called Katniss’ sister Prue, her name is Prim. But I think it was right because Katniss’ overidentifies Rue as Prim so the mashup is fitting!

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Oh yeah DAMN IT. An apt slip I guess, you’re right!

@satinahall 4 года назад

I always loved the hunger games as a teenager, simply for the fact that it was one of the few YA novels in the 2010s that wasn’t solely focused on romance, and I identified with Katniss because of that. I realised I was asexual aged 19 and a recent reread was just fascinating in how Katniss is almost forced into performing a heterosexual relationship with Peeta. Sometimes I even wonder if my teenage self somehow picked up on that the way I do now.

@tsindaclairerukwavu8706 4 года назад

It is very heteronormative, even the part about getting married and having children to feed to the hunger games. Katniss can really be read as asexual and/or aromantic for most of the books. It's also funny (depressing) how in the real world, that is what many people focused on about the movies and the books: which boy is she going to choose when she didn't seem to be really interested in all that.

@vitoriaassuncao7716 4 года назад

I dont think that katniss was assexual. I think demisexual suits her more. She did describe having feelings when kissing peeta in the second book, but only after she has created a bond with him

@satinahall 4 года назад

Vitoria Assunção I don’t know if she is either, it’s just an interesting aspect of the books that I picked up on. Personally I see Katniss and Peeta’s relationship being more complicated than a romance (more of a deep dependence and understanding based on shared trauma), but again one of best parts of reading is the discussion!

@_sunflower_4900 4 года назад

Tsinda Claire Rukwavu agreed, I think she really cares about Peeta but maybe doesn't love him the way she wishes she could.

@holliebrooke7327 4 года назад

Tsinda Claire Rukwavu | “very heteronormative” that is so true! and i love how you said “feed to the hunger games” because feed and hunger are associated with each other !

@BishyFiveSogafi 4 года назад

ngl even before i know what it was or that i was it, i read katniss as asexual. i was that one kid who was like "i'm not team peeta or team gale. katniss shouldn't end up with anyone!". also catching fire was always my favourite of the three books and im not sure i could tell you why. I do love all your theories about climate change though.

@_sunflower_4900 4 года назад

Saz I always kinda hoped she would end up living a life of solitude with no lover alone, maybe with Peeta marrying Delly living in Twelve near her along with Haymitch and maybe Johanna? I think it would have been a good ending but that's just my two cents. Edit: Or maybe she and Johanna could platonically live together!

@winnerwinner2330 4 года назад

she felt that hunger asexual is kinda pushing it bc even akiss wont be that good

@meepmeep4665 4 года назад

Gale didn't lose his family. He still has his mom and siblings and they moved with him to district 2

@elspethnicholson2409 4 года назад

this is so so good, I read these books when i was thirteen/fourteen and I really do feel like they shaped so much what i value as an adult. I really think the hunger games are so underrated and so often written off as 'yet another teen rom com dysoptia'. I didn't even know there was another one coming out and i'm SO SO excited

@humwengus1204 3 года назад

Honestly I'm the exact same! I grew up loving the books and appreciating the political commentary but never understood it until I started to look into political doctrines and how corrupt some governments are. If anything I would say its opened my eyes to left wing politics and basic, fundamental human rights. This book digs even deeper than I originally thought.

@Piti_Pingu 4 года назад

I didn't even know there is going to be a new hunger games, but I just happened to have listened to the hunger games. The whole series was so incredible, and I think the fact that it is so underrated has to do with the fact that it is from a female author but also just that it is a book writen for young(er) people. I came to see that often times we dismiss things as a society if it's for "kids" or even for "teens/ young adults" because I watch Alex Meyers channel who talks about exactly that and he is outraged by the fact that often times content that is created for that kind of public is just dismissed as "it has to be dumb" and in fact often those shows get kinda dumber because we just assume that kids can't handle it if it's serious. That's why this series is amazing, just as much as the Vampire Blood series (it's scary vampire storys for KIDS!!!) if you want to hear about those you should go take a look at Maven of the Eventide who explains how amazing it is despite it being "just for kids"

@hannahc3317 4 года назад

Coraline is another great example of the horror genre for children.

@Piti_Pingu 4 года назад

@@hannahc3317 Exactly!

@christinabartonart1072 4 года назад

"English degree wanker" after performatives and climate change had me laughing so much. XD I'm doing an MA in Art and I find myself going down those rabbit holes SO MUCH

@finnhiggins5618 Год назад

Slight correction for you! Gales whole family survives, his mom and his 3 siblings, and they live in district 13 with him during mockingjay

@amy8250 4 года назад

Loved these books as a teenager but reread them last year and was surprised at how there's so much to dig your teeth into. Love this video!

