justnerdgirlproblems:

suggested by starlight-starbrightt

Which reminds me: To Hunger Games fans who are now re-reading the series in the wake of the first movie (which I finally saw on Tuesday and totally loved, btw, with only a few reservations that I’m not going into now) and will soon be facing withdrawal, might I recommend Veronica Roth’s Divergent? It’s a completely different story but there are several similarities between it and Hunger Games, including a dystopian future (this one is set in Chicago), a rearrangement of society into groups that probably seemed like a good idea at the time but is now bad idea jeans, and a completely kick-ass 16-year-old heroine coming into her own. It started out kinda slow for me but the last third of this novel is relentless and awesome. Plus the second book in the series is coming out in a few weeks, so the timing is just right to pick up Divergent now.

justnerdgirlproblems:

suggested by galesexthorne and ginger—deadandlemon—flusted

This made me smile — I remember this happening to me in second grade, just before I switched to a magnet program for supersmart kids. For some reason I was in the middle reading group instead of the top reading group and I’d already secretly finished my reading comp workbook — secretly because working ahead was frowned upon and I’d already gotten into trouble for it. I mean seriously, you have a student blazing through the middle-level exercises and you choose to punish her instead of bumping her up to the next level? COME ON. So in that context, I suppose it’s not at all surprising that when we were supposed to be quietly working through our reading exercises and I was reading a library book because I had already FINISHED my exercises, I got in trouble for that too.

I remember being terrified that I wouldn’t get the book back, too, because it was a library book.