Hunger Games Update!!

The Hunger Games, a series cherished by millions, is becoming a major motion picture on March 23, 2011.  But all true fans know that.  I may be a bit behind on the latest buzz, but I would like to share the official poster for the Hunger Games that was revealed on July 19th.  I KNOW, I am SO behind on this, but, hey if I had had a blog on July 19th, this would have been big news. Anyway, here it is:

Yeah, pretty awesome, right?  A flaming mockinjay is an excellent representative to display all the action in this movie, while using the logo of Katniss in the process.  My favorite part is where it quotes the famous Effie Trinket at the top: 'May the odds be ever in your favor!' And, of course, the release date at the bottom. ( 
In other terms of Hunger Games obsession, my sister and I are attempting to write a fan fiction of the series.  We've fiddled with a few ideas, but we're not absolutely sure of how
 exactly the plot should be.  Any ideas? Oh, and J-14 Magazine and MissLiterati.com have teamed up to run a contest where you write an alternate ending to ‘The Hunger Games’.  I am not doing this (the deadline is on Friday) and I'm not sure about my sister.  But you can find more details at http://www.hungergames.org/.

Ok, this is too cool.  Just some fun stuff.

101 Sign that you're obsessed with the Hunger Games

1. Whenever you hear the word Games you think, The Hunger Games!
2. You’ve automatically started capitalizing the G in Games
3. You’re starting to spell capital Capitol, and capitalizing it
4. You’re now saying OMGale, WTFinnick, and Shut the Peeta Bread Up
5. Primroses have automatically became one of your favorite flowers
6. You no longer think of water plants. You think Katniss.
7. You no longer spell it pita bread. It’s always Peeta bread.
8. When you see a body of water, you think District 4!
9. When you see a forest you think District 7 or District 11!
10. You have Rue’s Lullaby and The Hanging Tree memorized
11. You sing those two songs like every day
12. Kiss the Rain is now one of your favorite songs
13. You can name at least three Hunger Games fansites
14. You are a member of at least one fansite
15. You have automatically started writing in present tense and can’t stop
16. Adobe Garamond Pro (the Hunger Games font) is now one of your favorite fonts
17. You screamed when you finished Catching Fire
18. You screamed when you got Mockingjay
19. You didn’t sleep at all on the fateful night of August 24th, 2010
20. You have read each Hunger Games book at least five times
21. You have persuaded, or tried to persuade, everyone you know to read THG
22. You scream in shock when people say they haven’t read the Hunger Games
23. You read Gregor the Overlander, or want to, simply because it’s written by Suzanne Collins
24. You can barely hold it together when you read past tense books
25. When you do read past tense books, you’re afraid you’ll lose your present tense power
26. For Halloween you considered dressing up as a Hunger Games character
27. You have the Hunger Games items on your wishlist
28. You’re paranoid about your copies of the Hunger Games
29. You’ve actually spent time figuring out the district locations
30. You’ve been wondering on the history of Panem
31. You actually translated Panem, the word
32. You’re quoting the Hunger Games 24/7
33. You know at least five translated names by heart
34. When you go to the mountain range you look for a specific flower called Rue
35. You wanted to learn piano just so you could play Kiss the Rain
36. You tried composing a tune for The Hanging Tree
37. You did The Hunger Games/Catching Fire/Mockingjay for your book report
38. Everyone who hasn’t read the book thinks you’re crazy about it
39. You dream about The Hunger Games
40. You’re fiercely defensive of “Pita bread it awesome”
41. You ordered pita bread for the fun of it
42. When you eat berries, you think of Foxface and wonder if you’ll die…
43. You’ve wondered what you’ll do if you’re in the Hunger Games
44. When you read a non-HG book and someone dies, you scan the page for the cannon shot
45. When you find that there is no cannon shot, you think, well, he/she isn’t dead. I’ll just move on.
46. When you read other books, you think, The Hunger Games is better than this.
47. You believe that The Hunger Games should be required reading for all teens
48. You were so happy when you finally found someone who could talk The Hunger Games with you
49. For every team name you make, it has the term alliance in it
50. When people ask you what city you’re from, you have to prevent yourself from saying District something
51. You make connections between real life and The Hunger Games
52. You cried when your library didn’t have THG in it
53. You cried when THG didn’t make a book award
54. You cried when THG didn’t make the Silver Birch/Red Maple award
55. You have to refrain yourself from saying To Kill a Mockingjay
56. You can’t think Mockingbird anymore. It’s Mockingjay.
57. You call people who talk a lot Jabberjays
58. You’ve matched people you know to characters from the Hunger Games
59. You have a Hunger Games desktop picture
60. When you see a primrose you think of Prim
61. When you see roses you think of Snow
62. During the winter, you’ve stomped around in the snow yelling, Down with Snow!
63. When Mockingjay finished, you went to search fanfiction to keep yourself entertained
64. You’re wondering why your Language Arts teacher hasn’t read The Hunger Games
65. Whenever you hear the words The Hunger Games you automatically try and find why that’s being said
66. When you read The Hunger Games, you wondered how you could’ve missed such a brilliant book like that
67. When Microsoft Word claimed that Katniss, Peeta, Finnick, and some other Hunger Games terms weren’t words, you freaked
68. When Word auto-corrected muttation to mutation, you freaked
69. You have read more than thirty Hunger Games fanfics
70. You have written at least three Hunger Games fanfics
71. You tell people that present tense is better than past tense
72. You were scared that the movie was going to ruin the book before you rememebered that Suzanne Collins is going to write the screenplay!
73. You actually took time to look up actors for the movie
74. You’ve named your pets Hunger Games names (or at least want to)
75. Your Mii characters are Hunger Games characters
76. You’ve designed an arena
77. You’ve designed Quarter Quells
78. The Hunger Games goes with you wherever you go
79. You now love orange and green
80. Want to go to Panama because it sounds like Panem
81. You love sugar cubes
82. You say, “Team Edward? Don’t you mean Peeta?”
83. You say, “Team Jacob? Don’t you mean Gale?”
84. You daydream about THG
85. Your dream is to meet Suzanne Collins, or to meet her again
86. You know everything there is to know about THG
87. You play the “And may the odds… be ever in your favor!” berry game
88. You call people Katniss and Peeta by accident
89. You’ve made dozens of predictions for future books
90. When you finished Mockingjay, you pleaded for more
91. You know Suzanne Collins’s email address by heart
92. You’re planning to write a book one day, in present tense, because you want to be just like SC
93. You want Scholastic to publish your book
94. When you knew there was such thing as a Hunger Games fansite, you screamed
95. You have Hunger Games fanart hung up in your room
96. You can name over 50 characters at the top of your head
97. You can name over 5 Hunger Games fansites
98. You want to, or already do, take archery lessons
99. You now think singing isn’t a bad talent after all
100. You quote the books left and right
101. WHEN YOU CALL YOURSELF A TRUE AND LOYAL JABBERJAY AT HEART!