Mockingjay

I am reading:
Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

So far this year I have read:

The Broker by John Grisham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
In The Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins



So far I've liked what I have read so far. The Hunger Games trilogy is very entertaining and I am sure I will miss it. Hopefuly my daughter will give me some more interesting titles and I hope I can find them at the library. In the meantime I am glued to this third book of The Hunger Games.

Hunger Games Midnight Show

I will work for Hunger Games tickets! Will do designing work for Hunger Games tickets!

That only sounds like one of my daughters, the culprit that I too am glued to these books. Being almost at the end of "Catching Fire" the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy I too am excited about watching the movie on the big screen however I don't know that I am built for midnight shows full of screaming teenagers but nevertheless being that my sweetheart will be here with me and will go with us will make me stand anything.

I am putting off watching "Breaking Down" part one only because I didn't want to wait half a year to watch the second part. So, I will patiently wait until part two is released and then watch the first part just before the theater release of part two. With Harry Potter I always waited to read the book just before the movie release but I believe the release of "Catching Fire" the movie won't be until November 2013 and that's too long to wait so... I will just finish the three books and then just wait for the movies to come out.

It is expected to be a huge opening, a "Twilight" kind of opening so I am preparing for anything. As long as I am on a full stomach I will be happy, let the name of the movie be just a name, no need for acting it or living it. First food then movie, and when it comes to me, hopefully no hunger. Did I hear somebody say tacos?

Well fast forward a little bit. Abby got here at around 4:00 pm, we visited my mom and got fed, and later we joined Michelle and Nichole at the theater and got to wait for two hours still for the showtime. I think they waited about four hours but were able to get us good seats. Little by little we all got there in the end out little group consisted of eight people.

No, I won't spoil the movie but I will tell you that even if you have not read it is a great movie to watch. The violence contains no gore and the acting was not too bad so yes now I look forward for part two which as I stated before won't happen until November 2013, I think!

'Hunger Games' Review: Compelling But Implausible, Like 'American Idol' with a Body Count ~ Alonso Duralde

Will I do another midnight show? Probably not! I can patiently wait for the second week after release to watch the movie in peace and without noisy teenagers that won't shut up.

Catching Fire

I am reading:
Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins

So far this year I have read:

The Broker by John Grisham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
In The Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


So I am now reading "Catching Fire", the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy. These are really easy books to read, big letters, big spacing, and no fancy wording, obviously design for teenagers. They are however hard to put down, once you start you want to push that one more chapter before putting it down.

I really enjoyed reading "The Hunger Games" and now I can't wait to watch the movie. My daughter Nichole whom is a fan of midnight movie openings is trying to convince me to be part of her posse next Friday for the movie opening. The only problem with a midnight show is that I think that instead of me catching the action scenes and taking in the movie I'll be catching some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz's instead and posibly getting kicked out for snoring.




I am really enjoying this renewed habit of mine. I substituted reading books because there were so many blogs I would visit on a daily basis but little by little most of my blogger friends have abandoned their blogs to just being on FaceBook and I once again find myself with time for reading books.

So go ahead and recommend some books, I do however stay away from romance novels, I am more of a fiction and adventure kind of guy.

What's on your reading list? Have you read any of the ones I’ve read?

The Hunger Games

So while I was in California I finished reading Timeline, I really liked the book which is a typical Michael Crichton story. It had adventure, action, and some romance but not much, it was mostly a race against time to save their professor from a parallel world in the past during the medieval time in France.

I didn't realize a movie based on this novel was released back on 2003 so I went searching for the trailers on Youtube and it looks good even though I can already tell they did some major changes for the screen play. Still I think it will be a good watch if I can only get the movie. Since Blockbuster closed its doors in my neighborhood it is hard to find general titles now and as you all know Red Box is very limited when it comes to older movies.

So far this year I have read:

The Broker by John Grisham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
In The Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Timeline by Michael Crichton

I am reading:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The new book I am reading comes highly recommended by my daughter Nichole whom made me read the entire Harry Potter and Twilight sagas.



The Hunger Games is the first of three books and the movie will be released at the end of this month so hopefully we will get to watch it on the big screen.

I went to the library looking for it but they had a huge waiting list for the few copies they have available so I put a note on FaceBook for someone, anyone to send them my way. Luckily my nephew whom only lives five minutes away from me had all three and I now have them here with me and have already started on the first one.

I can already tell they are very easy to read so I figure it will take me about a week each since I only read at night unlike my daughter Nichole whom can probably read this type of books in two sittings.

What's on your reading list? Have you read any of the ones I’ve read?

THE PERKS

So now that you know how I feel about football and all organized sports for that matter here is the big irony. Being a warehouse manager has it's perks. I get entertained, wined, and dined a lot and as I was writing my previous post I received an email from one of my trucking company reps. Basically the email was an invitation for mi chica and I to the D-Backs game on Sunday, an outing such as this includes a hearty meal at a nice restaurant. Well this Sunday is my grandsons first birthday party so I had to politely decline the invite.

As I kept writing my post another email came through from his boss. This one said "How about the ASU game on Saturday? We are meeting at Z-Tejas at 5:00 p.m. for booze and dinner". Now that's the ticket, that actually is right up my alley so since mi chica works on Saturday and she gets off at 5:00 p.m. I called my son and asked him if he would go with me. "Are you crazy dad?" was his reply. Cool then pick me up Saturday at 4:00 p.m.

I get a lot of this invites throughout the year, they range from D-Backs games, to ASU, Suns, and even NASCAR events and even though I don't like sports I do enjoy this outings immensely, they are always fun and the seats are good. To me that's the side of sports I like. Even for me it would be dumb to say no to such outings.

NASCAR has turned out to be our favorite event, last time we were there we sat at a suite, ate and drink all day long, got to watch the start from the roof, and walked the pits for the first time. Now, if they could only take me to watch a Cardinal game, the stadium is only five minutes away from us and yet I have never been in there. I hear tailgating is also a great sport, lot of arm exercise lifting those beers and still I have yet to experience one. Maybe this year.