@laurianec.6195 4 года назад

I re-read The Hunger Games in lockdown, partly because I have been reading some of my adolescence books again, partly because I wanted to watch this video. And I love it!! I felt similar feelings reading each book, your theories are so interesting. Thank you!

@MercuryCalling 4 года назад

I got a really bad food intolerance flare up at dinner and I'm on my period, but watching this distracted me from all my pain. Thank you!

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Aw SENDING LOVE, that sounds AWFUL!

@MercuryCalling 4 года назад

@@leenanorms Thank you 💜

@leilat8072 4 года назад

hope you’re feeling better :(

@lola-hr3cs 4 года назад

Sorry but gale didn’t loose anyone but his dad and that happened when katniss’s father died

@Marialla. 3 года назад

Come to think of it, that was part of the reason she bonded with him, because they had shared that trauma. Just like she bonded with Peeta later over shared traumas.

@chaneygolden3278 4 года назад

i’m 12 minutes in and this video has reminded me how much i ADORED this story and its characters. it’s been years since i last opened these books, and i think it’s about time to go back and reread them again. i can’t wait to pick up on new details and themes as an adult.

@ReadByJess 4 года назад

I only found out recently but Suzanne Collins intended for District 12 characters to have southern US accents and if you watch her do any readings, she does the accents! Can't wait to see your Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes vlog, I'll be doing one too and I'm hosting a read-in for it on my channel!

@klowne26 4 года назад

This has made me appreciate the trilogy SO MUCH MORE. I would love to see more of you vlogging and discussing what you’re reading because it was amazing to see from your perspective 😊

@SustainablyVegan 4 года назад

Lol this is so excellent! I'm actually so tempted to read these...

@lilyjohhnson3088 3 года назад

You totally should

@diananieto6511 4 года назад

I remember being in theater class when I was in middle school and we were talking about the hunger games. Everyone was talking about who was team peeta, who was team gale, and how the movie was the next big romance. I on the other hand kept saying the story isn’t even a romance and it’s about katniss trying to stay alive and keep her family safe.

@brynnagrace- 4 года назад

I just watched a 40 minute book read. I regret nothing.

@nefelibata9497 2 года назад

“If we burn you burn with us” fits well with the pandemic world

@chloerixson7867 4 года назад

Leena I love you! I adore that you're able to acknowledge the "English degree wanker" element to this, and I simultaneously love your analysis and I love that you challenge me to think more deeply about the meaning of books. I massively enjoyed this vlog style with the views of your flat and you and Craig together. You've also blown my mind- peanut butter on toast with raspberries?! I can't wait to try that! I just really bloody love everything about this, more please!!

@Hillary429 4 года назад

Chloe Rixson lol me too I was like what is she doing?! And then I was like oh it’s basically just healthy jam, I’m silly haha

@FallenTwin 3 года назад

three times. THREE WHOLE TIMES i had to hold my chest as my heart clenched at moments in this series i had either completely forgotten or forgotten the emotional impact of. gosh, i really gotta re-read this series and get on with the ballad of songbirds and snakes finally.

@leccionesdevida.podcast 4 года назад

I read the hunger games trilogy in a week and cried because when I finish because of the fact that I was finished.

@sophienorman6519 4 года назад

ok i'm halfway through this video and it has already been a WILD ride.

@mariona713 4 года назад

The ending was an absolute punch in the gut for me as a child but I honestly loved it. No, she's not happy. That's not actually a guarantee from being a 'hero'. Life sucks and that hasn't ended because of the rebellion. At the end of the day, Katniss isn't special, she just settles and lives the life she always knew she would have to.

@caitlinquinn79 4 года назад

I think she's voting that way at the end because she wants to see what everyone does, to work out what she needs to do.

@Hillary429 4 года назад

I love these in progress videos, hearing your thoughts throughout the journey instead of just a wrapped up version of the end, I love it!!!!!

@FrizzEllen 4 года назад

can i just say leena, your music choices and transitions were so effective in this video!!!! like every single one was like a plot twist in itself, i was shooketh

@_sunflower_4900 4 года назад

I read and watched all of it in a week and I'm so obsessed, I'm not even being dramatic when I say it changed my lifeee

@beth2730 4 года назад

This is the video that we didn’t know we needed but we absolutely DID. Thank you Leena!

