Abby: Re Hunger Games, Garlic and Sapphire and reading assignments

Lynness, is Garlic and Sapphire a scriptural reference? The phrase seems familiar. (And I'm right here on the computer and obviously the internet so it'd be easy to look it up...but I'm not...)

Would anyone else be interested in giving out the reading assignment during Rae's hiatus? Also, if anyone else is bothered that I haven't updated our books read in the bar on the left or the books mentioned, if you have an interest in keeping up with that I can set you up as an administrator. We can have as many administrators as we'd like.

The Hunger Games is fiction and an alternate history (like The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and The Alliance by Gerald Lund). I guess I should give a warning that if you don't like any kind of blood or war descriptions, you won't like the book. Other than that? I loved it and read it very quickly.

Here's the synopsis from Library Journal:
In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.