Yea there are books like that that seem to surround you and you know they belong to the canon, but never have read them :D

Might be? I think it's actually a nice idea to split the two narratives though

Yes. It's kind of like people are now noticing how many same-sex couples, gay/lesbian characters are in books. I can actually think back to some childhood books and think "Well, that one character was probably gay." but didn't openly announce it since it was a 10-13 aged book (cannot think of the title atm). I remember in high school my school librarian had a "banned" bookshelf for controversial topics that the extremely religious pto members would not like in the back room. Many of them were gay romances. I read quite a few of them because the school librarian loved me because she loved my older sister so I could get away with anything with her.

I'm super excited for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to release. I forgot it was this month. It will be the next book I will read so I'm no longer in a hurry to finish The Infernal Battalion, though I'll probably finish is this weekend since I'm in the home stretch.

You know, I've only read the first 2 (3?) books in the series even though I was really into them, but I HOW DID I NOT KNOW THEY MADE A SHOW? Now I'm kind of interested in rereading them as well. I love how open writing/shows, etc can be with these characters now. I remember when this was such a foreign concept to me that just reading a book with the main character being gay was such a wild idea to me. Now we can have almost anything and you wont be scorned at for reading it. I've seen a lot of people reading fifty shades of gray in public back when it was popular.

I would be so torn between waiting for the paperback or getting the hardcover if I didn't have the hunger games series in hardcover. I cannot wait to reenter the world. I bought a beanbag book holder thing that is kind of nice. I got it because I was going to knit while reading (I still haven't fully conquered that), but I just put the book in it and have it sit on my lap while I'm reading.

I finished Sullivan's Woman by Nora Roberts. I hated it. It was a romance. It had barely any plot. The woman was childish. And the man was extremely abusive.

Wow look at me not reading the final 150 some pages left in this book and the ballad of songbirds and snakes gets delivered today. I'm been so distracted by other things that I don't even know when I'll get my butt around to finishing it.

@Jacobgrey: 50 shades of grey was weird af. Most of my relatives on my mom's side are stuck up Christians, and oh boy, my mom lent these books out to them. My great aunt admitted to skipping a lot just to get on with the story lol.

Also only have the hunger games series in hard cover because a bookstore was going out of business and I went kind of crazy and bought a ton of books, and the hunger games hardcover box set was one. I miss that bookstore. So many memories going there to buy this manga series I loved growing up.