A few weeks ago, pretty much out of nowhere, I had the urge to re-read The Hunger Games.

I haven’t  read this book in years. I have a strange relationship with this book because I first read it when I was at university and was experiencing the lowest point in my depression.

In a way this book helped me through that time, but it also brings back some sad memories. So that was a weird experience.

Anyway, I picked this book up on the Friday afternoon, and finished it by the Sunday evening. I read 113 pages on the Friday, 137 pages on Saturday, and 202 pages on the Sunday.

Honestly, I’m so pleased with my reading that weekend. It’s been such a long time since I’ve read a book that fast. I really wish I could do it more often. I guess I just got really invested in the story, and because I’d read it before I was trying to reach certain points in the plot because I remember them being really good (even if some characters were killed in half a sentence. Lol).

I don’t know about you, but I love re-reading books. I do it all the time. I seem to be re-reading loads of books this year that I haven’t read since around 2015, including The Lunar Chronicles series, Caraval, and Etiquette and Espionage (I might have read that last one since 2015 tbh).

I just really enjoy revisiting worlds that I know I already love. I enjoy meeting the characters again, and I think sometimes it’s just nice to go into a story where you know what’s going to happen next, because you don’t have to worry about your favourite character surviving until the end.

Another throwback I had with re-reading THG was that I used my e-reader for the first time in years. In 2020 I was reading ebooks on my phone during my commute so that I wouldn’t have to take my books or e-reader out into the pandemic invested world (lol). But even before that, it’s been a long whle since I properly used my e-reader for anything. So it was again quite nostalgic to read from that screen and be reminded of the exact experience I had when I read THG before (even if the e-reader is quite old – I got it in 2013 I think – so it’s definitely outdated technology, and quite slow to download stuff).

Anyway, I loved reading The Hunger Games this time. It was such a fun call back to the dysopian fiction era of 2012-2016. I read so many dystopian fiction series back then, I got really into them. I’d also forgotten a lot of the details about the book. Literally, I forgot about Peeta. Completely. And Cinna. Lol.

I also had some of the plot details mixed up with the later books. So I think I’m going to need to get to the sequels quite soon. I’m really looking forward to reliving those books too. I’ll probably use my e-reader again because the nostalgia was kind of fun (not the whole ‘remembering the worst point of my depression thing’ but just remembering a time when I was at university and didn’t have to worry about big life things).

I’ve also thought about reading A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. But I haven’t heard a tonne of positive reviews on it. So who knows really.

Did you ever read The Hunger Games? Do you re-read books at all? Let me know!

Until next time,
Love, Bobbi. Xx.