Review: Hunger Games Trailer

Hi Readers!
If anyone remembers - our Library Club read the hunger games series last year. We are so excited that the movie is coming out soon and I watched the trailer for the first time a month ago. It seems as though they may have gotten the casting right afterall! At the beginning I wanted to switch Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson so their hair color matched with  my image of Peeta and Gale...but after they dyed their hair in the trailer i knew they were perfect for the parts! Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) still seems to be a little too old and intimidating, but Lawrence does a good job of playing her. Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket is absolutely perfect! so are the two girls that play Rue and Prim. Overall, I think the casting was done really well and so was the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9a5V9ODuY&noredirect=1
what do you think?
- Sara C.

Review: The Odyssey

Hey Readers!

I haven't had much time to read lately, so I'm taking a queue from Sara and reviewing a book I read in school. In english class, we just finished reading "The Odyssey," by Homer, the Greek epic story. I was really looking forward to reading it, because it's such a big challenge, and it looks interesting. It was a little slow at first, and some parts were hard to understand, but overall it was a great book. You'd think it would be boring, but it reminds me of a literary soap opera. Tell me what you think if you read it! I recommend it, but I wouldn't read it unless you really want to give yourself a challenge or if it's for school. I also have a favor to ask you guys: My school is having a read-a-thon, and we get to vote for what book we want! The only requirement is it has to be a classic book (Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.). Any suggestions? Whichever one wins at our school I'll be reviewing on this blog. Also, as an insight to what might be coming, I'm in the middle of reading "Matched," and "Looking for Alaska," and they're both amazing. So far I really recommend both of them. I miss you, other bloggers!
-Alice