@madeleinedrury4371 4 года назад

I was worried you might deconstruct my favourite books to the point it ruined my memory of them - but I AGREE ENTIRELY AND I LOVE THIS! I AM RELIVING IT WITH YOU!

@emmatheowl 4 года назад

It's interesting how the concept for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes sounds similar to that of The Testaments by Margaret Attwood. I wonder whether this is to do with a certain urgency we are currently feeling about the climate crisis etc. that the majority of people seemed to not be feeling at the time The Hunger Games/ Handmaid's Tale were released. Are these 'origin stories' perhaps taking place in contemporary society or in the more near future than the dystopias that follow? Do we feel that we are edging ever closer to those dystopias?

@leenanorms 4 года назад

Yeah I thought that too - also how it's re-telling a character's story that was initially written as a villain in the first work? It's almost like it's become a time to understand villains and how they are made, which I'm not against tbh.

@TheHelican 4 года назад

I actually think it's probably more to do with Trump's election, and suddenly people on the left are having a crisis of empathy, so they are recasting their 'villains' in a new light to explore how we as humans can see where a person is coming from while continuing to respectfully disagree

@basebelle 3 года назад

So I wrote my Honors Thesis on this series and I love your take on this. I focused on the names of the characters and the symbolism and references that give the characters so much depth without us getting very much time with some of them. A few of my favorites that might interest you are Plutarch and Seneca - both designers of the Hunger Games but also Roman philosophers. There's a whole parallel between their respective writings and the games designed by each of them. My absolute favorite though is Lavinia -the Avox that serves Katniss in the lead up to the first games. I love the parallels between the Avox character and the Lavinia of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -the brutal murder of her partner, the removal of her tongue, the diminished demeanor after experiencing trauma. We get maybe 3 pages total with this character in the whole trilogy but I feel like I get a fully fleshed out character because of the reference of her name.

@crazyducks7887 4 года назад

All the team peeta people be like: MMMMMmmmm

@EllenJones 4 года назад

also: do i make a video about the classical allusions in the hunger games now or is that several years too late.

@_sunflower_4900 4 года назад

Ellen Jones Do it!

@NikkiBeckett 2 года назад

I had never read or seen The Hunger Games before this video, I was put off by the fact that it was lumped into every other YA franchise (Twilight, Harry Potter, etc.) and I've now watched all the films and am making my way through the books. This video has become a huge comfort watch for me and I actually really enjoyed watching this before reading the books and watching the films because there's so many things I think I wouldn't have picked up on otherwise!

@gillianp6842 4 года назад

On the romance aspect of the books, I never really felt like the whole "love triangle" was even that important in them. It seemed like a Hollywood invention for the movies.

@eliserm9746 4 года назад

Yeah, in the books I always saw the romance as Katniss choosing between two ideologys, not as the focus of the story

@returntosoilgumiho Год назад

@@eliserm9746so so true

@elletaylor2199 4 года назад

this was amazing. I absolutely loved all the theories created -- and such an interesting take that we are the capital! mind blown --- bread and circus... that will definitely stay with me... I also requested the series from the library immediately!

@SamWest96 4 года назад

I've really appreciated this. Yes. Thank you.

@leenanorms 4 года назад

xxx

@rachelcuthbertson4940 4 года назад

Absolutely loved this style of video with the vlog style but snippets of in depth conversation !! 👏👏

@blueevening 4 года назад

I really enjoyed this reading vlog, thank you for it!

@poonywooon 4 года назад

Prim Prim Prim her name is Prim 😂 lol

@Amsayy 4 года назад

Easy to mix up with Rue, I think. Katniss in her inner monologue often thinks of both of them at the same time.

@Mweexer 4 года назад

37:15 it's simple to fall into the trap of defining ourselves more by what we aren't than what we are/ want to become. There's nothing necessarily wrong with using capitalism as a backdrop to define a better system against, but it's important to keep the action in reaction. A lot of the left is now moving away from the idea of a Revolution and proposing (& enacting!) direct measures to effectively get things going. I think the breaking point is realising that every single act of mutual aid counts. Setting up that makeshift library outside your doorstep? Great. Contacting farmers to redistribute their food surplus? Phenomenal. Being kind to people around you? Precious. Fostering solidarity and proximity gets us places that discussing theory alone never could. You're doing a stellar job with these videos, Leena. Thank you so much.

