What To Do After You've Read The HG: Other Books

Yeah, a new post in this series! Today, I am going to focus on a really good book that I highly suggest you should read. It has most of the same ideas of the Hunger Games with a few different ideas that make it different from the HG series. This book is called Matched by Ally Condie. 

Matched is about a girl, Cassia, that lives in a futuristic world (like Panem.) In this world, everything is set to be the perfect world. The government chooses who you marry, how many children you have, what your job is, and when and how you die. You are married to another person, normally in a different area than you live, by a banquet that they match your information with another person's to make sure you have a good life and you are able to have children. Cassia gets matched with her best friend, Xander. When they are matched, they get a chip with information about their partner. Cassia loads her chip onto her computer machine, another boy's face comes up, Ky, another boy who is an outcast and he is not allowed to be matched. You can guess where we are going with this right? Yes, she finds herself falling in love with Ky against the ways of the government. 

This book is the first in a series of three books. I am on the wait list at our library for the second book, so I will post my review. 

Comment if you have read the series!

I Finished the Hunger Games! What do I do know? Part 1: Hunger Games Fan Podcast

Once you finish the Hunger Games, you go through a certain series of steps (or at least I did!)
1) Stare at the back of the book in awe that there are no more
2) Reread the entire series!
3) Try and find some other source to satisfy your love!

This is why I turned to blogging. If you don't want to blog though, one great way is listening to Podcasts. My favorite Hunger Games podcast is the "Hunger Games Fan Podcast" presented by GSPN. The show is hosted by Cliff & Stephanie. They are currently on chapter 3 of Mockingjay but you can find the rest of the episodes on their website.  They normally update every week but they will dissect every chapter. They seriously make you think of things that you have never thought about before! They will also mention news about the movies.

You can also follow them on Twitter. It is @Hungergamespod or you can just go to our Twitter and look under the people we follow.

Another really cool podcast is the Fireside Chat. You can look most of their topics on Youtube. They normally talk about questions brought up while reading the books like "Were Cato and Clove in a relationship." (By the way, I did a post on this too!)

You could also start your own podcast and upload it to the internet or iTunes. I am seriously not experienced on this so I suggest you do a Google search on it. If you don't know how to Google search, you probably just got a computer. I am so thankful we are your first visit :) But seriously, you can do it! We will even listen to it if you a) tweet the link to us or b) leave it in the comments! Promise!

~MiKayla

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