Hunger Games Fandom...

This is what a day is like when you have book loving friends.  Check out this email string.

BAAB#1:

I do work, I swear. (BABB#2) just told me about the amazon shop for hunger games though.

Peeta pillowcase anyone??

 

I might prefer to drool on Gale’s face. 

Me:  

I think Adam might have a problem if I brought Peeta or Gale into our bed… 

BABB2:

Lol….

What if you had this shirt….i want this.

(okay-so the images are disappearing on me, so just imagine a t-shirt that says "I love the boy with the bread.") 

Me:  Me too.  Do they have any Katniss shirts so I can buy one for Adam and then we’re all even?

BABB2:  This is all I am seeing. It is very B.A.

(Imagine a shirt that says "Team Katniss") 

Anyone going to the movies this weekend??  I'm trying to convince Adam that we need to see the Hunger Games on Friday night.  Now we just need a babysitter...

Out of the Mouths of Book Babes

Today one of the BABBs missed our final book discussion because she had to take care of some important personal business.  Her sweet husband apologized to her that she had to miss work to accompany him and she replied..."I don't care about work---but I missed Book Lunch!"  Out of the mouths of babes...well, book babes anyway...

As a fellow book addict, I get it completely. I hate missing book discussions.  The BABBs have it pretty good because we see each other every day and meet once a week for lunch, so we have a continual book dialog going, and even then, we still manage to fill the last meeting for each book with tons of discussion.  It's a good thing.

Here are a couple of other random tidbits I've been meaning to post, so I'll just compile them all together.

The first is a link to a review of the Diana Gabaldon "Outlander" series written by a man.  This is pretty unique, because most of her fans are women. It's a good review and totally something you should print out if you want your husband to read these books so he can pick up some Jamie tips.  It's called "My Outlander thing: How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romance novels" by Gavin McNett.  (If you haven't read the blog long enough to know why I think all men should be more like Jamie Fraser, you need to read The Hotter Than Adam Factor post.)

The second is a link was forwarded to me by another BABB.  It's several maps of Panem from The Hunger Games.  It is really cool and here are a few things you should know:  The book babe that wrote this map is a bigger book nerd than I am (and I mean that as the highest compliment.)  She paid way better attention to the Hunger Games books than I did because I don't remember any of this stuff.  I'd even go so far as to say she put more thought into Panem than Suzanne Collins did.  It's super cool, very intelligent, well researched and worth a look.  It's called Suzanne Collins' Map of Panem, created by AimMyArrowsHigh.livejournal.com and BadGuys.livejournal.com  The final map is below, but follow the link, because they go into super detail describing how they came to this final map version.



 

Flattery for a book lover

Shannon, one of my co-workers and BABB members, sent me an email with the subject line:  "This makes me think of you."  This picture was in the body of the message:

I took this as a HUGE compliment.  And I'm incredibly envious of whoever it is that owns this house.  So cool.

• I follow a blog called the Tenant on the Top Floor, and the author, Kristine Reynaldo, has a link to "Bookshelf Porn" that I find myself clicking once in a while.  This photo reminded me of that site.

314 Page Views

When I started writing this blog, I figured the only people reading it would be my parents, my sister and my two best friends, so I didn't DARE put a view counter on it for fear that I'd die of embarassment that it only had 10 page views.

Three months later, I know my parents haven't looked at it all.  (I guilt trip them about this every other time I talk to them, but it hasn't worked yet.)  So that takes the potential 5 followers down to 3, which is exactly the number of "official" followers I have. Best case scenario, I figured my 3 followers have maybe checked it 10 times each so I might have 30 page views...

But today I was playing around with some formatting, adding some links, doing some posting, and I thought...maybe I'll add the page view counter just to see what it says...and then if it's really embarassing I can take it off just as fast and no one will be the wiser. 

I nearly fell out of my chair.  Actually I jumped out of my chair, ran into the other room in front of the TV and said to Adam "OH MY GOD!  GUESS HOW MANY PAGE VIEWS I HAVE!!!!!!!!!"  He was not as excited about this as I was.  But at least he didn't crane his neck around me to see the TV.  I didn't wait for him to answer: "314!!!!!!!!!!!    MY BLOG HAS BEEN VIEWED 314 TIMES!!!!!!!!!" 

And then I called my sister and told her, too.  And tomorrow I'll call my parents and tell them they're missing  out on a blog that has been viewed 314 times!

So thanks to all of you who have been reading.  You made my day. My night. My month.