@katiekress5787 4 года назад

Your videos always encourage me to think and analyze in such a fulfilling way! Very grateful for mentally stimulating content in this crazy time, you have such interesting thoughts!

@jewelloveslife 4 года назад

I just finished re-reading the series and am excited to start the prequel what struck me the most reading it now as an adult is how little the romantic aspects of the story were emphasized yet back when it came out all that i seemed to hear or see about it had to do with the love triangle but upon reading it again it became so blatantly clear that romantic love was always an afterthought for katniss a luxury she couldn’t even fathom as she spent most of her everyday life just trying to keep the people she cared about alive i do think the romantic aspects were emphasized a lot more in order to appeal to a younger audience but it does also infuriate me that the revolutionary undertones are ignored by many in the process such a timely read now more than ever

@qnicole1679 4 года назад

Wow I'm so happy this video was recommended to me, I read The Hunger Games 8-9 years ago and this is bringing all the feels back 😂your analysis is spot on! And you're so funny, you gained a subscriber. Btw, you mentioned The Host - if you were curious about going back & rereading it/reviewing it I'd definitely watch that video. That was one of my favorite books in my wee preteen years and I think you'd bring a lot of insight to it.

@annavale3971 4 года назад

this was tremendously interesting to me as someone who has never read the books and has seen the movies without much commitment. i always heard the book being talked about exclusively as a YA thing, centered around the romance and Katniss as a Mary Sue. i always wanted to read it, but those comments kept holding me back. thanks leena, for being a voice of reason and seeing a book for more than its surface and critics as usual.

@Cat-oj5oj 4 года назад

It's not about a romance and Katniss is absolutely not a Mary Sue 😂 You should definitely read the books, they are so layered and have such depth that they aren't given credit for!

@chloe9259 4 года назад

Love this!! Your theories just blew my mind completely, I was definitely too young to appreciate the quality of these books when I read them the first time... excited for the prequel!!!

@hannahclaire8355 4 года назад

I love everything you create !! ❣️ and you looked so sweet curled up with a blanket in your armchair, it was wholesome to watch

@ayahsaheb9029 4 года назад

This was such a great video, reminded me of how much I LOVE The Hunger Games - its genius and relevancy to our politics and our world is incredible. More of this please! 😊

@xkeyriah 4 года назад

THG is my favourite book series. As a teen, i definitely loved them for that sense of rebellion, Peeta and the showcase of brutality and war I've prior to the series not read about. In a weird and twisted way, this became my comfort read over the years because with all the rereading I was doing, I just always knew what was coming. But the interesting thing is that the more I started to care for politics in my actual life, the more shocking and great the books became to me again. And with each reread, there's a whole new layer that I was suddenly aware of. Just a random thought that comes to mind is how there are supposedly little differences between men and women in a performative sense yet there are still a clear gender binary and heteronormativity intact (ALSO the meaning of weddings). AHHHH there's so much to explore but I loved your thoughts. Especially the element theory!

@nicolearriaga9969 2 года назад

Those earrings are fabulous. I started watching this video because I was doing the dishes and didn't have hands free when it started. I loved the earrings so much I couldn't look away. I had little interest in the hunger games but you really sold them to me. I loved the way you edited the video, showed daily life, food prep, used music to keep things moving and interesting. The screen shaking effect while you were reading was really cool looking as well. It's great to meet your channel. Thanks for the fun, thoughtful content.

@Moistplinth 4 года назад

this is my favourite thing I’ve seen for ages - thank you ☺️

@isabbygabbyorcrabby 4 года назад

This video has warmed my soul in the best way! I had forgotten so many little details from the first book that I loved, like her first shower and ~that waxing scene~ Also, is anyone else going to bed really early in lockdown, it really struck me when Leena said she was sleepy at 9pm that I've been going to bed sooo early!? Probably just out of a lack of anything else to do!

@tsindaclairerukwavu8706 4 года назад

I loved that review! I haven't read most of the books you talk about on this channel, but this trilogy I adored last year so much that I read it twice in a few months. I'm fighting the urge to read it again now ^^ As you say, it's extremely well written and doesn't compete in the same category as Divergent, in my opinion. "Channel my inner Katniss and focus on food" will be my motto when anxiety strikes, from now on =) I really like that you stopped talking about teams at some point because, as you say, poor girl just trying to survive and keep her loved ones alive! I will be reading the prequel, I hope the themes are as good but, considering the talent of the author, I'm not really worried, just curious. And a video by you will be a watcher as well ;) great work, loved your analysis, your theories and just your humour, you're a delight to watch !