This week on feelingsonbooks.com, we are looking at the book Divergent by Veronica Roth. The author paints a world set in futuristic Chicago where society is sorted into five different groups called factions. Imagine being sixteen years old and your whole future of where you will live and fit into society is dependent on a simulation test which reveals their best fit based on natural psychology and then you’re able to choose the faction the test showed or choose a different faction altogether. Sixteen, and you’re an adult in this world. 

 This week on feelingsonbooks.com I read the second half of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and watched the movie version of The Hunger Games for comparison. I still have the same feelings as last week that this story and the movie are not my cup of tea, so to speak. I did not enjoy the content of making children fight to the death for entertainment of the rich pompous people of the capital all because of political disagreements of the past. Why should the children keep paying the price for the past over and over again? The games make the killing seem like a normal acceptable thing. I do not agree! 

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the next book I will be discussing here on Feelingsonbooks.com. I had never read this book or watched the movie in its entirety, so I was not sure what reactions I would have to its content. My mom has watched the movie, so I had seen parts in passing as I navigated through to the kitchen, but it did not seem like something that interested me at the time. As I suspected, I was not very excited to be reading a book about children being made to kill each other for the sake of entertainment of the wealthy capital people all because there was a war seventy-four years prior to the time of this story in which the capital was the victor and the other districts that lost the uprising were made to live their lives at the mercy of the leaders. 

    This week on Feelingsonbooks.com, I am discussing the second half of the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling and its comparison to the movie version. I have to say that I was super surprised at the differences between the beginnings and endings of both the book and the movie as the book included a more lengthy drawn out description of the wizarding world’s reaction to Voldemort's disappearance at the beginning of the story, how the Dursley’s treated Harry, it also talked about how the Dursley’s son had a friend where Dudley’s friend didn’t exist in the movie. I feel the existence of Dudley’s friend added to the abuse Harry endured in the book. 

    Welcome back to feelingsonbooks.com! For this first week, I have been reading the first half of the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. There were many feelings and thoughts that came up during the reading as I have never read the Harry Potter books. I have seen all of the Harry Potter movies, as they are some of my mom’s favorites and have been played multiple times over the years since they were released.