Holey Moley. I did not want to like dystopia novels. I first heard the word "dystopia" from scrapbooker Wendy Smedley, from Simple Scrapbooks, Ella Publishing and Big Picture Scrapbooking, say that she was reading dystopia novels along with her teenaged boys and that the novels were about post apocalytic worlds. I remember thinking I was glad my kids weren't old enough to like something so seemingly horrible. I am not a fan of horror movies or stories since they tend to stay with me and I end up dreaming about them and I just prefer funny to creepy.
Then, a few weeks ago, we took the whole family to see the inspirational and happy movie Big Miracle with Drew Barrymore. Apparently there was a re-release of Star Wars which is why we saw all those storm troopers at the movies. Before the big show we sat through the previews. The trailer for The Hunger Games crawled up inside my head and didn't leave. It looked horrible. I had no interest in seeing it. I even commented to Charlie how I wished they wouldn't show such awful things before family movies about whales. But. I couldn't stop thinking about it! I even went to You Tube to watch the trailer a few more times just to figure out what was hooking me in.
That's a page from my Project Life Album, of course I'll have to put the thumbnails of The Hunger Games in for this week!
And then, one day another lawyer at my office had a copy of The Hunger Games or Catching Fire in the lunch room and as soon as I saw it I said "Oh! Its that movie! That horrible movie!" Kelly is also a fan of happy and funny tending on the side of dorky - for example, we are both big fans of Sue Heck from The Middle; but Kelly quickly knew exactly what I was talking about and said "I didn't want to like it either! But is so good!" She convinced me that I needed to read it and brought in The Hunger Games the next day; I think that was this past Tuesday and I read it in one sitting from 4 pm - 10 pm. She then brought in the next two and I finished Catching Fire in about 6 hours too and I'm half way through the last one now, Mockingjay. I haven't made a scrapbook page all week because I've been in full dystopia mode all week.
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Probably to counterbalance all the death and destruction of dystopia and District 12 and The Hunger Games, my daughter and I planted a flower garden and planted a bunch of vegetable seeds yesterday so here are some pictures of our garden:
The dystopia novels aren't all that horrible as I originally thought; they are a bit hopeful and do make you think and somehow I couldn't not read them. I'll be in the line for the movie when it comes out next month.
